FO4 - Tips, Tricks and FYIs
 

Sick of textures not loading properly or when close?

Here:

C:\Users\{YourNameHere}\Documents\My Games\Fallout4

open fallout4.ini

go to general

add the lines (these are double the default values - and they seem to work well for me):

iTextureUpgradeDistance1=2400
iTextureUpgradeDistance0=1200
iTextureDegradeDistance1=3000
iTextureDegradeDistance0=1600

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I'm sure many of you already know this, but I just found out yesterday:
You can disable "dialogue camera" in the settings menu. Doh!

I hated the glitches associated with that awful camera.

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Also, I can highly recommend a 30% opacity UI/Pipboy white hud (100% RGB) - as it's much less intrusive and you can still easily read what you need to.

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I also found out that I could disable crosshairs in the same menu, and that helped my immersion even further!

That, along with the "immersive hud", makes the game a lot more… well… immersive to me.

What kind of video card do you have DArt?

The white pipboy also produces a nice white flashlight. Much better than the green.

I also went to a blue(ish) HUD which I like more than the default color.

Here is an article about a Fallout mod that shows full dialogue instead of the little blurbs. Gotta get this one if it isn't too buggy.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/fal…/1100-6432377/

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1235/?

Oh that mod looks awesome - seems like a must have for me. Much prefer that style.

@Dart - thanks for the INI tips as well.

MSI 980 TI gaming

not sure if my 770 would handle that or not then….

I think so, but it's pretty easy to just delete the lines if it can't :)

True. My problem is that once I get home, I just want to play. I've been forcing myself to take 5 minutes to look at the Nexus. There is almost always some mod I want to add. I'm running about 6 or 7 mods at the moment.

In case you don't already know, I forgot to mention that you can get a nice outdoors FPS boost by setting the Godray quality to "low".

Visually, I struggle to see the difference - but it did boost my performance nicely in areas with lots of trees and such.

Yeah, right after I turn off sounds in most games I drop the quality of all the video settings. I have a great rig but I don't care for all the clutter and junk that tends to come with the higher settings that are usually on by default.

If you want to exploit a duplication glitch to get max in all special stats, for example, there is this. Not that I used it, but infinite fusion cores would make life very easy.

Also apparently the gameplay is sped up by raising the fps limit. Maybe this explains how I get owned by a swarm of blood flies?