Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day! Should I uninstall the HD Textures? Will it increase performance or fix any miniscule problems I have? Should I just keep it? With this gaming PC, I have GTX 1050 Ti, I have the space for the game and also have the Core i7. (Quick info here, I only recently obtained my first ever gaming laptop, all my gaming years I've played with optimized desktop laptops.) One of the minimum requirements for the DLC is a GTX 1080. When I purchased the game all I bought the pack with all the DLC and all that and of course there is the HD Textures. However when I was trying to find a reason as to why my games FPS drops when in third person, I came across a Steam discussion speaking of the HD Texture pack DLC. I did my very best to optimize the game to not have any drops of performance and so far - so good. If you're using high shadow distance (or greater), you can try the settings below in your Fallout4Prefs.ini.įShadowDistance=6000.0000 - (default is 14000 for high, 3000 for medium)įDirShadowDistance=6000.I recently purchased Fallout 4 and so far have at lots of fun, In the beginning it ran pretty good at 60 fps, then it dipped down lower when I go to Boston - I had heard this was an infamous location for drops. (Recommended) - Shadow distance tweaking is another thing can that drastically improve performance. ITextureDegradeDistance0=1600 - (default is 800) ITextureDegradeDistance1=3000 - (default is 1500) ITextureUpgradeDistance0=1200 - (default is 600) ITextureUpgradeDistance1=2400 - (default is 1200) Expect a minor performance hit and/or increase in loading times. (Optional) - If you're annoyed by the game's texture pop-in like I am, you can try setting the following into your Fallout4.ini under the general section. Musical Lore - Wasteland Edition - Immersive lore-friendly music! Piper's Coat HR - Alternate option for a 4K texture closer to vanilla style. Piper's Outfit Retexture - Same note as above. Kellog's Armor High Quality retexture - The name speaks for itself.
Langleys Workshop - Definitely something to consider tracking. Vivid Fallout - Landscapes - Another great landscape retexture. High Resolution Texture Pack - Valius - Texture pack replacing a good bunch of the vanilla game's texture eyesores.įallout Texture Overhaul Power Armors UHD 4K - High-quality textures for Power Armor.ĭetailed Deathclaws - Best Deathclaw retex so far imo.ĭelightful Ivy - HD Vine Retexture - Massive texture improvement for vines.Ĭommonwealth HQ Landscape Overhaul WIP - Pretty good landscape retexture mod. Performance is gained by replacing some of the mist and fog meshes with blank ones. Loss of quality will be noticeable due to the downscaled diffuse maps.įog remover - Performance Enhancer - Only use this if you're struggling with performance indoors. Install it over this for even better performance.
Wasteland 512 Textures - Only use this if you're struggling with VRAM. Provides better visuals than Wasteland 512 but the performance increase won't be as large. Optimized Textures - Only use this if you don't mind minor to moderate loss of quality. Proper compression and potential performance improvements for LOD textures. Edit your Fallout4Custom.ini and enter the following lines:įAR - Faraway Area Reform (LOD) - Highly recommended. (HDD Users) If you're running the game on an HDD, running a defrag would be a good idea to help provide smoother gameplay. (For manual installs): Drop the extracted contents into your game folder. This provides decent performance gains with next to no loss of quality (compared to reducing diffuse and normal maps, anyway). Smoothness/shine/specular for a ton of textures was slightly reduced in size. A few normal maps were reduced in size (flora and oversized normals). Any included ones had their compression fixed and/or were compressed to DXT1a if their alpha was simple enough.
#HOW TO INSTALL OPTIMIZED VANILLA TEXTURES FALLOUT 4 MOD#
Also, keep in mind that this mod was made to maintain quality while gaining a bit of performance. Needless to say, I saw quite a few tweaks to be made.Įvery tweaked texture included in this mod was handpicked for best performance and visuals. After spending a while with slight stutters and pretty significant fps drops, I figured I should take a look at the game's textures.