Fallout 4

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ini tweaks that might help people who are having bad FPS in urban areas.

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Hello!Here are some ini tweaks that might help you out if you struggle like me with FPS in urban area.

•Shadows will degrade a little
•Water reflections might degrade a little
•I've seen no other texture/effects degradation
•All other settings will be in the high area

•I have a slight idea of what I'm doing since I've been messing with Beth ini's since 2008
•I've also managed to get Skyrim to run 700 mods with 45-60 FPS with absolutely no crashes

•Use the ini's "as they are" or don't
•Use them as reference or replacement



Since the game launch I've been reading and tweaking because i usually have 60 FPS if not going to urban areas,the second i would hit some big buildings used to go down to 30 or 20 in some fights.

Now i'm using ENB,Reshade + 300 mods
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and manage to remain at 35-60 FPS in all situations

I still get some dips now and then but they are MUCH rarer than before and game is now playable in urban areas.

I've been messing with them for almost two weeks, adding, replacing, removing lines.
This is the only config i've managed to stay above 35 (35-60) in urban areas.
I've noticed this has the most impact...
Start with these settings in prefs.ini

uiOrthoShadowFilter=2
uiShadowFilter=2
iVolumetricLightingQuality=2

(not numthread, not preloadlimit, not animdamp, not fmeshload the settings above)

If you don't want to replace your files open them side by side.and compare

Or first back them up and give this config a try,it should take 5 minutes to see if it's a difference or not.
Tweaks also disable invisible game border so you can explore more of the map.

I have a decent build (not new or high end by any means) and i just could not figure why the dips

System Model: P55-US3L
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU660  @ 3.33GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Page File: 2725MB used, 13639MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780


PC used for the optional 2k optimized ini files

 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Page File: 5112MB used, 13642MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
Chip type: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti



•These tweaks are intended to be used with a similar system.
•Use as reference or replacement
•Back up you ini's first in case it doesn't help you!As always ini's will behave differently for people
Note that this will not work for everyone

If you will want to  use as replacement :

•Open Fallout4Prefs.ini with notepad or notepad ++
-Add this line in fallour4prefs.ini under [display]
sD3DDevice="Example GPU"
-Then set sD3DDevice="YOUR GPU"
-Save and close


No endorsement or thanks needed if it helped you it's enough.
Sorry for the bad English.

1000+ Endorsements... well... thank you!

Glad some people found this useful
Really appreciate the INIs. Worked like a charm. Only trouble spot for me, where I got less than a silky 60 FPS was close to downtown looking
into it, or wandering through it, where it'd often drop me down to 25-30FPS, no matter what my settings were and with texture optimization
packs. With your configs I'm sitting at a comfy 50-55 with the occasional load stutter down to 40 or so while in downtown. Now I can
enjoy a large swath of the missions without being driven mad by wildly fluctuating framerates!
I had crazy stuttering problems from the first time I played the game. After getting some other mods and messing around with the ini I managed to fix all of it except in the Lexington/corvega area and the financial district/boston commons. I figured I could try your inis to see if it would work better. Now I got a solid 60fps EVERYWHERE no more stutter or nothing!
Thanks!
Finally city area is playable, never expect problems with vanilla settings with an AMD 390x card and 32gb ram but they are ^^ thx too u i can play smoothly now.
Excellent tweak man! My FPS in the city areas, like Boston Common, were ridiculous but now they are smooth and predictable (in a good way).
Wow... ty it helps me a lot, i play in ultra (60fps) but at urban areas it drops to 20 now with your help i can at urban with 48+
Well . You did very good job mate . thanks for this . Now game run much better . In urban i had 40 fps , now 55-60 .
I already get bored of this slutter s*** and want drop play this game until patches , creation kit and e.t.c .
But now at least i will play much longer

And others that found them extremely useful
Useless...


Later edit :
Other setting that will not hurt to try,you can easily restore or delete preset.



