Fallout 4's 58GB High-Resolution Texture Pack Is out Now on PC

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Is it time to return to the Boston wasteland? You bet. Assuming you are willing to give up the hard drive space, Bethesda has released a huge texture pack that should make the game look better than ever. Those of you who have run into trouble downloading the textures may find this link helpful.

Here is the texture pack's official description: "Experience the wasteland like you've never seen it before with the Fallout 4 High-Resolution Texture Pack! From the blasted buildings of Lexington to the shores of Boston Harbor and beyond, every location is enhanced with ultra-deluxe detail." If you install the pack and decide you want to revert to the original textures, you can do that from Fallout 4's menu. In other Fallout 4 news, Bethesda will release a patch soon for the PlayStation 4 version that adds support for the PlayStation 4 Pro--here's a rundown of how the game will look better.
 
Oh right I did just buy the last copy of this piece of shit recently. Well I was gonna use it to stir my drinks and light a cigar, but I suppose I can check this texture thing out first.
 
Has anyone tried this yet? 58GB sounds like a lot when you compare it to what modders can do.

I've seen texture packs for Skyrim that absolutely destroy what Bethesda produced for a fraction of the size.
 
I guess it's as good an excuse as any to reinstall the game, but combined with the full game download this will use more than a tenth of my ridiculous bandwidth cap...
 
Shmee said:
The question is, when is [H] going to do a performance review?
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Don't bother, See Below.

The Gonz said:
Has anyone tried this yet? 58GB sounds like a lot when you compare it to what modders can do.

I've seen texture packs for Skyrim that absolutely destroy what Bethesda produced for a fraction of the size.
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That's because it's a lot of unnecessary garbage, so many textures are just copies of things already in the game. Give it about a week and you will see scaled down versions without all the extra crap on nexus.

They have to be one of the laziest developers I have ever seen. They rely on the modding community to fix and add to their game.
 
captaindiptoad said:
Don't bother, See Below.



That's because it's a lot of unnecessary garbage, so many textures are just copies of things already in the game. Give it about a week and you will see scaled down versions without all the extra crap on nexus.

They have to be one of the laziest developers I have ever seen. They rely on the modding community to fix and add to their game.
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Amazing really.

A Company allows moding, in fact, codes for it so that they actually support the modders even when they then get blamed for cleaning up garbage and such that some of the modders put out.
Then people won't buy their games claiming that the modders need time to fix it and make it worth playing.
And now you want to say they are lazy and rely on the modders to fix their game.

I think you are full of shit. I played Fallout 3 for over a year before I ever used a mod, and Fallout 4 for several months vanilla. The game was perfectly enjoyable. Yes there are some bugs. Yes, there is a single mod that fixes most of the bugs. And yes, Bethesda has gone back and patched most of the bugs that the mod "fixes". Bethesda doesn't rely on modders to fix their game. Modders can come up with a fix and deploy it faster then Bethesda can through their normal product life-cycle support process. You aren't talking game-breaking bugs here, I haven't seen a game breaking bug yet on Fallout4. The worst I have seen is the green water bug from Skyrim.

All hate Bethesda for producing some of the best single player games going, people play them for thousands of hours.

All hail our saviors the modders .... bullshit.

I appreciate what some of the modders pull off but I enjoy the game just fine without any mods at all.
 
lcpiper said:
they are lazy and rely on the modders to fix their game.
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http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23491/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25127/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31083/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31255/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71214/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/4598/?


For the following go to the bug section and read the part that says "fixed via the unofficial patch"

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:A_Cornered_Rat
Quests fails to start, console wont even enable it
Screw it im to lazy to go through it all, do some damn research yourself
https://afkmods.iguanadons.net/Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch Version History.html
https://afkmods.iguanadons.net/Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch Version History.html
https://afkmods.iguanadons.net/Unofficial High Resolution Patch Version History.html
https://afkmods.iguanadons.net/Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch Version History.html

lcpiper said:
Yes, there is a single mod that fixes most of the bugs.
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See above

lcpiper said:
And yes, Bethesda has gone back and patched most of the bugs that the mod "fixes".
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Show me where they fixed those above!

And here is the best part, at a PAX Director/Executive Producer Todd Howard stated "We try to solve most of it, we're sensitive to a lot of it. There is a subset of that where we say 'Well, that's what can happen.' If there's entertainment value in that, whatever it is, we'll leave a lot of it.
You read that right, they wont even fix certain bugs.....
 
captaindiptoad said:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23491/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/25127/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31083/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/31255/?
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/71214/?

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/4598/?


For the following go to the bug section and read the part that says "fixed via the unofficial patch"

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:A_Cornered_Rat
Quests fails to start, console wont even enable it
Screw it im to lazy to go through it all, do some damn research yourself
https://afkmods.iguanadons.net/Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch Version History.html
https://afkmods.iguanadons.net/Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch Version History.html
https://afkmods.iguanadons.net/Unofficial High Resolution Patch Version History.html
https://afkmods.iguanadons.net/Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch Version History.html



See above



Show me where they fixed those above!

