

My VRAM usage was always below 40%, in fact I have begun modding the game (no compatibility problems yet, and have avoided mods that claim to have a significant performance impact) with high resolution variants just to make me feel better about proper VRAM usage.

My GPU usage has never gone above 50%, even in the menu with an uncapped FPS. The only place it seems to have an unlocked framerate is on the title screen and main menu. So I have seen it vary from (locked at) 72, 60, 36, 30, and at one point locked to 24 FPS. When playing the game, I get FPS in fractions of my monitor's refresh rate of 144 Hz. FO4 is saved to the NVMe drive to make quickloading and quicksaving as fast as possible.

Specs of the computer I am playing on are in my signature. It is a binary variable, cap on/off, but I can easily restore if need be.) Optionally, there’s a version that’ll make your weather remain clear to avoid performance drops due to weather effects like rain.Just bought FO4 for PC because I own it on disk for Xbox and all my save files got corrupted, so I am starting anew on PC for the better modding experience.īut even though my card is a year old already, the game, upon using the launcher, throws errors that it doesn't recognize my GPU, and defaults to all low, and run the game as if I had a GTX 780 Ti (according to the Fallout4Pref.ini file, where I edited a line to remove the framerate cap of 30. Modder Terso simply played around with the settings for how the game handles fog, the quality of shadows and the amount of grass, among other things, looking for the most FPS with the least loss in graphical fidelity. We start our list with an easy-to-install compendium of small tweaks to give your game a performance boost without messing too much with the textures or anything of the sort. You’ll be surprised what your toaster can achieve with the right mods. So I’ve put together a ranking with the most useful mods to boost your FPS and stability while roaming the Commonwealth. Luckily modders have been working tirelessly since release to optimize the experience in such a way that even the most humble of rigs can run the game acceptably well.Įven integrated cards, if you’re willing to play at 20fps.Īs a low-spec gaming enthusiast, I consider myself an authority on the subject of performance. Even with budget gaming rigs – but not everyone has the spare cash, and few things beat playing Fallout 4 on your laptop at work when you should be double-checking accounting files. But it was still a lot.įive years down the line, these requirements are much easier to meet. It was expected of a game as expansive and beautiful as the latest Bethesda masterpiece. Back when Fallout 4 came out in 2015, not everyone had the 8GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 780 required to run it as it was meant to be played.
