Posted on 11/28/2015 7:53:03 PM PST by Lazamataz
Had to do it. Had to create the thread. The game is too damned good. This thread is reserved for hardcore gamers who play Fallout 4. Norm, KC, TADSLOS and I have hijacked so many threads discussing this game, I felt we needed our own thread.
Fallout 4 is amazing. The content is excessively large. There is so much to explore, you could replay this game 10 times and not find every mission or quest. The characters are so much better fleshed out than any other game I have played. Even the radio announcer of Diamond City Radio will have you doubling over in laughter, he's so inept at radio announcing. :) Your companions will pitch in with consistently new, sometimes insightful, and almost always area- or mission appropriate comments. I even got Piper (the hot Reporter chick) to sleep with me. It took a lot of sweet talking. But now she's in love. "Piper, how do you feel about our relationship?" Her answer: "Blue, this is as close to nirvana as I will ever find. Who knew a jaded reporter like me would find love in a wasteland?"
Fallout 4 is so graphics-intensive that I had to upgrade my video card to the GTX970 from Nividia, and I am so glad I did. 4 gigs of video memory, and a solid GPU array. Now I get 60 FPS (at the best) down to about 30 FOS (at the worst) with occasional dips to an unacceptable 24 FPS when in extremely busy, high clutter city areas with lots of combatants.
Our first topic: I want to mod the songs. I want change the Classical Radio Station to play songs I like.
I have six titles so far, that would fit in this game:
Filter's "Hey Man, Nice Shot" to be triggered during combat
Drowning Pool's "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor", also triggered during combat.
Lil Jon's "Turn Down For What"
Disturbed's "Down With The Sickness"
NIN's "Every Day Is Exactly The Same"
Any other suggestions?
Badge of honor. :)
Back to the game.
The games heavily encourage you to do things your own way, especially New Vegas (which doesn’t have essential NPCs and has tons of faction creeds). Contrast this to the Bioware games, which consist of nothing other than boring dialogue about what a special snowflake each character is and how all the races need to unite against the evil robots (individualism is punished in a Bioware world if it is constructive, but rewarded if it’s destructive). Mass Effect 3 changed a character from straight to sodomite for no reason at all, and it has a pilot who whines about his husband (and who you can’t even berate).
Good point. I just assume everyone downloads the GTExperience app that auto-updates to the best (optimized) drivers for your games. Rastus, look for GTExperience.
It also means ‘Open your wallet” because once you experience the immersion of a maxed machine playing maxed settings there is no going back to ‘normal’ gaming.
Of course as pricey as it can be, its still cheaper than a lot of hobbies like car restoration/hottrodding or gun collecting.
Welp, that’s something which I’ll have to do next time I storm Hoover Dam :)
Ask your doctor if LoversLab mods are right for you. That’s all I’m sayin... I ain’t sayin no more ;)
Just out of curiosity. If i wanted to build out a pc just for gaming - what would i need?
I upgraded an old pc a couple years ago with a new graphics card and new power supply (and more ram) just to be able to play rome total war ( the first one)
But at this point I’d rather build a new one from scratch. The mother board on the other must be ten years old.
F4 would not even launch on my 7950 card till I updated. I know there was a GTX driver issue they sorted rapidly as well.
It could be motherboard though. Throughput on the older chips might be an issue. But it confuses me that he had the issue day 1. I am leaning towards that being the case.
Microcenter (I think it’s local to Georgia, but if not...) is very VERY good. Dell used to be amazing, but they abandoned people for corporations. Microcenter filled that ‘civilian market’ out our way. Build if you must, but I had them make me a machine for nearly the same price as a manual build.
High end: Alienware machines. WATER COOLED. Oh yeah.
About $2000 will build you a truly monster box that will last years. You can get damn good for less.
My sys is a couple years old. It screams with the new vodeo card. Anything rated higher than this is great but overkill to play F4 type games
I would build at least this today from scratch.
Z97 mobo with 4GHz or better CPU
BIG air cooler or a smaller liquid prefab/bolt in sys (I have a small LC setup and no heat issues)
8GB of the fastest ram you can afford to match the mobo
GTX970 or R9390 with 4GB of VRAM or better (more is always better)
SSD drives. Big is good. Two smaller ones id better IMO. One for games, one for system.
And your standard Bluray etc stuff. Big case is better than small.
If you hve the cash to spend, more is better. IF you don’t, you can get some great deals on things close to the above and they will serve well for a while. Once you get a solid base of great mobo/ram, the rest is all upgradable from there as needed (video cards mostly)
Oh and get a bigger power supply than you actually need. If your ‘need’ is 600W, get 1000W. It will work less hard and last longer without actually drawing the extra power.
I’m waiting until Bethesda releases the creation kit and the modding community kicks in. Skyrim went from a good game to a fantastic games with the right mods.
