Interior FPS Drop

[Heracles262]

If you have a lot of lights in a room it can cause significant FPS drops even in an otherwise empty room and on a high end card like a 980 ti.

Actually, yes, I think my problem is lighting. And I don't know what to do.

[ddavies10693]

 

Honestly I've never heard of anything like this. Interior cells (even the largest ones in the game) are many multitudes smaller than the overworld, and so logically are significantly easier to run for any pc. I would recommend lowering each setting within the start up window, one at a time, and seeing if it affects performance at all. If it doesn't, restore that setting to what it was before, and lower the next one down the list, and repeat that for each setting. Luckily there aren't that many. Also due to the bizarre nature of this issue, don't skip any of the settings, even if you think it wouldn't make a difference.

In fact, it doesn't make sense to me either, but it happens and I googled it and found people that has exactly the same problem, and it seems there's no apparent fix to it so far. By the way, I tried what you recommended, lowered all settings and then raise them one by one, but it seems even on the lowest settings, I have a brutal FPS drop when I'm inside. Exterior? I have no problem, whether it's raining or sunny, foggy or storm, doesn't matter. Just have a drop when I'm in Goodneighbor or Diamond City. It drives me crazy because I have lot of interior quest.

Let's test something here. Download and install the mod named "basement living." it's available here on the nexus. It allows you to build custom interior cells (basements) within your settlements. Install it and build a basement, and check the fps inside there. I'm curious if this only affects vanilla cells or all interiors, hence the testing. This mod also allows you to turn off all lights within the basement at will, so that may have an effect as well if your problem is truly shadows. If shadows are the actual problem, your GPU may be out of date or need driver updates.

[Heracles262]

 

 

Honestly I've never heard of anything like this. Interior cells (even the largest ones in the game) are many multitudes smaller than the overworld, and so logically are significantly easier to run for any pc. I would recommend lowering each setting within the start up window, one at a time, and seeing if it affects performance at all. If it doesn't, restore that setting to what it was before, and lower the next one down the list, and repeat that for each setting. Luckily there aren't that many. Also due to the bizarre nature of this issue, don't skip any of the settings, even if you think it wouldn't make a difference.

In fact, it doesn't make sense to me either, but it happens and I googled it and found people that has exactly the same problem, and it seems there's no apparent fix to it so far. By the way, I tried what you recommended, lowered all settings and then raise them one by one, but it seems even on the lowest settings, I have a brutal FPS drop when I'm inside. Exterior? I have no problem, whether it's raining or sunny, foggy or storm, doesn't matter. Just have a drop when I'm in Goodneighbor or Diamond City. It drives me crazy because I have lot of interior quest.

Let's test something here. Download and install the mod named "basement living." it's available here on the nexus. It allows you to build custom interior cells (basements) within your settlements. Install it and build a basement, and check the fps inside there. I'm curious if this only affects vanilla cells or all interiors, hence the testing. This mod also allows you to turn off all lights within the basement at will, so that may have an effect as well if your problem is truly shadows. If shadows are the actual problem, your GPU may be out of date or need driver updates.

 

ookay well I tried it and it really doesn't drops FPS. In fact, I've gained some FPS when I entered there and your suggestion gave me an idea and I checked the root cellar in Sanctuary, which is interior and I have no FPS drop there either. So I think what's the mutual with root cellar and my personal basement, and I found out that both of them are barely lit and, how do you say... gloomy? or dim lighted? however you got what I trying to say, English isn't my native language :D So, I think my problem isn't shadows, it's the lightings. If an area is well lit, it drops my FPS brutally. So, is there any fix for it, or should I wait for some official patch or something? Or is it my graphic card's fault that I can't have enough FPS in these areas? AND, thanks a lot for your effort to help and understand my poor english...

[ddavies10693]

This problem sounds too rare and specific to expect any kind of official patch, and all evidence points to this being an issue with your pc or the drivers. Do you know how to update the drivers for your GPU?

 

And for that matter what are the specifications of your PC? If it's made in another country that's vastly different from what we have in the US, I may not know much about it

[mac2636]

 

If you have a lot of lights in a room it can cause significant FPS drops even in an otherwise empty room and on a high end card like a 980 ti.

Actually, yes, I think my problem is lighting. And I don't know what to do.

This helped me when I had my 970

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1822/?

[Heracles262]

This problem sounds too rare and specific to expect any kind of official patch, and all evidence points to this being an issue with your pc or the drivers. Do you know how to update the drivers for your GPU?

 

And for that matter what are the specifications of your PC? If it's made in another country that's vastly different from what we have in the US, I may not know much about it

Yes, I know how to update drivers, actually I did it when I first bought Fallout 4, and I'm Greek living in Istanbul, so we have European PC I guess, I don't think it's so different from US..

[Heracles262]

 

 

If you have a lot of lights in a room it can cause significant FPS drops even in an otherwise empty room and on a high end card like a 980 ti.

Actually, yes, I think my problem is lighting. And I don't know what to do.

This helped me when I had my 970

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1822/?

Okay I'll try this at once and pass you the results.

[ddavies10693]

The dynamic shadows takes a while to test and configure well, and may not yield significant results, depending on your rig

[mac2636]

The dynamic shadows takes a while to test and configure well, and may not yield significant results, depending on your rig

I did not find this to be the case at all.

[ddavies10693]

 

The dynamic shadows takes a while to test and configure well, and may not yield significant results, depending on your rig

I did not find this to be the case at all.

Hence why I said "depending on your rig. " I just don't want him to think it's a miracle fix that will automatically fix his problem, because I know nothing about European computers at all. And it definitely does take trial and error by editing the ini file to get working in the best way possible way, that's pretty well known.