High Quality Texture Pack is a huge problem

[Darthgumby]

So it took me the entire weekend to find some good mods for this game and figure out how to get them working juuuust right. I was finally getting back into Fallout 4 after not playing for a couple of years, but then I saw an option for a "high quality texture pack" as a DLC option offered by Bethesda. Cool, I thought, I can just remove my texture mods and use the official texture mods offered by the developers. It should fix some of the glitchy and low-texture items still showing up in game due to my current mod/texture pack.

So I removed the Fallout 4 vivid textures mod I installed and attempted to install the high quality textures from Bethesda through steam. Lo and behold, as I start the download it's 55GB of space? Seriously? The texture mod I downloaded was less than 1GB. Do I really want to use that much more of my limited PC hard drive space for better textures?

Well the texture pack boasted "experiencing fallout 4 like never before with all new HD textures" so maybe it would be worth it? I checked out the specs for the DLC and they required something insanely high. I recently build a new PC, so I know I could handle it, though it would be getting toward the max of my resources to run this texture pack.

I checked out the videos on this texture pack while it was downloading - and it looks like the texture pack does diddly squat for making the game look better at 1080p, which is my default since I have a 1080p monitor and game at that resolution. So essentially I was downloading 55GB of junk that would make the game eat up more resources to run for a negligible difference. No sir, not doing it.

So here's the real kicker, I can't uninstall just the texture pack DLC. I can uncheck it in Steam, but the hard drive still wants to reserve/download that extra 55GB through steam now. The only option I have to "uninstall" the texture pack is to uninstall the entire Fallout 4 game, which I ended up doing. So now I have to re-download the entire game and set up the modding again just to get back to where I was earlier this morning. What a pain.

I don't think I'm going to reinstall though. I find it ridiculous that it takes 55GB to update textures to begin with, and with how much work it takes to get the game up and running it really isn't worth it to try again. Such a bogus and misleading DLC this texture pack is. Anyone who is thinking of downloading it, just don't.

[Serpoman]

Vivid Fallout All in One is a good mod!

[(N☆G) Jackal ★JJ★]

I can give you my graphic mods list. Its pretty extensive and covers just about anything. (No ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ its around 30+ mods and need to be installed in a certain order so certain pieces get over ridden)

As for Bethesda UHD pack.... id go in and completely delete any UHD esp you have in your data folder its like 15 files. Bethesda didnt even do a good job and their textures are still unoptimized as crap.

If anything Luxor or whatever his name is on nexus has a MASSIVE 4 part mod that covers almost ever texture in the game to make it worth while.

[kharille]

I had it, hated my load times. Tried to uninstall it last night and it just crashed every time. Reinstalled it this morning. Well, not ideal but I can deal with it.