Waves of huge FPS drops

[asafreememberyoucant]

Here's something I've never exerienced in Fallout 4 on my PC before.

 

The game always had 200+ mods installed, from smaller ones (weapons, idle animations, clothes etc) to huge expansions. But it ran perfectly with steady 60-50 fps. The only noticeable drops, to 20 fps at most, I've experienced were in a middle of Boston, which is not uncommon.

 

But recently the game started to have these waves of fps drops. Right after the loading it gives me perfect 60 fps, but every two-three minutes they drop to 15-10 fps, no matter the area I'm in. It might be in a middle of crowded Diamond City or inside of a small house with only me in it. Then after couple of minutes it raises back to normal, but then drops and raises again and so on.

 

You might agree it kinda ruins the whole experience, so I’d very much appreciate any advice.

 

Here’s my specs: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2800 MHz/15.6"/1920x1080/8Gb/1128Gb HDD+SSD/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/Windows 10 Home.

 

And my modlist:

 

 

 

LoadOrder_Fallout4_2020-01-20T21-14-55.txt

[Indarello]

1 hour ago, asafreememberyoucant said:

Here's something I've never exerienced in Fallout 4 on my PC before.

 

The game always had 200+ mods installed, from smaller ones (weapons, idle animations, clothes etc) to huge expansions. But it ran perfectly with steady 60-50 fps. The only noticeable drops, to 20 fps at most, I've experienced were in a middle of Boston, which is not uncommon.

 

But recently the game started to have these waves of fps drops. Right after the loading it gives me perfect 60 fps, but every two-three minutes they drop to 15-10 fps, no matter the area I'm in. It might be in a middle of crowded Diamond City or inside of a small house with only me in it. Then after couple of minutes it raises back to normal, but then drops and raises again and so on.

 

You might agree it kinda ruins the whole experience, so I’d very much appreciate any advice.

 

Here’s my specs: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2800 MHz/15.6"/1920x1080/8Gb/1128Gb HDD+SSD/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/Windows 10 Home.

 

And my modlist:

 

 

 

LoadOrder_Fallout4_2020-01-20T21-14-55.txt 6.03 kB · 1 download

Disable groups of mods untill you find what cause this problems, if you have enb try disable it first

[Invictusblade]

2 hours ago, asafreememberyoucant said:

Here's something I've never exerienced in Fallout 4 on my PC before.

 

The game always had 200+ mods installed, from smaller ones (weapons, idle animations, clothes etc) to huge expansions. But it ran perfectly with steady 60-50 fps. The only noticeable drops, to 20 fps at most, I've experienced were in a middle of Boston, which is not uncommon.

 

But recently the game started to have these waves of fps drops. Right after the loading it gives me perfect 60 fps, but every two-three minutes they drop to 15-10 fps, no matter the area I'm in. It might be in a middle of crowded Diamond City or inside of a small house with only me in it. Then after couple of minutes it raises back to normal, but then drops and raises again and so on.

 

You might agree it kinda ruins the whole experience, so I’d very much appreciate any advice.

 

Here’s my specs: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2800 MHz/15.6"/1920x1080/8Gb/1128Gb HDD+SSD/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/Windows 10 Home.

 

And my modlist:

 

 

 

LoadOrder_Fallout4_2020-01-20T21-14-55.txt 6.03 kB · 1 download

I had a brief look at your load order, and these would be the ones I would look at.

Scrap Everything - Ultimate Edition.esp

UltraExteriorLighting.esp=1

UltraInteriorLighting.esp=1
No More Mist.esp=1

 

also remove all of these except one

Live Dismemberment - Mental.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Mind-Blowing.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - POSTAL.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Brutal.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Insane-o.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Liebermode.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Regular.esp=1

 

nevertheless the advice from the person above is still completely valid so do that as well

[VonHelton]

14 hours ago, asafreememberyoucant said:

Here's something I've never exerienced in Fallout 4 on my PC before.

