Turning off godrays entirely

[cossayos]

I'm combatting framerate woes right now, and I gave up on tinkering and began scouring the forums.. clearly it's a well known issue but I feel like in my case it might be something more.

 

Anyways, why I'm commenting is I'm curious what card you're running. I'm barely able to keep 20 fps in urban areas with an overclocked GTX 980 Ti... I know my texture mods aren't exactly framerate boosters, but with such a high end card I feel like god rays and shadow distance are not the only problem on my end.

 

You know, I'm running a pretty weak card, a 650Ti. I'm aware of it's limitations. The reason why I even make this an issue is that I could run the game at much higher settings when it first came out. Without any framerate problems or CTDs. Different engine, I know, but I can play Dragon Age Inquisition at nearly maximum settings.

 

They seem to have patched this baby to death. I didn't play it since Jannuary, since I wanted to wait for patches, mods and the DLCs. So you can imagine my surprise when running into problem after problem with something that once was a fluid experience.

[Slavemaster4u]

I'm combatting framerate woes right now, and I gave up on tinkering and began scouring the forums.. clearly it's a well known issue but I feel like in my case it might be something more.

 

Anyways, why I'm commenting is I'm curious what card you're running. I'm barely able to keep 20 fps in urban areas with an overclocked GTX 980 Ti... I know my texture mods aren't exactly framerate boosters, but with such a high end card I feel like god rays and shadow distance are not the only problem on my end.

I'm running a similar hardware config as AceGoober except I have the newer DDR4 ram installed. And I still get graphics issues. But because I have hardware gauges running on a second monitor can totally say it's not lack of resources. My CPU never exceeds 40%, my ram never exceeds 5gb total in use, my GPU never goes above 36%. And the game launcher sets my graphics to ultra by default. I did read somewhere that there is a game fps cap of 30fps, but not sure if this is true because my in game fps is normally running at around 45fps. With slow downs to 26fps at times. Also have games on a 500gb SSD. And my system is on a separate 120gb SSD. AceGoober did give the correct answer to disable god rays. But I do all "INI" edits to the custom "INI" file. God rays really are a problem many people have. Turning them off is the best solution.

[Slavemaster4u]

To turn god rays off completely:

 

- Go to \Documents\My Games\Fallout4

- Open Fallout4Prefs.ini

- Under the [General] heading look for bVolumetricLightingEnable=1

- Change the 1 to a 0

- Save

AceGoober; the setting you give is actually found under [Display] not [General]. Just double checked my prefs file, which is as the launcher created it. I do ini changes to the custom ini only. Unless it should be in both places. which I doubt. Here's how mine looks, top of list only.

[Display]

flocalShadowMapHalveEveryXUnit=750.0000

focusShadowMapDoubleEveryXUnit=450.0000

fShadowBiasScale=1.0000

fDirShadowDistance=3000.0000

fShadowDistance=3000.0000

uiOrthoShadowFilter=2

uiShadowFilter=2

iShadowMapResolution=2048

uPipboyTargetHeight=700

uPipboyTargetWidth=876

iVolumetricLightingQuality=0

bVolumetricLightingEnable=1

[ReaperDragon4]

Holy crow in the Railroad! the FPS is infuriating... must... reach... terminal... in... arcjet! *screams maculay culkin style and runs for the settings* the HORROR the HORROR!