Low FPS

[Ydintalvi]

What is your advice when sometimes the game has really low fps?
CPU 5800X3D GPU RTX-3080

[dentalfloss]

The game is notorious for terrible performance, even on high-end rigs. You can't do much about it. Look on the bright side: sixteen times the detail!

[TurbojetChicken]

Couple things you can try, due to unoptimized creation engine.

1. Go to X:\Users\Your username\Documents\My Games\Fallout 76 and open Fallout76Prefs.ini, then change iPresentInterval= from 1 to 0. This will unlock Fallout 76's FPS. Although you need to limit FPS to about 140 from Nvidia's control panel, so you can move normally in inside instances and you won't get stuck in place randomly. I have mine set to 135 and works well.

2. Other tweak is lower object/actor/grass fade sliders from Fallout 76's display settings. Lowering shadow quality could help aswell.

3. I've read somewhere that changing window mode to fullscreen from ingame settings helps but haven't tried it myself.

[Ydintalvi]

Thank you. I did all of them, so there was some improvement in the frame rate, but it seems that the game has performance problems

[TurbojetChicken]

You're welcome, good that it helped

[DaniVegaz]

its a joke that this game runs like ♥♥♥♥ at 30 FPS so many years later

[Doyle]

Running same hardware as you. Sometimes it's just the server. Whether it's worth paying for Fallout subscription for your own server it's up to you. But when I play a lot of FO76 I usually pay for a private server and I get better FPS.

[Weffi]

I shut down vsync in nivida control panel for fallout, and capped the fps at 70 and it works realy good, computer doesnt sound like it is about to take off eighter now, though I only have a 3060 ti card, but it did wonders to the performance

[Ydintalvi]

Originally posted by Weffi:

I shut down vsync in nivida control panel for fallout, and capped the fps at 70 and it works realy good, computer doesnt sound like it is about to take off eighter now, though I only have a 3060 ti card, but it did wonders to the performance

i did this too.
I don't think there are any other adjustments other than hoping that the game developers will optimize ?

[Weffi]

I am not sure about this, but if you allow your graphic card to use full fps, the game seems to not hit over capasity on your card, i tried this on ultra settings and I hit 200 fps on a 3060 ti card, what in now way should be possible, fans whent berserk, and then game starts to stutter, due to throttling of the card, for some reason this happens if you let it use full power

[Dehnyen]

Turn shadow draw distance down.