Fallout 4 PC Performance Thread

PCGH did benchmarks without the Gameworks effects (which are obviously not in the console versions) but everything else still on the highest setting:

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A 980 doing 92 min FPS is pretty nice I'd say.
 
i7 3770k
16 gig ram
gtx 970
installed to SSD.

Game runs at flawless 60 fps. Loading is extremely quick going in and out of buildings and fast travelling.

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Looks very nice outside some ugly textures here and there.
 
Durante said:
uGrids is a setting in Bethesda's engine which determines how many "zones" (quadratic blocks) around your character are fully instanced at any point in time (rather than just displayed as a low-detail palceholder with no active entities).

It makes a significant difference in distant detail level and causes a massive performance hit.
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And it can make your game unstable, especially when you change it back to a lower value later on.
 
Damn. My friend has the same setup as mine down to a T, but he's getting drops the second he steps outside or more NPCs enter the frame.

It's like 60 to 30 on a FX4300, R9 270x, and 8GBs during the intro with everything on High and lower resolution. Someone mentioned turning off V-sync. Will that help? I'm almost about to buy a copy for the PC version and be done with it if it does run well and we can fix the drops outdoors.
 
Is there any point to enabling adaptive vsync for this game via nvcp? Or am I better disabling vsync completely, and limiting frames to 60 via nvidia inspector? (i recall Skyrim preferred the latter)
 
Durante said:
uGrids is a setting in Bethesda's engine which determines how many "zones" (quadratic blocks) around your character are fully instanced at any point in time (rather than just displayed as a low-detail palceholder with no active entities).

It makes a significant difference in distant detail level and causes a massive performance hit.
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It also causes events to trigger early. A lot of "radiant" stuff as Bethesda likes to term it gets loaded into the game in these fully drawn cells, meaning events are happening that you now might not even see, or you might see something happening (someone being attacked) but now be too far away to intervene in time since you tripled the draw distance of these things. Usually it's not a huge issue, but when it messes with scripted quests you can run into issues.

That's on the assumption it works the same way as it did in Skyrim (a safe bet), so just be careful with that setting and don't push it too high. If a ugrids value of 5 isn't good enough for you, try seeing if 7 or 9 will do before jumping as high as 11 or 13 (and ALWAYS make sure it's an odd number).
 
980ti, Ultra settings @ 2560x1440

Already dropping down to 50FPS in the first conversation with the salesmen. That's not good...
 
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a budget i3 PC is out performing PS4/XBO based on the Witcher 3 performance thread, but it's still a bummer. On a positive note, my aging i5 should do ok.
 
I currently have the PS4 version pre-ordered, but I'm strongly considering picking up the PC version instead.

According to CanYouRunIt, my CPU falls short of recommended. What say you, GAF?

i5-3570K @ 3.40 GHz
Radeon 7950 3GB
8GB RAM

Should I stick to the PS4 version or go PC?
 
BennyBlanco said:
i7 3770k
16 gig ram
gtx 970
installed to SSD.

Game runs at flawless 60 fps. Loading is extremely quick going in and out of buildings and fast travelling.

Looks very nice outside some ugly textures here and there.
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This really doesn't help much. At all. See way too many of these in PC optimization threads. What are your in-game settings? What are your Nividia control panel settings? Are you using MSI Afterburner or RTSS? What are the settings for that? Are you overclocked? What OS are you using? What drivers are you on? Fullscreen? Borderless?

Cool, great. You got your game running "flawless". Let's see some actual benchmarks and some in-depth settings how you got there.
 
BennyBlanco said:
i7 3770k
16 gig ram
gtx 970
installed to SSD.

Game runs at flawless 60 fps. Loading is extremely quick going in and out of buildings and fast travelling.


Looks very nice outside some ugly textures here and there.
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Good, Was a bit worried after seeing the loading on console.
 
No SLI support?

I slightly regret going SLI as since April the only game I seen use it to its potential has been Witcher 3.

Wish I had gone for a 980ti now :-/
 
Sorry if this has been posted already, but is there a place where I can find the list of gameworks effects available for the game? Also are the benchmarks running the game at max using those effects?
 
