Fallout 4

TaintedSquirrel said:
This texture pack motivates you but not any of the thousands of mods? Some of which are also texture packs which probably look and run better than Bethesda's... :p
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The existing ones that look good don't cover enough objects? Like not enough ground, not enough structures, interiors and so on. Some of them look good yes but not enough coverage, is that still correct? I haven't checked the Nexus mods for a few months. The new Hi Res Dlc is supposed to cover just about everything but I have doubts it will look good as far as textures. I want it to look good so much of course.

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Looks like the texture pack is available. My system is preallocating space at the moment. Showing 54.7 GB in the client DL page. It didn't seem to want to start the download until I disabled my Nexus mods.
 
Warsloth said:
Looks like the texture pack is available. My system is preallocating space at the moment. Showing 54.7 GB in the client DL page. It didn't seem to want to start the download until I disabled my Nexus mods.
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How could you tell?

I have a bunch of mods, don't have the NMM open, and at the moment it appears to be downloading normal for me. 54 gigs...damn... they weren't messing around here.
 
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Q-BZ said:
How could you tell?

I have a bunch of mods, don't have the NMM open, and at the moment it appears to be downloading normal for me. 54 gigs...damn... they weren't messing around here.
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I had Steam up and it said that the texture pack was in my library, but it wasn't downloading. Restarted Steam and no change. Then I disabled my nexus mods and restarted Steam again and the texture pack started preallocating space at that point. YMMV. 10 GB down so far... Guess I'll go to the store...
 
I mean...it looks good, but I have to wonder if it's really that much better than a ~2-4 GB HD texture pack made by modders.
 
I'm going to be honest, I couldn't even tell that it was using the high res textures. The only indication was that in spots where my VRAM usage had been at 1.9GB it jumped to 3.5GB, and in places where it had been 3.0GB it jumped up to 5.5GB. There is no way that a GTX 1080 is required unless you are at 4k or something. I'm at 1080P with a 2500k at 4.5GHz and a GTX 980Ti and didn't see much difference in framerates other than a couple of random spots where it would dip down to 40fps from 60fps, but it is hard to tell what was causing that.
 
Gorilla said:
There is no way that a GTX 1080 is required unless you are at 4k or something. I'm at 1080P with a 2500k at 4.5GHz and a GTX 980Ti and didn't see much difference in framerates other than a couple of random spots where it would dip down to 40fps from 60fps, but it is hard to tell what was causing that.
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that's what I was thinking when the HD Texture pack was announced last week...I had a feeling my GTX 970 @1200p would be fine...inflated recommended specs is nothing new I guess
 
The texture pack didn't seem to automatically download for me, when going to the DLC page and clicking the Install link, it just wanted to start the game, when the game loaded and I went to the in-game DLC area, it only said that the high-res textures were 'available', not installed like the other DLC.

I have the beta active, maybe that had something to do with it; I had to right-click on Fallout 4 in my games list, click on "View Downloadable Content", then un-check the high-res texture pack DLC and repeat the process for it to install the texture pack.
 
For some reason my 980Ti clocks lower with the texture pack than without it. I think base clock is 1100 or something and boost clock is 1190, but with the texture pack it is only clocking at 887 for some reason. Even if I up the offsets it doesn't increase. It isn't throttling because I have a full cover water block on it and it is only hitting 22C under load.
 
Are you running adaptive power mode? If your GPU utilization went down somehow, your clocks will be lower.
 
What do you think the odds are this new DLC would work on a 1GB Radeon HD7850 if I turned the resolution down to 720P? I would have just given it a go to test but bandwidth is very limited where I live and it would take 29 months of downloading on my internet line till I have it.
 
ZodaEX said:
What do you think the odds are this new DLC would work on a 1GB Radeon HD7850 if I turned the resolution down to 720P? I would have just given it a go to test but bandwidth is very limited where I live and it would take 29 months of downloading on my internet line till I have it.
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You are going to have a bad time. First, this isn't new content. It literally just makes things look a little better. Second, at 1080P I am seeing up to 5.6GB of video memory usage. With a 7850 that has 1gb of video memory, even at 720P you are not going to have enough video memory. If you want to make fallout 4 look better just use nexus mods and install custom textures of your choice. They will look just as good and will only be a few gigabytes instead of 58gb.

