Low FPS on Fallout New Vegas

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I have an r7260x 2GB and a FX-4300, but I can only run Fallout New Vegas at 20-30 fps with a couple of minor graphics mods. I have heard many people say the they can run powerful ENBs and never go below 50 fps. Is this a problem with my CPU, or something else? I am running Fallout on ultra btw. Thanks for the help, I am totally confused and don't know how to fix this on my own.
(If needed, I can post my mod list)
 
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Try disabling Electo- city, fellout, FNV Project reality and stutter remover. If that doesn't have an impact, you may need to back it down from ultra settings and then raise some of the graphics settings back up from high. Ie. having a long load distance for actors and items puts more strain on your ram than GPU, but taking your anti-aliasing or shadows down a notch may help to reduce the strain on your GPU.

Edit: The mod description for stutter remover says that it removes stutter by purposely decreasing FPS The stutter remover page as infor about how to counter act this, specifically by doing ini edits on the stutter remover ini file. Change the max FPS from 30 to 0
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Could be the CPU. I just started to play fallout 3 again and I got a FX-8320 @ 4.5Ghz, GTX 480 1.5G, Game installed on SSD, Settings set to ultra and everything maxed out and res is 1920x1200 and i don't have a single issue.

When playing the game maybe open up task manager and see what your CPU usage is? if its maxed out at 100% it could be your CPU. Upgrading to a 6 or 8 core may not fix it. Not sure how many cores the game can use. Do you have your 4300 over clocked at all?

What are your other specs?
 
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No, I don't have any problems with other games. I can run cs:go on max settings with 60 fps all the time, same with Chivalry Medieval Warfare.

EDIT: I also have sharpshooters classic ENB for Skyrim and I never go below 40 fps.
 
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Install Skyrim Performance Monitor (it's on nexus mods) and set it up for New Vegas (instructions in the articles section of the nexus page). It will help you identify your bottleneck. That being said, your RAM could also be the source of the problem, especially if the fps reduction is specific to exteriors.

Edit: Oh and New Vegas only uses 2 cores unless you mess around with ini files, so having more cores in your cpu wouldn't matter in the slightest

Edit Edit: To more directly answer your most recent question about a vanilla game, it would help to know if the mods that you installed were loose files that replaced textures and meshes or not.
 
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Ok, peformance monitor is working, what should I be looking for? (btw, I had to use FalloutNV.exe instead of NVSE_loader.exe, which I usually use, for this to work. Hopefully that doesn't change anything.)

EDIT: GPU% goes from 0% to 100% rapidly, is this bad?
 
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Check the graph after a decent amount of normal play, and then see if GPU stays high on the readout. A spike in the GPU is not out of the ordinary, but staying that high means the GPU is the source of your struggles. The graph should show you what you need to know rather than the ingame display.

Edit: Read the graph, GPU is the problem for sure. As you can see whatever you did halfway through the sample got rid of your GPU spikes and increased your FPS.
 
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The ones that I know changed textures are the weapon retexture project, NMC texture pack, and wasteland flora overhaul. Only the weapon retexture project is enabled now.

I may have forgotten some, so here is a screenshot of the mod list:
https://imgur.com/DBMveMP

I also have a couple Project Nevada mods, but they are in FOMM.
 
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Try disabling Electo- city, fellout, FNV Project reality and stutter remover. If that doesn't have an impact, you may need to back it down from ultra settings and then raise some of the graphics settings back up from high. Ie. having a long load distance for actors and items puts more strain on your ram than GPU, but taking your anti-aliasing or shadows down a notch may help to reduce the strain on your GPU.

Edit: The mod description for stutter remover says that it removes stutter by purposely decreasing FPS The stutter remover page as infor about how to counter act this, specifically by doing ini edits on the stutter remover ini file. Change the max FPS from 30 to 0
 
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Try just disabling it for now, you should see some results. If not, editing the ini really isnt that difficult, I could walk you through it, but I don't think that the FPS should be limited when the mod is deactivated. Reading about a mod is always a good thing before you install it, but they did kind of bury the lead about the FPS drop on the mod description page, one would think it would be at the top of the page!
 
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