in fallout4custom.ini under [General] iTextureUpgradeDistance1=0 iTextureUpgradeDistance0=1200 iTextureDegradeDistance1=0 iTextureDegradeDistance0=1600 fTextureUpgradeDisabledMinSpeed=6000.0000 fUpdateTextureTime=0.1
in fallout4prefs.ini under [Display]
iTexMipMapSkip=-1
using these values will disable the "inbetween" textures when switching from lod to ultra (the "1" texture)
This also increases the "0" texture to around the default lower res textures.
upgrade disabled min speed seems to control disabling streaming while sprinting around
^This, along with: iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500 iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000 iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500 iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
has COMPLETELY fixed the problem. My jaw dropped the first save i loaded, it seriously makes the game not only playable, but BEAUTIFUL; textures looking like they're supposed to. Thank you sooo much @hellstorm102, I can finally play Fallout 4!!!! I spent at least 6 hours trying to find a fix!!
My rig: AMD Phenom II x6 1100t @ 4.2GHz, 8 GB DDR3 @ 1766MHz 9-9-9-14 timings, AMD Radeon R9 390x @ 1150MHz core clock & 1700MHz Memory Clock, Game installed on decent quality 60GB SSD drive. I have not noticed any performance changes from this tweak! I get an average of 30-40 fps @ 1900 x 1200 Ultra with Reshade and some other graphical ini tweaks and texture mods.
thanks for the info.i tried this and can confirm it works like a charm. been using the bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0 iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500 iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000 iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500 iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
and the game look beautiful now at no performance change so far.thanks again man!!
Dude, i can't thank you enough.. you did what those damn bethesda guys should have done from the start... found a fix for one of the game's worst graphical issues.
I was highly disappointed with the game and with bethesda after seeing how unpolished the game is, taking into consideration how addicted i was to both F3 and FNV.
Tried with these settings and noticed the improvement immediately! Load times seem unaffected, but textures are much nicer now. Sometimes when transitioning into an outdoors area from inside a building (for example) the textures would be muddy still, but fast travel always results in proper textures on arrival. Overall a huge improvement to my play experience, thank you so much!
I have 8gb ram and 8gb vram, I can confirm 8192 fixed most texture issues. there are still some bad ones but they are minute. So I'm assuming the correct number is exactly half of your ram+vram as any other number I had put it would only load low res textures.
I've tried nearly every combination of the upgrade and degrade distances, tried with and without mixmapskip change to -1, tried with and without UpgradeDisabledMinSpeed = 6000 and UpdateTextureTime = 0.1, tried with and without bForceUpdate = 0; all of these things. Even tried using ENBoost alone and together with these tweaks, as well as the tweaks alone. My game vanilla would demonstrate significant pop in. With tweaking all the changes mentioned above for several days, the pop in stopped in some cases, but several textures go unloaded all together. The texture quality in it's current state makes my game nearly unplayable because I'm so aware of the problem now. I have an Alienware with an Nvidia GTX770, about 5 years old but still running smoothly with load heavy games like Witcher 3 and Total War. What am I doing wrong? I've been trying for over a week. Can someone with a similar system post their exact modifications to the ini file, perhaps even the whole thing so I can look for inconsistencies. The textures are driving me up a wall and I'm so ready to play the game at it's full graphical potential.
Are you sure the values from the second sticky post need to go in the fallout4.ini? i found exactly these lines with different values in the fallout4custom.ini, so that confuses me.
Just need a clarification do I do what the Pin comment says or what the page says, or both? (main page says shove it in Fallout 4 ini, pin comment says the fallout 4 custom ini)
I've never seen a "FATAL ERROR" until I started using this. Now I can count on Fatal Error message CTDs around every corner, in every workbench, all the time periodically throughout my game. Ceasing to use these edits guarantees my game stability but also the textures get stuck as blurry a lot. I can only assume these edits are incompatible with Buffout 4 or some other fixes mod, tho I highly doubt I will ever know anything for sure or anyone will ever be able to make me understands this whack issue.
and delete the "bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0 " line and now it is not tying up after area loads at all. I am once again CTD free with a load order that should prolly not be. lol And am super happy with the texture load. I really really don't understand this stuff or why that worked for me tho.
Omg and I should have mentioned the numbers I was previously using in my first comment lollll sorry, and thanks for the response! Appreciate uuu! bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0 iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500 iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000 iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500 iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
is the fTextureUpgradeDisabledMinSpeed, fUpdateTextureTime, and iTexMipMapSkip supposed to be in the inis by default? because I dont see these in mine 🤔
Commenting on your reply since it's presumably the most up-to-date post, plus you did this recently so you'll probably remember what you did. I'm gonna add the lines anyway and see what happens though
Edit: There is less blurry texture issues than usual with no noticeable loss in peformance :) In heavier areas sure it stops for a moment, but it's not like a constant stutter. I read that changing the update time to 1.0 is probably better
I've never seen a "FATAL ERROR" until I started using this. Now I can count on Fatal Error message CTDs around every corner, in every workbench, all the time periodically throughout my game. Ceasing to use these edits guarantees my game stability but also the textures get stuck as blurry a lot. I can only assume these edits are incompatible with Buffout 4 or some other fixes mod, tho I highly doubt I will ever know anything for sure or anyone will ever be able to make me understands this whack issue.
