Fallout 76 latest patch adds performance and stability improvements to the game

[WYP]

This patch should address the game's hitching issues on all platforms.



Read more about Fallout 76's latest B.E.T.A patch.

 

[Wraith]

Honestly I really enjoyed my first B.E.T.A run the other night and it felt good there is a slight player/enemy balance required and maybe some currency fixes here and there but it's all good.

As for the Ultra wide, FPS and FOV stuff it's all there in the .ini files it's just not available in game yet. I had it running at 1080, 1440 and 4K using Fast Sync and saw well above 130fps almost constantly. My only gripe was the over use of the depth of field blur, I found it over powering and it caused me to pause a moment while my eyes had to refocus to catch up with what was happening on screen. I am however really looking forward to the 14th.

 

[WYP]

Honestly I really enjoyed my first B.E.T.A run the other night and it felt good there is a slight player/enemy balance required and maybe some currency fixes here and there but it's all good.

As for the Ultra wide, FPS and FOV stuff it's all there in the .ini files it's just not available in game yet. I had it running at 1080, 1440 and 4K using Fast Sync and saw well above 130fps almost constantly. My only gripe was the over use of the depth of field blur, I found it over powering and it caused me to pause a moment while my eyes had to refocus to catch up with what was happening on screen. I am however really looking forward to the 14th.

Quick Question. Is the game speed affected by framerate like Fallout 4? I remember that game messing up quite badly at 100+ FPS.

 

[AlienALX]

I won't be playing it any time soon (even though GAME relieved my bank account to the tune of £174.99 this morning) so I'm not in any hurry.

TBH? the first 8 months of FO4 should be erased from history. It is *so* much better now than it was at launch.

 

[Bartacus]

I won't be playing it any time soon (even though GAME relieved my bank account to the tune of £174.99 this morning) so I'm not in any hurry.

TBH? the first 8 months of FO4 should be erased from history. It is *so* much better now than it was at launch.

It still needs a ton of mods to not suck though. Good game in stock form though, just not a GREAT game.

 

[Avet]

Quick Question. Is the game speed affected by framerate like Fallout 4? I remember that game messing up quite badly at 100+ FPS.

Yea. It still has the same bug.

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah apparently you can cheat with higher FPS.

That is partially why I am in no hurry to install and or play it. I would also prefer private servers so I can just mooch around the enormous new world. Walking sim, if you will.

Bart - yeah I admit I do use all of the Gameworks crap on the PC. And when the game launched there literally wasn't a single card capable of taking it on at 4k. My Fury X struggled really badly and it wasn't until the XP came along that the game was OK. It's still not the best looking game ever but at 4k and nice and smooth it's a good experience.

 

[Warchild]

Quick Question. Is the game speed affected by framerate like Fallout 4? I remember that game messing up quite badly at 100+ FPS.

Yes it is, and it can be hacked by a simple change of the .ini

They promise to fix this by launch however. But since they have done a terrible coding mistake something you expect 10 years ago, its bound to be reversable allowing the hack to return. It's linked to the engine so I don't think its a permanent solution.

 

[Bartacus]

Yeah apparently you can cheat with higher FPS.

That is partially why I am in no hurry to install and or play it. I would also prefer private servers so I can just mooch around the enormous new world. Walking sim, if you will.

Bart - yeah I admit I do use all of the Gameworks crap on the PC. And when the game launched there literally wasn't a single card capable of taking it on at 4k. My Fury X struggled really badly and it wasn't until the XP came along that the game was OK. It's still not the best looking game ever but at 4k and nice and smooth it's a good experience.

Oh I know dude. I was playing in native 4K res (none of that up-jumped scaling silliness), with a pair of GTX980s while modded. It played fairly well for me, but there were 'painful' areas that caused grief at times. I never found it unplayable though, just a touch 'stuttery' in certain game areas. Considering I was modded, and only had 4GB of VRAM, I was kind of impressed considering the circumstances.

 

[Wraith]

I'll have more info in 20 minutes when the BETA goes live again.

 

[Wraith]

OK so just moving around and shooting the odd Ghoul it stays tasty and solid at 60FPS no dips swinging left and right or spinning around and no one Hussain Bolting around the map either but I'll get to that in a minute.

With V-Sync on "iPresentInterval=1"

With V-Sync off "iPresentInterval=0"

What's this witchcraft!? 63FPS... and it never goes any higher!

Bethesda have also fixed the obtuse depth of field blur too, winner winner roll on the 14th dinner.

This all at 1920 x 1080, I'll dig into other resolutions on Thursday when we have a longer B.E.T.A session.

 

[AlienALX]

I spent about four hours on the Bethesda site trying to get my key. It never did work. Eventually I gave up.

Like I say, not in any rush at all. Still got a mountain of jobs to do before I can go back to gaming. Xbox is repaired though apparently, so should get that back soon.

But aye, as of tomorrow or Thurs I will be without my PC for a while. Got some hardware coming, but can't see this running on a 4590s with no GPU lol.

 

[Warchild]

hmm graphics look dated again. Or perhaps they are dialled back to cope with the online portion of the game?

 

[AlienALX]

hmm graphics look dated again. Or perhaps they are dialled back to cope with the online portion of the game?

IIRC it's the Fallout 4 engine, so expect the same only worse due to servers, people with crap PCs etc.

BF3 to me looked terrible in multiplayer online.

 

[Wraith]

IIRC it's the Fallout 4 engine, so expect the same only worse due to servers, people with crap PCs etc.

BF3 to me looked terrible in multiplayer online.

It's the Creation Engine, same one they used for Skyrim Special Edition, Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 & VR. BF3 used the Frostbite engine completely different.

 

[NeverBackDown]

It's the Creation Engine, same one they used for Skyrim Special Edition, Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 & VR. BF3 used the Frostbite engine completely different.

It's the same engine name but it's most definitely heavily updated. Although they seem to forget about doing anything about graphics^_^

 

[AlienALX]

It's the Creation Engine, same one they used for Skyrim Special Edition, Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 & VR. BF3 used the Frostbite engine completely different.

That wasn't my point dude. What I meant was BF3 looked stunning in single player, but whack online.

I saw a video today showing a comparison of FO4 and 76 and they have dialled back the graphics and shadows as well as ditching things like ejected bullet casings etc etc to make it run better.

 

[Warchild]

That wasn't my point dude. What I meant was BF3 looked stunning in single player, but whack online.

I saw a video today showing a comparison of FO4 and 76 and they have dialled back the graphics and shadows as well as ditching things like ejected bullet casings etc etc to make it run better.

Fallout 76 doesnt impress me at all. Then again, neither did FO4 and i tried really hard to get into it.

BF3 looked no different to me on SP or MP. But I was running everything on max with 680GTX in SLI at the time.

 

[Wraith]

So who's going to be on the B.E.T.A tonight? It's the last time we'll get to try before the 14th.

BETA runs from 19:00 - 1:00 GMT