Word. Fully modded Skyrim is still and likely will remain my favorite game ever. The FNIS ans SKSE scripting stuff opened up incredible options and the CBBE/UNP bodies took the females from trannies to goddesses.
Sidenote. The guy that designed Silverlight armor should be given a job. Period.
Then the addons like Falskarr created entire realms.
When the CC comes out with F4 it’s gonna be c
hristmas all year long with what they already have to build from though. I can’t wait to see it!
LOL! I have Piper walking around in her undies. She took my power armor when I got out to hack a terminal. When I took it back she was almost nekkid!
Thanks for the thread, I just picked up this Area 51 and realized all I play is TFT2 and Total War, so I was looking for a good game to run on this system and will be looking at Fallout 4.
The 2 GTX 960’s SLI will yield about the same framerate as a single 970 so I went with the cheaper 960’s and was able to get it from Alienware with an 17-5820 CPU for just over 2 grand.
Next year I will swap out the 960’s for Titan z’s if they are affordable, otherwise go with 980’s.
Quantity Item Number Description Unit Price
1 210-ADHC Area 51 Base $2026.13
1 370-ABWO 8GB Dual Channel DDR4 2133MHz (4GBx2) $0.00
1 580-AAOJ Alienware Standard USB 2.0 Keyboard (English) $0.00
1 490-BCNN Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 graphics with 4GB total (2x 2GB) GDDR5 - NVIDIA SLI Enabled $0.00
1 658-BCKI 7260 AC Driver $0.00
1 400-AFON 128GB SSD 6Gb/s Main + 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s Storage $0.00
1 619-AHCY Windows 10 Home (64bit) English $0.00
1 570-AACL Alienware USB Optical Mouse $0.00
1 429-AAMV Slot-Loading Dual Layer DVD Reader $0.00
1 555-BCFD Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 @ 5GHz + Bluetooth $0.00
1 450-AAGO US Power Cord $0.00
1 340-AGUD Safety/Environment and Regulatory Guide (English/French) $0.00
1 801-1894 Onsite/In-Home Service After Remote Diagnosis, 1 Year $0.00
1 801-1893 Dell Limited Hardware Warranty Plus Service $0.00
1 340-ACUM System BOOT for Windows, AW51 $0.00
1 340-ANMJ Resource DVD W7/W8.1 $0.00
1 340-ALTG Ship Group,ANW-DT,Dell Americas Organization,CENTAURI $0.00
1 340-AMZI Placemat (English,French,BRPT,Spanish) $0.00
1 332-0550 Dell.com Order $0.00
1 332-1286 US Order $0.00
1 321-BBLW Alienware(TM) 850 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply $0.00
1 338-BFPQ Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K (6-cores, 15MB Cache, Overclocked up to 3.8 GHz w/ Turbo Boost) $0.00
1 412-AAEX Centauri CPU heatsink $0.00
1 332-1530 Dell.com Order $0.00
1 340-ALTH Shipping Material $0.00
1 817-BBBB No FGA $0.00
1 658-BBTV Cyberlink Media Suite Essentials for Windows without Media $0.00
1 525-0016 Dropbox, Digital Delivery, 20GB for 1 year Promotion $0.00
1 750-AALQ No Controller $0.00
1 389-BFSO Regulatory Label, 850W $0.00
1 338-BDFP Intel(R) Core(TM) I7 CPU Label $0.00
1 658-BCSC Microsoft Office Software Image $0.00
1 658-BCUO Additional Software $0.00
1 817-BBBP None Included $0.00
1 340-ACQQ No Option Included $0.00
Item Sub Total $2026.13
Very nice box. Those 960 SLI’d cards should let you run the graphics pretty high up/flat out with no issues.
I like reading about the Titans and sure wouldn’t kick them to the curb but DAMN are they expensive. As much as I play ( a lot) I am pretty much a Bethesda gamer and can’t justify that cost for the minimal scenarios these games will push an R9 390 or GTX980. Especially when another $300 bux would get me another R9 390 that would be impossible for even a raider war in the city to slow down in SLI.
But as a one card solution and sheer geek cred, they are Absolute king of the hill for sure.
Now IF, and I stress IF the mods for F4 somehow raise hell with an R9’s framerate, which I doubt will happen, then SLI here I come.
Yeah, I have GTExp. I think it’s required. It autoupdates when it wants to, or at least prompts me to update.
I put this computer together originally because I had waited so long for Duke Nukem Forever and was GOING to play it without any hardware issues. Yeah, game sucked. But, even with new components and a Radeon HD 6850, the game was stuttery. And that’s even if I bumped it down to low resolution and turned off effects. That points to some kind of inherent issue, but I don’t know enough to know what it would be, though the mobo, CPU and the memory are the only things I haven’t switched out since then.
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