FPS DROP FIX Boston area

[J Capo]

If you are getting buttery frames outside of Boston, but terrible frames inside of Boston, then try turning down your SHADOW DISTANCE to MEDIUM. I was dropping from 100 to 30 in some areas. After a quick google search, I came across a reddit page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/comments/3sd7ck/fallout_4_pc_players_if_you_are_having_issues/

(scroll down a little bit to find the comment that helped me, it's possible to turn this setting down even more, but only by editing the INI file. (there is no LOW setting for shadow distance in the launcher.))

I'm posting this here to help anyone else who is having these problems. :)
Hopefully we get a patch soon, or a mod.
Still waiting on that holy unofficial bug fix mod!

[J Capo]

If this helps leave a reply so more people can find this.

[Billy Rising]

But i want shadows... i went in to the ini and turned shadow distance from 3000 to 6000, that being the true medium

Because High jumps it all the way up to 14000.

For me 3000 looked like ♥♥♥♥, i could not handle it.. I need a little above 3000.

But that said i still drop to 35 fps in certain areas that were 55 when i had it on medium..

I also cant wait for that bug fix mod..

[Someone]

Hey, that certainly did it. I didn't really notice that much of a difference either graphic wise. Thanks mate!

[{1stCAV}HoXtyYy]

i can play the game at 60fps med settings shadows and distance off but when i run i get fps drop :/

[Borg Cube]

I also set my distant object detail from ultra to high, turned off godrays and dof. disabled anti aliasing.

now i can run it at 4k 60fps on an r9 290 with a 4690k

[Rizzatto]

Thanks!

[DaLagga]

I guess now we all see why the PS4 version has its shadows set to medium. Imagine how much worse the framerate would be on console if they were on ultra? Of course, medium does look rather terrible.

http://i.imgur.com/4gE8HLL.gif

[hunnymusta]

This doesnt fix for the people effected by the poor optimization of the game. The rest of us will wait for a patch lol.

[J Capo]

I would recommend checking out the ENBoost mod on Nexus, can help with framerates and stuttering/crashes.

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/332/?
(requires manual install and editing of text files, make sure you read the mod description carefully)

I would also recommend checking this mod out:

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/978/?

It reduces the vanilla high-res textures with slight loss in texture quality, you have to be really close to a texture to notice it.

This can also help with framerates.

[Master Cheeks]

It's a shame setting the shadows to medium makes it look like ♥♥♥♥

[✠ sleepnaught ✠]

I get really low GPU usage, like in the 50%. Any idea why? My CPU is an i7 920 overclocked to 4.2ghz and never breaks above 40% utilization either. I can be in a locked 60 FPS in the country side all day long. Then, move to the city and get drips into the 40s which is okay I guess. But then, after a minute or two being in the city, my FPS nosedives into the 20s and doesnt come out from that.

I'm using a GTX 760 2gb in SLI. Using the Max Payne bits. Even in single card mode the issue persists, even on medium settings.

[I got 1984'd]

Frame drops to 24 and then to 0 - frozen game basically. Very bad.

[UnderTow]

hmm i set mine to medium and i havent noticed and graphical changes.. tho im not looking for them either, as once i see it im sure it will annoy me too.

but ya gotta way up quality of graphics over quality of frame rate.
whats more important to you!

[OmegaMizzen]

I have a 4790K @ 4.6GHz, 16GB of RAM, and a GTX 980 ti. Playing at 1080p(!!!) and this crap is happening to me too.

With shadow distance at Ultra or High, FPS drops to 30-40 in the Boston area...even though CPU usage is only at 55-65%, MEM usage at 5GB, and GPU core usage is only at 35-45% with somewhere between 3-4GB of VRAM being used!?! This. Makes. No. Sense. I still have plenty of horsepower left, but for some reason I have to drop shadow distance to medium.

[J Capo]

This here mod apparently changes the shadow distance depending on your FPS.

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1822/?

I haven't tried it out but it seems like it could help