Fallout 4 PC Performance Thread

vocab said:
Ya, it happaned to me. Did the change above and it fixed it. Try it out.
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I tried and didn't work for me.

This is a massive bummer, I have never experienced anything near this level of micro stutter. The game is borderline unplayable for me, after working fantastic yesterday

WOW
 
I just realized that any time I change a setting in graphics options that it doesn't remember what I save. What gives?

Figured it out.

Fallout4.ini was set to read only. The fuuuuck?
 
Getting a real weird issue. Game actually runs fine, however, all of a sudden if i go into 3rd person mode it zooms in super close basically rendering the mode pointless. This is with 3440 x 1440 res.

Even strange is that getting up from chair/couch everything seems fine.
 
i7 4790s, GTX 970, 12 GB RAM, installed on a SATA III. Runs at ultra with no hiccups, but the load times are still surprisingly long. Five or six seconds, but after having almost no load times in Witcher 3 or Skyrim with mods it's noticeable.
 
vocab said:
Glad it works man. Shit like that is unplayable for me. I'm glad someone posted that in the morning for me to see.
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I'm going to have to try this too. Had perfect performance last night and started getting stutter when I got on to play today. Thanks for posting.

Fattony12000 said:
God, I can't wait to get a Pascal GPU next year and play this For Real.
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Don't think that is going to fix all the issue. They all seems engine/optimization based more than lacking enough horsepower.
 
vocab said:
libraries>document>My games >fallout4. Or Userapps >document > My games > fallout4.
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Tried your fix but didn't notice any changes. I googled the fix and saw that it's a pretty common fix for Bethesda games since Oblivion. Seems to only work if you can optimize for >60fps at all times. period. no matter what. Only thing is, I'm probably there 99% of the time, but jank will jank and my fps will plummet because reasons and the whole physics engine stutters to a crawl.

The game did just come out today and I imagine there will be some driver patches and game patches forthcoming. I can sit on my hands for a little while.

Thanks for your help though.
 
I'm getting better performance than I thought I would. I've got...

i5-2500k @4.2Ghz
2GB 7850 OC
8GB RAM
Installed on a 1TB HDD

I got Everything on Ultra but Shadows/Shadow Distance at Medium, and God Rays on Low, FXAA instead of TAA and the advanced distance sliders are at whatever the default levels are at.

Locked at 30FPS, been really smooth, no framedrop's at all except for 2 random areas that hitched up for about 10 seconds (reloaded save and it was fine). I'm more inclined to believe that it's some sort of bug causing those 2 hitches because one was infront of a door with nothing but the door on screen and the other was in a small shack with barely anything around.
 
So I've seen that other folks are able to get the game working decently well on their 860m's. For whatever reason I'm having the same problem as another poster. The game will not run at all in full screen. I get a black screen with my loading mouse pointer and then it crashes.

I can run it in windowed/borderless and it works just fine. But it's in a tiny window and I have very bad vision. I've fiddled around with Fallout4Prefs and changed some stuff around (turned off vsync, messed with borderless/full screen values, etc.) to no avail. What makes my 860m not work (on a Lenovo Y70 btw) yet others are able to play just fine?

Also I have the latest Geforce drivers and everything is up to date.
 
I asked this before, but is anyone else noticing texture streaming issues on an SSD?

I'm running into super low res textures that sometimes take up to 10 seconds to load in the high res version...
 
texhnolyze said:
Nice. We have similar card but my cpu is pretty much underwhelming compared to yours.
I haven't tried medium yet to try getting that 60fps smoothness, but I'm more the IQ > 60fps guy anyway.
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I pretty much keep 60fps most of the time, but I get random dips to 40-50fps in really random areas, but it's pretty uncommon.

I could go down lower however, and might do so if it stops the dips.
 
KCroxtonJr said:
I asked this before, but is anyone else noticing texture streaming issues on an SSD?

I'm running into super low res textures that sometimes take up to 10 seconds to load in the high res version...
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I had the same issue with it on a HDD before I switched it over to a SSD guessing it's just a pc issue as I didn't see it happen on consoles in the digital foundry comparison.
 
KCroxtonJr said:
I asked this before, but is anyone else noticing texture streaming issues on an SSD?

I'm running into super low res textures that sometimes take up to 10 seconds to load in the high res version...
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Yeah I have. First time I went to that quarry near the starting area not only was the white rock really low res but also NPCs were walking through like it was liquid.
 
Dmax3901 said:
Yeah I have. First time I went to that quarry near the starting area not only was the white rock really low res but also NPCs were walking through like it was liquid.
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I don't think it is SSD specific, but yeah. There's definitely some kind of occasional LOD issues. That quarry and one area up on the highway I ran into cases where the LOD environments did not actually get removed when it switched detail, which in those cases meant they were hovering well above where the geometry actually sits. That quarry was actually underneath there displaying normally.
 