Glad it's working I didn't get notified of your reply!
is the fTextureUpgradeDisabledMinSpeed, fUpdateTextureTime, and iTexMipMapSkip supposed to be in the inis by default? because I dont see these in mine 🤔
Commenting on your reply since it's presumably the most up-to-date post, plus you did this recently so you'll probably remember what you did. I'm gonna add the lines anyway and see what happens though
Edit: There is less blurry texture issues than usual with no noticeable loss in peformance :) In heavier areas sure it stops for a moment, but it's not like a constant stutter. I read that changing the update time to 1.0 is probably better
I had to completely remove the ITexMipmapSkip=-1 and keep the rest for it to work, but it works, and you just made my day.. I have been searching for a fix for more than a week now..
Sorry but ive tried all these dumb fixes and the only thing that fixes it, is save exit to main menu after you entered a new cell (loading screen). Then just load the game again.
That is a separate issue related to precombines. This mod changes low res pop in distance. If I am confused and you really are referring to this then go and try adjusting your ForceVideoMemorySize in your enb config. There are many topics about this if you google "fallout 4 ENB ForceVideoMemorySize low res texture issue." Also there is some discussion below in the comments here.
These ini parameters have been the only thing that works for me so far but they killed my load times and FPS.
I never used to have this problem, but it cropped up about a year or so ago. I have tried everything listed here, and other tricks, and the only changes are that the game seems to crash more often. I hate Fallout 4. The writing is terrible, the plot is forgettable, the characters are two-dimensional, the actual engine and mechanics are garbage... The only reason I even played it was because of the great modding community. Textures are stuck at ultra-low resolution (distant mipmaps), unless I reload a save, at which point everything is perfect, as it should be. For a minute or two. Character's bodies sometimes vanish, leaving floating heads with hands and feet. I've tried lowering the detail level and using optimized textures, and it doesn't help at all. I used to be able to run at Ultra settings, everything maxed, at a steady 60+ fps, at 1440p. Now I get 25fps or lower. I have never had similar problems with any other games. I've tried running without my enb and running with enboost. and it makes no difference. Did I mention I hate Fallout 4? But I love the mods! I even did a fresh install, no mods, and it still happens. I must be cursed. I can run Cyberpunk 2077 at a steady 144fps at high settings, without any glitches or stuttering, but I can't get a 6 year old game to render at a decent resolution. It was stable, at least, up until I tried to use some of the suggested optimizations, which shouldn't have had much, or any, impact on stability. I'm not saying the solutions posted here don't work. I'm sure they do. Just not for me. I'm sorry, I just had to vent. 120721 Okay. I made a very stupid mistake in configuring things. It is getting better, but still a lot of lower resolution stuff. Bodies are now sometimes reappearing without having to reload. I hate Fallout 4. 120821 I gave up and switched over to Vulkan. All the textures load perfectly, and the vanishing effect is limited to female characters, which is a CBBE issue I'm familiar with. Before that, I tried to disable ForceVideoMemorySize in the enb config, and it had some effect, but didn't fix it. Now all my textures are glorious and the game runs much better than before. I might try to get the enb working with Vulkan, but it already looks so good that I don't really care. I just wish my character's body and clothing/armor wouldn't vanish. It doesn't happen to other female characters, unless (rarely) they're dead.
To all who suffer blurry textures. If you are using ENB then disable ForceVideoMemorySize from true to false and problem solved. Thing is I have 16gb ram and 1070 that has 8gb vram, my setting for enb was set to 11000 but for w/e reason it's bugged out. Dropping setting to 7500 solved issue, don't know how or why this is happening but you won't encounter blurry textures anymore.
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iTextureUpgradeDistance1=0
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=1200
iTextureDegradeDistance1=0
iTextureDegradeDistance0=1600
fTextureUpgradeDisabledMinSpeed=6000.0000
fUpdateTextureTime=0.1
in fallout4prefs.ini
under [Display]
iTexMipMapSkip=-1
using these values will disable the "inbetween" textures when switching from lod to ultra (the "1" texture)
This also increases the "0" texture to around the default lower res textures.
upgrade disabled min speed seems to control disabling streaming while sprinting around
try increasing the values to suit your system
im using 5000 and 6000
EDIT!! Happening again on 1.9 and the hd texture pack EDIT!!!!
found the setting for displacement maps, i was still getting textures popping on brick walls
add this to fallout.ini under general
bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0
the default is 1
EDIT:
I have also been using the values :
bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000
iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500
iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
and i havent seen any pop in, and performance is better in dense areas.
