20-40 fps and extremely bad ghosting in City areas of Fallout 4

[Wu-Tang Dan]

I have an i7 8700 processor and a Asus Strix GTX 1070ti with 16GB of RAM. When playing my CPU usage doesnt go above 50% and my GPU usage never rises above 60%. With that in mind no matter what my settings are set to in-game I will only get extremely low fps. I also see alot of ghosting and rocks will copy as I turn. Im really stuck as to what is causing this problem. I have huge bases with 40+ settlers and it never drops below 60 however when im in a City areas fighting raiders it drops to 20 fps. I have even put the game in 720 with lowest settings and it still only gets 20 in them areas. I have updated my drivers. I have enable and disable Vsync, In the INI files and in the nvidia control panel. I have even tried removing my two extra monitors as i thought it might be due to multiple display however it is not. Im really stuck. This is unplayable. Please help.

[Ilja]

Biggest resource hogs in this game are:
- God Rays.
- Shadows.

Have you tried reducing the values for them? It might make a big difference.

The other question of course is if you have mods, which might disable PreCombined meshes for some parts of Boston?

[SickthatDuck]

download the mod "no borders", thank me later

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Odd. I have a GTX970 on a Core i7-6700k with 16GB RAM. No performance issues that I can think of.

Are you running any graphics or config file mods?

Run a Game File Integrity check on it and remove the settings you have set up in Fo4’s save folder, then start the game and have it automatically detect your graphics settings. If it doesn’t detect as “ultra”, make sure you have the monitor plugged into the graphics card and not the motherboard. My system specs above red as “Ultra”.

[bunny de fluff]

no border does not do sh_t. Go try it if dont believe me

[Jonny Sparta]

[TerrainManager]

[Atomicdeath]

I'm going to assume you have a Prebuilt system, even if it isn't try this.

http://coderbag.com/Programming-C/CPU-core-parking-manager-v3

What that does is "unpark" your cores, by default Windows will basically put some of the cores to sleep until they are needed, then it takes a moment for them to come up and take their share of the load. That utility turns off core parking and all cores remain active all the time. It makes a big difference.

Secondly, https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v85131538_EndUserProfile_en_us

That sets the power plan to High perormance, it is exactly what it sounds like. Max power all the time.

I hope that helps.

[Wu-Tang Dan]

No, I built my system myself. I did have a few mods installed before but i uninstalled them ages ago. Ive reset all the ini files for fallout. Ive also messed about with Vsync, enabling it and disabling it. Ive tried playing it on low settings aswell however I still get the chosting and 20 fps. Im trying everything. Nothing fixes it. Noticed today that it also tears. None of my other games do this so im lost as to what to do.

[bunny de fluff]

you said you uninstalled some mods before, but I bet you did not uninstall them as clean as this game wanted. Try removing your Data folder completely, and verify the game cache(warning all mods will be lost)

[zephyr]

Set V-Sync in nVidia to "controlled by 3D application"
Run this command in Fallout to disable godrays "GR OFF"
Set your viewing distance to 50% of max viewing distance
set both shadows options to medium
Also, set your Fallout 4 priority in Task manager to high
Close any other programs you're running (FireFox, Chrome, Edge)
Run Fallout 4 in Borderless Windows mode

[Ziptop]

Which mods did you have installed? Any that broke precombines might have been baked into save games. - I have had this happen with scrap everything type mods. There cause a performance impact in a lot of places, especially downtown Boston.

[SickthatDuck]

Originally posted by Wu-Tang Dan:

No, I built my system myself. I did have a few mods installed before but i uninstalled them ages ago. Ive reset all the ini files for fallout. Ive also messed about with Vsync, enabling it and disabling it. Ive tried playing it on low settings aswell however I still get the chosting and 20 fps. Im trying everything. Nothing fixes it. Noticed today that it also tears. None of my other games do this so im lost as to what to do.

trust me and try "no borders" in cities and make sure you download it with NMM, fixed everything for me -> 90 fps next to goodneighbor

PS: people seem to forget that Fallout 4 works for everyone differently, for some some light changes like turning down godyrays etc will work, some need to change ini settings, some change nvidia settings and for me the turning point was "no borders"

good luck to you!

[Gordon Freeman]

Originally posted by Wu-Tang Dan:

No, I built my system myself. I did have a few mods installed before but i uninstalled them ages ago. Ive reset all the ini files for fallout. Ive also messed about with Vsync, enabling it and disabling it. Ive tried playing it on low settings aswell however I still get the chosting and 20 fps. Im trying everything. Nothing fixes it. Noticed today that it also tears. None of my other games do this so im lost as to what to do.

If it's tearing you have vsynch turned off ?

[Lister of Smeg ︻デ =ー]

Originally posted by Wu-Tang Dan:

I have an i7 8700 processor and a Asus Strix GTX 1070ti with 16GB of RAM. When playing my CPU usage doesnt go above 50% and my GPU usage never rises above 60%. With that in mind no matter what my settings are set to in-game I will only get extremely low fps. I also see alot of ghosting and rocks will copy as I turn. Im really stuck as to what is causing this problem. I have huge bases with 40+ settlers and it never drops below 60 however when im in a City areas fighting raiders it drops to 20 fps. I have even put the game in 720 with lowest settings and it still only gets 20 in them areas. I have updated my drivers. I have enable and disable Vsync, In the INI files and in the nvidia control panel. I have even tried removing my two extra monitors as i thought it might be due to multiple display however it is not. Im really stuck. This is unplayable. Please help.

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