Another Fallout 4 poor performance thread...

[dangus]

so after playing the game for a few days and getting sick of the frame rate i get in cities/populated areas, i started monitoring my system while i play it. This morning i noticed in Concord that my fps went all the way down to 23(!!!) while fighting a single mirelurk at night. I tabbed out and looked at GPU-Z sensors and it said my GPU usage was about 35% and my VRAM usage was up to 3.9gb...has anyone heard about memory problems in this game? I'm running the game on 2560x1080 which shouldn't be a problem since i've read people playing at 1440p on the same GPU and getting a solid frame rate. here are my specs that matter:

i7-4770k w/ AIO cooler.
Gigabyte z87x-d3h motherboard
EVGA GTX 970 sc
16gb ddr3 1600
256gb ssd
Corsair AX860i psu
LG 2560x1080 monitor

i'm wondering if the 21:9 resolution has anything to do with it since it's not officially supported and i had to tweak a couple .ini files to get it running in ultrawide. either way the VRAM usage goes from ~2.7-2.9gb and then spikes to 3.9gb seemingly for no reason. GPU load is all over the place ranging from 20% up to maybe 50% max. my temps are fine, since the GPU & CPU don't go over 65C at most. it just doesn't seem right!!!

 

[migronesien]

Yes, it has something to do with your resolution. 21:9 or anything other than "normal" runs into problems.

Maybe try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_oBXxQaKE8

I don't know if it works, but i was to get SLI to work with other Youtube Fallout 4 videos.

 

[dangus]

Yes, it has something to do with your resolution. 21:9 or anything other than "normal" runs into problems.

Maybe try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_oBXxQaKE8

I don't know if it works, but i was to get SLI to work with other Youtube Fallout 4 videos.

i did already try that. like i stated i had to tweak some .ini files to get the game to run in 21:9

 

[James Mason]

If your 970's VRAM usage goes over 3.5 you'll encounter performance hits like that, because of the .5gb of slow vram it has.

Turn down your settings.

 

[JediJustin42069]

If your 970's VRAM usage goes over 3.5 you'll encounter performance hits like that, because of the .5gb of slow vram it has.

Turn down your settings.

So a half a gig of ram runs at lower clock speeds on all 970's?
Bout time to switch companies .....again....sigh.

 

[darkmatter23s]

The highest settings probably for future hardware

 

[dangus]

If your 970's VRAM usage goes over 3.5 you'll encounter performance hits like that, because of the .5gb of slow vram it has.

Turn down your settings.

So a half a gig of ram runs at lower clock speeds on all 970's?
Bout time to switch companies .....again....sigh.

Yes, the 970 having an ACTUAL 3.5gb of "useful" vram is not new news. It's marketed as a 4gb card but the extra 500mb is actually much slower, basically useless vram. I know I'm not maxing my card's ram out though because i have monitored the usage in game. I've basically stopped playing this game since the end of november so it really doesn't matter anyways....the game itself isn't fun for me.

As for the future hardware comment....not sure if thats the case since, in my opinion, Skyrim looks almost just as nice as this game if you tweak the ugridstoload option in the .ini file, and the game runs very well on a 970.

 

[renz496]

Still 970 design is better than the one you would fine on older nvidia cards like those 660s. So far the only game that i play affected by that 3.5GB probably ACU although it is not severe (there were stutter but it is not frequent; ironically my 960 2GB able to play the game without a single stutter despite VRAM usage are at full utilization all the time). Other games like advance warfare can easily use up to 3.9GB VRAM there is no slow down nor stutter. In fallout 4 i haven't try messing around with the setting enough. But at 1080p ultra (shadow medium, godrays low) my vram usage is around 2000-2500mb only.