A GTX 960 4Gb for Modding Fallout 4

[bipox]

I'm planning to buy a new Gpu next week. Will a GTX 960 4gb be enough for landscape texture mods, weathers, enbs at 50-60 fps with a 1600x900 resolution?

[Comrade Isbariya]

It's even enough for 1920x1080 O.o 

Well assuming that the rest of your system matches, off course.

[bipox]

I have an i5-4430, 8 gb ram. Been asking in a lot of forums, most of the answers were "save up and buy the GTX 970 or so on". I just wanted a direct answer. haha. Anyways. I'm buying this card just for Fallout 4 really. I plan to play Fallout with lotsa mods and a smooth FPS that's why I'm asking.

[Onionstarz]

I have a 960 4gb 16GB ram and run at 1600x900, i get 55/60 fps with everything on ultra except for shadow distance,i have used high res textures and lighting with no problems, i do not use enb's though  

[Comrade Isbariya]

I have an i5-4430, 8 gb ram. Been asking in a lot of forums, most of the answers were "save up and buy the GTX 970 or so on". I just wanted a direct answer. haha. Anyways. I'm buying this card just for Fallout 4 really. I plan to play Fallout with lotsa mods and a smooth FPS that's why I'm asking.

Well that's the usual answer you get. 'Get xyz it's far better!' 

I'm running Skyrim on Ultra settings, even shadows, high res textures for all and everything, even the smallest bugs and dragonflies around, An ENB, and even tweaked my inis for even more visual goodness and shadow options, a whole lot of more and denser grass everywhere, newly added plants and grasses and incredibly detailed modded places on an AMD Radon HD7950 4GB and a resolution of 1920x1080, and I'm forced to cap my Frames at 60. 

 

The card you chose in comparism is just a bit weaker (although it has a higher clock speed!), but not significantly, a 970 would top mine. Then you're running a smaller resolution, so you should get what you want. 

[bipox]

I have a 960 4gb 16GB ram and run at 1600x900, i get 55/60 fps with everything on ultra except for shadow distance,i have used high res textures and lighting with no problems, i do not use enb's though  

 

That's good to hear. Even with God rays on? I'm was gonna buy a GTX 1060 because I was afraid the Gtx 960 would fall short with what I wanted. So, I'm gonna use the extra cash to buy a SSD and intall fallout on it. Thanks man.

 

btw.. Have you used weather mods on it? DOF mods etc? Green and trees mods?

 

I have an i5-4430, 8 gb ram. Been asking in a lot of forums, most of the answers were "save up and buy the GTX 970 or so on". I just wanted a direct answer. haha. Anyways. I'm buying this card just for Fallout 4 really. I plan to play Fallout with lotsa mods and a smooth FPS that's why I'm asking.

Well that's the usual answer you get. 'Get xyz it's far better!' 

I'm running Skyrim on Ultra settings, even shadows, high res textures for all and everything, even the smallest bugs and dragonflies around, An ENB, and even tweaked my inis for even more visual goodness and shadow options, a whole lot of more and denser grass everywhere, newly added plants and grasses and incredibly detailed modded places on an AMD Radon HD7950 4GB and a resolution of 1920x1080, and I'm forced to cap my Frames at 60. 

 

The card you chose in comparism is just a bit weaker (although it has a higher clock speed!), but not significantly, a 970 would top mine. Then you're running a smaller resolution, so you should get what you want. 

 

 

That's cool man. I think Bethesda's recommended requirements is a conspiracy with GPU makers to buy newer and more powerful cards. Although a GTX 960 2gb would be pushing it right?

[Comrade Isbariya]

I don't know about 2GB cards, without all the fancy visual upgrades per mods it would probably be just fine.

 

Back when Oblivion was new, I thought that Bethesda games had really high requirements, but today... I think there are games that are much worse than that. Plus, Skyrim or Fallout 4 are no MMOs, that makes a huge difference. I'm hardly getting 30fps playing an MMO with much less requirements on the highest possible graphics once I enter a town. Otherwise it's pretty fine. 

 

And then, it makes a difference if these requirements are set up for DX9 or DX10 or DX12 (is there even a game that uses DX12 by now?) plus they're never telling on which resolution they play. If you play on 2800+x1500+++ well... you need a more powerful card as if you were playing on 1440x900, that's for sure.

 

Anyway, just like mentioned above, only relying on a powerful graphics card doesn't help, if the processor is slooow and you're lacking ram. (You shall be fine though) but imagine a carriage, where CPU, GPU, HDD/SSD and Ram are each one horse. The whole thing wouldn't work if the horse called GPU would be thrice as fast as the other three.