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Low end PC issues

Opi Vali

Opi Vali

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For all of you who build city plans, plots & factions. Have you tried doing it on a bear minimum pc & if so did you have problems, what were those problems & how did you work around them?
 
1st thing to do is optimize the base game - starting with high performance optimized textures, cleaning your master files, eliminate mods with known high script usage, etc...

A bare minimum PC also needs to have a bare minimum load/mod order.

Make your ini settings for high performance, reduce # of grass textures, etc...

How's that for a start?
John
 
MrCJohn said:
1st thing to do is optimize the base game - starting with high performance optimized textures, cleaning your master files, eliminate mods with known high script usage, etc...

A bare minimum PC also needs to have a bare minimum load/mod order.

Make your ini settings for high performance, reduce # of grass textures, etc...

How's that for a start?
John
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No idea. I’m doing beginning research before buying the base game and giving a try at content creation. It’s my thimble of knowledge compared to the reality sized knowledge in relation doing just that.
 
I’m trying to figure out if it’s even possible to do it on my laptop while saving money up to get a new rig.
 
Opi Vali said:
I’m trying to figure out if it’s even possible to do it on my laptop while saving money up to get a new rig.
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This link is a pretty comprehensive breakdown which includes the Bethesda recommendation.

John, would be the man to advise on content creation.

https://www.logicalincrements.com/games/fallout4

the release date and start of development as it relates to hardware plays in your favor.

FO4 is horribly unoptimized for current hardware. I even recall kg commenting that one of his older computers ran it better than a more current and better spec-out computer.
 
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For optimizing textures, what are good recommendations? I'm starting a new playthrough and I want to cut down on my CTDs. As much as I admire something as powerful as the Fallout Texture Optimization Project, is there anything that's less work than that to do? I'm especially leery of doing all the work that comes with the optimization project because I run FO4 on my SSD and that drive has very limited space for all the loose files that seem to come with that. Is Vivid Fallout 1K a good choice or no? Are there better ones or alternatives to the optimization project? I don't have a low end machine, I would say it's about in the middle, but the settlements and city plans do cause it to asplode frequently.
 
CaptainLaserBeam said:
For optimizing textures, what are good recommendations? I'm starting a new playthrough and I want to cut down on my CTDs. As much as I admire something as powerful as the Fallout Texture Optimization Project, is there anything that's less work than that to do? I'm especially leery of doing all the work that comes with the optimization project because I run FO4 on my SSD and that drive has very limited space for all the loose files that seem to come with that. Is Vivid Fallout 1K a good choice or no? Are there better ones or alternatives to the optimization project? I don't have a low end machine, I would say it's about in the middle, but the settlements and city plans do cause it to asplode frequently.
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https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23556

Check out this load order - he offers many packages if you follow his tools section - if you scroll to bottom, you can see what mods are included in his textures...

you can even just pick and choose some of those textures.

The nice thing is following his tools, you can repackage, install all your mods, package all the textures into a .BA2 archive...

John
 
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