Hello from July 2022! I found this again after trying to find something to help a streamer with his tearing issues in games. Im glad to see so many people got help from this. Glad to spread the knowledge. Lets hope we dont have to do this in StarField :)
Feel free to point out any issues in wording or less clear parts. My goal is to clean up the pdf copy a bit and fill in any holes. This won't provide a great impact for everyone, but thanks for reading, If this really does nothing for you, no prob, hopefully at least spreading what frametime will make everyone just a bit more aware and might help in the future.
Remember: If you do find a benefit from this, make sure you open MSI AFB before starting the game each time, or set it to auto start. It can't do anything if it does not run :)
Update: I am going to look at more optimization for non gsync or free sync monitors. The guide subconsciously. Was best for those because that's what I've had for a while. I'm going to use my other monitor to make an alternate path for those without, such as seeing if vsync.on or off, and 60 fps cap vs the 58 cap. Stand by
You can do this too using Nvidia control panel which comes preinstalled if you have an Nvidia gpu.
Go to: >Manage 3d settings >click the "program settings" tab >hit "add" >select fallout 4 >scroll to max frame rate and you can set it to whatever you want (though I hear 60 works the best) >hit apply and you are done
This worked well for me but I'm not sure if it will cause issues on lower-end systems, I would recommend testing it to see. I found that it seemed to fix a bug where I would be locked in a terminal unable to exit or interact with anything.
Edit: after some more testing I've found this to have many lag spikes and is unstable. Use if you'd like, but it may not work very well. This tutorial may prove to be more help.
It's 2021 now and this mod still guide people to get smooth framerate. Very helpful for 3d dizzness. I turn the "Scanline sync " to 930 for 1080p by the way.
heya, i was thinking about trying this out.. iám using F4se to start up fallout tho.. does that work together and if so do i add the original fallout.exe or the f4se one ? iám also using vanilla enb and ive set my fps to 60 in the enblocal ini file that comes with that... should i turn that off completely or adjust it to w/e i set it to in afterburner / riva tuner ?
ty for sharing this hopefully it help with the fps and microstutter downtown boston
A bug with the newest Radeon settings app made it so the integrated Frame rate limiter stop working with Fallout 4. and Radeon chill caused really bad frame times(probably because of how poorly optimized Gamebryo is). This seems to have fixed it, the frame rate counter on the corner of the screen maxes out around 67, and doesn't dip as badly as it did with chill. This seems to have fixed it for me, so thanks a ton
My lord this was a great help, recently installed an ENB which would take my FPS down to 25 inside my settlements ((this is because I build massive settlements but besides the point)) I now get stable 60 in any environment and I was able to keep my ENB, thank you so much!
Works indeed. Using a 1080, with nvidia framerate cap at 60hz i have small random jitter around 16.6ms +-2ms. Using rivatuner fps limit, there is no jitter at all. It does not cure the 100ms spikes that happen when fo4 loads things, but that would be magic anyway. Thanks for the guide.
Until then, I will never have to lock my FPS to avoid quest breaking and dialog desync in a game. Bethesda should really try to learn how to make their games better, like any other, without any quests/dialogs breaking whitout VSync.
I've already tried some days ago to lock my FPS with Rivatuner, but never ever works.
By default, the game locks my FPS at 72/73, and I experienced stuttering, even if the maximum FPS is there. Really boring.
At this state, two choices for me :
- Unlock FPS and get desync/quest breaks but good performances gameplay - Lock FPS and never get desync/quest breaks but with unexplained FPS drop.
Just decided to take a look at your explanations, and don't know why, but after download MSI Afterburner and updated to the latest Rivatuner, I'm surprised to see that I can lock to 58 FPS like you mentioned.
MSI Afterburner seems useless because Rivatuner makes all the work and the FPS limiter works even without MSI Afterburner launched.
So, now, I launch only Rivatuner, check that my settings still there, reduce it to system tray and can play Fallout 4 with really less noticeable stuttering.
Actually, just tested inside the house at game start in Commonwealth, but I will give a longer try soon.
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I found this again after trying to find something to help a streamer with his tearing issues in games. Im glad to see so many people got help from this. Glad to spread the knowledge. Lets hope we dont have to do this in StarField :)
Feel free to point out any issues in wording or less clear parts. My goal is to clean up the pdf copy a bit and fill in any holes. This won't provide a great impact for everyone, but thanks for reading, If this really does nothing for you, no prob, hopefully at least spreading what frametime will make everyone just a bit more aware and might help in the future.
Remember: If you do find a benefit from this, make sure you open MSI AFB before starting the game each time, or set it to auto start. It can't do anything if it does not run :)
Update: I am going to look at more optimization for non gsync or free sync monitors. The guide subconsciously. Was best for those because that's what I've had for a while. I'm going to use my other monitor to make an alternate path for those without, such as seeing if vsync.on or off, and 60 fps cap vs the 58 cap. Stand by
You can do this too using Nvidia control panel which comes preinstalled if you have an Nvidia gpu.
Edit: after some more testing I've found this to have many lag spikes and is unstable. Use if you'd like, but it may not work very well. This tutorial may prove to be more help.Go to:
>Manage 3d settings
>click the "program settings" tab
>hit "add"
>select fallout 4
>scroll to max frame rate and you can set it to whatever you want (though I hear 60 works the best)
>hit apply and you are done
This worked well for me but I'm not sure if it will cause issues on lower-end systems, I would recommend testing it to see. I found that it seemed to fix a bug where I would be locked in a terminal unable to exit or interact with anything.
It goes to my collection.
iám also using vanilla enb and ive set my fps to 60 in the enblocal ini file that comes with that... should i turn that off completely or adjust it to w/e i set it to in afterburner / riva tuner ?
ty for sharing this hopefully it help with the fps and microstutter downtown boston
Cheers
I have a GTX1070 and an AOC screen at 144hz.
Until then, I will never have to lock my FPS to avoid quest breaking and dialog desync in a game. Bethesda should really try to learn how to make their games better, like any other, without any quests/dialogs breaking whitout VSync.
I've already tried some days ago to lock my FPS with Rivatuner, but never ever works.
By default, the game locks my FPS at 72/73, and I experienced stuttering, even if the maximum FPS is there. Really boring.
At this state, two choices for me :
- Unlock FPS and get desync/quest breaks but good performances gameplay
- Lock FPS and never get desync/quest breaks but with unexplained FPS drop.
Just decided to take a look at your explanations, and don't know why, but after download MSI Afterburner and updated to the latest Rivatuner, I'm surprised to see that I can lock to 58 FPS like you mentioned.
MSI Afterburner seems useless because Rivatuner makes all the work and the FPS limiter works even without MSI Afterburner launched.
So, now, I launch only Rivatuner, check that my settings still there, reduce it to system tray and can play Fallout 4 with really less noticeable stuttering.
Actually, just tested inside the house at game start in Commonwealth, but I will give a longer try soon.