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That's it guys! After making the changes described above, my game experience has been infinitely better. It is well known that the Bethesda games act weird if you go much over 60 FPS, so I recommend using a 3rd party tool or the NVIDIA/AMD Control Panel to enable VSYNC or turn on a frame limiter. The Commonwealth is now a lust tropical land with pine trees all around. Textures have been upscaled to 4k mostly with a blend of 2k. If they do not exist, create them under the appropriate section. An ULTIMATE overhaul of FALLOUT 4 which makes the game balanced for a good shooter experience and also a peaceful settlement building world. If they already exist, change them to the values below. Search for the following settings in the Fallout4Prefs.ini file located in Documents/My Games/Fallout4. However, if you get frequent frame dips, I advise leaving this one out altogether as it can cause weird issues. It can be GREAT if your rig is powerful enough to maintain 60 FPS at virtually all times. **fMouseHeadingYScale changes based on the aspect ratio of your monitor. *iNumHWThreads is the number of threads your CPU uses IF A SETTING HAS AN ASTERISK, IT MAY REQUIRE A VALUE ADJUSTMENT BASED ON YOUR HARDWARE. If they do not exist, create them under the appropriate section. Search for the following settings in the Fallout4.ini file located in Documents/My Games/Fallout4. TLDR: set Godrays to Low and Shadow Distance to Medium You will notice a slight difference in image quality as far as shadows go, but it was well worth the ~15 frames I reclaimed. I highly recommend turning these down to Medium and Low respectively. The two settings I have bolded, Shadow Distance and Godrays Quality, are absolute FPS killers for most machines. For instance, I don't like lens flare so I disabled it. They may or may not be the best possible settings for your rig and are subject to taste. I'm providing all of these only as a reference. I'm now perfectly satisfied with my performance, keeping a stable 60 FPS everywhere except Lexington and Diamond City, where I hit lows of about 55 FPS.

Several things immediately jumped out to me as feeling off (mouse movement, character movement, framerate, etc.) so this post chronicles every tweak I made before finally reaching the point I'm at now. The first thing I did was turn God Rays to low, as I had read about it's large performance hit.

When I first launched the game, the launcher set me to the High preset.

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