Hey Guys, I am trying to enjoy the game but for me it is hard when you have 40 fps in all cities and in fights. I have an Radeon R9 280x 4GB and an Intel i5-2310 CPU @2,90 Ghz and I am having this lags no matter what settings. I can turn everything to maximum and I have the same FPS as when I turn everything to the lowest and select the lowest resolutions.

I already did some INI-tweaks, disabled V-sync,godrays,the bsmoththingy etc but none of these seem to work. I also have the latest AMD Drivers. It would be very nice if somebody could help me out Because I'd really like to keep constant 60 FPS.

Greetings

It seems something is bottlenecking your system.

How much Ram do you have?

It seems either your CPU or GPU is overheating, thus lowering performance.

Monitor your temps with CPUID Hwmonitor: http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor-pro/hwmonitor-pro_1.24.zip

I have 6 GB ram and when I play it is 4 GB out of 6 used.

I have used MSI Afterburner but the temperatures semed normal.

CPU is on the slow side and most likely the bottleneck. More RAM would probably help as well.

Delete your ini files (at least those that you have altered), and verify tou game cache files.

Actually delete all your ini files on those two folders:

Default all your settings in your CCC AMD panel, and start the game in a clean boot environment.

http://support.turbine.com/link/portal/24001/24047/Article/4096/How-do-I-perform-a-Clean-Boot-of-Windows

After you start Fallout 4 (let it bench your GPU) but play at 1280x720 (medium settings), so just choose detail medium. Do not enable AA and AF

Also start a new character, but without having your old saves in Fallout's 4 saves folder. (so make a folder in your desktop for example, and put your existing saves in that folder. First Copy-paste your saves and then delete them.)

Enable fps monitoring through steam. Not a different program.

Normally you shouldn't have any lags and also your fps should be near 60 all the time.

Does that mean that I should upgrade my CPU? True, mine is probably outdated but I always thought that CPU isn't important for gaming. Would an upgrade to an 3,5 GHz CPU improve something?

Alright, will do that now. Thanks

EDIT: Did it, but it didn't change anything

It just stays at 40 FPS?

Yes, there are some spots where I have 60 but 70% of the time I am at 39-45 FPS