[I’m my own]

Official Fallout 4 PC system requirements have been released!

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1538430-fallout-4-release-info-including-pc-system-requirements/

I noticed a couple of threads asking and talking about PC specs for Fallout 4, so I may as well start the traditional "Will my PC run it?" threads.

I encourage people in this thread to ask about their builds and also helping others about said builds. All I ask is no "Your PC svcks" comments. That's how the Skyrim version of threads started and it wasn't pretty...lets not do that again! Anyone can continue the thread once post limit is reached, just include a link to the previous thread and this OP (or if you have a better OP, go for it )

For general tech stuff, go to the http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1530494-the-community-tech-thread-no-150/.

[Kit Marsden]

Your PC svcks.

[Louise Lowe]

What do we know? Only that it runs on current gen consoles, and Todd Howard made a comment about memory. What can we infer from this? The consoles have eight low power CPU cores, so the game will have to be correctly multi-threaded, and if so, an AMD might actually run this better than Skyrim, where one core did most of the work and the other three cores had lighter loads, leading to an i3 using only two cores (no HT) sometimes giving better performance than an overclocked AMD eight core. Single thread performance should not matter so much anymore. ...and...if the memory is so important, and with Skyrim really suffering from a 32 bit OS's RAM limitations, it's a guess but I think a safe bet that a 64 bit OS will be necessary along with 8GB RAM. I underdtand he may have been referring solely to 360/PS3's seriously low memory, but the fact that Skyrim would crash at 3.1GB without ENBoost etc. must surely figure in their thinking.

Also, while consoles are better optimised for games, an AMD R7 265 should be able to give at least a similar performance to a current-gen consoles, though there is always the possibilty that the game will try to access more than 2GB VRAM on PC at 1080p: not by any means necessarily so, but if this is the case, then the game may stutter without at least a 3GB card. I guess this won't be the case, as although VRAM requirements are finally increasing for the latest games, many gamers have 2GB cards ans alienating/forcing upgrades for a large segment of the market isn't a great way to encourage sales numbers.

[Edit: I forgot the 30FPS on anything. While ESO is a very different beast, it's minimum requirements are very low, as MMOs want as wide an audience as possible. Even though a high-budget single player will presumably require a much better rig, they may have some relatively ugly-looking Very Low setting that allows a much less powerful rig than the recommended requirements. Pure speculation of course.]

[Zach Hunter]

I think its safe to say that if you could play the Witcher 3, you can also play F4.

[sara OMAR]

The "current" gen consoles have that low specs?

No wonder everything runs at 30FPS on them.

Well, then mine can run it regardless of how badly the PC port is half-assed

[DAVId MArtInez]

Tandy 1000HX here. 640k memory. Two 3 1/2" internal disc drives. CGA monitor.

Confirmed by Bethesda support that I will be able to run FO4 on max settings. So I'm good.

[Tammie Flint]

I want to know: Blu-Ray or 7 DVDs?

I'll possibly need to buy a blu-ray drive.

[Alkira rose Nankivell]

Sinclair Spectrum +2 128k - the in built tape cassette version.

Confirmed by Bethesda 1080p 60fps, good to go.

[Prohibited]

*Waits for the "Will my Fury X run this at 1080p?" question*



My two cents

FX 8350 or Intel i5
GTX 960 or AMD R9 280
8gb Ram

Will likely net high/ultra at 1080p, depending on post processing effects.

[Joey Bel]

I always turn off anti-aliasing and set the Anisotropic filtering to a low setting.

Just personal preference... I wonder how much that actually helps, though.

What would a comparable graphics card to the PS4/Xone be?

[Charlotte X]

I think my Commodore 64 is struggle with 4K.

They were out of date when they hit the shelves, on the plus side ports run better because they haven't got the weird architecture of the last gen.

[Margarita Diaz]

Well my 2.5 half years old Geforce GTX 670 can run Witcher 3 on Medium with 40-45 fps, i'd be surprised if it can't handle Fallout 4 on Medium with a similair FPS.

If it won't, i'll have to buy a new graphic card.

