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How to Improve Fallout 76 Performance

By Lord Of Fapland

This Guide will Inform you on how you can get your "Fallout 76" running smooth. Not as bad as Fallout 4

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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14 Apr, 2020 @ 10:13am

31 Jul, 2021 @ 11:49am

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Guide Index

Overview

Starting Off

Your Documents Folder and You

Finishing Off

Comments

Starting Off

Some people might not have played a "Bethesda Fallout game" before hence the dumb discussion forums or overall Crappy PC Builds But this is How you can Fully Get those fully Smooth frames.

Your Documents Folder and You

Located in every Documents folder there is something called "My Games" or some version of that

That 'Fallout76Prefs.ini" File is your key to 60+ frames
Within Game Limitations

Now Inside that folder is a little thing called AntiAliassing

From here you can follow basically any Fallout 4 Optimization Guide on the Community Hub for anything you want to, Maybe make it run well on that gaming laptop you might have. All you Really Need to do is Change "SMAA" or "TAA" or any Setting that might be in there to "0" "ZERO" you may now see Weird "Artifacting" on Grass or Shadows in the game but it's better than having 30 frames on whatever setup you're running.

Now If you're Wondering what VSYNC Does or "Where the Hell is it Located" There really isn't a VSYNC Command in any of the "INI" Files so you'll have to either work with "AMD RADEON SOFTWARE" or anything that's "NVIDA Control Panel"

Finishing Off

Basically if you need anything changed and don't know how to change setting this Fallout 4 guide of Optimization Works Made By Gabi just as well.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=551069501

Might Be some Missing Strings or Lines in the INI Files but eventually you can work the performance that way Don't worry INI changes are client side and not cheating but might run into issues with Nuclear Winter Not really worth playing it

If you need Questions answered, ask in the Discussion Down below I'll try my best to help out!

"IPresentInterval = 0" Should Change/Disable VSYNC (Thank you Multiple People in the Comments)

That's all that's to it really.

51 Comments

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ubernetworkgeek 13 Jul, 2022 @ 9:56am

Thanks for the info bud!

NakedMoleRat 28 Jun, 2022 @ 5:56pm

YESSS

Beeps! 30 May, 2021 @ 5:27pm

Ahhhh....Le *sigh*!

Glori4n 20 Dec, 2020 @ 3:38pm

I guess you could call this a "guide", guiding you through other people's guides... *sigh*

smoker 21 Oct, 2020 @ 1:01pm

good guide thx, wonderin why 3 star rate.

Lord Of Fapland [author] 9 May, 2020 @ 3:37pm

These have mostly been around since the beta in October 2018 so the info is sort of dated not really stealing more of just re-using old info, Personally I added my own tips I've used to improve the performance overall for my specific build.

Osas 9 May, 2020 @ 2:08pm

There is a website who has been stealing a lot of Fallout76 guides from steam. i dont know if yours is on, but mine was. here is a link, just DONT DISABLE YOUR ADBLOCKER OR GET ONE i dont want this poeple to earn money thx. {LINK REMOVED}

Lord Of Fapland [author] 21 Apr, 2020 @ 4:24pm

Vsync was Implemented in fallout 76 a certain way that is it cannot really be removed without a external software because earlier in the fallout 76 release people were uncapping their framerate and basically had god mode because of the janky engine so Pretty sure VSYNC is hard capped with fallout 76.

Lord Of Fapland [author] 21 Apr, 2020 @ 4:22pm

I mean it's similar to Skyrim (Because of the Creation Engine) and if you Uncap the framerate to skyrim it gets all janky, Manual Vsync isn't Bad and gets the vsync job done.

Paragrimm™ 21 Apr, 2020 @ 3:58pm

Borderless forces VSync (2 Frames actually...) because of the parallel rendering with the desktop. Fullscreen would allow you to disable VSync and therefore get more FPS but it depends on your perception of tearing while playing lol. I can't play without VSync. I guess Fo76 forces VSync anyways (except there is something in the .ini files?!) but the fullscreen VSync is 1 Frame (Borderless -> 2 Frame) and this doubles the hardware demand (almost). But you can overwrite it with the AMD/Nvidia settings theoretically... but I don't know how the game engine reacts to this lol.

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