Fallout 4 Low Frame Rates

[Idanov]

Hello everyone,

 

I need your ideas about this.

 

I recently updated my rig with a sapphire r9 390 but while playing Fallout 4 I noticed some really low framerates.

 

As you can see in the picture they are in the low twenties way to often for my taste.

 

When I am looking at the sky or at the ground i get 60.

 

At the moment I have everything set at maximum settings. I've tried to lower some settings but actually only the shadow distance makes a difference. Ad medium I get up to 40 fps.

 

Is this normal? Does my CPU limit it and I just have to lower the settings? Or is something wrong here?

 

Fallout4 2016-01-20 16-46-35-56.bmp

 

 

 

 

 

I have an 

 

i5 760

8gb in single channel

r9 390 

 

[Techicolors]

it's pretty obvious that you get better frames when looking at the ground/sky. there's nothing to render

 

Fallout 4 performs pretty... not good for the most part. but the more intensive settings are shadow distance, god rays, shadow details, resolution, maybe occlusion...

 

also your RAM and CPU might be holding it back just a little. the game benefits from faster RAM actually, especially once you have mods 

[DaltonM]

Updated all your drivers? Are you running the latest version of the game? 

 

turn your details down, view distance is the killers. You can run on ultra without having a super high view distance. 

[xDanielxOossiex]

No problem here with my i5 4590, GTX970 and 8GB RAM. You should get some OSD and see what is at/around 100%.

[Kobathor]

That i5 is old, and not very powerful these days. Fallout 4 heavily relies on a good CPU, so I'd upgrade that. You'd get better frame rates in other games, too.

 

No problem here with my i5 4590, GTX970 and 8GB RAM. You should get some OSD and see what is at/around 100%.

It's a CPU bottleneck, guaranteed.

[xDanielxOossiex]

That i5 is old, and not very powerful these days. Fallout 4 heavily relies on a good CPU, so I'd upgrade that. You'd get better frame rates in other games, too.

 

It's a CPU bottleneck, guaranteed.

My cpu is being used for 50-80% while playing Fallout 4 on 1080p. All settings maxed out, 60 fps and sometimes some drops to 45-50 fps.

[Kobathor]

My cpu is being used for 50-80% while playing Fallout 4 on 1080p. All settings maxed out, 60 fps and sometimes some drops to 45-50 fps.

 

No problem here with my i5 4590

An i5-4590 isn't a first-gen i5-760. There's a huge difference in power between the two.

[Majestic]

Look at the GPU loads ingame. But I'm fairly convinced that i5-760, if it's running stock, is part of the problem. Compounded by AMD's drivers in that game. 

 

Literally worst case scenario for FO4.

 

http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/chaostheory/2015/11/game_f4/charts4/f4_cpu_nv.png

[MrTiC]

OC that 760 to 4Ghz and enjoy life again 

[afyeung]

Double post. And what's the point of the photo? You have no system data with RivaTuner or something so we can see what your system is doing.