How do you make fallout 4 run faster?

[Kabbao]

"Thanks for the laugh, OP" Anyways I have a low-end PC and I can run fallout 4 at about 5-15 fps. I run the game at low and I have no idea how to make it even reach 20 fps. I turned off Godrays with the "gr off" console command and I gained significantly more FPS than usual.

[Flippy]

Make sure any other programs are turned off and if nothing else works get a texture replacer. Some mods have HUGE textures and will test any machine as well.

Ram is cheapest to upgrade and the place to start for that, then go for video card 4 GB or more.

[halfmonkey]

^This.

If you are open to using mods, I suggest the "Insignificant Object Remover" (removes pebbles, some trash and minor clutter from the landscape) and the texture mod made for low-end pcs. (this just uses sharpened half scale vanilla textures.) These two will add a very noticeable (5-10 fps) boost to framerate.

Otherwise, have you searched for a guide on this? There was a video a few years back where it was shown how to run this on a potato pc by editing the config files. It looked awful, but ran well enough to play.

[Ceejay]

There are no real point in posts like this without specs.

At the end of the day, while you may not want to hear this, if your computer is borderline a mod 'might' help. however if its not even close, no mod or setting will make the game playable which is why we need specs.

That is the whole point of the game having requirements, if your computer is not close, you should not be buying the game.

[Jonny Sparta]

yea this game is pretty badly optimized. There are some mods that will help, hard to say if it'll be enough.


boston fps fix
vivid textures series
insignifigant object remover

thats all i can remember for now, I used to crush the [terrain] section of my ini to squeeze more fps but that was with a lot of mods and weird tweaks in place

[ZaggRukk]

When you start the game through steam and the normal start menu pops up, go to advanced settings and turn everything off or as low as a setting as possible. At the bottom will be a godray setting as well as an ambient occlusion setting. Turn those off. Rain and godrays are a bane to systems that probably shouldn't run this game.

Another mod that will help is one that reduces reflections from water or tones down the rain even more than the settings.