'Fallout 4' visual upgrade demands a monster PC

There's also a graphics boost for PS4 Pro players.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

The vanilla version of this game,was already more demanding than it should of been. Fallout 4's technical performance on PC and consoles was unacceptable.

[Allsystemgamer]

I'm able to run bf1 on ultra at about 155FPS average in 1080p.

Fallout 4 I get around 70. I mean wtf Bethesda.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Bethesda used an extremely dated engine to create Fallout 4. For example all the lighting in Fallout 4 was uses only 1 CPU.

[Fishy Fingers]

Christ! That's surprising to me (not played F4 on PC). That's bad optimisation.

Side note. Up the resolution on BF man! Or downsample.

[Allsystemgamer]

@fishy

Oh I downsample alright. I was just making a point.

Doensampled from 4k eliminates ALL aliasing and stays at a buttery smooth 60fps. It looks so nice.

I ❤ my 1080 strix.

[Fishy Fingers]

Ah I suspected you might of been. I love mine too :D

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I think a much better comparison would be The Witcher.

[mikeslemonade]

If you got a 970 or lower than you are no better than a console pedestrian.

[Gaming_Cousin]

I got around 45 fps in towns with my 980ti @2k. Bethesda is shit when it comes to optimization and bugs

[IamTylerDurden1]

Fallout 4 basically uses the old ass Gamebryo engine. We're talking over a decade old for the base tech. With Witcher 3 and Horizon showing how beautiful an open world game can be Bethesda needs to make some changes.

[Bigpappy]

The problem with that comparison, is Bf1 is nothing like FO4. FO4 is a big open world RPG where every piece of material and it's components are tracked. not only that, almost every NPC has a schedule or routine which include work and sleep. People too often take how Bethesda makes games for granted. There is a lot more happening with NPC and objects than any other developer.

[escott013]

@Allsystemgamer It's worth noting that they are two totally different types of games. The amount of objects and things you can interact with, the AI, and all of the computations that go with all of that... It's just so totally different. The performance vs graphical fidelity alone is such a skewed way to look at optimization, to be honest.
For the record, I really like your username.

[DanteVFenris666]

to be far there is more going on in fallout. But it still doesn't excuse it.

[IamTylerDurden1]

At least the Pro version is coming next week and it will improve resolution and lighting.

[joab777]

Wish it had come before Nioh, Horizon, Nier, Mass Effect, P5 ...

[ServerBOT]

Definitley. Graphics were good at times but damn it felt unoptimized.

[cencik]

this is bethesda in full glory..what can we expect.. rx 480 8 gigs..

[Derceto]

No surprise here. If a competent developer had coded this thing, the base game requirements would be far less.

How simply some higher res textures increase the requirements of the CPU this much, is truly a mystery.

[2pacalypsenow]

Nice been waiting for the Pro update.

[Cobra951]

Too "monster" for me, and I only recently came back to PC gaming with a new affordable rig. That's pretty close to top-flight stuff they're demanding.

[Kabaneri]

After more than 500 hours (mostly modded settlement building) I can honestly say Im done with this game and if I never played it again, it would be ok.

[silvacrest]

I'm pretty much in your position but there are things i wanted to do before i never touch this game again, such as a fist only build on very hard, I dont think its viable on survival, and i still want to do a survival run using any build

[Donnie81]

Maybe ill finally go back and finish the dlc. Hopefully they are hard at work on a new engine for their next game. Knowing them though they will release one more game with it

[silvacrest]

Wow i upgraded my cpu to a i7 4790, apparently, according to the system requirements this isn't enough as i would need a 2015 i7 (really?), honestly i would just try my luck here but then you need a gtx 1080 while i "only" have a 1070....

I upgraded this week, never did i think a 1070 wouldn't meet the requirements of anything released in 2017, what a joke

[2pacalypsenow]

You could be using an I7 920 and you would be fine, it's the GPU that's important

[silvacrest]

Yeah, i figured my i7 would probably be fine but needing a gtx 1080 as a minimum requirement?? a £550+ card...

How poorly optimized is fallout 4?

[2pacalypsenow]

It's only for the texture pack that you need a 1080 It must be some pretty high res textures to require 8gb of VRAM

[TeamIcoFan]

To this day I have never been able to finish Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, or Skyrim because of how fucking buggy those games are. Every time I put around 4-5 hours into each of these games and start to really get into them they all crash and fuck up my save files. I haven't even bothered to get Fallout 4 cause I am just so fucking done at this point.

Bethesda, retire that old ass engine and upgrade your shit, I would love to be able to actually play your damn games from start to finish for once!

[bean59]

They recommend a GTX 1080? Man did they optimize anything, this better be the requirement for 4k textures and not 1080p textures. I mean my 970 can play RE7 and BF1 maxed out np, but Bethesda is recommending a 1080 for their aging engine? Enough with these band aid solutions, time for an upgrade Bethesda.

[silvacrest]

If the next elder scrolls is using the same god damn ancient engine i will be lost for words

[Profchaos]

I just started again after being forced to on my PS4.

Previously owned the disc based version then sold it for the same price as I'd pay for digital purchased digital after selling my disc downloaded and went to play it and bam no save games exist.

Turns out that Bethesda shipped a different version of the game to Australia on disc but when you redownload from psn with an aussie account you receive a eu version.

Literally the only game I've had this issue with.

Good excuse to play again on my pro

[riibhu]

And as soon as this graphics patch will release another mod will also release which will be much less demanding and much less in size but much better quality. Just like skyrim hd texture mod was better than official hd patch. Why do bethesda even bother?

[pyroxxx]

So when is this patch coming out?? Been waiting for PS pro patch so I can finish the game.
What a redundant article with absolutely no information.

[Gemmol]

I cant wait to see someone upload a gameplay video of it on youtube, I would like to see the improvements

[GamePeace]

Which I don't have and would not even spend that much money on a 'monster PC' ... that's why I'll stick to my Pro.

[LastCenturyRob]

1440p on the Ps4pro? Gotta say I was expecting a game like this, being two years old already to be playable at a native 4k on the newer system. 1440p will still look really good I'm sure.