[Alyce Argabright]

@OP what is wrong with a GTX 970 again? You should look at the recommended requirements for the game. A base model 780 3GB is under recommended for Fallout 4 for Nvidia. A 970 is two generations ahead of a 780.

Its going to come down to optimization anyway.

[Rob Smith]

Please relax, it's only a game.

There's no way it'll run badly on an AMD card. There's no Nvidia Gameworks on consoles (which are based on AMD hardware) so there'll be nothing essential in the game that depends on Gameworks. There will be a few additional extras that will be available on Nvidia cards - and as posted out in another thread, you'd probably need a really top-line card to use them without a hefty performance hit, even on Nvidia.

Don't worry, your planned purchase will surely play the game perfectly well - unless you get sleepless nights from thinking that you're missing out on a few fripperies.

[victoria johnstone]

I have GTX960 4gb too and I agree. It's also cheap too.

[u gone see]

cpu : AMD FX 8350 8 core 4.0 g
ram : 8gb bus 1866
mainboard : Asrock extreme 3 r2.0
Psu : ocz 650 watt(5 year old need to buy new one)

i plan to buy amd r9 390x for video card
but from what i read it about fallout 4 will better on nvidia gamework

if i dont buy 390x
then i can buy gtx 970 and new PSU too

i dont have enough money for gtx 980
im so sad

what matter if i run this game on gtx 970?
i cant play on ultra setting right?

[Alexis Acevedo]

If they using Gameworks features on the game, it could be a possibility that some of those are greyd out, on AMD GPUs. (like on Batmam: Arkham Knight)

In general the R9 390x is a very fast card. So i don't thing the OP will have any problems maxing out Fallout 4.

As for the CPU (even if it's not the fastest CPU around) i hope it can keep up with thr R9 390x.

The thing is on a AMD platform, there are not much possibilities for upgrading to a faster CPU except for the FX-9370 and the FX-9590

[Lily Something]

This! It is really nice not having to worry about this anymore. (Even though I would want to play the game on a pc for memories sake)

[Alex [AK]]

i3 2120, two cores but with hyperthreading. Will fallout 4 work since mini sys req are four cores.

im using r7 260x, which i have no issues with

[Leilene Nessel]

i am really thank you everyone
if bethesda do a better dog hair female hair for nvidia

maybe i should buy gtx970 that best card i have money to buy for now

i like r9 390x so much from i see thier spec

[Josh Trembly]

There isn't really an answer to this....anything goes when it comes to mods. History shows there's been plenty of performance mods made for past Bethesda games.

Youd probably still get Ultra settings with a GTX 970 at 1080p

There's no confirmation that the game will run better on Nvidia hardware vs AMD....all speculation right now.

[Heather Kush]

I wouldn't change anything on that setup before the game comes out, and you try it out, first. !!!

That's a well balanced system (as it is right now), we will see how far it can goes if fallout 4 comes out.

[Mr. Allen]

I would not buy a AMD card for a game that offers Gameworks. Seriously google up dedicated PhysX Card its only for Nvidia products, you can socket a low end card into an extra slot on Mobo, it doesn't have to be the same Nvidia card. If you get an AMD card you cannot use that option.

Er maybe I haven't been making since but you can have 2 Nvidia cards and they don't need to be the same card or close to same card to do a good job with the FPS and graphics features in games that support Gameworks.

[Isaiah Burdeau]

If your card meets the minimum specs, then wait until after you play Fallout 4 before making such an expensive decision.

[Margarita Diaz]

As Tigs mentioned above. Nothing is confirmed as we speak. Only that the game (most probably) will support Gamerorks fully on a Nvidia GPU (however with a performance penalty for sure)

Normally the R9 390X should be faster as the GTX 970. !!! (depanding on the game)

Hoiwever, you can compare some results with the R9 390x and the GTX 980

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1559?vs=1442

If you ask me it's a tough decision about those two GPUs (R9 390X vs GTX 970)

But at the end, your opinion counts at most...

[Latino HeaT]

Just today I was about to buy gtx970 too but I decided to read a bit more about it first. It has 3.5gb vram in reality, the last 0.5gb is really slow and it will really cripple your performance if your game needs more than 3.5gb. Or so I read anyways. Add to that the rumours (facts?) that Nvidia is purposely causing older cards (700-series and older I read) to have lower performance on newer drivers. I just can't trust the card to be future proof after reading all that. Especially since I've already gotten over 3gb vram usage on a few games. Found R9-390 on a discount and bought that instead.

[Sarah Edmunds]

Hey, what about my specs?

[Killah Bee]

Well, if they mean 4 cores then that means 4 cores (4 threads), and not 2 cores with Hyperthreading.

Your GPU can keep up with he min rec and even a bit more, your CPU is a bit under the min req.

Try at 1280x720 and up / medium settings should work.

[Ann Church]

Have you any doubts about your configuration ???

[Vivien]

That's just scare-mongering rumors. I had a GTX 260 until earlier this year, and each driver update caused it to perform better, not worse. Drivergate has been disproven with several tests done by hardware sites.

[Jason Wolf]

I think a lot of misinformation about Nvidia's PhysX physics engine and GameWorks libraries need to be clarified.

Nvidia's PhysX that is not GPU bound can be run on the CPU so it can run on AMD CPU's.

HBAO+ works on both AMD hardware and Intel hardware as well as Nvidia's graphic cards.

TXAA is the only feature that works on Nvidia graphic cards.

HairWorks, etc works on AMD hardware as well. I have a PC with a AMD graphic card and AMD CPU and it works on the PC version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

If some graphical features from Nvidia seem to not work properly or poorly optimized for the PC versions of whatever video games you play on your PC that has AMD hardware then turn them off in the settings.

Is that not the beauty of PC? You can turn off whatever graphical settings you don't want off in the options menu in the graphics options settings.

It's no secret more and more video game developers and video game development companies are going for adding Nvidia's PhysX and GameWorks libraries to the PC versions of their video games.

Nvidia spends $1 billion dollars (USD) per year for Research & Development (R&D) for graphics. Nvidia gets donations to for graphics Research & Development (R&D).

HairWorks to me looks way more advanced and farther ahead than AMD's TressFX.

Astronomers and scientists around the world use Nvidia's GPU's for their super computers instead of AMD.

Stuff like rendering the entire Milky Way galaxy and so on.

[joannARRGH]

It appears you didn't read the OP about not bragging of your system here. There are descriptions on your components that don't exist and I personally don't find any of it amusing.

It leads me to think you know where you stand on your system already (if that really is what you have) and you want to joke about it. This is your only verbal warning to stop it.

[tegan fiamengo]

for now i have gtx 750 that work well with custom high 720p for most new game

i can play gta v / mad max / mgsv : tpp but not ultra

but for fallout 4 this is game i waiting for 6 year

[Sweets Sweets]

This is so much false information.

Nvidia's GTX 970 0.5GB of VRAM is just slower then the rest of the VRAM. The Nvidia GTX 970 is still a very capable graphic card.

The Nvidia GTX 400 series can run Nvidia's PhysX physics engine and GameWorks libraries I have a old PC that has a Nvidia GTX 470 that can run HBAO+ and HairWorks.

[Gavin Roberts]

Heck yeah.

[djimi]

Very glad to hear that, regardless of my purchase decision!

[Benjamin Holz]

Trust me, the GTX 970 works like a charm...

If you hit the 3.5GB mark then probably you should consider to buy a GPU with more than 4GB of VRAM.