So, you watched the Fallout TV present on Amazon, obtained excited concerning the franchise, possibly noticed some of us taking part in Fallout 76, and determined that you just have been lastly going to put in Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic MMO and provides it an actual shot. However then you definately tried taking part in it on PC and found that it runs like rubbish. Wait! Earlier than you uninstall it, there’s a quite simple option to make Fallout 76 run higher.
I just lately, together with 1,000,000 different gamers, re-installed and began taking part in Fallout 76 once more. Nonetheless, my first night time spent exploring the net wasteland of 76 wasn’t nice. When you didn’t know, Fallout 76 is constructed utilizing outdated tech created for Fallout 4 and repurposed into an MMO. It really works, however it additionally has some funky points and limitations. The sport’s efficiency on PC has lengthy been an issue. Even when you tweak the restricted in-game settings, you’ll nonetheless seemingly have enormous FPS swings when strolling round or in fight. However there’s a answer, although you’ll must do a wee little bit of tinkering.
First off, after you’ve put in Fallout 76, run the sport no less than as soon as. Now shut the sport. Then jump over to Nexus Mods and obtain this very tiny mod that isn’t actually a mod in any respect. Actually, it’s only a modified .ini textual content file that can uncap the framerate, tweak a number of settings that may’t be modified in-game, and decrease some settings beneath what the sport often permits.
Don’t fear, this “mod” doesn’t make the sport look ugly or something. Fallout 76 will nonetheless look superb; most of those tweaks simply tone down unimportant issues, like how far out the grass is rendered whereas taking part in.
When you’ve downloaded the file, drop it in right here: DocumentsMy GamesFallout 76. You’ll be requested to overwrite a file. Go forward. Then shut that folder.
Nonetheless, earlier than you go and begin up Fallout 76 once more, I like to recommend capping the sport’s framerate utilizing your GPU’s settings. Sure, Fallout 76 nonetheless lacks a framerate choice choice in its menus.
When you have an Nvidia card, like me, you’ll open up the Nvidia Management Panel. Then head to Handle 3D Settings. In there, you must see a tab for “Program Settings.” You’ll want so as to add Fallout 76 after which scroll right down to “Max Body Fee” and choose your most well-liked FPS. I’ve mine set to 120fps. AMD customers ought to search for a “Body Fee Goal Management” choice of their respective GPU settings.
When you’ve executed that, you must have the ability to open Fallout 76, and voila, the sport ought to be operating higher! I personally needed to choose Fullscreen within the recreation’s video choices and restart it earlier than I noticed a change, so attempt that when you don’t see an enormous enhance. However as soon as I did, I used to be capable of play Fallout 76 with out it always dropping into the mid-40s whereas I used to be simply strolling round my camp. The wasteland has by no means felt smoother!
.