Part Rant Part Cry for Help. I hate you Bethesda. Stuttering?

[monesq]

I am trying to figure out if I have micro-stutter or if it is something else. It has reached the point that my frustration over the game is exceeding my enjoyment.

I love settlement building as I find it relaxes me and opens my creative juices, but whenever I create any settlements (large or small) I have this problem: My side-to-side movement is fine and many times in game, my sprinting is also acceptable. For the most part, I am around 60 fps. However, there are times when it just seems as if the game is struggling with my going forward, as if there is some sort of a bottleneck and then suddenly the gates are opened and the stutter/delay just goes away. (akin to turbo-lag in an engine).

 

I have tried running the game with and without ENBoost, no change. I currently have developed a preference for ReShade as I really like the look but that should not cause this issue. I do have A LOT of textures and many of them are loose files, which I know can be an issue with FPS and are definitely an issue with loading. I know that I can pack them into an archive so that they are loaded more efficiently but I am uncertain as to how many of those textures I can include in just one archive file and how to deal with textures that are conflicting (I assume I pick the one I like and delete the other). I do not, however, believe it it the presence of all these textures that is causing my particular problem.

 

I have installed the High FPS fix, and all its requirements, I also have installed Buffout 4 and all of its requirements. I have removed all cleaning mods that break precombines previ etc. (although I am using a few Clean and Simple mods from Jenncave as they only impact the cell in which the settlement is located and have not included all the settlements in the triangle of death other than Abernathy Farm clean and simple).

When I heard of the recent Windows update that was messing up gaming, I thought that my problem was solved. I had not, however, installed that update. I have also tried pretty much every and all ini tweaks I could find as well as tweaks to Nividia, including suggested tweaks by the Bitrait Guide.

 

I have tried using an overclocked set-up for my graphics card (I have actually 4 presets that I have tested). No difference.

 

I have a reasonable set-up i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 32 GB of 3200 speed RAM, and RTX 2060 and I play using only SSD drives.

I am at a loss.

 

Until I can get this fixed, I think I will create two profiles. One for playing the game and new quests etc. and one just to build settlements. Each profile will have different mods installed depending on how I will be using that profile. In my kicking a$$ and taking no prisoners profile, I will disable all settlement building related mods except for the essentials. For the settlement building profile, I will just have the base game and all the settlement mods.

 

End of rant, cry for help.

[LarannKiar]

Microstutters are common unfortunately..

 

Did you try installing the game on a “clean” Windows 7 configuration? (I noticed less stuttering on Windows 7).

 

I’m not a technician but as far as I know, a PCIE SSD is better for FO4 than a SATA SSD. But I don’t know how would that affect microstutters..

[HeyYou]

Microstutters are common unfortunately..

 

Did you try installing the game on a “clean” Windows 7 configuration? (I noticed less stuttering on Windows 7).

 

I’m not a technician but as far as I know, a PCIE SSD is better for FO4 than a SATA SSD. But I don’t know how would that affect microstutters..

"better" is an extremely relative term in those circumstances. I highly doubt you would notice any difference whatsoever in performance.

 

Going from a mechanical HDD, to some variety of SSD though, is a MAJOR improvement.