 

The game always had 200+ mods installed, from smaller ones (weapons, idle animations, clothes etc) to huge expansions. But it ran perfectly with steady 60-50 fps. The only noticeable drops, to 20 fps at most, I've experienced were in a middle of Boston, which is not uncommon.

 

But recently the game started to have these waves of fps drops. Right after the loading it gives me perfect 60 fps, but every two-three minutes they drop to 15-10 fps, no matter the area I'm in. It might be in a middle of crowded Diamond City or inside of a small house with only me in it. Then after couple of minutes it raises back to normal, but then drops and raises again and so on.

 

You might agree it kinda ruins the whole experience, so I’d very much appreciate any advice.

 

Here’s my specs: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2800 MHz/15.6"/1920x1080/8Gb/1128Gb HDD+SSD/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/Windows 10 Home.

 

And my modlist:

 

 

 

LoadOrder_Fallout4_2020-01-20T21-14-55.txt 6.03 kB · 3 downloads

At the time Skyrim & Fallout 4 were made, 1K bitmaps were the max. In fact, some bitmaps were even 512.

Therefore, adding alot of 2K & 4K bitmaps is going to affect your game play.

 

There are mods out there that will reduce the size of the bitmaps for you.

 

[asafreememberyoucant]

Oh, thanks for the advise. I'll look for them.

 

Also, disabling enb partially solved the issue (tho it's still here).

[VonHelton]

5 hours ago, asafreememberyoucant said:

Oh, thanks for the advise. I'll look for them.

 

Also, disabling enb partially solved the issue (tho it's still here).

Yea, ENB's are the worst for that. You pretty much have to have the latest greatest hardware to run them. I have a pair of 950's & an ENB slows me down to a crawl.

 

[D_ManXX2]

check your shadow distance this will also kill your fps

[asafreememberyoucant]

Well, seems like I solved the fps issue, at least partially. Boston and Lexington still give me shit, but that's nothing new. Overall I came back to normal 50-60 fps. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

 

I can't tell what caused it particularly, but I followed your advices and:

 

On 1/20/2020 at 11:53 PM, Invictaxe said:

UltraExteriorLighting.esp=1

UltraInteriorLighting.esp=1

got rid of these...

 

On 1/20/2020 at 11:53 PM, Invictaxe said:

Live Dismemberment - Mental.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Mind-Blowing.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - POSTAL.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Brutal.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Insane-o.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Liebermode.esp=1
Live Dismemberment - Regular.esp=1

also removed all but one of these...

 

On 1/21/2020 at 11:42 AM, VonHelton said:

Therefore, adding alot of 2K & 4K bitmaps is going to affect your game play.

removed most 4K mods...

 

On 1/20/2020 at 10:49 PM, Indarello said:

if you have enb try disable it first

not removed but switched to the OLYMPUS ENB, which is basically slighly modded vanilla...

 

16 hours ago, D_ManXX2 said:

check your shadow distance this will also kill your fps

and also lowered my shadow distance.

 

 

The game looks slightly worse now lol but at least I can play it. Feel like I became overconfident with my PC and overloaded the game with mods.

 

Still can't shoot near the Corvega without an instant CTD tho.

 

Feel like the best solution would be reinstalling the game and installng all the mods from scratch, but I don't feel like I'm ready to put myself throught it for now lol. Need lots of mental preparation.

 

Thanks again guys.

[VonHelton]

36 minutes ago, asafreememberyoucant said:

The game looks slightly worse now lol but at least I can play it. Feel like I became overconfident with my PC and overloaded the game with mods.

Everyone has done that at some point. My computer, when I built it, was top of the line. Now it's a turtle.

 

So.........

 

[bajs11]

also remember laptop cpus and gpus are usually slower in some cases much slower than the desktop versions depending on the cooling solution the manufacturers use.

Even a desktop gtx 1060 would struggle in heavily modded Fallout 4 and Skyrim.

You need at least a gtx 1080 or rtx 2060 Super