Fallout 4 running horribly. Please help.

[TheAlmightyChalupa]

I recently bought a G1 Gaming R9 390 under the impression it would be enough to run AAA titles at 1080p with decent framerates. I was horrified to find that my most anticipated game of the year,fallout 4, was dropping down to 20 fps with settings around medium. Seems to run fine with all other games. Is this a gameworks issue? A bottleneck from my i5-4690k running at freaking 4.7 ghz maybe??

I am incredibly stumped and any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance!

[MLG Doge]

Temps while playing?

[ManOfGold93]

The r9 390 should and can run this game smoothly, and there is no way the i5 is bottlenecking it at all. I have the 390x and it gets super hot when running, AMD cards run hot- what are your temps?

[RollinLower]

have you downloaded the latest drivers?

[DevilishBooster]

I recently bought a G1 Gaming R9 390 under the impression it would be enough to run AAA titles at 1080p with decent framerates. I was horrified to find that my most anticipated game of the year,fallout 4, was dropping down to 20 fps with settings around medium. Seems to run fine with all other games. Is this a gameworks issue? A bottleneck from my i5-4690k running at freaking 4.7 ghz maybe??

I am incredibly stumped and any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance!

First thing you should do is make sure that the Shadow Draw Distance is not set at a high level. This setting significantly increases the draw calls the higher you have it set, so dropping it to Med should give you a significant performance boost. I have dual R9 280s and I can hold near 60 FPS with everything but Shadow Distance set to Ultra. The other thing you can check is playing around with the GodRay settings. Some people report that turning those down help too, but I think it's a snake oil fix because I haven't noticed any performance change. The other thing you can check is if the Beta patch helps at all. Also, are you still using CCC or do you have Crimson? If you have Crimson, have you installed the update that came out in the last week or so?

[TheAlmightyChalupa]

Temps while playing?

Avg:70c

Highest: 76c

[TheAlmightyChalupa]

First thing you should do is make sure that the Shadow Draw Distance is not set at a high level. This setting significantly increases the draw calls the higher you have it set, so dropping it to Med should give you a significant performance boost. I have dual R9 280s and I can hold near 60 FPS with everything but Shadow Distance set to Ultra. The other thing you can check is playing around with the GodRay settings. Some people report that turning those down help too, but I think it's a snake oil fix because I haven't noticed any performance change. The other thing you can check is if the Beta patch helps at all. Also, are you still using CCC or do you have Crimson? If you have Crimson, have you installed the update that came out in the last week or so?

Yeah, drivers are up to date. Shadow distance really helped. Thanks!

[theereal]

Its beacuse you have an AMD card, AMD Is still having Issues with Fallout 4.

[DevilishBooster]

Its beacuse you have an AMD card, AMD Is still having Issues with Fallout 4.

Not really that much. I have a 8350 with dual R9 280s (not even 280Xs) in XFire and I have every single setting set to Ultra except for Shadow Distance.

[DevilishBooster]

Yeah, drivers are up to date. Shadow distance really helped. Thanks!

Also, keep in mind that there are some areas of the game that just do not perform well. I can be holding close to 60fps in areas of Boston, and then I enter a building or start travelling out in the 'burbs or rural area and I have steady drops to the 20s and stuttering. It's not your GC having an issue, it's just FO4 being FO4.

[Tsuki]

dont know how much itll help, but check out THIS thread

[EChondo]

Don't expect 60fps constant at any resolution/settings in certain areas, tons of people are having issues because the game wasn't properly developed.

 

Its beacuse you have an AMD card, AMD Is still having Issues with Fallout 4.

Yeah, totally AMD only, completely ignore all the Nvidia users out there with 970's and 980's having issues with this game as well.

[theereal]

Not really that much. I have a 8350 with dual R9 280s (not even 280Xs) in XFire and I have every single setting set to Ultra except for Shadow Distance.

Still runs shitty beacuse of 1 reason.. *Bethesda game*

[theereal]

Don't expect 60fps constant at any resolution/settings in certain areas, tons of people are having issues because the game wasn't properly developed.

 

Yeah, totally AMD only, completely ignore all the Nvidia users out there with 970's and 980's having issues with this game as well.

Did I say that the game doesent run shitty on Nvidia aswell? Ofcourse It does Its a Bethesda game, but It has had even worse Issues on AMD thanks to Gameworks... Jeez, someone sounds butthurts and goes straight to attack...

