Fallout 4 Performance Thread

Not relevent here since there's countless people having issues with this game on nVidia GPU's too... But here we go anyway.

I will not buy an nVidia GPU for this purpose alone. You don't understand the value of competition until it's gone! I'd rather stick with AMD for now, and mark my word if AMD was as dominant as nVidia is right now, I'd probably be buying and recommending nVidia GPU's.

It would be amazing if the market was split 50/50 or thereabouts. You'll see more advancement in 3 years than you usually do in 5 years, and the prices of videocards will drop significantly.

What do you think will end up happening if nVidia overtake AMD to the point where they no longer exist in the graphics department. Imagine nVidia owning 99% of the GPU market, and the next-generation of consoles too. If you do not understand the implications of what that means, go crawl back into your nVidia hole and enjoy life there I guess.

:stewpid:

 

Game runs fine on a single 7970 at 1080p and looks good in motion, just turn a few settings down from ultra and turn off godrays in the ini files. Feels smoother than Fallout 3/NV, using Vsync and 60 fps cap with afterburner. AMD will improve performance and once crossfire is sorted it'll be great. If you like Fallout, don't get hung up on needing to run at ultra, even at modest settings, it looks much better than the previous entries. I'm still using the 15.10 betas, haven't even bothered with the latest ones since I figure we'll be getting new drivers shortly. I had said I wouldn't get this until crossfire was working but being a huge Fallout fan, I took a chance and don't regret it.

 

what are you talking about, no effects are locked to nvidia cards

 

This statement is absolutely incorrect. AMD drivers have higher CPU overhead compared to that of Nvidia's drivers. This is a fact. I'm sorry if you don't like this, but it's the truth. It really is the cold hard truth. The evidence is overwhelming. Conduct your own research, or better yet, get a degree in Programming.

(6 Years Programming Experience Here)

 

I don't see a huge (if any?) performance drop with GodRays on Ultra VS Low/ Off. Why people turning those Off I wonder...

 

Those fps drops are really annoying.

Spoiler

 

+1

agreed

 

how do you completely turn off Godrays in the ini files?ive tried bNvGodraysEnable=0...but that only set this setting to low.

 

@uszpdoz,

iVolumetricLightingQuality=0
bVolumetricLightingEnable=0

Try this.

 

@fr33jack
thanks a lot...those setting work....since launcher just set it off instead of low....gain like +8 fps more on forest with tree areas...does those setting affect any visual downgrade anyway?

 

EDIT: never mind

 

I have terrible FPS drops (into 30s) in some areas when Shadow Distance is set to Ultra.

Changing that setting is set to Medium, I have no problem maintaining 50-60 fps.

God rays Ultra setting doesn't seem to have any negative effect on R9 390.
Ultra vs Low quality settings performed the same in my test scenario.

 

Because you need to disable god rays in the .ine file.

 

Now I get it. Didn't test GodRays On/ Off in forest areas...tho I loose around 4-6 fps compared to completely Off.

 

These tests are from Sweclockers.se







http://www.sweclockers.com/test/21270-snabbtest-grafikprestanda-i-fallout-4

 

Code:

