Help Game troubles

[MasterofTheSweetRoll]

I'm running Fallout 4 at 30 fps on ultra, high, medium, and low.

I can't stand it, I'm so used to my new monitor and running around 100 fps this is torture.

My specs are:

MSI 980 Ti 6GB edition

Intel Core I-7 4790k 4 core 4.0 GHZ

16 GB of DDR3-1600 Ram

Asrock z97 extreme4 atx lga1150 Motherboard

[obobski]

Do you have drivers installed for your graphics card? Have you updated them since Fallout 4's release? Have you updated Fallout 4 since its release? (I'm assuming Steam would default to do this, but I know it can be disabled (never seen it happen by accident but I'll admit being guilty of turning off automatic updates on a game or two in the past to prevent constant downloading, only to run into problems when the game is missing an update a few months down the line...))

 

Also, and this is based on all previous Bethesda games: it is unlikely the game will ever run correctly at higher than 60 FPS. It's an engine limitation. Sure you can disable vsync/frame-rate-limiter and run at higher rates but the physics engine, many animations, many scripts, etc will behave erratically and in unpredictable ways, and the game is far more likely to crash, so running at 60 FPS is really a better place to be (and no, I won't go down the rabbit hole of "well I am a genetically different humanoid and my mutation is a higher sensitivity to "quality" and therefore I require "higher quality" from my tech gadgets than the typical homo sapien"). That said, based on benchmark reviews, there's no reason a 980 Ti and i7 4790k shouldn't be maintaining 60 FPS in Fallout 4 (at normal resolutions, e.g. 1080p), especially at lower settings, unless you've got issues with the install and/or drivers and/or mods that are hindering things.

[MasterofTheSweetRoll]

Do you have drivers installed for your graphics card? Have you updated them since Fallout 4's release? Have you updated Fallout 4 since its release? (I'm assuming Steam would default to do this, but I know it can be disabled (never seen it happen by accident but I'll admit being guilty of turning off automatic updates on a game or two in the past to prevent constant downloading, only to run into problems when the game is missing an update a few months down the line...))

 

Also, and this is based on all previous Bethesda games: it is unlikely the game will ever run correctly at higher than 60 FPS. It's an engine limitation. Sure you can disable vsync/frame-rate-limiter and run at higher rates but the physics engine, many animations, many scripts, etc will behave erratically and in unpredictable ways, and the game is far more likely to crash, so running at 60 FPS is really a better place to be (and no, I won't go down the rabbit hole of "well I am a genetically different humanoid and my mutation is a higher sensitivity to "quality" and therefore I require "higher quality" from my tech gadgets than the typical homo sapien"). That said, based on benchmark reviews, there's no reason a 980 Ti and i7 4790k shouldn't be maintaining 60 FPS in Fallout 4 (at normal resolutions, e.g. 1080p), especially at lower settings, unless you've got issues with the install and/or drivers and/or mods that are hindering things.

ugh all my drivers are up to date, really I think its the game being poorly optimized.

[obobski]

Benchmarks point to the 980 Ti being more than capable of running the game at high settings at 1080p or thereabouts; if you have a lot of mods (or any of the other half-dozen unanswered variables I suggested, along with probably another half dozen or more that I haven't thought of), are running at an extremely high resolution, or perhaps even *due* to your drivers being the absolute latest ("latest and greatest" is not always best) etc that may explain poor performance.