quinten96 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Here is the problem. I have a gtx 760, Amd Phenom II x4 960T @ 3.00 Ghz and 8Gb ram. Should be enough to run this game at atleast 40 fps stable. Ofcourse it doesn't. So I read everywhere that it was the shadows and godrays so I fixed those. Did increase fps. Tried to use enboost en shadowboost but they didn't do anything for me (enboost even increased stutters). I feel like the game runs worse now. Now the weird part. My game either runs at a buttery smooth 50 fps, but when it drops, it always drops to 25 fps. But here is the joke. It doesn't automatically go back up.For example. I look at some part of the map. fps goes down. to 25 fps exactly. I look at the floor. wait 2 seconds. Look back up. 50 fps. It's freaking weird. Sometimes when walking around in sanctuary I get 50 fps, then suddenly it drops to 25. Look at floor. fixed. But why??? It's annoying. Also, it always goes to 25 fps in menu's. Your thoughts please. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulon Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 (edited) The 960t just barely surpasses the game's minimum recommended AMD CPU (the Phenom II X4 945 95W). The 760 outperforms the minimum recommended GPU (550 ti), but not by a staggering degree. It's a better card, to be sure, but I think the sort of performance you're experiencing is about right for those specs. If you're playing on Ultra, try turning it down to high or medium. You mentioned you "fixed" the shadows and godrays, but didn't specify what you have them set to. You could try bringing those settings down even lower and seeing what happens. I wouldn't use enboost with your specs, because it actively utilizes more memory to achieve greater performance, meaning that it's ideal for systems with larger amounts of memory to draw upon. By default, it's probably autodetected an incorrect value for your VideoMemorySize setting, too, which would lead to additional performance loss. If you have TAA enabled, try going with FXAA instead. If you haven't already, bring your anisotropic filtering setting down, too. 8 samples or lower, if necessary. Other things that can help would be to tweak settings in your Nvidia control panel. Check to make sure you don't have VSync enabled; if you do, disable it. If you have shadows set to ultra, bring it down to high or medium. Disabling motion blur and lens flare might help. And if you haven't already, look in your Fallout4Prefs.ini and change iPresentInterval=1 to iPresentInterval=0 and bForceIgnoreSmoothness=0 to bForceIgnoreSmoothness=1. If neither of these settings exist just add them to the .ini file. Hope that helped, and good luck! Edited November 22, 2015 by Vulon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quinten96 Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 The 960t just barely surpasses the game's minimum recommended AMD CPU (the Phenom II X4 945 95W). The 760 outperforms the minimum recommended GPU (550 ti), but not by a staggering degree. It's a better card, to be sure, but I think the sort of performance you're experiencing is about right for those specs. If you're playing on Ultra, try turning it down to high or medium. You mentioned you "fixed" the shadows and godrays, but didn't specify what you have them set to. You could try bringing those settings down even lower and seeing what happens. I wouldn't use enboost with your specs, because it actively utilizes more memory to achieve greater performance, meaning that it's ideal for systems with larger amounts of memory to draw upon. By default, it's probably autodetected an incorrect value for your VideoMemorySize setting, too, which would lead to additional performance loss. If you have TAA enabled, try going with FXAA instead. If you haven't already, bring your anisotropic filtering setting down, too. 8 samples or lower, if necessary. Other things that can help would be to tweak settings in your Nvidia control panel. Check to make sure you don't have VSync enabled; if you do, disable it. If you have shadows set to ultra, bring it down to high or medium. Disabling motion blur and lens flare might help. And if you haven't already, look in your Fallout4Prefs.ini and change iPresentInterval=1 to iPresentInterval=0 and bForceIgnoreSmoothness=0 to bForceIgnoreSmoothness=1. If neither of these settings exist just add them to the .ini file. Hope that helped, and good luck!Wow thanks for the reply. I hadn't even considered that my cpu might be the problem! I actually put my shadow distance thing at 1000. It did increase performance so I was happy about that. Definitely gonna try what you said Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quinten96 Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 The 960t just barely surpasses the game's minimum recommended AMD CPU (the Phenom II X4 945 95W). The 760 outperforms the minimum recommended GPU (550 ti), but not by a staggering degree. It's a better card, to be sure, but I think the sort of performance you're experiencing is about right for those specs. If you're playing on Ultra, try turning it down to high or medium. You mentioned you "fixed" the shadows and godrays, but didn't specify what you have them set to. You could try bringing those settings down even lower and seeing what happens. I wouldn't use enboost with your specs, because it actively utilizes more memory to achieve greater performance, meaning that it's ideal for systems with larger amounts of memory to draw upon. By default, it's probably autodetected an incorrect value for your VideoMemorySize setting, too, which would lead to additional performance loss. If you have TAA enabled, try going with FXAA instead. If you haven't already, bring your anisotropic filtering setting down, too. 8 samples or lower, if necessary. Other things that can help would be to tweak settings in your Nvidia control panel. Check to make sure you don't have VSync enabled; if you do, disable it. If you have shadows set to ultra, bring it down to high or medium. Disabling motion blur and lens flare might help. And if you haven't already, look in your Fallout4Prefs.ini and change iPresentInterval=1 to iPresentInterval=0 and bForceIgnoreSmoothness=0 to bForceIgnoreSmoothness=1. If neither of these settings exist just add them to the .ini file. Hope that helped, and good luck!It fixed my problems :). Thanks. (I also installed the optimized texture mod + lowered grid settings to 4 instead of 5.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eolath Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 (edited) Good to know your problem's been fixed, just to add my 2c incase you want to upgrade some of your hardware, I also think the CPU is bottle-necking you entirely and (hardly) any of the drops have anything to do with your GPU. I'm running an overclocked 7950 AMD and can usually stay at 60 FPS on a mix of medium (shadows) & ultra settings, except for Diamond City and some surrounding areas, where there's a natural dip (about to be expected). And my GPU is only slightly better than your GeForce 760. Perhaps it would be an idea to measure both your CPU and GPU usage during gameplay? See which one 100%s first. Edited November 23, 2015 by Eolath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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