Understanding the Fallout.ini

[Altelos]

Hello there o/

 

So heres the Situation : Ive been playing FO4 with Mods for quite some time and recently (Around 2-3 Weeks ago) i started playing again. Having lots of fun with old and new Mods.

 

Now ive got around 50 Hours put in with very little Story progress (Just killed Kellog) but im allready level 46 since i roamed around a LOT and put a bunch of time into the settlements. But back on topic.

 

Ive noticed terrible Performance issues when entering certain Areas like Hangmans Alley or the Jamaica Settlement. After a lot of digging around i found out that the Mod Scrap Everything was the culprit since it tripples the Textures that need to be loaded (or so it said in the post) so i deactivated it and boom 12-18 FPS more.

 

Now i have a pretty decent PC : RTX 2080ti / I7 8700k @ 5ghz 16gb RAM DDR4 (the fast one dont know the exact Mhz) and the game is installed on an SSD but even with all that i got to around 65 FPS without Scrap Everything and around 50 with it in the Worst Case scenario. Again just in the "Bad areas" anywhere else i got to a consistant 76-85 ish (Im using High FPS and Physix Fix locked at 95 FPS). Also i should mention i play with everything on Ultra exepct Shadow Deatail and Distance (both at High), Weapon Depris OFF, God rays OFF)

 

Today (23.11.2021) i wanted to install a couple more Texture Mods and switch out Vivid Weather for NAC X which i did. I also used LOOT to sort the Load order and found out some Mods needed an update. I did all of those at once and when i loaded back in i immeadietly CTD after taking like 10 steps. So i deinstalled those Mods and put Vivid back in - still CTD. Startet a New Game without ANY Mods enabled and a soon as i left Sanctuary i CTD again. So for the last 2 or so hours ive been Heartbroken thinking i might have to do a Clean install and start from Scratch since that was by far the most common answer i found to these problems. But there was one Post i found that was talking about a clean install and to make sure you revert your INIs back to Default when you do so. He suggested using the "Fallout 4 Configuration Tool" to do so.

 

Now i did just that and gave my Game one last Try, started a new Game and would you look at that? No CTD. So i went back in my Main Save and again no CTD. So now i got curios and enabled ALL my Mods at once with NMM(Im using the community version, i dont like Vortex) and went back into my Main Save and now listen to this:

 

Not only do i not have ANY CTDs but my Performance went from ~50 FPS to a constant 95 (where i have it locked) AND as i started the Game i put ALL Settings on ULTRA. (And yes with Scrap Everything, enb, texture mods everything enabled)

 

So my Question is this: Ive been modding this game since 2017 or 2016 i think and ive read about Load orders, keeping Mods up to date and conflicting Mods all the time but i never heard that the Fallout.ini does such a thing. So what exactly happened here? How can i have like 2x the Performance with BETTER settings and the exact same Mods? How does that work? or did i just miss the absolut basics of Modding?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Altelos]

Alright so here is a really embarassing Update but thought you should know just in case:

 

My Performance didnt double - it just reverted all settings to Medium/Low and didnt save my Settings made in the Launcher

 

And heres the big one: Uninstalling/Installing Mods didnt crash my game or rather caused the CTD ... it was the Graphic Option called "Weapon Debris". Apparently theres an issue with RTX cards where it causes CTD to happen. Tryd it out with everything Low/Off only Weapon debris on - Crash... Everything set to MAX and Weapon Debris Off- Low FPS but no CTD

 

So yeah that was it if someone was interested <.<

 

That was a complete waste of like 2-3 hours if i do say so myself...

Edited November 23, 2021 by Altelos