Buying a cpu to suit a 5 year old game is not a great purchase.
Always buy for the future. The clock speed on any ryzen is more than enough for this engine.
The above is an absolutely brilliant statement.
“Dog-Ham!” I flippin love this thread.
I implore folks reading this thread, all of
@Phil_T_Casual comments are accurate and the best advice available. Particularly if Fo4 is your main game / time sink.
I used to run an intel i7 2600k, 8Gb ram and a 4gb AMD video card on a 60hz ultrawide 3440x1440, w/ ssd drives
Today I run an i7 7700, 32Gb ram and 2 x1080ti in sli on a 27inch 144hz G-sync monitor at 2560x1440, w/ M.2 ssd drives
Roughly 2000 hours of game play on each system for a total of 4000+ hrs
In Fo4 and running sim settlements I would argue there is little to no performance difference between the 2 configurations in “Fo4, Skyrim, FNV and such” only.
Arguably, I run more mods now “around 400” so that may not be a completely accurate but near enough of for me.
Next, I have always thought of Fo4 as 2 games.
- The in game – gaming the vanilla glitches and such
- The other game – gaming the Fo4 engine itself. Everything from settings, mods and controlling performance in-game by how you load the engine
@Phil_T_Casual is spot on that in F04 super specs in hardware has diminishing returns.
Others are right in that you “game” the game. Limit settlements, #’s of settlers, scrapping, type of mods “textures, enb, lighting, storms,” and “controlling being concerned” about the number of mods in general, more so with scripted mods.
I would also say that PreVis / PreCombines are more important than one’s gaming hardware for fps.
I would also say that a good game set-up, understanding tools to reconcile conflicts and
strict mod discipline are more important to stability, limiting crashes and save file health than any hardware solution. These problems will not be resolved with hardware no matter how advanced.
Hahaha, all that said. As long as your hardware meets the recommended hardware specs and Fo4 is your main game right now then, you’re good to go. If your hardware does not meet those spec’s then sure, upgrade.
In Fo4, more is always better. That is, until it isn’t.
This might as well go for hardware specs as well as mods.
I still use Nvidia inspector to limit FPS. I should maybe try the MSI afterburner. I can’t remember but maybe why is it had problems with g-sync or something? Hummm
Hahaha!