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•Fallout.ini

[General]
sLanguage=en
uGridsToLoad=5
uExterior Cell Buffer=36
bDisableAllGore=0
SIntroSequence=1
bAllowConsole=1
bBorderRegionsEnabled=0

[ScreenSplatter]
bBloodSplatterEnabled=1

[Display]
iPresentInterval=1
bDeferredCommands=1
fShadowLODMaxStartFade=1000.0
fSpecularLODMaxStartFade=2000.0
fLightLODMaxStartFade=3500.0
iShadowMapResolutionPrimary=2048
bAllowScreenshot=1
fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=3500.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=2000.0000
fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
bNvGodraysEnable=1
bDynamicObjectQueryManager=1
bMultiThreadedAccumulation=1
bMultiThreadedRenderingUNP=1

fSAORadius=108.2
fSAOBias=0.6
fSAOIntensity=7.1

fSunUpdateThreshold:Display=0.5f
fSunShadowUpdateTime=1.0
fDefaultWorldFOV=80
fDefault1stPersonFOV=90
bForceIgnoreSmoothness=1

[Actor]
fVisibleNavmeshMoveDist=12288.0000

[HairLighting]
fHairPrimSpecScale=0.02
fHairPrimSpecPow=125.0
fHairPrimSpecShift=0.36
fHairSecSpecScale=1.2
fHairSecSpecPow=160.0
fHairSecSpecShift=-0.40

[SSSSS]
fSSSSSPower = 4.0

[Audio]
bEnableAudio=1

[Interface]
fDefaultWorldFOV=80
fDefault1stPersonFOV=90
fSafeZoneX=15.0
fSafeZoneY=15.0
fSafeZoneXWide=64.0
fSafeZoneYWid=36.0
fSafeZoneXWide16x10=64.0
fSafeZoneYWide16x10=36.0

[MapMenu]
uLockedObjectMapLOD=16
uLockedTerrainLOD=32

[Controls]
fMouseHeadingXScale=.021
fMouseHeadingYScale=.021
bMouseAcceleration=0

[Grass]
iMinGrassSize=20
bAllowCreateGrass=1

[ImageSpace]
bDoRadialBlur=1

[Weather]
bPrecipitation=1

[Archive]
sResourceIndexFileList=Fallout4 - Textures1.ba2, Fallout4 - Textures2.ba2, Fallout4 - Textures3.ba2, Fallout4 - Textures4.ba2, Fallout4 - Textures5.ba2, Fallout4 - Textures6.ba2, Fallout4 - Textures7.ba2, Fallout4 - Textures8.ba2, Fallout4 - Textures9.ba2
sResourceStartUpArchiveList=Fallout4 - Startup.ba2, Fallout4 - Shaders.ba2, Fallout4 - Interface.ba2
SResourceArchiveList=Fallout4 - Voices.ba2, Fallout4 - Meshes.ba2, Fallout4 - MeshesExtra.ba2, Fallout4 - Misc.ba2, Fallout4 - Sounds.ba2, Fallout4 - Materials.ba2
SResourceArchiveList2=Fallout4 - Animations.ba2
sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, INTERFACE\, SOUND\, MUSIC\, VIDEO\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\
SGeometryPackageList=Fallout4 - Geometry.csg
SCellResourceIndexFileList=Fallout4.cdx
SResourceArchiveMemoryCacheList= Fallout4 - Misc.ba2, Fallout4 - Shaders.ba2, Fallout4 - Interface.ba2, Fallout4 - Materials.ba2

[Papyrus]
fPostLoadUpdateTimeMS=500.0
bEnableLogging=0
bEnableTrace=0
bLoadDebugInformation=0

[LOD]
fLODFadeOutMultObjects=4.5000
fLODFadeOutMultItems=2.5000

[Pathfinding]
fWarpMaxTime=4
iWarpMaxPathFailureCount=3
[Water]
bReflectLODObjects=0
bReflectLODLand=0
bReflectSky=0
bReflectLODTrees=0


