Do or don't

[Hentai-chan]

Of late I have been thinking of ways how I can improve my framerate while playing FNV and I was struck with this idea: Could I increase how many cores Fallout New Vegas uses on launch? See, loading saves takes so long and maximum frames I can get is 15. 20 if I am lucky, which is caused entire by the incompetent graphics card I have. I'd like to increase the performance of FNV without having to sacrifice my current graphics settings. I have to know if increasing core use will help me out in some way. In a way, I can play games comfortably with 30 frames (not a perfectionist) and not wreck my rig.

 

 

GeForce 310m
Intel® Core i5 CPU 2.27GHz
8GB RAM
Win7 64-bit OS

 

 

So can I squeeze more performance out of this rig? Or am I trying in vain?

 

 

 

 

[zippy57]

There is no try.

 

Er... I mean...

 

You can change the cores being used in the .ini, the setting is iNumHWThreads under General, I believe. You may have to add it. Be warned, though, that in my experience more cores equals more instability because Bethesda.

[Zabuzed]

This is an old game in the meaning of memory and cpu-usage. The only thing accelerating is installing the game on a fast SSD. The game itself is an issue, you won't get it faster with the best cpu on Earth. And of course, the mods you are using play a role, too. Every savegame saves all details. Using 100 mods and more - like I do - causes the game to almost collapse. Just take a break, drink a cup of coffee, and... use Wrye Bash to avoid conflicts.

[Hentai-chan]

There is no try.

 

Er... I mean...

 

You can change the cores being used in the .ini, the setting is iNumHWThreads under General, I believe. You may have to add it. Be warned, though, that in my experience more cores equals more instability because Bethesda.

 

Yes but this instability, is there any chance it may make my computer unstable? Kind of a long-shot I guess. I mean one ini change resulting in the eventual crash of a computer. But I am not very experienced when it comes to hardware and software so my reasoning is: Better safe than sorry.

 

I am not that much worried about instability for the game, though. I mean it's already buggy. Several playthroughs of Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 3, have proven that several times over. That doesn't mean I want to make unplayable but still... That said how many crashes do you get if you changed the ini? And is there a noticable change in fps?

[Zabuzed]

FNV runs on my old rig with a Q6600, 4GB RAM and Win 7 32-bit. Didn't install it on the new one, actually. There is no acceleration with a new rig or a 64-bit OS. 

 

Just my 2 cts.

[Odessa]

You can increase iNumHWThreads if you want, I have it set to 4. There are a bunch of other threading options you can change as well.

 

Changing them may or may not give you stability benefits and/or defecits.

 

The thing is, even if you told FNV to use 100 cores, it would still use just 1 for ~95% of all the processing because of the way the game is implemented. This is typical of all video games.

 

Always use new save slots.

[KainsChylde]

FNV is 32 bit software. Running it on a 64 bit system is kinda counterproductive, performance-wise.

[zippy57]

I never had a noticeable change in FPS but I never really had a noticeable FPS issue. The main issue with more cores is a severe drop in the amount of content the game can handle before flipping out, though looking through the investigation thread again I realized you'll probably be okay as multithreading only seemed to cause problems on AMD processors.

[Hentai-chan]

My main concern is the Big MT, really. For some reason, whenever I find myself there, I see a sudden drop in FPS outdoors. Doesn't seem to affect interiors much. Not as much as outdoors, anyway, most of the time. I don't know, performance-wise Old World Blues seem to be a lot more problematic than Anchorage, Point Lookout, DC Wasteland, Zion or even the Mojave. Think I'm just unlucky?

[BruceWayne]

That sounds awfully familiar. Do you by any chance use Project Reality?

[windpl]

As I see that it is intel, you could try to unpark cores if you haven't already done it.

How to // Just google it. And don't use any shady programs, it can be done manually.

[d4nt320]

you can run the game but you can't use mods with super enb some enb cause frame drops and that is not going to help you. your pc is not the only problem the game have his own problem like the first one is old the second the game only run 2gb maximum and cause lag because of that. you can download 4gb mod for your help but they will continue lagging and continue and continue. the real problem here is the old games almost all run only with 2gb maximum that is the problem, now that is not the problem now the problem is your pc. you have to buy a beast to play games. even with a beast the game (oblivion,skyrim,F3,FNV etc...) will not run like the new games

 

 

[Hentai-chan]

you can run the game but you can't use mods with super enb some enb cause frame drops and that is not going to help you. your pc is not the only problem the game have his own problem like the first one is old the second the game only run 2gb maximum and cause lag because of that. you can download 4gb mod for your help but they will continue lagging and continue and continue. the real problem here is the old games almost all run only with 2gb maximum that is the problem, now that is not the problem now the problem is your pc. you have to buy a beast to play games. even with a beast the game (oblivion,skyrim,F3,FNV etc...) will not run like the new games

 

My computer is a beast. It is just the graphics card that's holding it back. The only reason I can run any game is software update, Which, luckily for me, seems go a long way.