Irobot82 said:
Iris Pro? That's an integrated Intel GPU right? You're wanting to play the game on only that? At what resolution?
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Presumably 720p-900p, which I've been able to run every other game fluidly at.

From your reaction I think you've probably ignored it (as most gamers have so no worries :P ), it's integrated, but Intel strapped 128MB of eDRAM as a true cache onto it and really improved their GPU architecture as well. Intel says the eDRAM cache and main memory equal access bandwidth together are equivalent to a over 100GB/s standard connection. But anyways, check it out here

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6993/intel-iris-pro-5200-graphics-review-core-i74950hq-tested/7

Varies in place with the 650M and 750M, usually under the 750M but trading blows with the 650.

And yes it runs Crysis 3 :P
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And actually does a bit better than it's weight class for tesselation

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So for most games I'm usually not too worried if I'm ok with 720p-900p mid-low, but Fallout 4 seems so poorly optimized, it may be a question mark. The only thing I could not run acceptably in the last year on it was Ryse, and that's...Ryse.

So that's where my question came from. It should be in the same ballpark as the 700Gflop 550TI, but nowhere near the 7870.
 
Matty8787 said:
No SLI support?

I slightly regret going SLI as since April the only game I seen use it to its potential has been Witcher 3.

Wish I had gone for a 980ti now :-/
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Mad Max has amazing SLI support. Based on that I expect Just Cause 3 will have too.
 
Was able to get about an hour in just got outside the vault and am getting 100fps (because of lightboost) with a drop of a frame here and there with all settings Ultra besides God Rays. Playing at 1080p and might downsample to 1440p and test things out when I am home.

2500k @ 4.5
16 gigs RAM
980ti 6G

Installed on HDD for now will switch to SSD after US unlock to compare loading times. I am actually somewhat surprised that I haven't had any glitches/crashes yet (knock on wood)

Didn't install new game ready driver yet either.
 
LordOfChaos said:
Presumably 720p-900p, which I've been able to run every other game fluidly at.

From your reaction I think you've probably ignored it (as most gamers have so no worries :P ), it's integrated, but Intel strapped 128GB of eDRAM as a true cache onto it and really improved their GPU architecture as well. Intel says the eDRAM cache and main memory equal access bandwidth together are equivalent to a over 100GB/s standard connection. But anyways, check it out here

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6993/intel-iris-pro-5200-graphics-review-core-i74950hq-tested/7

Varies in place with the 650M and 750M, usually under the 750M but trading blows with the 650.

And yes it runs Crysis 3 :P
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And actually does a bit better than it's weight class for tesselation

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So for most games I'm usually not to worried if I'm ok with 720p-900p mid-low, but Fallout 4 seems so poorly optimized, it may be a question mark.
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Neat! I'd imagine you could do it medium to low settings. Turn down or off God Rays, set shadows to Medium or lower. Lower some draw distances and you should be awesome. Console-ish levels or better.
 
With minimum requirements, if I pass it barely, does that mean I can play the game on the absolute lowest (on 1080p) or does that mean medium settings or something?

Like honestly, how would I run this game? I want 1080p @60fps...

Win 7
GTX 560ti
8gb ram
i5 750 @2.67GHz
 
Ok guys. So the game runs fine for me so far (exited the vault, found the robot etc) but it seems very... Unsharp and to bright for my taste. Is there anything I can do to fix this? It's like there is somekind of filter over the screen so to spek that makes everything a bit bleak...

Can't seem to find any gamma settings in the menus.

Running everything on ultra except godrays which are set to high.

Running on

4690 k
16 gigs 1600mhz RAM
GTX 980
HDD
 
Yoshichan said:
With minimum requirements, if I pass it barely, does that mean I can play the game on the absolute lowest (on 1080p) or does that mean medium settings or something?

Like honestly, how would I run this game? I want 1080p @60fps...

Win 7
GTX 560ti
8gb ram
i5 750 @2.67GHz
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Yoshi please you don't have time for fo4. You got hearthstone and bloodborne dlc coming up :p
 
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