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•Fallout4Prefs.ini

[Display]
flocalShadowMapHalveEveryXUnit=750.0000
focusShadowMapDoubleEveryXUnit=450.0000
fShadowBiasScale=1.0000
fDirShadowDistance=3000.0000
fShadowDistance=3000.0000
uiOrthoShadowFilter=2
uiShadowFilter=2
iShadowMapResolution=2048
uPipboyTargetHeight=700
uPipboyTargetWidth=876
iVolumetricLightingQuality=2
bVolumetricLightingEnable=1
bSAOEnable=1
iDirShadowSplits=3
bVolumetricLightingForceCasters=0
iTiledLightingMinLights=40
bComputeShaderDeferredTiledLighting=1
iMaxFocusShadowsDialogue=4
iMaxFocusShadows=1
bForceIgnoreSmoothness=0
fBlendSplitDirShadow=48.0000
bSinglePassDirShadow=1
bEnableWetnessMaterials=1
fTessFactorMaxDistanceScale=100.0000
sAntiAliasing=TAA
fLeafAnimDampenDistEnd=4600.0000
fLeafAnimDampenDistStart=3600.0000
fMeshLODFadePercentDefault=1.2000
fMeshLODFadeBoundDefault=256.0000
fMeshLODFadeScalar=1.1000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeTreeDistance=2048.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeTreeDistance=2844.0000
fInteriorMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=1950.0000
fInteriorMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=2600.0000
fMeshLODLevel2FadeDist=3000.0000
fMeshLODLevel1FadeDist=4000.0000
iMaxAnisotropy=16
iPresentInterval=1
bTopMostWindow=0
bMaximizeWindow=0
bBorderless=1
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1080
iSize W=1920
bAllowShadowcasterNPCLights=0
iScreenShotIndex=0
fMaxFocusShadowMapDistance=450.0000
bPrecipitationOcclusion=1
iMaxSkinDecalsPerFrame=3
iMaxDecalsPerFrame=10
[Imagespace]
bDoDepthOfField=1
bScreenSpaceBokeh=0
bMBEnable=1
bLensFlare=1
[Pipboy]
fPipboyEffectColorB=0.9705
fPipboyEffectColorG=1.0000
fPipboyEffectColorR=0.0050
[VATS]
fModMenuEffectHighlightPAColorB=0.4100
fModMenuEffectHighlightPAColorG=0.8200
fModMenuEffectHighlightPAColorR=1.0000
fModMenuEffectPAColorB=0.4100
fModMenuEffectPAColorG=0.8200
fModMenuEffectPAColorR=1.0000
fModMenuEffectHighlightColorB=0.9705
fModMenuEffectHighlightColorG=0.9705
fModMenuEffectHighlightColorR=0.0050
fModMenuEffectColorB=0.9705
fModMenuEffectColorG=0.9705
fModMenuEffectColorR=0.0050
[MAIN]
fSkyCellRefFadeDistance=150000.0000
bCrosshairEnabled=1
fHUDOpacity=1.0000
bSaveOnPause=1
bSaveOnTravel=1
bSaveOnWait=1
bSaveOnRest=1
[LightingShader]
bScreenSpaceSubsurfaceScattering=0
bScreenSpaceReflections=1
[General]
bGamepadEnable=1
bPipboyCompanionEnabled=0
iStoryManagerLoggingEvent=-1
bEnableStoryManagerLogging=0
uGridsToLoad=5
[Interface]
bDialogueSubtitles=0
bGeneralSubtitles=0
iHUDColorB=247
iHUDColorG=247
iHUDColorR=1
bDialogueCameraEnable=1
bShowCompass=1
[Controls]
fMouseHeadingSensitivity=0.0300
fGamepadHeadingSensitivity=0.6667
bAlwaysRunByDefault=1
bInvertYValues=0
bGamePadRumble=1
[GamePlay]
iDifficulty=5
bShowFloatingQuestMarkers=1
bShowQuestMarkers=1
[Particles]
iMaxDesired=750
[SaveGame]
fAutosaveEveryXMins=10.0000
[AudioMenu]
fAudioMasterVolume=1.0000
fVal7=1.0000
uID7=0
fVal6=1.0000
uID6=0
fVal5=1.0000
uID5=0
fVal4=0.6500
uID4=138006
fVal3=0.6500
uID3=1007612
fVal2=1.0000
uID2=94881
fVal1=0.6500
uID1=466532
fVal0=0.6500
uID0=554685
[Water]
bUseWaterDisplacements=1
bUseWaterRefractions=1
bUseWaterReflections=1
bUseWaterDepth=1
[TerrainManager]
fTreeLoadDistance=75000.0000
fBlockMaximumDistance=100000.0000
fBlockLevel2Distance=80000.0000
fBlockLevel1Distance=32000.0000
fBlockLevel0Distance=20000.0000
fSplitDistanceMult=1.1000
bShowLODInEditor=0
[Grass]
fGrassStartFadeDistance=2000.0000
fGrassMaxStartFadeDistance=7000.0000
fGrassMinStartFadeDistance=400.0000
[Decals]
uMaxDecals=100
[LOD]
fLODFadeOutMultSkyCell=1.0000
fLODFadeOutMultObjects=6.2500
fLODFadeOutMultItems=3.0000
fLODFadeOutMultActors=5.5000
[Launcher]
bEnableFileSelection=1


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•Fallout4Custom.ini

[Display]
iLocation X=0
iLocation Y=0
fDefaultWorldFOV=80
fDefault1stPersonFOV=90
iPresentInterval=1
[Controls]
fMouseHeadingYScale=.021
fMouseHeadingXScale=.021