Fallout76Custom.ini (Make the game look better, run smoother)

[Jolu42]

I've found these settings in the custom ini have made the game look much better and improves the smoothness of gameplay. It runs silky smooth now and never once dipped below 60fps in 17 hours of gameplay. I'm using a 1080 Ti and recommend trying out this custom ini to others with mid-tier to higher-end GPUs.

I made Fallout76Custom.ini files for all common resolutions and aspect ratios. ENSURE to delete everything in parentheses before the filename.

It should look like: Fallout76Custom.ini

Drop it in Username\Documents\My Games\Fallout 76

Link to files: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rC0DNRznUgtb3naeaPP9sbbprcLCm4Ah

Example of 1440p ini:
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; High Quality Fallout 76 Settings (1440p)
; Comments/explanations are below changable settings.

[Savegame]
fAutosaveEveryXMinutes=2.0000
; Value is in minutes. Change to desired auto save time.

[Display]
fTAAPostSharpen=0.4
fTAAPostOverlay=0.2
; Sharpens overly blurry default TAA. Change values to your liking if you so wish or delete these two for vanilla TAA.

iMaxAnisotropy=16
; Anisotropic Filtering maxed at 16x.

fShadowDistance=90000.0000
fDirShadowDistance=90000.0000
; Distance that shadows far into the wasteland view distance are rendered. (Low=60000, Medium=90000, anything beyond is not-noticeable and very taxing)

iShadowMapResolution=4096
; Ultra shadows default to 2048, increased above Ultra (Epic?) to 4K shadow resolution.

iSize W=2560
iSize H=1440
; Change to desired screen resolution

bFull Screen=1
bBorderless=1
; Change Fullscreen, borderless on (1) or off (0).

uPipboyTargetHeight=1400
uPipboyTargetWidth=1752
; Pipboy screen resolution increased and very clear.

iPresentInterval=0
; Removes in-game Vsync, use NVDIA control panel to enable Vsync for elimination of microstuttering/lag. This fixes A LOT of your issues!

[ImageSpace]
fDefault1stPersonFOV=90
; Change 1st Person FOV to desired horizontal degree value.

bDoDepthOfField=0
bDoRadialBlur=0
iRadialBlurLevel=0
bDynamicDepthOfField=0
bScreenSpaceBokeh=0
bLensFlare=1
; Disables Depth of Field and blur effects for clearer gameplay. If you like this option change '0' to '1.' Lens flare is currently ON in this setting. If you like this option change '0' to '1'

bMBEnable=0
; Disables motion blur.

[General]
sIntroSequence=
uMainMenuDelayBeforeAllowSkip=0
; Removes intro video, goes straight into sign-in screen when booting the game.

[Pipboy]
fPipboyEffectColorB=0.5000
fPipboyEffectColorG=1.0000
fPipboyEffectColorR=0.1000
; You can mess with these values (not greater than 1.0000) to change Pipboy light color.

[Controls]
bMouseAcceleration=0
; Disables mouse acceleration.

fMouseHeadingXScale=0.021
fMouseHeadingYScale=0.03738
; Vertical mouse sensitivity. Change YScale if you are not using 16:9 aspect ratio.
; 0.03738 for 16:9 resolutions
; 0.042 for 21:9 resolutions
; 0.028 for 4:3 resolutions
; 0.0336 for 16:10 resolutions (info from PCGamingWiki)

[AscendedViking7]

Does this actually work?

[Jolu42]

Yes, of course. I just copied and pasted this from my ini. The game ignores all comments starting with ;

[Big Boss]

Is this your Prefs or the regular fallout76.ini?

[Jolu42]

It matches the Fallout76Prefs.ini, NOT the Fallout76.ini

[Big Boss]

Made it prettier. No performance increase though

[Jolu42]

Originally posted by Big Boss:

Made it prettier. No performance increase though

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. Its main purpose is to make the game look prettier, not gain fps for lower end hardware. Some of the settings in the ini are actually above ultra. What I meant was, things like disabling mouse acceleration, motion blur, in-game vsync (and enabling in Nvidia control panel) will make playing a lot smoother.

[ZDuB]

i had already made a custom ini to turn off DOF, Now i can turn off Motion Blur. THANKS!!!

[ig83]

I find it odd that these QOL options are not in the menus, also contrast, gamma, brightness. I used better shadow Res 4k, removed dof and radial blur.

I wish I could hotkey compass and UI.

V helpful post though thanks

[Vendon]

How to use that? Where to post it? What to change? My Fallout76 ini is very short maybe I have found the wrong ini ? absolutely no instructions. Would be good if there would be some.

[ZDuB]

Originally posted by Vendon:

How to use that? Where to post it? What to change? My Fallout76 ini is very short maybe I have found the wrong ini ? absolutely no instructions. Would be good if there would be some.

c:users/username/documents/my games/fallout76
create a new text file named Fallout76custom.ini

[Vendon]

Originally posted by ZDuB:

Originally posted by Vendon:

How to use that? Where to post it? What to change? My Fallout76 ini is very short maybe I have found the wrong ini ? absolutely no instructions. Would be good if there would be some.

c:users/username/documents/my games/fallout76
create a new text file named Fallout76custom.ini

Ok and just copy and paste everything in it ?

[ZDuB]

Originally posted by Vendon:

Originally posted by ZDuB:

c:users/username/documents/my games/fallout76
create a new text file named Fallout76custom.ini

Ok and just copy and paste everything in it ?

ya but only stuff you want to change

[Vendon]

Holy crap are you sure that this only makes the game look better? I am having 100 fps + with that. Before it 30-45. Thanks allot. Just hope that they will not have an idea to ban ppl who are doing this.

[Jolu42]

Originally posted by Vendon:

Holy crap are you sure that this only makes the game look better? I am having 100 fps + with that. Before it 30-45. Thanks allot. Just hope that they will not have an idea to ban ppl who are doing this.

Bethesda released a patch some time ago that finally untied framerate to game animations. But, it is the creation engine after all, and things can get pretty buggy above 60fps. I do recommend enabling vsync through your Nvidia Control Panel (or AMD equivalent).

[SiD]

I have the same GPU and monitor size and can testify that these settings are spot on! Thanks so much!