Out with the old, In with the new Top: GeForce GTX 1050ti 4gb Bottom: GeForce 9400 GT 512mb Up until now I have been modding Fallout...

New Graphics Card

By Joe Forsyth November 08, 2016 11 comments

Out with the old, In with the new

Top: GeForce GTX 1050ti 4gb
Bottom: GeForce 9400 GT 512mb
Up until now I have been modding Fallout 4 on my Macbook Pro laptop. I used Bootcamp to install a copy of Windows 10 in a separate partition and then tweaked the daylights out of the game and discovered a workaround for a startup issue. At best I can get 40-50 fps in the special QA Smoke room on ultra-low settings (eg. vsync/grass/godrays/fog/etc. turned off).

The trouble is when I enter the real game world the frame rates plummet. In Sanctuary I'm lucky to get in the teens but can't see where I'm going. Needless to say when users report issues with one of my mods in specific areas of the game, it becomes difficult for me to test. Some issues, like game crashes, are impossible to debug on XBox.

Luckily my wife loves me and decided to let me upgrade my graphics card for my birthday (I know you are all jealous). Here's a screenshot comparing old vs new. Note that the old 9400 card pictured below is actually from my PC and performs on par or worse than the integrated Intel HD 4000 in my Macbook Pro.

Screenshot Comparison

The screenshots below show a stark contrast in both quality and performance. The one thing you don't see is that everything about the game is slower on the integrated card (including scripts). Some areas of the game get as low as 1fps depending on how many objects are around.

Fallout 4 on low settings 640x320 @15fps on Intel HD 4000 graphics
Fallout 4 on ultra high settings 1280x1024 @60fps on GeForce GTX 1050ti graphics

Happy days for me as a modder and I guarantee Zombie Walkers will benefit.

11 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 30, 2016 at 8:40 AM

    Hi I love the mod on ps4 It's probably the best one on there at the moment, and you should totally try it if you haven't(iv'e not been paid to say this) but anyway i was wondering if there's a way to disable the mod and reset all the enemies to what they were as im starting to miss getting killed by everything else lol, if there's no way It's cool, this can at least help anyone else Who's thinkin of downloading it by letting them know, It's probably mentioned somewhere in the mod description but im stupid lol, thanks for the mod and hope to see even cooler ones in the future thanks :)

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  2. Joe ForsythMarch 27, 2017 at 8:03 PM

    The extra spawn replacement mods are not uninstall friendly and have a warning in the description that I added after this was reported. Glad you enjoyed this mod though I still wish I could bring the main version to PS4.

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