VATS FPS Drop and Stutter

[TK770]

Hey all! I've recently built a new rig and I've reinstalled Fallout 3 to bask in its pure awesomeness. I've played with it first in Vanilla a bit and I've actually had issues with a few things. First things first, my specs are:

 

- i7-950 @ 3.07GHz

- 6GB DDR3 RAM

- (2) EVGA GTX 460 @ 1024MB

 

So I assumed I would be able to run this game with anti-aliasing but I get these terrible studders and VATS FPS drops. I have installed the 3GB enabler to see if this sped things up but it didn't. I am tempted to install the FPS Stutter mod but I've had terrible experiences with the Oblivion version of FOSE and am holding off on it unless if it will fix my issues. I've actually just installed NCM's texture update for the ultra setting and I've had no FPS drops outside of the anti-aliasing. I'd love some suggestions for fixing this issue with anti-aliasing. I know it's more so the game and not my computer and the game looks absolutely stellar with it on.

 

Thanks, TK

[evilneko]

You mean when you first enter VATS? Or when the actions you've queued up are playing out?

 

The former seems to be inherent to the game.

[TK770]

You mean when you first enter VATS? Or when the actions you've queued up are playing out?

 

The former seems to be inherent to the game.

 

Sorry let me be a little more specific. So when I enter the game I am fine, if I am ever in a building or zoned city, so not in the open world, I am fine. But once I enter the world, whenever I hit V for VATS, my framerate drops DRAMATICALLY. The limbs and percentages take 10 seconds or so to load and it takes even 10-20 seconds to zoom in fully on the enemy. Plus outside of that VATS framerate drop, I get stutters while running in the open world for periods of 2 seconds then they repeat every 10-15 seconds or so.

[evilneko]

VATS lag is normal, ten seconds sounds on the high end.. but if it's not actually lagging after you hit accept, I'd probably just write it off as normal VATS lag. It happens.

 

As for world stutter, Fallout Stutter Remover works wonders. I noticed absolutely no difference with or without the 3GB enabler, but Stutter Remover made Fallout smoooooth. I mean night and day, immediately noticeable, huge difference. Try it.

[TK770]

VATS lag is normal, ten seconds sounds on the high end.. but if it's not actually lagging after you hit accept, I'd probably just write it off as normal VATS lag. It happens.

 

As for world stutter, Fallout Stutter Remover works wonders. I noticed absolutely no difference with or without the 3GB enabler, but Stutter Remover made Fallout smoooooth. I mean night and day, immediately noticeable, huge difference. Try it.

 

Well I must say the Stutter Remover worked wonderfully, but the VATS lag is still there. I should probably record a video to describe it but it is essentially every single thing that happens during VATS gets framed to under 5. So from when I click V, to it zooming in, to it loading the body parts, the mouse itself is framey and zips around, and physically commanding the body part to be clicked and recorded onto the next shot log, to the animation, to the EVERYTHING. Once VATS mode leaves my game is fine. Just from what I've read it's mostly because of new hardware incompatibilities and bugs. Hopefully in New Vegas all of this will be fixed since it is more up to date.