Serious lag in the game's interiors

[jozoz]

I run the game on low settings. Here you can see my specs along with the minimum requirements: http://i.imgur.com/d8FkJ.png

 

I know I haven't got the best computer around, but this is really strange. Whenever I go inside something in this game, the FPS drops dramatically and my controls start getting delayed along with it. I have to rely on VATS to do anything and even then VATS is really laggy and delayed. It's perfectly fine out in the wasteland and it runs smoothly. I have installed a great deal of mods, but I have of course not taken any mods too demanding in terms of performance. I have tried updating my video card driver, but to no avail.

 

If you know how I can fix this please respond!

 

Thanks in advance.

[GrindedStone]

Most of the inside is lit up by placed lights an FX. The CPU has to calculate these, and it's multiplied by how many shapes the light fall upon as well as how many of the light radius overlap. In vanilla, that is without mods the game is designed to run on a Xbox 360. This uses a 3 core CPU at around 3.0Ghz so it's pretty speedy. You might have trouble meeting that standard. Then the game plays really poor on Xbox 360, lol. Compared to a rig it's not even worth playing it on Xbox, yah that slow an chuggy. There are some things that can help you.

 

First off would be HDR/Bloom Disable them, these only add glow to white colors and enhance emitter (glow). It does very little for the scene, while also ruining any color even near white. There's a performance cost to run it as well. Once you get used to running it with it disabled it looks better. Everyone had to disable it in Oblivion so you're not missing anything really. Then there are plenty of glow an FX placed inside the game world that are not effected by HDR/Bloom being disabled.

 

Next would be your experiments in your setup. A graphics card set to let the 3D application decide is a software render. This will place more load on your CPU. Where using advanced settings would force more load on the graphics card. There's no telling how much of a load shift there will be, but the game might work smoother one way or the other. Going along with this you can pick performance settings in the graphics card control panel.

 

You can use the settings it auto detects but lower the draw distance sliders in-game, then use a lower than native screen resolution to boost performance. Most of the time it looks better an has better performance. The hardware could be fried as well, an about to kick the bucket. At any rate it sounds like you need to earn some money an build a rig.

[SpartanVOO1]

And show your loadorder

[jozoz]

http://i.imgur.com/fpvQt.png

http://i.imgur.com/Mibru.png

 

These two pictures show my load order.

 

I see my PC doesn't even run the game as good as a 360. That might explain some things. Still it baffles me how it's only in interiors and not in the Wasteland. You would think there is more to load there, right? I might just have to suck it up and buy a new system. I'll try looking into the things you suggested, thanks for the help.

[GrindedStone]

It's from Fellout. It's very poorly developed. To me it looks like the person that made it went in there an just started changing things until they figured out how to make it look better. As a developer you would have to consider many things. In order to do that you would have to understand how most of the engine works, further still is a technical side of that. So The problem Fellout ran into was an increased darkness in a large amount of the interior cells. Well what is a monkey to do then huh. Get in there an start changing stuff until you fix it. This was done on the lights inside those dark places. Not locally inside those interiors, but on the lights Base ID, thus changing all of them in the game. So what you have is a blanket of light radius settings that are 4 times or more too high, that is spread through out the game. Told you it was poorly developed. You can try Dynamic Weather instead which has an optional green tint remover. It also has sandstorms an rain. However the green tint isn't as bad as you think. You can do the same thing Fellout does by adjusting your monitor, lol.

[M48A5]

Besides your equipment not meeting the minimum requirements to properly run the game, if you have not used FO3Master Update, your load order is not correct. You have .esp mixed with .esm. This will create problems.

You have been fortunate in being able to run the game at all.

[jozoz]

Oh okay. I think Dynamic Weather or Project Reality will be too performance heavy for me to use. I really dislike the green tint, but I guess I'll have to live with it.

 

Besides your equipment not meeting the minimum requirements to properly run the game, if you have not used FO3Master Update, your load order is not correct. You have .esp mixed with .esm. This will create problems.

You have been fortunate in being able to run the game at all.

 

My equipment do meet the minimum requirements, but not the recommended. Also I do not see, where my .esp and .esm are mixed up. Please enlighten me.

Edited September 2, 2012 by jozoz

[SpartanVOO1]

With F3Edit remove .ESM flag from Alternate Travel and place it in the right place.

 

Atmospheric mods like Fellout should be absolutely last. And I recommend you using Dynamic Weather or The Mergers version of Fellout.

 

Fix your load-order with BOSS and change some things manually, see FOIP page for help.

 

See Gopher's video about Performance in his F3 series.

[SpartanVOO1]

And I reccomend you using FWE-MMM from Fallout Remastered page

[M48A5]

@jozoz - Fallout 3 System requrements are shown in the image you posted. Your equipment does not meet the minimum requirements to run the game properly. That is one of the reasons you are having a problem. Look at your load order. All .esm are to be loaded together. Followed by .esp. Sidney Follower is marked .esp, it needs to be loaded after all of the .esm.