[SOLVED] Fallout 76 running sluggish

[mtracy1991]

Hello all,

I do not understand why I am running into such a choppy experience with Fallout 76. Pretty much the only game that I run and FPS is constantly flickering and causing issues for me.

CPU: FX-9590
GPU: XFX - Radeon R9 290X 4 GB Double Dissipation Video Card
PSU: EVGA 1000W 80+ Gold
RAM: G.Skill - Ares Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
MOBO: GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard

 

[Phazoner]

Try to lock the framerate to your monitor's refresh rate. Usually 60Hz so download Rivatuner and set FPS limit to 60FPS.

 

[LordVile]

Probably because your CPU is to put it nicely dated.

 

[Phazoner]

Probably because your CPU is to put it nicely dated.

No, in terms of performance with all cores, the 9590 is pretty much the same than a 8 threaded Ryzen 1400, it is more than enough.

 

[mtracy1991]

Try to lock the framerate to your monitor's refresh rate. Usually 60Hz so download Rivatuner and set FPS limit to 60FPS.

Unfamiliar with Rivatuner, is it the same as Guru3D?

 

[Phazoner]

Try to lock the framerate to your monitor's refresh rate. Usually 60Hz so download Rivatuner and set FPS limit to 60FPS.

Unfamiliar with Rivatuner, is it the same as Guru3D?

As far as I know Guru3D is a website and it hosts several softwares, which one of them is Rivatuner.

 

[mtracy1991]

Try to lock the framerate to your monitor's refresh rate. Usually 60Hz so download Rivatuner and set FPS limit to 60FPS.

Unfamiliar with Rivatuner, is it the same as Guru3D?

As far as I know Guru3D is a website and it hosts several softwares, which one of them is Rivatuner.

I'll try it out and get back to you.

 

[LordVile]

No it’s not. The 9590 is massively slower in terms of IPC and realistically is just a 4 Core part. In cinebench the 1400 is roughly 1.2x faster than the 9590 in single thread and in multi thread in real life workloads it actually works.

PS in F4 with a 980Ti a FX9590 only gets around 58FPS which ties it with a 6th gen i3. The FX line is build with a stupid architecture basically starving its cores by making them share resources with another.

 

[mtracy1991]

So in-game I get fluctuations of 60 then drops to 45, 30, then from 50 down to 5 depending on if enemies show up on the screen. Also, Fallout, unfortunately, is bugged tf out and uses the same engine as Fallout 4, just a bit pissed that this is choppy af. Once the new processor series comes out, I will be picking up a 3000 series for sure.

 

[LordVile]

Bethesda games they should really switch to unreal or ID Tech.

 

[mtracy1991]

Bethesda games they should really switch to unreal or ID Tech.

Who are you telling... aggravated. I just analyzed the minimum again, and my processor is the minimum requirement to 76. damn, well, thanks for the information!

 

[Phazoner]

LordVile, please, stop spreading misleading information in every post. Even a 1.2x difference not being a big deal, it would be just a single scenario. In most of the cases the FX is better but anyways one CPU is better in some cases and the anogher in others, but always the difference is just little.

https://youtu.be/IWAqogJjXTk

 

[mtracy1991]

LordVile, please, stop spreading misleading information in every post. Even a 1.2x difference not being a big deal, it would be just a single scenario. In most of the cases the FX is better but anyways one CPU is better in some cases and the anogher in others, but always the difference is just little.

https://youtu.be/IWAqogJjXTk

So any idea on what I should do? I am getting 50-60 fps then sudden dips into the teens to single digit fps.

 

[mtracy1991]

So looking at the Afterburner while running 76, I see my GPU hitting max 100% of usage. Trying to overclock it via afterburner to see if there is a performance difference.

 

[Phazoner]

Framerate dips aren't caused by lack of power, if the computer isn't powerful enough the framerate will become slower for a while, when there's stress on screen. But the dips can be caused by world loading (try to defrag your hard drive), just a bad engine for streaming elements (which is likely in Bethesda's games) or GPU or CPU overheating. Check your temps and not only the usage.

 

[LordVile]

On weaker CPUs dips are common