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/?

Originally Posted by crpgnut
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.

Originally Posted by crpgnut
What kind of video card do you have DArt?

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?