[Display]
flocalShadowMapHalveEveryXUnit=750.0000
focusShadowMapDoubleEveryXUnit=450.0000
fShadowBiasScale=1.0000
fDirShadowDistance=14000.0000
fShadowDistance=14000.0000
uiOrthoShadowFilter=3
uiShadowFilter=3
iShadowMapResolution=2048
uPipboyTargetHeight=700
uPipboyTargetWidth=876
iVolumetricLightingQuality=1
bVolumetricLightingEnable=1
bSAOEnable=1
iDirShadowSplits=3
bVolumetricLightingForceCasters=0
iTiledLightingMinLights=40
bComputeShaderDeferredTiledLighting=1
iMaxFocusShadowsDialogue=4
iMaxFocusShadows=4
bForceIgnoreSmoothness=0
fBlendSplitDirShadow=48.0000
bSinglePassDirShadow=1
bEnableWetnessMaterials=1
fTessFactorMaxDistanceScale=100.0000
sAntiAliasing=
fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000
fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=256.0000
fMeshLODFadeScalar=1.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=2048.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=2844.0000
fInteriorMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=1950.0000
fInteriorMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=2600.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=999999.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=999999.0000
iMaxAnisotropy=16
iPresentInterval=0
bTopMostWindow=0
bMaximizeWindow=0
bBorderless=1
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1440
iSize W=2560
bAllowShadowcasterNPCLights=0
iScreenShotIndex=0
fMaxFocusShadowMapDistance=450.0000
bPrecipitationOcclusion=1
iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=25
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=100
sD3DDevice="AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series"
iTexMipMapSkip=0
bEnableRainOcclusion=1
iAdapter=0
fDefaultWorldFOV=105
fDefault1stPersonFOV=105
[Imagespace]
bDoDepthOfField=1
bScreenSpaceBokeh=0
bMBEnable=0
bLensFlare=1
[Pipboy]
fPipboyEffectColorB=0.0900
fPipboyEffectColorG=1.0000
fPipboyEffectColorR=0.0800
[VATS]
fModMenuEffectHighlightPAColorB=0.4100
fModMenuEffectHighlightPAColorG=0.8200
fModMenuEffectHighlightPAColorR=1.0000
fModMenuEffectPAColorB=0.4100
fModMenuEffectPAColorG=0.8200
fModMenuEffectPAColorR=1.0000
fModMenuEffectHighlightColorB=0.0824
fModMenuEffectHighlightColorG=1.0000
fModMenuEffectHighlightColorR=0.0706
fModMenuEffectColorB=0.4200
fModMenuEffectColorG=0.9900
fModMenuEffectColorR=0.4900
[MAIN]
fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000
bCrosshairEnabled=1
fHUDOpacity=1.0000
bSaveOnPause=1
bSaveOnTravel=1
bSaveOnWait=1
bSaveOnRest=1
[LightingShader]
bScreenSpaceSubsurfaceScattering=1
bScreenSpaceReflections=1
[General]
bGamepadEnable=1
bPipboyCompanionEnabled=1
iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1
bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0
uGridsToLoad=5
[Interface]
bDialogueSubtitles=0
bGeneralSubtitles=0
iHUDColorB=21
iHUDColorG=255
iHUDColorR=18
bDialogueCameraEnable=1
bShowCompass=1
[Controls]
fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0300
fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=0.6667
bAlwaysRunByDefault=1
bInvertYValues=0
bGamePadRumble=1
[GamePlay]
iDifficulty=2
bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1
bShowQuestMarkers=1
[Particles]
iMaxDesired=750
[SaveGame]
fAutosaveEveryXMins=10.0000
[AudioMenu]
fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000
fVal7=1.0000
uID7=0
fVal6=1.0000
uID6=0
fVal5=1.0000
uID5=0
fVal4=0.6500
uID4=138006
fVal3=0.6500
uID3=1007612
fVal2=1.0000
uID2=94881
fVal1=0.6500
uID1=466532
fVal0=0.6500
uID0=554685
[Water]
bUseWaterDisplacements=1
bUseWaterRefractions=1
bUseWaterReflections=1
bUseWaterDepth=1
[TerrainManager]
fTreeLoadDistance=75000.0000
fBlockMaximumDistance=250000.0000
fBlockLevel2Distance=110000.0000
fBlockLevel1Distance=90000.0000
fBlockLevel0Distance=60000.0000
fSplitDistanceMult=1.5000
bShowLODInEditor=0
[Grass]
fGrassStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=1000.0000
[Decals]
uMaxDecals=1000
bDecals=1
bSkinnedDecals=1
uMaxSkinDecals=100
uMaxSkinDecalsPerActor=40
[LOD]
fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000
fLODFadeOutMultObjects=30.0000
fLODFadeOutMultItems=10.0000
fLODFadeOutMultActors=15.0000
[BlurShaderHDR]
bDoHighDynamicRange=0
[BlurShader]
bUseBlurShader=0
[Launcher]
uLastAspectRatio=1

CCC & Game Settings:



Screenshots:

 

Also be sure to note that in FalloutPrefs.ini lowering

fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000

these values might help you get better performance in some cpu-bound areas. It did work for me in Skyrim and as well as in Fallout 4. So give it a try, might help you too ^^

 

CPU bound confirmed

Spoiler

Would love to see same charts on AMD GPU

 

Thank you but quite honestly the game runs perfectly fine for me with the settings listed above

 

incorrect.

AMD hardware is less efficient at serialized work loads than nvidia. They excel at parallelized workloads.

Its got nothing to do with overhead, and everything to do with architecture.

30+ years of programming, hardware engineering, and business management experience here.