SirMossyBloke said:
Well holy shit. Adding iFPSClamp=60 to the .ini made a night and day difference. It's smooth as butter now. I'm stunned.
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Be aware that with this command the game seems to literally slow down when the frame rate drops. Once I reached the cities I had to delete this command and use borderless windowed instead. iFPSClamp definitely made the game smooth as butter but with the massive drops in cities there's no way I can use it.
 
Game is running absolutely amazing for me. i5 4440, 8 GB RAM, GTX 970. Everything on Ultra besides god rays on High.

Playing at 1440p, downsampling + TAA makes for an unbelievable alias-free image. It looks like I'm playing in bullshot mode in real time. Capped the game at 30 FPS though (RTSS), and it's been locked at that so far, not a single drop and I'm heading to Concord.

Also, fuck the GAF hate. This game is freaking beautiful.
 
Geforce Experience seems off for gaming laptops on this one. Says an 860m and i7-4810 doesn't even meet minimum requirements. I hope that isn't really the case.
 
For all of you having studdering problems and the such. Just delete your falloutprefs file and let it download and new one and set your settings again. My game was somehow tied to the framerate, so when it dips to 30s the game was moving at half the speed. Deleting that file and resetting fixed it for me.
 
gimel said:
Be aware that with this command the game seems to literally slow down when the frame rate drops. Once I reached the cities I had to delete this command and use borderless windowed instead. iFPSClamp definitely made the game smooth as butter but with the massive drops in cities there's no way I can use it.
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It's possible, but it's something that has worked for me almost every gamebryo game. Whatever work best for your setup Did you use rivatuner or just borderless?
 
GTX 970 SC
i7 4790K
SSD
32gb RAM (I'm a photo editor... Yeah)

Runs like garbage between 40-60 fps at 1080p with all ultra settings minus godrays and AA.

Seriously, it's a joke how poorly this shit runs on a machine like mine when something like The Witcher 3 looks a gen ahead in terms of tech and runs without any hiccups or strenuous load times.
 
No stuttering for me on a GTX 770. Not a smooth 60 but that's just the card itself chugging (I'm running mostly on high with a couple of Ultra settings, I forgot exactly which), not what I'd detect as a microstutter problem.
 
EatinOlives said:
No stuttering for me on a GTX 770. Not a smooth 60 but that's just the card itself chugging (I'm running mostly on high with a couple of Ultra settings, I forgot exactly which), not what I'd detect as a microstutter problem.
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Are you sure about that? I have a GTX 770 2GB and with 1680x1050, panning and anything indoor stutters in fullscreen mode. It may not be technical "microstutter" but it's something that's not smooth, and I think people have been reporting it on multiple video cards.

Obliterator said:
hmmmm, I'm not sure how I enable console?
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No idea since it worked for me by default. Press the `~ key that's above Tab on your keyboard and see if you can start typing.
 
Aurongel said:
GTX 970 SC
i7 4790K
SSD
32gb RAM (I'm a photo editor... Yeah)

Runs like garbage between 40-60 fps at 1080p with all ultra settings minus godrays and AA.

Seriously, it's a joke how poorly this shit runs on a machine like mine when something like The Witcher 3 looks a gen ahead in terms of tech and runs without any hiccups or strenuous load times.
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Did you try setting it to borderless windowed mode? That really improved performance for me.
 
Im having a problem with my game, (probably my computer, it does the same exact thing with Skyrim). Everytime I launch the game it says:
Fallout 4 will now detect your video hardware and set video option accordingly.
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It will then set them to Ultra, but if I go into options the resolution is set to 800x500, and windowed mode. If i uncheck windowed mode it still launches in windowed mode.
 
Anyone with gtx 980, i7 4770k and 16gigs ? Im still early in the game and its 60fps for me all the way.. How are you guys doing later on ? Will it dip to 40-ish like a lot of people ?

And Should i update to game ready driver ?

Thanks !
 
Just left the Vault. Keyboard failed to be recognized in game. Had to Alt Tab out, and restart for it to fix itself.

Sigh. Day 1 radroach bugs.
 
i7-4770k
GTX 970 SLI
8GB RAM
Loaded on SSD

Game is running flawlessly at 2560x1440 all max except god rays (low). I only break 60fps so far on the pip-boy.

I did use nvidia control center to manually enable SLI, so that helps.
 
Is there a way to have Steam bypass the launcher and just launch the game immediately? I'm rocking a big TV and controller and would prefer not having to mouse into the game every time.
 
SOLDIER said:
Is there a way to have Steam bypass the launcher and just launch the game immediately? I'm rocking a big TV and controller and would prefer not having to mouse into the game every time.
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Navigate to your Fallout 4 folder (C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout4), then perform the following steps:

  1. Rename Fallout4Launcher to something else (like Launcher)
  2. Rename Fallout4 to Fallout4Launcher
Steam should now launch Fallout 4 itself, thinking it's the launcher. :-)
 
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