[Anthony Diaz]

Anti-aliasing can be quite intensive operation on high settings, but having it at 2x or 4x shouldn't cause noticeable frame rate loss, and with high resolutions more is not really needed anyway AF however i believe is very light operation, even on high settings.

[^~LIL B0NE5~^]

Minimum:

On the GPU side I think the big question is how much Video Memory do you need for 1080p ...which is what I'm basing my guesses around. 1GB? 1.5GB? 2GB? As for straight processing power, if you can get away with 1.5GB, then the GTX 560 Ti, if 2GB it's the GTX 650/Ti and surrounding cards.

On the CPU side, ...getting the obvious out of the way ...you need a quad core. ...but what kind? The FO4 engine is a rework of Skyrim's which shows a certain lineage all the way to Gamebryo used in Oblivion/Morrowind. This line of game engine has always liked speed and showed benefits from getting more of it. Personally, I think that any quad-core running 3.2GHz or higher as a base clock [...as opposed to Intel turbo on one core] will do fine, so OC that Q6600/Q9300/Q8400/Q9450 etc, etc. As for what will be listed, either a higher level Penryn [Q9xx0-series] or a first gen i7.

RAM: 8GB

Recommended:

GPU: GTX 670/HD 7950

CPU: i5 3570/FX 8300 [Personally, i5 2300 and up are golden]

[Klaire]

FO4 will in no way have similiar requierements like Witcher 3... Let's compare Skyrim and Witcher 2. Both were from 2011. I can play Skyrim nearly on Ultra with my GT 545. And Witcher 2 was just playable on low. I don't think FO4 will start to have higher requierements than Witcher 3 now...

[~Amy~]

Vram is most about textures than resolution, found it works far better with 3Gb than 1 in elder scroll online mostly in loading textures then entering an town.

Remember that the game is optimized for consoles with more than 1Gb reserved as Vram probably around 2gb

[James Rhead]

Lower demands then witcher 3, One can run FO4 in 1080p. It looks like Bethesda aimed a bit low on graphic.

[LijLuva]

I seriously doubt PC games ever go to Blu-Ray. Digital distribution is the modern way, most people don't even want discs.

[Liii BLATES]

I'm pretty sure the answer will be "Nope", but do you guys think I'll be able to run it ?

Windows 10 - 64 bits
NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M @1024 Mb
Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
8 GB RAM

[Leonie Connor]

I never really saw the point of AF ever since I started gaming with a 1080p monitor. Same goes to AA.

Actually, playing in 1080p is AA within itself so I have had no AA in any game ever since. I only noticed jaggies if I am actually looking for them. AF is nice and all but anything past 4x is unnoticeable for me so I just have it off instead.

[Kim Kay]

I was using VRAM as a criteria to narrow down the possibilities for the GPU requirement by process of elimination. There are a lot of first and second generation GPUs with 1GB or so for the most part, but for some of those the chip itself could probably manage FO4, the GTX 470/570/560Ti 448, HD 5870, HD 5970 for example. [...the 5970 being a dual GPU card, the VRAM is mirrored, 1GBx2] HD 5870x2 4GB/5970 ARES 4GB should be good.

[Damned_Queen]

My PC currently runs an Intel i5 2500k 3.3GHz, 8 GB of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce 760 4GB. I'd imagine that this would be perfectly capable of running Fallout 4 at at least high. I doubt that my CPU would be the bottleneck but if so I can safely overclock the thing to at least 4GHz. I imagine that this is capable of Fallout 4 on high. Anyone that knows more about these things than me have any suggestions?

I should mention that this setup is capable of running Skyrim with 2K textures and a mostly stable 60FPS. As for ENB I don't really use ENB.

[adam holden]

Pete Hines on Twitter

https://twitter.com/DCDeacon/status/613066677069185025

[NIloufar Emporio]

One question, why do the automatic setting for games after install go for idiot settings like 8xAA 15xAF then sett the resolution down to 1366x768?

As I see it AA together with scaling does not make much sense as the scaling will do it own anti aliasing who is likely to be worse than the one in the graphic card.

[Charlie Ramsden]

I never really trusted auto detects in games, they usually get it wrong whether you have a good rig or a low spec rig.