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hello you lovely people of the internet. i recently bought a gaming pc and since i bought it i have not really got the game i want to run properly. majorly when i booted up the amazing fallout 4 for the first a giddy as a child on Christmas i was met with a few issues which have plague my short time playing pc games. in a number of game such as mad max  bf4 and fallout i have been experiencing a few issues in regards to frame drops. i will be happily playing along at 60 fps then receive a massive drop in fps sometimes to as low as 20 fps. this continues to happen even when i turn the settings of the games right down. for example my pc was automatically set to ultra settings for fallout and when i dropped them to medium and turning of some effects i still got the same problem, not as bad but defiantly still there. the game will run fine in an area if i stand still on not move much but the second i try to wonder into the depths of the wasteland bye bye frame rate this happens regardless of settings. so can anyone help me to resolve my issue as i really wanna play fallout i just want decent graphics and a consistent frame rate be that 30 or 60 fps. 

 

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AMD doesn't have a "game-ready" driver yet for Fallout 4, give it a bit of time. There'll be pressure.

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Tried turning vsync on?

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thanks man yeah patches and drivers will help in time. but any idea why i have the same issues on other games ?

Not sure, it might actually be the CPU, Fallout's on of the relatively few games to properly take advantage of all of the FXs cores. and it's been known to be a bit of a bottleneck for a card like the 390 when a game only uses 4 or fewer cores.

 

Or maybe Vsync, make sure that's off as well.

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good suggestion guys i will try turning v sync off. i dunno if its because i am not using a ssd at all would buying one help get a more consistant frame rate. it fell like when it happens its when the gaming is trying to load in assests. just a thought ?

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good suggestion guys i will try turning v sync off. i dunno if its because i am not using a ssd at all would buying one help get a more consistant frame rate. it fell like when it happens its when the gaming is trying to load in assests. just a thought ?

sometimes, but uncommon.

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ok once i finish work i will have a play with v sync is there a way of making fallout 4 locked to 30 fps just so i can play it without having as much of a drop in fps

Yeah if you lock your screen at 30hz. Otherwise, might be your CPU

 

 

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My AMD PC is under min spec's and I get 60FPS at Ultra with only motion blur turned off and the occassional dip in FPS.

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Using a program like HWinfo, are you able to locate your PC's hardware bottleneck? If not it maybe just they way the game is optimised. (Or lack of)

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AMD doesn't have a "game-ready" driver yet for Fallout 4, give it a bit of time. There'll be pressure.

 

It's not that. I can run the game on one of my 290's at 1440p high settings FXAA at around 60-70fps average. 

 

good suggestion guys i will try turning v sync off. i dunno if its because i am not using a ssd at all would buying one help get a more consistant frame rate. it fell like when it happens its when the gaming is trying to load in assests. just a thought ?

 

It's not the storage speed either. I'm running it off a 7200rpm HDD just fine.

 

Something else is going on here. @cpratt447 - first thing to try is turning off vsync. The game has vsync turned on by default and the only way to disable it is to edit an ini file. Go to the following directory:  C:/...users/[name]/documents/my games/fallout4  and open up the "fallout4prefs.ini" using notepad. Under the [Display] heading (should be the first one) look for the following line: iPresentInterval=1 and change it to iPresentInterval=0. Make sure you SAVE it before you close it. Now, run the game again and let us know what your frame rates are. ;) 

 

Also, if you can, run MSI afterburner to monitor your GPU usage, clocks and temps while gaming. And if you can, also monitor CPU usage, clocks, and temps. If you have a second monitor, this should be easy. If not, you'll have to alt-tab out a few times to see how things are running. 

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ok mate i will try that abit later on thanks :) i have had the issue with the pc since i got it tbh even had issue with fallout new vegas doing the same thing however not regularly. i upgraded to windows ten would that make a difference at all. 

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ok mate i will try that abit later on thanks :) i have had the issue with the pc since i got it tbh even had issue with fallout new vegas doing the same thing however not regularly. i upgraded to windows ten would that make a difference at all. 

 

Windows 10 has been giving a number of people issues in PC gaming. Just make sure you have the latest drivers installed (15.11 I think is the latest), even though AMD doesn't have their official fallout 4 drivers out yet, keeping up to date with drivers can still help with overall system stability.  

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Windows 10 has been giving a number of people issues in PC gaming. Just make sure you have the latest drivers installed (15.11 I think is the latest), even though AMD doesn't have their official fallout 4 drivers out yet, keeping up to date with drivers can still help with overall system stability.  

 

hey guys thanks for the advice on this but i am still not running right even on normal setting i get drops from 60 to 40 even 30 fps at times. i can even see the textures trying to load as i am working around turning vsync did help but not massively. i even tried ruuning on low where the game is kind of stable but will drop to around 50 fps at time when sprinting or going to a built up area like a settlement. any other ideas guys

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