Fallout 4 - Part 2

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Damn.. I was looking for stickytape to make it *__*

I am obviously the best dressed in the wasteland.

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Hello.

I'm big fan of fallout (F1 F2 and NV especially) but i heard from my dear friends that game is utter crap as "RPG". Bad story voice acting , dumbed down character progression, little choices in story , can't kill npcs .. among many other flaws . They say its more like a shooter .. It would be horrible for me because it should be RPG and some dumbed down shooter..


Who played and can agree or disagree?

 

Texture streaming is controlled by these cvars.
(Section [General] in Fallout4.ini and possibly Fallout4Prefs.ini too just in case.)

iTextureUpgradeDistance1=
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=
iTextureDegradeDistance1=
iTextureDegradeDistance0=

(Have to be added unless you first dump the entire ini file by the "saveini" command but this is generally not recommended.)

If you leave the upgrade distances alone but set the degrade distances to 0 and then load the game you should now see that all the streamed texture are on the lowest quality level, terrain however seems unaffected.

If you instead set degrade to something like 9999 and upgrade to 0 it should always load the full texture res for streamed textures but might stutter when you enter more detailed areas as it has to fully load all textures over a bigger distance.

Feel free to experiment and finding optimal values.

I think these were the defaults:

iTextureUpgradeDistance1=1200
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=600
iTextureDegradeDistance1=1500
iTextureDegradeDistance0=800

EDIT: I recommend the start of the game as a good testing point, the bridge from the ruined settlement and the leaf piles on the ground should make for very easy comparisons.
(You can also try the "setini" command to alter them directly in the game but from my experience this only works with a few cvars such as FOV, it's in this format if you want to try: setini "iTextureUpgradeDistance0:General" 800 )


EDIT: These also exist, also in the [General] section of the ini file.

bDegradeDetachedTextures=1
fTextureUpgradeDisabledMinSpeed=600.0000
bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=1
fUpdateTextureTime=1.5000

(These are the default values, I only tried changing the first one but it didn't have any noticeable effect.)

 

This game needs a texture mod.

 

Most definitely. My FPS is always at 60 but turning the camera around feels like it's more in the mid 40s or so.

 

Yes, we'll probably see it sooner or later. It may be a Vram hog considering im seeing ever 2GB Vram usage as it is now.

Btw guys, i reverted back FOV to 80 from 100 and got like 10fps on average. Something to keep in mind.

 

I disagree, i love it way more then NV and F3.

 

This is how i look atm and my dog and Power Armor.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Signex/screenshot/650003524235023292

Last night i got legendary power armor chest piece and upgraded them all to stage D.

 

I think it's iTexMipMapSkip=0 you need to set to 1 to disable it.

 

Holy crap the mouse lag is terrible... it's the same as in Skyrim. I even applied the fixes and they make no single difference.

The only thing that makes it slightly better is setting Pre-Rendered Frames to 1. Which also results in a massive FPS drop.

 

That's texture quality basically, setting it to 0 loads the full texture, 1 skips the first mipmap, 2 skips the two first mipmaps and so on.
(So a 1024x1024 texture will display at full res with this set to 0 whereas it'll display in 512x512 if set to 1 and 256x256 if set to 2)

EDIT: It should also be possible to "break" the game by setting them to a very high value, would look like this then. ->
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=98820512#post98820512

 

lol, thanks for explaining it Jonas, helpful as always. Didnt recognize you with your new avatar.

 

Can you upgrade the dog?

Also am struggling with power armour. Can you take it with you to work on any station? I have the set from nr the vault (2 pieces) and then the first quest set. Perhaps I need to play around a bit.

Seems odd you cant craft ammo or armour/weps from scratch?!? I.e you need an existing piece to modify...

Oh and the scavenging station whats up with that? I assigned someone and they work on it for a bit then stop...do they produce anything and where does it go?

 

Open the trade/transfer window with him and if you have something that he can use such as armor, scarfs or collars a "equip" option should appear, T by default on PC.

 

I tried giving him some mutant hound armour...maybe he didnt like it.

Also am I right in thinking your settlers only use a certain type of weapon? Tried giving one a rifle and didnt seem to like it either. (but did take an improved pistol).

tnx Jonas.

p.s not sure if the dog is a help or a hindrance. I know you have the stay command but why isnt there a "go home command" and he can go back to his kennel until needed.

 

Why it looks like there are no shadows in side this room ? (Ambient shadowing etc).
really strange like i was looking at 1998 game...

 

Well my dog went missing last night, then it appeared during one of the mission(when i was in the lift) and disappeared again! God dammit jackson!

 

Agreed. Having played the PS4 version at 30 fps, I would say it frequently feels smoother in motion than on my PC which runs at 60 fps almost 100% of the time. Kind of annoying really. I think it is framepacing or microstutter, if they are the same things.

 

G-Sync must be doing a good job with this then. Haven't noticed any stutters in about 12 hours of play so far. Game feels really smooth.

 

I'm about 11 hours into the game.
Still feel like I haven't done a whole lot yet.During my time I haven't encountered any performance issues, no stuttering. It's stayed at a solid 60fps the entire time.

No crashes, lock ups or any game hindering issues.

I did encounter one door, that when I opened it, the doorway was covered by a texture. I was able to walk right through it... but it still looks closed.
Also, a few times when I've raised my weapon... I only get a crosshair. No weapon model. This also affects the pipboy.

Switching to third person and back to first fixed that.

The only thing that bothers me, is I've told Dog to stay in Sanctuary. And, on multiple times... when I fast travel to a location, or if I take an elevator that takes me through a load point... Dog shows up in the elevator with me.
Or he's at the location I fast traveled to.