And here is the best part, at a PAX Director/Executive Producer Todd Howard stated "We try to solve most of it, we're sensitive to a lot of it. There is a subset of that where we say 'Well, that's what can happen.' If there's entertainment value in that, whatever it is, we'll leave a lot of it.
You read that right, they wont even fix certain bugs.....
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So they should not allow mods, would that solve it? You do realize all games have bugs and there is a process the company has to go through before releasing patches. Modders do it faster because they don't have to fill out paperwork for work orders, no quality assurance and project scheduling and they also don't have to release to distribution systems. They just send it out and hope it works. Skyrim and Fallout are pretty large scale games and yes they are not perfect, but is perfection your goal for a game developer? If that is the case you will never find enjoyment in gaming.
 
captaindiptoad said:
And here is the best part, at a PAX Director/Executive Producer Todd Howard stated "We try to solve most of it, we're sensitive to a lot of it. There is a subset of that where we say 'Well, that's what can happen.' If there's entertainment value in that, whatever it is, we'll leave a lot of it.
You read that right, they wont even fix certain bugs.....
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Yeah, because it's entertaining. Like being killed by a giant in Skyrim. Obviously a physics bug but still hilarious to rocket into the sky at warp speed.
 
Darunion said:
So they should not allow mods, would that solve it? You do realize all games have bugs and there is a process the company has to go through before releasing patches. Modders do it faster because they don't have to fill out paperwork for work orders, no quality assurance and project scheduling and they also don't have to release to distribution systems. They just send it out and hope it works. Skyrim and Fallout are pretty large scale games and yes they are not perfect, but is perfection your goal for a game developer? If that is the case you will never find enjoyment in gaming.
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Perfection is not my goal.

I am just tired of accepting the mediocre. Tired of people just accepting crappy products. The only reason people still talk about skyrim is because of its modding community, i still think they could do better, they could just use the content the modders made to fix i for example. But they don't, and they continue to release crappy products.

Arthmoor even openly stated he wanted them to approach him and use his patches, but they don't.

I have the strangest feeling that you and icpiper are the kind of people who still pre-order......
 
Nolan7689 said:
Yeah, because it's entertaining. Like being killed by a giant in Skyrim. Obviously a physics bug but still hilarious to rocket into the sky at warp speed.
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In a game that strives to be "immersive" and his hailed as being one of the most "immersive" experiences in gaming, how can you even defend something like this?
 
Now I am going to go play path of exile, have fun playing your buggy game, and seeing as how you seem to be attacking modders now why don't you go play vanilla.
 
captaindiptoad said:
............................You read that right, they wont even fix certain bugs.....
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I don't have to show you anything lol. Besides, I can't even get to these sites from work, government computer government network, what can you do.

I don't go to Nexusmods for anything now that Bethesda has their own Mod support available from the game launcher interface.

I'll say it for you again, I have played Fallout4 vanilla for months without a single mod, including the Unofficial Patch. I played Skyrim for over a year without any mods.

If I am a developer and I decide to support modders and allow them to play with my content, (Yes, I said allow), and they patch some bugs before I get around to it. I'm fine with the assist, and if the mod is done well, why bother when I have bigger things to do. Later on, maybe I'll roll some of the bug fixes up into a game update.
 
captaindiptoad said:
Perfection is not my goal.

I am just tired of accepting the mediocre. Tired of people just accepting crappy products. The only reason people still talk about skyrim is because of its modding community, i still think they could do better, they could just use the content the modders made to fix i for example. But they don't, and they continue to release crappy products.

Arthmoor even openly stated he wanted them to approach him and use his patches, but they don't.

I have the strangest feeling that you and icpiper are the kind of people who still pre-order......
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But I like their products and I am fine with their quality at launch. If they don't meet your standards save your money, I'll spend mine and spend my time doing what I enjoy.

You say you are tired of people "just accepting crappy products", I'm tired of people buying Hondas. But nobody gives a fuck what I think about Hondas so ....

You want to make sweeping inferences about the "type of people" I am, be my guest, make assumptions all you want, be vocal too, you'll just make an ass out of yourself.
 
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captaindiptoad said:
Perfection is not my goal.

I am just tired of accepting the mediocre. Tired of people just accepting crappy products. The only reason people still talk about skyrim is because of its modding community, i still think they could do better, they could just use the content the modders made to fix i for example. But they don't, and they continue to release crappy products.

Arthmoor even openly stated he wanted them to approach him and use his patches, but they don't.

I have the strangest feeling that you and icpiper are the kind of people who still pre-order......
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I stopped pre-ordering once I stopped buying physical disks. I guess I just didn't feel the same way as you about both skyrim and fo4, I enjoyed the games and more than felt I got my money's worth out of a 60dollar purchase. I personally like Bethesda products and seem to always feel satisfied with their stuff. There are companies I don't feel that way toward even though I liked them previously so I try not to just have blind brand loyalty. Though I am more likely to buy a Bethesda game at launch than I am a ubisoft title out of my own experiences.
 
captaindiptoad said:
Now I am going to go play path of exile, have fun playing your buggy game, and seeing as how you seem to be attacking modders now why don't you go play vanilla.
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Knock yourself out. PoE is decent enough but I got tired of Steam always downloading content filling up mu hard drive with their microtransaction shit.

