[SOLVED] Problem with Fallout New Vegas/Fallout 4... NEED HELP

[Guest]

So I started playing Fallout New Vegas on PC a few weeks ago, and everything was good. I was getting a constant 60 frames per second on Ultra graphics settings. The other day I load it up and I'm only getting around 30 frames per second, sometimes even in the low twenties. This is unacceptable for me and completely contradicts the reason I switched to PC gaming, which was mostly for better fps in games. I did a lot of research and to no avail I eventually chalked it up to New Vegas acting weird and having a crap engine or something. So I buy Fallout 4 on release day today and the same thing is happening. I'm barely getting over 30 frames per second. The weirdest part of all of this is that the frame rate stays the same no matter what graphics quality I have it set to. On New Vegas it was the same frame rate on low settings as it was on ultra, and now the same with Fallout 4. I have a GTX 970, Intel i5-4460 cpu and 8gb of RAM. I really want to fix this issue so I can enjoy playing Fallout on PC. Thanks for any feedback, I greatly appreciate it.

 

[photonboy]

1) First of all, Fallout 4 stutters like crazy without the ifpsclamp=60 fix added to the config INI (can Google for how).

I can play at 60FPS using a GTX680 so you should have no problems. The above method causes major stutter issues if you drop below 60FPS though, but again for you not an issue.

(and stutterfix mod does not help, or at least not much. I spent an insane amount of time fixing Fallout NV and Fallout 3 stutter... F3 does need the dual-core fix though as it crashes with quad-core or above)

2) Fallout 4:
Not sure as it's so new, though I'd first try forcing VSYNC OFF in the NVidia Control Panel (you can't disable in-game). See what happens.

"Manage 3D Settings" -> "Add game"-> VSYNC OFF-> save

(If that works, try Adaptive VSYNC which will auto disable/enable VSYNC depending on if you can output 60FPS or not... I use it for several games as dropping below the target with VSYNC ON causes stuttering so screen tearing is preferably for those short times)

3) Other games fine?

4) Other: reinstall NVidia drivers but choose the "custom->clean" path

Not sure if the custom/clean method wipes out custom settings like what I suggested above or not.

5) Other:
Monitor GPU frequency with MSI Afterburner or whatever while in-game. If it's not dropping below BASE (probably 1200MHz or whatever) then I don't think it's your GTX970 hardware.

Summary:
Just a bunch of things to try... don't have an immediate definite solution.

 

[Guest]

I solved it!!! In A-tuning it was set to standard mode instead of performance somehow. I'm getting amazing performance now