Need help identifying issue for lower end PC

[juggalodrew]

Let me start by thanking anyone willing to give me some advice other than "Buy a new computer."

 

I just got a laptop for work, i7, 12GB ram, its definatley got some power, just not for gaming. Came with Intel integrated 4600 graphics (yeah yeah, I know, just bear with me.) Anyways, I bought the game, installed it, set all settings to minimum, and actually got a pretty reliable frame rate, except I got these weird flat rays impeding my vision. I think its an issue with lighting or shadows, but I cant get rid of them with just the native Fallout 4 settings.

 

Ive included a screenshot to give you the basic idea of whats going on. Performance otherwise is absolutely playable for my admittedly low standards, but these light rays or whatever are game breaking. Thanks again for any help you fellow vault dwellers can give.

 

 

[jones177]

I think your best bet is to install 1k textures. You mite want to try ENboost as well.

 

What you are seeing is an unhappy game engine. I got that sort of thing even with Oblivion.

 

Do some testing with Fallout Performance monitor.

 

To test for a GPU issue lower the resolution. If frame rates go up but still the same issue it is ram/vram.

 

If it is a CPU issue lowering the resolution will do nothing.

 

Fallout 4 is CPU friendly but not GPU friendly. In my tests the vanilla game uses 3.8gbs vram thanks to its 2k textures. The engine has never been great at swapping out ram & vram so enboost may help.

 

Later

[rpw0311]

I ran across this when trying to figure out an issue with fo4 textures, you may want to look into this and see if it's helpful.

 

https://communities.intel.com/thread/99533?start=0&tstart=0

 

 

FYI The link is to intel discussion forums.

Edited May 31, 2016 by rpw0311