Fallout 4: Can I Run It

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Windows 10
Intel i7 5930/32gb ddr4
All ssd drives
2 980ti kingpins

Resolution: 3840x2160
Fps seems capped at 60 because it never rises above this and pretty much rides there all game with very seldom occasional dip.
 
System Specifications
Operating System:Windows 7 64-bit
Processor and Speed:I7-4790k /@ 4.6GHz
RAM and Speed:8GB DDR3@ 1600Mhz 8-8-8-24
Graphics Card:Asus GTX 980 Strix@ 1400MHz boost

Can I play the game - Yes/No:Yes
What Resolution am I set at:1920x1080@ 120Hz
What are my avg FPS:90-120PFS

Ultra Settings
V-sync is turned off through Nvidia Control Panel
Frame rate is limited to max available refresh (120Hz)

CPU is utilizing from 4 to 8 threads depending on location. Diamond City sees 8 threads, wasteland will see 4-8. GPU is bottle necked at all times. Frame time is steady with v-sync turned off, quite a few hiccups with v-sync on even at steady 60FPS, although MSI afterburner reports smooth frame time. Installed on Corsair Force 250GB SSD, load times after quick travel are approximately 5-6 seconds.

In my estimation this setup has performed above expectations, subjectively the 120Hz monitor's high refresh rates proved to be the killer app me. Graphical fidelity typically takes a back seat to extremely low frame time/ smooth frame delivery. Although in this game I didn't need to sacrifice one for the other.
 
System Specifications
OS - Windows 10 64bit
CPU -i5 3470 @3.2Ghz
RAM - 2x4 @1600Mhz
GPU - Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 2GB @1050/1200Mhz

Can i play the game - Yes/No: Yes
Resolution - 1080p @ 60hz
FPS - stable 30 fps,rarely drops to 25
Settings - Ultra with FXAA

Definetely playable,but i would say that the HD 7850 is definetely the bare minimum for an enjoyable gameplay.No other issues whatsoever.
 
UPDATE

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
Processor and Speed: i5 4460 3.20GHz
RAM and Speed: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600Mhz 2x4GB Dual
Graphics Card: MSI GTX 970 4GB

1920x1080: Frame rate = Ultra 45FPS in cities and 60fps in wasteland (Game needs patching then I will get 60fps in cities)
 
I've got 4gb but I'm managing to play the game well enough.

Specs:
i3 2120
4gb ram
gtx 970
256gb850 pro
Windows 10

YES it runs
1080p, ULTRA with God rays on low
I've done 1 benchmark walking from Lexington to vault 111, and I got a 69.5 fps average. Frame drops are pretty damn common though. Not so much inside, but in diamond city it varies from 70+ to just below 30. SSD might be what's making it playable with4gb ram.
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor and Speed: Phenom II x6 1100T @ 3.3GHz
RAM and Speed: 16gb (4x4GB) DDR3-1600
Graphics Card: R9 290X

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1920x1080 - Ultra
What are my avg FPS: 25-30 exteriors; >60 interiors (I left v-sync on so IDK how high it really will go)
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 10 Education 64bit
Processor and Speed: i7 6700k 4.0ghz("stock")
RAM and Speed: Corsair dominator (2x8gb) 16gb ddr4 3000mhz cl 15 ("stock for now")
Graphics Card: Gigabyte 980 Ti G1 ("stock")

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1920X1080 Max settings across the board.
What are my avg FPS: 60
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Specs aside, i've only ever run it with v-sync on and the only issues i've run into is the occasional crash when giving npc settlers better gear, raider leather specifically the occasionally dead stuff floating high above the ground.

That said yeah no fps drops at all. stable 60 all the way will re post with vsync off soon.
 
