These settings will greatly improve your framerate

[Vanythe]

If you just started with fallout 76, you may have noticed that there's no way to turn off TAA in-game, that the loading screens are "long" or that the game's fps is low or unstable. Go to your documents (C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\My Games\Fallout 76), under "My Games" find "Fallout 76" and open notepad, copy and paste the text below then save it as Fallout76Custom.ini in the Fallout 76 folder.

[General]
sIntroSequence=0
bDisableSplash=0
uMainMenuDelayBeforeAllowSkip=0
bPauseMenuDrawOptimization=0
[Display]
fShadowDistance=10000.0000
fDirShadowDistance=10000.0000
uiShadowFilter=1
uiOrthoShadowFilter=3
sAntiAliasing=FXAA
iPresentInterval=0
[Interface]
fFadeToBlackFadeSeconds=0.2000
fMinSecondsForLoadFadeIn=0.3000
[ImageSpace]
bDoDepthOfField=0
bMBEnable=0
bLensFlare=0
[Texture]
iLargeTextureArrayCount=16 - If your game won't load with 16, leave it at 32

-----Explanation what each setting does-----

sIntroSequence=0 --> Disables bethesda intro movie, game goes straight to login.
bDisableSplash=0 --> Disables "please stand by" splash screen.
uMainMenuDelayBeforeAllowSkip=0 --> Allows you to skip certain UI animations before they finish.
bPauseMenuDrawOptimization=0 --> Map opens faster when you press "ESC" key.
fShadowDistance=10000.0000 --> Makes the shadows render much closer to the player.
fDirShadowDistance=10000.0000 --> Makes directional shadows render closer to the player.
uiShadowFilter=1 --> Uses a lower quality shadow filter to improve performance.
uiOrthoShadowFilter=3 --> Blurs the shadows to remove pixelation at no cost to performance.
sAntiAliasing=FXAA --> Sets antialiasing to FXAA. Can be left blank for no AA (sAntiAliasing=)
iPresentInterval=0 --> Disables creation engine's implementation of vertical sync. Massive framerate boost on some systems.
fFadeToBlackFadeSeconds=0.2000 --> Removes slow fade to black when fast travelling
fMinSecondsForLoadFadeIn=0.3000 --> Removes being locked in place for a few seconds after fast travelling.
bDoDepthOfField=0 --> Disables depth of field. Minor performance boost.
bMBEnable=0 --> Disables motion blur.
bLensFlare=0 --> Disables lens flare.
iLargeTextureArrayCount=16 --> Reduces texture complexity, allowing you to select high resolution textures at the cost of complexity. Looks better than medium setting at no performance cost. Can be set to 8, 16 and 32. No difference at 8 though.

EDIT: Thanks to Mooman for pointing a problem in newest version of the game.

[lockwoodx]

Some of those tweaks are very useful such as removing the intro splash.

[SSG Anhor]

Just for understanding:

I create an empty file called Fallout76Custom.ini?
I then copy your text into this?
Then I save this file to the Fallout76 folder?

The question arises for me: Why should the game even pay attention to the Fallout76Custom.ini file?

If you explain something, then explain it correctly.

In other words, open the Fallout76.ini file and change/expand/add the respective lines here.
THEN it would become a shoe for me.

[insert food here]

Originally posted by SSG Anhor:

Just for understanding:

I create an empty file called Fallout76Custom.ini?
I then copy your text into this?
Then I save this file to the Fallout76 folder?

The question arises for me: Why should the game even pay attention to the Fallout76Custom.ini file?

If you explain something, then explain it correctly.

In other words, open the Fallout76.ini file and change/expand/add the respective lines here.
THEN it would become a shoe for me.

Go to Documents/My Games/Fallout 76

Create a new plain text file in this folder and save it as Fallout76Custom.ini

The game will read from the custom ini last so any settings changed here will over ride all others.

