War of The Commonwealth mod

[Jowersman]

Hey guys is there a sweet spot setting that won't bog down my system while still maintaining quite a few enemies?

4790k
16GB ram
SSD
980ti

Yes at full hell this mod bogs my game to 40FPS.. too many NPCs on the screen I suppose. Thanks for the help!

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Just running a bit of math, if Full gives you 40FPS and I assume your target is 60FPS, reduce it to 66% Intensity.

[TheSaboteur]

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It's not your fault, it's the engine. Happens even in the Fallout 3/New Vegas world.

[leem]

That mod looks awesome.

[Jowersman]

It is for sure! I can't help keep thinking higher MHz ram will solve some of my low fps issues. Normally is when flying in the Vertabird and looking down on the commonwealth.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Originally posted by Jowersman:

It is for sure! I can't help keep thinking higher MHz ram will solve some of my low fps issues. Normally is when flying in the Vertabird and looking down on the commonwealth.

Faster RAM will only help cut back some of the cell-loading delays, it won't actually help performance once the memory is filled.

CK doesn't do huge groups very well, because NPC AI has a lot of packages to run, to say nothing of all the animation/shadows going along with it. You probably need a faster CPU or very aggressive Overclock. 4790k is good, but at stock speeds, it'll almost certainly reach its breaking point with War of the Commonwealth at max intensity.

Run Taskmanager or HWMontir/HWINFO and track your resource utilization, if your CPU or GPU is hitting 100%, that's most likely where your bottlenecking.

[Jowersman]

Would you say a 6 core processor would do the trick? Like a 5960x or 5820k?

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Originally posted by Jowersman:

Would you say a 6 core processor would do the trick? Like a 5960x or 5820k?

I don't think so. Definitely not the 5820k, you'll get worse performance. Fallout 4 isn't particularly well suited for anything over 4 cores. It's why the Recommended specs on an AMD processor is the behemoth silicon spaceheater 4.7GHZ 9590.

You have a K SKU Intel I7, what's the core speed, are you running an Overclock? Devil's Canyon I7's can overclock fairly well.

[leem]

Maybe get the new 1080 with 8gb.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Originally posted by leem:

Maybe get the new 1080 with 8gb.

Before suggesting a $700 upgrade, we should probably make sure he's not bottlenecking on the CPU instead, lol.

[leem]

He already got 4plus ghz i7 cpu 16gb of ram. My opinion new video card would make big difference. Besides if that does not work he will be stuck with a new awesome video card and then upgrade something else.

[DARKMATTER_497]

AMD 9550, is an eight core cpu, and yes Fallout4, will use multicore. Higher GHZ cpu is required, because Fallout4, is an DirectX 11,game. DirectX 11, has higher overhead, becaue it relies on the cpu. I run Fllout4, with AMD FX 9370, 4.4 GHZ, which is a multicore cpu(8-cores). with 200 plus mods.

[MooP]

Originally posted by leem:

Maybe get the new 1080 with 8gb.

That 15-25% performance increase is not worth $700... I also have a 980Ti & it would be pointless to upgrade for that small % increase for that price! I'll wait for 1080Ti version then think about upgrading my GPU...

Fallout 4 is mainly a CPU bound game because of the engine & it still being a DX11 game.

My i7 4790K @ 4.5 GHz & OP's CPU wont help this game any when its a mess of an engine to start with... Upgrading to a 1080 wont help much either you just gotta accept this game isn't built to run 100% all the time at its core & then stacking mods into it will just cause more issues...

[leem]

I dont think $700 will slow op down. He did not mention budget not to mention his system is not a budget system. I am thinking 25% would do the trick. Plus so easy to switch video cards. It also using way less watts and runs cooler more stable.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

He's saying he already has an I7 4790k but I'm trying to ascertain if he's got a good overclock, or one at all.

I run a 6600k at 4.4GHZ and I have around 25% CPU headroom across all cores on (mostly) ultra. But, at least in theory, that 6600k Overclock should be slightly faster than a 4.5 I7 by simple virtue of the 12% IPC increase Skylake has in any case that doesn't involve HyperThreading.

[DARKMATTER_497]

get the 1070 with 8gb, thats what i use. Here are some mods i, use WOTC+Supermutant OverHaul+Raider OverHaul+Minutemen OverHaul