20k+ draw calls in vanilla FO4

[Mr_terminator]

In this area in between Garden Terrace and the Old North Church, I see over 21,000 draw calls and FPS in the mid 40s

https://imgur.com/w9cnkaV

However, if I nudge my mouse a little bit to the right, my draw calls normalize and my framerate nearly triples

https://imgur.com/zuj1Pei

Boston for me is littered with these areas where my draw calls spike for seemingly no reason.

This is on a vanilla instance of the game on 1080p max settings (no weapon debris or motion blur), no script extender. I reset the ini files, and validated the game's integrity. The only modded thing here is the ENB, which had it's effect disabled and was only used for the FPS/draw call counter. "bUseCombinedObjects=0" was nowhere in the ini files, so precombines were supposedly working.

I have an RTX 4070, an I5-11400f, and 16 GB 3600 MHz RAM. The game is installed on an NVME SSD

I know fallout 4 is a poorly optimized game, but I see people talk about how they get a smooth 60 fps experience in vanilla Boston on hardware that is much older than mine. Moreover, any instance of high draw calls I found on the internet were linked to either a mod or complicated settlements, but I am reaching these ridiculous numbers in random areas in Boston that don't even seem like they would be that demanding. If someone could enlighten me on how these GTX 1080/i7 4 series people get a smooth 60 FPS, that would be great.

[Iron Knights]

Mods & 60FPS cap will make it much worse than it already is.
Under the lag areas there is much junk of no use, textures & objects dumped there by developers and never cleaned back up. You could make a new game (no mods) just to test the cleanup project, in console use TCL and go underground at least under the main layer. Do "Disable" and "markfordelete", recover with "Enable" before delete if unsure. GreenTech is also a junk area.

[Iron Knights]

There is no steady FPS in any game. What you want to do is mitigate speed to where the lowest FPS is live-able like 35-45.

[Iron Knights]

You can do that by having the right setup (applies to most games, reduces loading time):
1) Set monitor to 144hz, turn on Freesync or G-Sync, for whatever GPU you have.
2) Set Enhanced Sync (AMD), Fast Sync (NVIDIA) in drivers.
3) Set V-Sync to OFF in game options.
4) Cap FPS to 144 in drivers. (must have a cap & must match monitor frequency)
Step down in numbers if you encounter speeding in convos that you cannot handle.
5) "Ultra Setting" is the wrong attitude for any game, do your research, but in this case it was done for you, adjust in-game settings accordingly: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/fallout-4-graphics-performance-and-tweaking-guide/
Enjoy !