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Fallout on low end computers.

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Rooker75 Proficient

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The guide at http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_1.html gives you most of what you need to know (at least for the older games). The majority is relevant to Skyrim too and will probably carry over to FO 4. I play these games on a weak PC fairly smoothly, but it took work and it took ugly trade offs. Skyrim, for example, looks awful, but it runs smooth. I can live with that.

 

You'll want to nuke shadows and grass everywhere. All of them. Don't argue, just get rid of them. Those are your biggest enemies on a low end PC.

Anti-aliasing will have to go, or be at the very weakest setting. Things like ambient occlusion will have to go. Skyrim has setting for trees -- something about skinned trees and self shadows -- that you'll want to turn off if it's in there.

 

You'll have to live with running the game in the smallest resolution your monitor will support. I have an old CRT from ages past and run this stuff at 800 x 600. It looks bad, but you get used to it. You could probably get away with 1024 x 768 or whatever the 16:9 equivalent is.

 

Draw distance, actor distance, object distance surprisingly don't really matter much, at least that I've noticed. Leave them around 50 - 75% of max and that honestly should be fine.

 

Textures don't seem to matter too much as far as framerate and mouse lag, but obviously you need to keep in mind how much RAM/VRAM is available. The last thing you want is to run out and it starts using the pagefile.

 

Here are my fallout.ini (from Fallout 3 and FNV) and skyrim.ini settings to show what I'm using.

 

Fallout 3

 

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Fallout New Vegas

 

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Skyrim

 

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This is a custom ini file I use to override other mods that I found overriding my own ini tweaks. It will override skyrim.ini anywhere it conflicts

 

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Again, it looks terrible compared to what it would look like on a proper gaming system, but it works smoothly and I run well over 100 - 130 mods on each of these games.

 

/edit/ I should mention that I also use Hialgo Boost for Skyrim, which actually makes it look worse, but the mouse lag is mostly gone and I use several mods that reduce things like underwater grass, smoke, particles, the bright fog mesh from dungeons and an optimizer for textures (ordenator or something).

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Here is a giude. (cached)

 

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/fallout-4-graphics-performance-and-tweaking-guide

 

Don't click on the green links at Guide Contents, because they don't work. (just read the whole article as it is. !!!)

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