System Specifications 1
Operating System: W8.1 Pro x64
Processor and Speed: i7 3770K @4GHz
RAM and Speed: 16GB 1300MHz DDR3
Graphics Card: Radeon R9 390 8G

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1920x1080 Ultra, all the way
What are my avg FPS: 30-60, but need to fix my cooling as it overheats the GPU and cause the lower-range FPS from time to time. NO sudden dips, tho.
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 7
Processor and Speed: i7 4770k 4.3 ghz 1.18v
RAM and Speed: 8gb Corsair Dominator Platinum 2200mhz 9-11-10-27 1t
Graphics Card: GTX 960 core 1504 mhz memory 3856 mhz

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1080p - maxed out
What are my avg FPS: 58 FPS
 
System Specifications
Operating System: W10 x64
Processor and Speed: i7 4790k @4.8
RAM and Speed: Corsair Dominator Platinum 8Gb 2133
Graphics Card: Gtx 460 768mb

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I playing at: 1920x1080
What my avg FPS is: 30-50 (All settings to 'low')
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 8.1
Processor and Speed: i5-2500k @ 4.3 GHz
RAM and Speed: 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1600GHz
Graphics Card: GTX 770 Windforce 4GB Edition SLI

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1920x1080
What are my avg FPS: Playing on High, only drops below 60fps when lots of objects are flying around (probably a CPU bottleneck, not GPU. dips only to about 55ish). I plan on seeing what happens when I turn off the framerate cap since theoretically I can go higher.
 
System Specifications:

Operating System: Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Processor and Speed: AMD FX 9590, 4.90GHz @ 1.4125v on all 8 cores
RAM and Speed: 16GB DDR3 1866, 2x8 GB Dual Channel
Graphics Card: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970, custom BIOS Modded for 1202-1506 GPU core and 3805 RAM
Mother board: Asus Sabertooth 990FX Rev 2.0

Can I play the game: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1080p @ 60Hz (1920x1080), Fullscreen
What are my avg FPS: 60+

Additional noteworthy data:

Detail Level: Ultra with just Motion Blur turned off
FoV: Increased to 90 and 110. (* Wider FoV can impact performance slightly.)
Important video stutter FIX: Disabling controller support smoothed the video performance out a LOT.
Average CPU Load @ 1080p 60Hz: Fallout 4 seems well threaded and used all 8 CPU cores. Average Load varied from 50-75% per core.
Average GPU Load @ 1080p 60Hz: Boost states fluctuated from min to max normally, with max GPU load @ 1506 hitting the 58-59% mark
 
System Specifications

Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Processor and Speed: Phenom II X4 940 3Ghz
RAM and Speed: 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2
Graphics Card: AMD R9 270x

Can I play the game - Yes (so far at least)
What Resolution am I set at: [strike]1280x800[/strike] 1440x900
What are my avg FPS: [strike]50 (all over the place)[/strike] 35

Additional:

Yeah, exactly at the minimum requirements.

System analyzer at the beginning suggested I stay with Ultra settings at my full 1920x1200 resolution and sure enough:
60fps with dips to 40 or so. But then emerging from the vault and looking at distance, WHAM, down to 10-30 fps depending on where I looked.
Put some settings down to high and then the fps is 15-60, which still dips too low.
Dropped to low settings and 1280x800 and now the fps is 40 to the cap at 60.

Will have to fiddle with the settings a bit more to see what I can push up and what I can't.
Also have to see if I run into areas and action where even lowest settings can't push above 20fps.

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So after plenty of fiddling. Yes, it runs.
1440x900 with low anti-aliasing, no god-rays, bunch of settings on low and some on high.
Mayors office to diamond city view and some other similar vistas drop to about 25 fps,
while most inside locations stay at 40-60fps. Very playable.
 
System Specifications

Operating System: Windows 10
Processor and Speed: i5-4690k @ 4.5 Ghz
RAM and Speed: 16 GB DDR3
Graphics Card: ASUS GTX 970 STRIX 2-WAY SLI
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97x-SOC FORCE
SSD: 3x Samsung EVO 850

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1440p
What are my Graphics Settings?: ULTRA and using the Enhanced Wasteland ENB.
What are my avg FPS: 60 FPS + but occasionally dips when in very diverse areas.
If I set my resolution to 1080p, I have a constant 60 FPS with no dips in frames
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
Processor and Speed: i5 4460, 3.2 GHz
RAM and Speed: 1x8GB, 1600 MHz
Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Dual-X, 1010 MHz

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1080p
What are my avg FPS: 45FPS
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 7 Pro
Processor and Speed: i5-4200M, 2.50GHz
RAM and Speed: 1x4GB, 2996.1 MHz
Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics 4600

Can I play the game - Yes/No: I Don't Know
What Resolution am I set at: N/A
What are my avg FPS: N/A

