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?
JEB H. CHRIST!
Level 82.
I ain’t messin with ya.
It was the will of Talos. Or Atom. I had to clear the way for Lydia to bear the Holy Relics into the wasteland.
Tracking says the new box isn’t ready for pickup.
I haz a sad.
Figures. If my/now your card/PS gets there first, It wouldn’t shock me. Well at least you’ll be able to ring in the new year with a nuclear apocalypse.
Maybe a real one!
Crossfire update.
I ran into a couple issues that were known/documented online. Solved them but had to shut off a couple things I didn’t want to. Still looks incredible though. on a 100 scale it took the graphics to a 95 so... Not gonna bitch.
Apparently there will be more tuning involved to max the performance, not that it’s in any way a problem now, but I expected that.
I’ve shifted over to Bloodborne, the third in the Dark Souls series. It is so far kicking my . . . all over the place. Can’t even get out of the first level - but I like it. KICK ME!
Well THAT escalated into a cluster of fornication rapidly.
Apparently I didn’t have Realvision/Crossfire as sorted as I thought. Crossfire is doing fine on Fallout. No issues. But Sky/Realvision started bugging out after the fixes.
I’ll go back to it later and sort it out as others have it up and running so I know it can be done. It has to do with Depth of Field, Occlusion and volumetric lighting. All was well till I hit snow in daytime. Then flicker city that only a reboot cures. This is solely an AMD/Crossfire thing and not an Nvidia/SLI or any single card problem.
I reinstalled with the “I can’t believe it’s not ENB/Sweet FX” mod instead of Realvision. Different animal altogether. Very saturated/Willy Wonka colors but cool. Think World of Warcraft with more realism. Sort of... Far better than stock with some very cool lighting/smoke/particle tricks but nowhere near Realvision quality. The upside was rock stability and far less load on the cards so I know I had SOMETHING very not right still somewhere.
Santa Kid showed up late last night with a big box of TV goodness that will be today’s project for hanging on the wall. I am SO looking forward to this ;)
Well I did the deed. Several deeds actually. I wiped my formerly lev 82 self for a restart.
This is all Laz’s fault. I must now suffer. Lev 1. Actually I had something glitched that hosed a couple questlines as mentioned earlier and got sick of dealing with it.
Maybe I’ll give up on Beth games. Maybe I’ll play Solitaire. I wonder if there’s a Lydia version.
This is all Laz’s fault. Again...He took all the fun out of the game for me. I get to a settlement and he’d already hit everyone. I heard whimpering under a pile of irridated rubble. It was a yao gaui. He’d hit that too. And it missed him.
EVIL!!! EVIL LAZ!!!
HA HA I AM HIGHER-LEVEL THAN YOOOOOOOUUUUU.....
HA HA....!
I SUFFER!!!!
You made me suffer.
I do not feel your pain. :)
I might restart too, not on a glitch, but because I’ve learned so much. I would start with PER and INT at 4 and begin immediately learning pick and hack. |
The next perk would be Local Leader (for basic Settlement setups), then the various crafting ones: Gun nut and armorer. By level 15 or so, I’d be more capable than my present Lev 38 dude.
All my settlements would have these metal Quanset Hut barracks, with decorations and everyone gets a chest or dresser.
NO WOOD, the wood structures look horrible.
Between you and Laz, I’ll be lucky if there are any rad roaches to vaporize by the time I get set up to play.
Fear not Lone Wanderer. For Atom provides! Do you not hear the thunder of his voice? Do you not feel the power of the glow?
Join with us brother...and be divided...
After being utterly humiliated by your sudden jump ahead of me in the F4 as an extension of our collective penis wars, I have returned to my quest, in a snit fit, to get Skyrim running on Crossfire with Realvision. And I found an ENB version/mod that is supposedly the crossfire fix for all the evil. So we shall see. Another reload from scratch in progress.
Upon achieving which, I have to, of course, reestablish my numerical level superiority in F4 because Terrible and Mighty Talos (and perhaps Terrible and mighty TADSlos) will it. But I dunno for sure about that...
The sad part?
You will be higher-level than me in FO4 by weekend.
Not unless I get Realvision sorted. A dragonborn’s work is never done! ;)
My suffering is great. I must now result to the heavy artillery to deal with Realvision. I shall troubleshoot this naked.
As long as you brought it up....
How do I get out of The Brotherhood of Steel?
Power armor is for pussies (meow ;)
In a pine lined steel box:)
SUCCESS! Sort of.
I now have Sky running Realvision flicker free on Crossfire. Almost perfectly. I have a slight microstutter issue that’s solvable with more work but the graphics are mindblowing....at HDMI rez.
Oh they are better by heaps at 1440. I just don’t have the power to push it. Yes. With 2 R9 390s it still cannot deal with playable framerates with all the good stuff I have installed and settings maxed.
In fact, it can’t do HDMI with settings maxed either. I had to back off to about 80% on some stuff. 1440 or 4K is clearly 980Ti/Fury or Titan territory in SLI/Crossfire. In other words, Between $1700 and $2500 worth of graphics cards to achieve.
But it doesn’t matter. It looks so damn good now. If I shut down one card, I drop into the 20s with this config. With both on and overclocked, Outside in clouds/fog/rain I can hover between 35-55 depending. At night it’s 50s pretty steady. Inside it’s high 50s. Once I sort the microstutter thing, I’m good to go. With more tuning I might eeek out a couple/few more FPS with little to no quality loss but that’s it.
I new the power of nudity would conquer all...sort of ;)
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