I have 140 hours in FO4 and just like always with Bethesda games I spend more time trying to make the engine work or bypass bugs than actually enjoying the game.

I was still attempting to play and just deal with issues, but when I reached the east cost (near Court 35 city area) my FPS tanked below 40. I then messed with settings for and hour or two before choosing ALL LOW settings including AA off, God Rays off, Shadows off, etc etc and it made NO DIFFERENCE in performance in this area. This just frustrated me to no end and so here I am half ranting.

Wondering if anyone else is as frustrated or having similar issues with beefy rigs.

Also curious if anyone has any cross Win7/Win10 exerience and if it made any difference in the performance.

Thanks for listening.

My Rig:

i7 4790k @ 4.5 Ghz

GTX 980 4Gb

16 Gb G.Skill 1866 DDR3

ASUS Maximus Hero VII mobo

2xSSD (1 OS 1 game drive)

Playing only at 1080p

Honestly, I just don't get upset until my frame rate drops into the teens.

I hear what you are saying. I also get basically the same frame rate at ultra and low settings and at my highest resolution and my lowest resolution. It makes little difference. Even the draw distance has less effect that I would have expected.

You have an almost top-notch rig (like 9 out of 10). You're already getting the best from your gear as you can. My guess (and it's only a guess) is that it's the game itself, the textures and the nif related maps (specular, glow, etc...). It's just too much. I doubt an X99 mobo with 64 GB DDR4 sporting a Haswell 6-core and the fastest SSD wouldn't fair much better.

What I do is turn off my frame rate counter and just play the game. Sometimes, even with my gear, I encounter a bit of lag/stutter or whatever. So that's when I go grab another beer.

I have the same philosophy, turning off the FPS meter (it is only used for testing) and I have had a mostly playable experience. But the place I hit tonight the ENTIRE area is completely unplayable. The sub 40 FPS feels like like 15 FPS if that makes sense. In Beth games it always works like this where a lower FPS feels like a MUCH lower FPS in way of stutter/choppiness. I literally turned off the game, came and ranted around the interwebz and didn't launch the game again. I don't know that I will for awhile. I was that frustrated.

I have yet to get anyone to test the same area for me though. It's the city where Court 35 is located. But it's the entire city there..it's a heavily packed city with skyscraqers and lots of detail..but even on the lowest settings it performs absolutely abysmal.

I am so frustrated Especially since the time it will take for an actual patch that improves performance (as well as all the bugs) will likely not be for quite some time.

Mine dropped into the teen on the west of the mad at the are pass the place where the two bridges crossed. From that point on random crashes occured and whatever bug this was spread to my other saves as well. At this point I am wondering if its evern worth playing this game until after a year when they finally fix all these problems.

have you tried the beta update? It helped me with stutter.

try this
install enb for fo4
delete your ini files
start launcher
click low preset button
set everything on ultra except shadow distance and god rays
set vsync as application controlled on nvidia control panel
disable nvidia shield streaming service

if u are getting insane stutter when swapping guns try dropping all your weapon and/or armor and grabbing then back
gl

Personally, I just updated to the Beta... gonna try it out after I'm finished on the forum. I hope it helps. They did mention they fixed some memory leaks, etc... *fingers crossed*

And to amadeok... I've seen that bit of *help* before. I tried it and really, no measurable difference, at least for me.

Yeah I had already done those things. In these problem areas even running ALL on Low makes no difference still sub 40 fps (but completely choppy feels like 10)

Beta patch did nothing for me.

Agreed. I never really benchmarked my rig at a specific spot in the game for comparison, but it sure feels like the beta patch did little, if anything, to speed up frame rate in troublesome areas. But that makes sense though, as to really see an improvement, we would probably have to load less memory intensive meshes and textures. I haven't looked at any BSA files yet, but I have a theory that with the addition of all the color in the game versus the mundane color schemes of Skyrim and FO3, the amount of resources dedicated to textures and possibly meshes has increase by a factor greater than the increase in resources available on today's graphic adapters versus those of a few years ago.

I know Skyrim had some excellent HD texture sets, maybe FO4 needs some low-D ones??? I'd hate to think that's true.