Can't get above 15 fps with mods

[Dumblecop]

My friend has been helping me mod NV for the past couple of days and today we finally got it all done and the game was ready to be launched. Except at first. it was just a pure white screen when Doc Mitchell was talking to me, after some tinkering it stopped doing that but a new problem reared it's head in the form of my fps would hover in the 10-15 range, I can't remember exactly but I recall running NV umodded in the 35-40 fps range.

 

I had asked him to tone down some of the textures and he did partially, by making the world textures back to vanilla textures but it was still chugging like crazy, he had to go but I decided to ask here in the meantime to get a second opinion.

Anyway I thought my DxDiag would help (I still had the text file lying around when I needed to give it to Blizzard support a week ago) in pinpointing what mods I can and can not run since some of them just use vague terms as "high end pc" with no specifics. I know it's just anecdotal evidence but my friend who's doing all this modding, has pretty much the same mods I do which are just "make the game look pretty mods" and he gets 30 fps indoors and 25 fps outdoors.

 

In a second post, I'll attach an image of a list that has all my mods, hopefully someone can take a look at it and tell me which ones are gonna cause my game to chug.

 

I'd also like to mention lastly, that as a last resort I'm willing to live w/o the fancy textures just so I can play the game, but if I can get a respectable fps (near 30, which I'm used to since I used to play a ton on console) then I'll live. I started modding NV to give it 1 last go to play a side that I haven't played yet, so I wanted all the bells and whistles that I could get on pc.

Edited November 4, 2018 by Dumblecop

[Dumblecop]

And here's the image that tells all the mods I have, I apologize for the quality, all I have is MS Paint

[dubiousintent]

As you added a number of VWD/LOD textures (such as NMC or Ojo Bueno), please see the 'Checklist Item #15 & 16' entries in the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide regarding the need to run both TES4LL and FNVLODGen. Also recommend you read the 'LOD/VWD Texture Packs' section of the wiki "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article first.

Please see the 'Solutions to Performance problems' section of the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" article.

 

"Texture packs" don't usually show up in the "load order". (They are replacing vanilla assets; thus they overwrite existing files.) And the issue with them is what size/resolution of the images you are using. Larger/"hi-rez" textures require more pixels, and larger screen display monitors multiply that requirement in a non-linear way. While your hardware may technically be able to handle it, the game was published in late 2010, designed for Windows Vista with maximum screen displays of 1920x1080, with default image sizes of 512x512 pixels. The game engine texture cache tends to be the bottleneck: "leaking memory" and causing "stutter". (Low FPS is an example of "extreme stutter".) Please see the wiki "Display resolution versus Image Size" article.

-Dubious-

[Dumblecop]

Fixed it! I was talking to my roommate about all of this and he casually mentioned if NV was using my cpu instead of my graphics card. Relayed the information to my friend that's helping me mod, and he says he remembers that NV was running off of some Intel product, thinking that was my graphics card. So I downloaded the new drivers and updated them and it works like a charm now, besides the occasional stutter if I sprint too far, but that's to be expected out of my rig.

[dubiousintent]

Congrats. Thanks for taking the time to report your solution. I've added it to "Solution-6" of the 'Game in slow motion' entry of the 'Solutions to Performance problems' section of the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" article.

 

-Dubious-