If it would take you even a few days to download it wouldn't be worth it.
 


Well, based on this comparison video the results are completely underwhelming. It'll be interesting to see how many years Bethesda will wait before releasing Fallout 5, might be at least a 5-8 year wait unless they give it to another studio.
 
It looks good but it's not earth shattering. The differences I do see are welcome. Not seeing any kind of noticeable performance hit on my end so far.

It raises the baseline and then certain other texture mod round things out per preference. It's free so I think it's a nice gesture by Bethesda for a game I still feel like they bailed out on way too early.
 
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I've been reading the Hi Res DLC is worth it for texture detail on a 4k monitor. Anyone found out if this is true? There's some back and forth arguing about it over on guru3d.
 
The difference is there, but I don't see how it warrants such high system requirements and 58 gigs.

Fallout 4 has become my greatest disappointment in PC gaming for the past 3 years.
 
how is this game overall in terms of gameplay?...I keep hearing bad things or nothing at all which is a bad thing for a Fallout game...is it that bad?
 
polonyc2 said:
how is this game overall in terms of gameplay?...I keep hearing bad things or nothing at all which is a bad thing for a Fallout game...is it that bad?
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Its a good game I think, just not all it could have been. Steam had it for $17.99 last weekend which was a good deal for it for the sheer amount of hours you could put into it if you're a completionist type of player.

Throw some mods into it and you can tweak it to your hearts content too.
 
polonyc2 said:
how is this game overall in terms of gameplay?...I keep hearing bad things or nothing at all which is a bad thing for a Fallout game...is it that bad?
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I never read anything about the game before I bought it a couple weeks ago. Did you like FO3 or NV? If so, then buy 4. If you didn't like those games, then don't bother with 4. The only real difference with 4 is that you can spend time building settlements if you want.

I will say that so far the story seems somewhat weaker than in FO3 or NV. I haven't finished it though so who knows, maybe it will pick up.
 
ZodaEX said:
What do you think the odds are this new DLC would work on a 1GB Radeon HD7850 if I turned the resolution down to 720P? I would have just given it a go to test but bandwidth is very limited where I live and it would take 29 months of downloading on my internet line till I have it.
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It's absurd to even ask, to be honest. Even if you could run it reasonably well what is the point of running high res textures at 720p?
 
Q-BZ said:
I'm using both because of the benefits it gives as a check and balance against the softening TXAA does on its own.
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I dropped TXAA for VSR, huge difference. TXAA made everything looked washed. My hi res clothing and armor didn't look sharp at all. VSR fixed that 1000%. Funny part is I can also see all the rain drops with VSR (as they are falling) and couldn't see them or at least now where near as many with TXAA.
 
I tried the UHD mod at 1080p on my 980ti.
I can see the improvement, its not standout on many things but others its worthwhile.
There is finer detail, better surface bumps etc.

I use 1440p DSR instead of AA.
Max vram use so far has been around 5GB.
Performance is mostly constant 60fps with occasional dips just below.
The game takes quite a bit longer to start but it doesnt impact savegame loads much after that.

I like it.

ps cpu is 6700K @ 4.7GHz, DDR4 3333 CL16
 
InaDaise said:
I've been reading the Hi Res DLC is worth it for texture detail on a 4k monitor. Anyone found out if this is true? There's some back and forth arguing about it over on guru3d.
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On 4K, with a large enough screen (think 34" or bigger), I'd say that it's definitely worth it (free, after all). The increased area from a larger screen really puts the detail in perspective. (I'm running the pack on my 42" 4K screen)

It's not a massive improvement, but the key is in all the little details and edges -- small text on newspapers/cartons/bottles/etc is much clearer, sharper, and smoother, for example.
Combined with ReShade, it should be a decent improvement.

If they were to Hi Res every single texture in the game, and also improve the meshes, then it would be a massive improvement -- but, then the pack would be around 240+ GB, I think; quite prohibitive to those on bandwith caps.
 
the High Resolution Texture Pack just downloaded as a Steam update for me...so I guess you don't need to manually install the Texture Pack separately
 
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