And I will be playing Fallout4 tonight, and I'll be playing with the mods I already said I like running, and I'll be doing it because I enjoy some of their efforts.

It's a good thing Bethesda supports modders.
 
ChoGGi said:
You probably already know, but there are mods for that (triple screen here, so yes be nice if they had proper support).
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Does that mod work again? I used to have a 21:9 mod that got broken by a game patch, but even before that it was pretty glitchy (hud messed up and stuff). I'd love to get the expansion packs and new textures and play some more if it works nice!
 
It's too bad this is out so long after the original release. I would have loved it, but I've already put in my 160 hours in Fallout 4, and I'm not quite ready to revisit it for quite a few more years.
 
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bjornb17 said:
Does that mod work again? I used to have a 21:9 mod that got broken by a game patch, but even before that it was pretty glitchy (hud messed up and stuff). I'd love to get the expansion packs and new textures and play some more if it works nice!
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I couldn't say (no 21:9), this one looks promising (well updated at least).
 
Well I barely meet the minimum recommended specs, so I guess I'll try it out.

I wonder, have they fixed the dialogue overlapping at anything over 100 FPS? I get it was released in late 2015 and Bethesda was unaware of the existence of high refresh monitors at the time, but talk about an immersion killer. NPC's speaking over themselves gets very irritating, very quickly.
 
NukeDukem said:
Well I barely meet the minimum recommended specs, so I guess I'll try it out.

I wonder, have they fixed the dialogue overlapping at anything over 100 FPS? I get it was released in late 2015 and Bethesda was unaware of the existence of high refresh monitors at the time, but talk about an immersion killer. NPC's speaking over themselves gets very irritating, very quickly.
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It's not that they don't know, they just don't care (like the 21:9 aspect ratio). Caring would mean that they would have to do actual work in updating their 15 year old game engine.
 
ChoGGi said:
You probably already know, but there are mods for that (triple screen here, so yes be nice if they had proper support).
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I had to play with mine to get it to display properly on my 21:9.

It seems that for Fallout4, I started the initial config launcher, the one where you can chose the aspect ratio and resolution.

Basicly I had to play with the check boxes in the lower left corner for "Windowed" and "Borderless"
I think, Windowed was greyed out and Borderless was checked, I unchecked Borderless and hit Apply or OK, whatever it is, and that made Windowed active, so I unchecked Windowed, then changed the Aspect Ratio to 16:9 and made sure that 1920x1024 was selected, and hit OK again, each time you hit OK it closes the tool and you have to start it again. When you do it this time, make sure that Windowed is unchecked, that you have 16:9 selected, then hit the button that is on the far right, I forget the name, but it makes the software autodetect your display. That was the point of all of this. To force it to autodetect your monitor capabilities. Once it does this, just accept it the way it is and launch the game.

It might take you a time or two, but it will work. Just don't expect it to show you the option of 21:9 in the pull-down of the tool.
 
Armenius said:
It's not that they don't know, they just don't care (like the 21:9 aspect ratio). Caring would mean that they would have to do actual work in updating their 15 year old game engine.
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Tru tru. The thought of Fallout 4, and what a great game it COULD have been, tends to bring out my facetious side.;)
 
I was holding off on playing this, sounds like the perfect time to get started. Any other mods you would recommend to go with the high res texture pack for my first playthrough?
 
zerogg said:
I was holding off on playing this, sounds like the perfect time to get started. Any other mods you would recommend to go with the high res texture pack for my first playthrough?
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I suggest the Brutality Mod and set the game's difficulty to the highest level "Survival Mode" is it?

..... and there is one other mod that reduces some of the effects of health related issues. Otherwise you can spend all your time just trying to keep yourself in clean water, cooked food, and fighting off diseases etc. Just taking chems increase your health risks and it turns into a constant fight.

That being said, this isn't really bad if you aren't trying to push out and establish yourself. But long walks acorssed the countryside without this one really turn into a struggle that you have to plan for.

That being said, I am tempted to start over again new and turn off this mod. It would make you push out and expand your settlements so that you have safe places with beds (to sleep over "save game"), cooking stations (clean food and water), etc.
 
I have no space for this on my SSD. God I want 1TB and 2TB SSDs to come down in price. I can afford them but not without feeling stupid at this moment in time.
 
Darunion said:
It's pretty bad actually. I got nothin'. :(

The way they talked this up.....
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Really? I have it loaded but I have the "Resurection" mod running and I don't think I can appreciate all the detail cause that mod is covering so much up. Your saying there isn't anything to appreciate to begin with?

Is it more for 2K and 4K support maybe?
 
lcpiper said:
Really? I have it loaded but I have the "Resurection" mod running and I don't think I can appreciate all the detail cause that mod is covering so much up. Your saying there isn't anything to appreciate to begin with?

Is it more for 2K and 4K support maybe?
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That is what I am imagining it is, but still you would think there would be more of a 'WOW!' factor. Hurry up and clock out so you can go check the website :p
 
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