EDIT: ive seen pop in with small objects, at random. a single fride, a trash can, and a sign.
only those 3 objects in a long run to the coastline.
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000
iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500
iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
has COMPLETELY fixed the problem. My jaw dropped the first save i loaded, it seriously makes the game not only playable, but BEAUTIFUL; textures looking like they're supposed to. Thank you sooo much @hellstorm102, I can finally play Fallout 4!!!! I spent at least 6 hours trying to find a fix!!
My rig: AMD Phenom II x6 1100t @ 4.2GHz, 8 GB DDR3 @ 1766MHz 9-9-9-14 timings, AMD Radeon R9 390x @ 1150MHz core clock & 1700MHz Memory Clock, Game installed on decent quality 60GB SSD drive. I have not noticed any performance changes from this tweak!
I get an average of 30-40 fps @ 1900 x 1200 Ultra with Reshade and some other graphical ini tweaks and texture mods.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000
iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500
iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
and the game look beautiful now at no performance change so far.thanks again man!!
I could tell you what my game has went through to try and fix this problem, but it would take all day.
No more texture pop ins, i was expecting some impact on performance, but nothing out of the ordinary so far.
Thank you.
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000
iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500
iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
Fix the textures but make me crash ... =/ Should i set a other Value ? My graphic card is a gtx 650 ti
I was highly disappointed with the game and with bethesda after seeing how unpolished the game is, taking into consideration how addicted i was to both F3 and FNV.
Me and my GTX980 THANK YOU!!!!
you should try halving the values. see if that works?
how much ram do you have? Vram and physical?
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You sir are a god send.
do I do what the Pin comment says or what the page says, or both?
(main page says shove it in Fallout 4 ini, pin comment says the fallout 4 custom ini)
bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=0
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000
iTextureDegradeDistance1=0
iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
fTextureUpgradeDisabledMinSpeed=6000.0000
fUpdateTextureTime=0.1
and delete the "bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0 " line and now it is not tying up after area loads at all. I am once again CTD free with a load order that should prolly not be. lol And am super happy with the texture load. I really really don't understand this stuff or why that worked for me tho.
Specs:
RAM: 32GBs 5200 MHz CL48
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
SSD
bForceUpdateDiffuseOnly=0
iTextureUpgradeDistance1=7500
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=5000
iTextureDegradeDistance1=7500
iTextureDegradeDistance0=5000
Commenting on your reply since it's presumably the most up-to-date post, plus you did this recently so you'll probably remember what you did.
I'm gonna add the lines anyway and see what happens though
Edit: There is less blurry texture issues than usual with no noticeable loss in peformance :)
In heavier areas sure it stops for a moment, but it's not like a constant stutter. I read that changing the update time to 1.0 is probably better
Glad it's working I didn't get notified of your reply!
No. Glad it helped you too!
I have been searching for a fix for more than a week now..
My rig has a Ryzen 5 5600x, 1TB SSD, 32GB DDR4 and a RTX 3070
These ini parameters have been the only thing that works for me so far but they killed my load times and FPS.
Textures are stuck at ultra-low resolution (distant mipmaps), unless I reload a save, at which point everything is perfect, as it should be. For a minute or two. Character's bodies sometimes vanish, leaving floating heads with hands and feet. I've tried lowering the detail level and using optimized textures, and it doesn't help at all. I used to be able to run at Ultra settings, everything maxed, at a steady 60+ fps, at 1440p. Now I get 25fps or lower. I have never had similar problems with any other games. I've tried running without my enb and running with enboost. and it makes no difference. Did I mention I hate Fallout 4? But I love the mods!
I even did a fresh install, no mods, and it still happens. I must be cursed. I can run Cyberpunk 2077 at a steady 144fps at high settings, without any glitches or stuttering, but I can't get a 6 year old game to render at a decent resolution. It was stable, at least, up until I tried to use some of the suggested optimizations, which shouldn't have had much, or any, impact on stability. I'm not saying the solutions posted here don't work. I'm sure they do. Just not for me. I'm sorry, I just had to vent.
120721
Okay. I made a very stupid mistake in configuring things. It is getting better, but still a lot of lower resolution stuff. Bodies are now sometimes reappearing without having to reload. I hate Fallout 4.
120821
I gave up and switched over to Vulkan. All the textures load perfectly, and the vanishing effect is limited to female characters, which is a CBBE issue I'm familiar with. Before that, I tried to disable ForceVideoMemorySize in the enb config, and it had some effect, but didn't fix it. Now all my textures are glorious and the game runs much better than before. I might try to get the enb working with Vulkan, but it already looks so good that I don't really care. I just wish my character's body and clothing/armor wouldn't vanish. It doesn't happen to other female characters, unless (rarely) they're dead.