Fallout 4 AMD woes

[jdkzombie]

Okay so first off, some specs

 

FX-6300 OC to 4.2Ghz liquid cooled

R9 390 XFX 8Gb stock clock

16Gb G skill memory

Gigabyte 970A-d3p mobo

ThermalTake 900w psu

 

I have seen countless threads around the internet of people with my build exactly, or even just similar, that are getting waaaay better performance than I seem to be getting.

 

I dont have many mods installed. The usuals it seems, ENB stutter fix, Shadowboost, Reshade for darker nights (turning it off in game awards me a whole 1 fps extra so its not that)and then armor stuff, like camo designs and such.

 

Also the texture optimizations.

 

I can stand in the middle of nowhere and get fantastic fps...60 capped without fail. But heaven forbid I got to places like Sanctuary where I have 34 settlers. 19 frames per second.

 

19.

 

My xbox gets better frames with the same amount of settlers.

 

What could be the issue? I've considered upgrading to the 8 core 9370 amd processor that runs at a crispy 4.3Ghz on 8 cores, but I dont think this game is optimized for multicores.

 

The graphics card never hits higher than 60% load according to Sapphire Trixx.

 

 

Here is the kicker. I have tried all settings graphically. low to ultra. same deal. 19 frames in many places. I am not about to ge shell out several hundred dollars to replace all of my AMD stuff with Intel and nVidia just because thats all that seems to be reported to be the most successful, I just dont have that kind of money on hand at the moment. Especially not after literally just buying the GPU on cyber monday.

 

*bangs head on table furiously* what the *whack whack* fuuuuuuuuuck

[Boombro]

One, the games is not even patched yet, drivers are not out.

 

Try this in fallout 4 ini:

uExterior Cell Buffer=36

uInterior Cell Buffer=12

uExterior Cell Buffer=144

[mrspongeworthy]

An 8-core processor will probably not help you at all. Even on a 4-core 3.5ghz i7 I rarely see games peg more than 50% of my CPU power. Unfortunately most modern games (heck, not just games, most modern software of any kind) is written not for maximum performance, but for "getting the product out the door to make money" and the heck with optimization (back in "the day" this was not the case; developers used to push their games to run a beautifully as possible on the hardware available, rather than dumping a piece of bloated crap on users and then just expecting them to run out and buy new hardware.)

 

Ranting aside, until 16 or 32 cores are the norm, there probably won't be any benefit to moving beyond 4-cores for the vast majority of games, because they simply aren't written well-enough to use them. You *should* be seeing better performance though, I would think. I'm getting "excellent" performance on my Radeon 7870 2gb. By excellent, I mean I can run with most detail at ultra and the special effects stuff (godrays etc.) at medium settings at 1080p and never dip below 30 fps except for a second or two here or there while Shadowboost works magic on the shadows. No liquid cooling, no overclocking besides a 15% boost in GPU and Memory speed through the Crimson control panel (I run the fans at 90% speed while playing the game to keep the card cool enough).

 

To get rid of stuttering and still have smooth gameplay, turn off vsync, set your minimum framerate in shadowboost to be the lowest you think you can stand, and then cap your fps only a few frames higher. For example, I cap my framerate at 36 in the enb and have a target minimal fps of 33 in shadowboost. And, 99% of the time this works great. Controls are nice and fluid, framerate is plenty good enough for a game like this one, and it completely removes stutter.

[jdkzombie]

Update

 

Upgraded CPU to the FX-8350, cleaned mobo, reseated RAM, reseated GFX card, cleaned out power supply of dust.

 

Something worked. Not a magic cure all. But something changed significantly.

 

Now in laces like Corvega, and Sanctuary/Downtown. I get about 28 as low as it will go. Otherwise its 50-60.

 

I downloaded Fallout Performance Monitor. According to it, GPU use cas increased from 60 percent on my 280x, and 60 percent on my old processor, to 99 percent and average of 60 on my gfx card, with cpu ranging between 14 and 40 percent.

 

Strange. Cant wait for the GECK, when we can really streamline this game. Second time through. level 95 again. I wish enemies spawned more often. On Survival with more legendary enemies mod, and its still not very challenging.

 

 

But then again. A Minigun with the explosive legendary perk absolutely destroys....everything....