Mod Edit - Not a discussion thread
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Processor and Speed: Intel Core i7 5500u 2.4 Ghz , turbo boost 3 Ghz
RAM and Speed:8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 840M 2gb DDR3

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes
What Resolution am I set at: 1366*768
What are my avg FPS: 35+

Set my textures to Ultra with 16x anisotropic filtering. Everything else is medium to low with options like godrays, rain occlusion fully off.
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 10 - 64-bit
Processor and Speed:AMD Athlon x2 3800+ @2
RAM and Speed: 4gb (4x1GB) DDR2
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

Can I play the game - Yes/No: No
What Resolution am I set at: n/a
What are my avg FPS: N/A
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 10 Home premium 64-bit
Processor and Speed: Intel i5-4690k 3.8 ghz ( Turbo sits at about 3.8 with stock cooler, Will overclock eventually with new cooler)
RAM and Speed: Corsair Vengeance 8 GB (4 GB x 2) 1600mhz
Graphics Card: GTX 970 4GB (OC 1300mhz)

Can I play the game - Yes/No: YES
What Resolution am I set at: 1440p (Ultra to High settings)
What are my avg FPS: 60 - 130 fps (Drops to around 45 in denser areas)
 
Operating System: Windows 10 Home premium 64-bit
Processor: i7-4790K (not overclocked so 4Ghz-4.4Ghz)
GPU: MSI GTX970 4G

Can i play the game: Yes/No: YES
What Resolution am I set at: 1920x1080 (ultra high settings)
What are my average FPS: N/A but after 45h of playing i have not recognized a single lag or something
 
Operating System: Windows 8.1
Processor and Speed: Core i7 4790K, 4.0GHz
RAM and Speed: 16Gb (4x4Gb) DDR3 1600
Graphics Card: 4Gb GTX 970

Can I play the game?: Yes
What Resolution am I set at?: 1920x1080, Ultra
What are my avg FPS?: 60 FPS (capped and stable)
 
Operating System: Windows 10
Processor and Speed: FX-6300 3.5GHZ stock
RAM and Speed: 16Gb (4x4Gb) DDR3 1600
Graphics Card: 4Gb R7 370 Asus Strix

Can I play the game?: Yes
What Resolution am I set at?: 1920x1080, High
What are my avg FPS?: 60 FPS with drops to 55. I haven't seen any lower than that.

Just to see I set it on Ultra and was getting 40-50 FPS pretty stable.
 
UPDATING DUE TO NEW PATCH (1.2.37.0.0)

Processor and Speed: i5 4460 3.2GHZ (boost 3.6GHZ)
RAM and Speed: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHZ 2x4GB Dual Channel 8GB kit
Graphics Card: MSI GTX 970 4GB
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate

What Resolution am I set at?: 1920x1080
Settings: Textures ultra, shadows and their distances medium, light shafts off, ambient occlusion off, depth of field disabled via .ini, antialiasing forced to x4 FXAA, all special effects disabled (the tick boxes), antistrophic filtering x8 (for now).

FPS:60 constant in wasteland and 60 in cities while in very certain areas around the tower I get 45fps. I get awful camera sluggishness if I do not play in windowed mode (borderless), this is the only way to fix that problems so far.

Notes: I have also been experiencing very rare and random drastic FPS drops that seem to be like memory leaks and can happen any where. It has only happen twice so far and i'm level 16, a game restart fixes the problem.


 
System Specifications
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Processor and Speed: Intel Celeron 1000M 1.80 GHz
RAM and Speed: 4 GB
Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics

Can I play the game - Yes/No: HELL NO!
What Resolution am I set at: Lowest possible, still can't play
What are my avg FPS: well, the main menu gets 25-30 fps 😛
 
System Specifications
Operating System: Win 10
Processor and Speed: Phenom II x4 3.6GHz
RAM and Speed: 8Gb 1600
Graphics Card: Radeon 7970

Can I play the game - Yes/No: Yes default ultra settings
What Resolution am I set at:2560x1440
What are my avg FPS:not checked but smooth gameplay occasionally brief noticeable drop in built up ares
Did have a 2Gb 6950 and frames would tank in built up areas on any settings and anything above low cut scenes would look weird.
 
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