[insert food here]

Not a performance boost but here is a very useful setting to add for power armour users. This will change it to require a 1.5 second hold of E to exit your PA. It will eliminate the times when you accidentally exit due to pressing E too fast when interacting with things. Your premature ejections will be a thing of the past.

[Controls]
fPowerArmorExitDelay=1.5

[Vanythe]

Originally posted by SSG Anhor:

Just for understanding:

I create an empty file called Fallout76Custom.ini?
I then copy your text into this?
Then I save this file to the Fallout76 folder?

The question arises for me: Why should the game even pay attention to the Fallout76Custom.ini file?

If you explain something, then explain it correctly.

In other words, open the Fallout76.ini file and change/expand/add the respective lines here.
THEN it would become a shoe for me.

Fallout76.ini often gets overriden by the game. All bethesda games as early as Oblivion can use the Custom.ini. Literally a copy paste job into the correct folder and that's it really.

[Pixel_Killer_9000]

I don't know if I got better frame rates but this definitely cleared up the stupid ghosting effects.

[JMH714]

Will it clear up the skipping movement?

[AbsynthMinded]

Modify files at your own risk of getting banned.

[insert food here]

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Modify files at your own risk of getting banned.

You do realise this is the file where the game settings are saved? Nothing more nothing less. It gets modified itself by the game when you change settings in the menus. This is not what is meant by getting banned for modifying game files.

Blame Bethesda for not allowing a simple feature like VSync to be able to be turned off in the game menu. It cause major performance issues for so many it is baffling we have to do it this way but at least we can so players can get better performance and make the game playable.

[Gillx83]

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Modify files at your own risk of getting banned.

Please learn what modding means before you try to toss shade on a super helpful post.

[SSG Anhor]

Originally posted by insert food here:

Originally posted by SSG Anhor:

Just for understanding:

I create an empty file called Fallout76Custom.ini?
I then copy your text into this?
Then I save this file to the Fallout76 folder?

The question arises for me: Why should the game even pay attention to the Fallout76Custom.ini file?

If you explain something, then explain it correctly.

In other words, open the Fallout76.ini file and change/expand/add the respective lines here.
THEN it would become a shoe for me.

Go to Documents/My Games/Fallout 76

Create a new plain text file in this folder and save it as Fallout76Custom.ini

The game will read from the custom ini last so any settings changed here will over ride all others.

Thx a lot. This makes sense.

[Vanythe]

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Modify files at your own risk of getting banned.

Nothing is getting modified, it's just changing graphics settings via ini file.

[Vanythe]

Originally posted by insert food here:

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Modify files at your own risk of getting banned.

You do realise this is the file where the game settings are saved? Nothing more nothing less. It gets modified itself by the game when you change settings in the menus. This is not what is meant by getting banned for modifying game files.

Blame Bethesda for not allowing a simple feature like VSync to be able to be turned off in the game menu. It cause major performance issues for so many it is baffling we have to do it this way but at least we can so players can get better performance and make the game playable.

Honestly it's not even modifying the "real" file, rather creating a new one that the game normally doesn't create on it's own. All of the above settings can be edited in Fallout76Prefs also but having it in Custom is better because if you don't like it you can just open the custom ini and remove/change what you don't like rather than having to edit Fallout76Prefs every time. It's really surprising also that TAA and Vsync are forced on either way.

[AbsynthMinded]

Just don't come in here expecting sympathy if anyone gets banned for 'Modifying' the game files. Simple as. Do whatever you like to your game. Bethesda will not care, until they do..

[Vanythe]

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Just don't come in here expecting sympathy if anyone gets banned for 'Modifying' the game files. Simple as. Do whatever you like to your game. Bethesda will not care, until they do..

I played the game with these settings from 2020 up until 2023 when I replaced my 3 gig 1060 with a 2060 SUPER. Idk why you're so paranoid. There are actual mods for this game on Nexusmods too. Maybe give some proof that people get banned for turning off Vsync and TAA?