[EChondo]

Did I say that the game doesent run shitty on Nvidia aswell?

AMD Is still having Issues with Fallout 4.

 

Really? You're literally implying that AMD is the only one having issues. You could have said "everyone is still having issues with Fallout 4", but you didn't. You saw OP had a AMD card and went "that's the problem!"

 

The game is the problem.

[AMDisTheBEST]

fallout 4 runs sickly on AMD gpus and cpus. It must be software related. The game engine it runs on, i heard is years old

[App4that]

I love all the "I don't have any issues, I just turned the settings to the same as the PS4 on my expensive gaming rig" Bahahhahahahaha!!!

OP, I had a 4690k and had issues. I now have a 4790k and don't. Fallout 4 requires more than 4 threads to run smoothly.

[eye2012]

It's a bethesda game. 

[RaptorCock]

Bethesda game my ass I have a GTX 970 and I can run this perfectly.

[Praesi]

Its an AMD Card. Fallout 4 is just another Game that dont like AMD.

 

 

It's a bethesda game. 

Which runs perfect on NVidia Cards. 

[TriviaBeast]

Its an AMD Card. Fallout 4 is just another Game that dont like AMD.

Which runs perfect on NVidia Cards.

My g1 970 falls on its face with medium god rays and medium shadow draw distance. This is at around 1550mhz on the core and 8k on the memory. A 4690k at 4.5 processor. Running off an 850 evo. My ram usage is more than okay with 8gb.

I still dip in the low 40s with these settings. On ultra everything, I would dip into the low 30s. Not exactly perfect in my mind. I get more consistent performance with Arkham Knight. That's not a joke or a stab at Bethesda, just the truth.

But it's worth it. FO4 is gawd.

Sorry, 1920x1080 resolution.

[AMDisTheBEST]

i got 60 fps when in the valut in the beginning of the game. After i venture out, fps quickly drops to 30+ in some areas. The range is all over the place. Sometimes 50+ sometimes, 40+, sometimes 30+. average is around med 30s to low 40s. My rig has amd r9 380 4 gb, fx 8320 OC @ 4.2 Ghz. Settings were max at 900p

[Praesi]

My g1 970 falls on its face with medium god rays and medium shadow draw distance. This is at around 1550mhz on the core and 8k on the memory. A 4690k at 4.5 processor. Running off an 850 evo. My ram usage is more than okay with 8gb.

I still dip in the low 40s with these settings. On ultra everything, I would dip into the low 30s. Not exactly perfect in my mind. I get more consistent performance with Arkham Knight. That's not a joke or a stab at Bethesda, just the truth.

But it's worth it. FO4 is gawd.

Sorry, 1920x1080 resolution.

Shadowdrawdistance is the main FPS Killer in the City. I got drops into the 40´s in the City too, but i play on 1440p and i tweaked the ini alot for more detail, viewdistance ect.

With Gsync its no big Deal. I guess im not the best Example to judge "perfect" in this Case 

[App4that]

My g1 970 falls on its face with medium god rays and medium shadow draw distance. This is at around 1550mhz on the core and 8k on the memory. A 4690k at 4.5 processor. Running off an 850 evo. My ram usage is more than okay with 8gb.

I still dip in the low 40s with these settings. On ultra everything, I would dip into the low 30s. Not exactly perfect in my mind. I get more consistent performance with Arkham Knight. That's not a joke or a stab at Bethesda, just the truth.

But it's worth it. FO4 is gawd.

Sorry, 1920x1080 resolution.

Takes a 4790 to use Godrays, and who knows what for shadow distance over medium.

[TheZorch]

Bethesda used Nvidia Gameworks when developing Fallout 4, which should instantly set off warning alarms.

 

Gameworks is a series of closed-source libraries and tools for adding visual effects to games. Being closed source developers have NO access to any source code to optimize the libraries for their game engines. Batman Arkham Knight for the PC is a primary example of why game developers should never ever use Gameworks again.

 

AMD's GPUOpen is going to change things significantly. It is fully open source, meaning it can be optimized for both AMD and Nvidia cards. My hope is more developers use it rather than Nvidia's broken mess.

 

Nexus Mods has a number of performance enhancements mods, and one in particular affects shadows which is very CPU/GPU intensive.