

The main story takes place in the year 2287, ten years after the events of Fallout 3 and 210 years after "The Great War", which caused catastrophic nuclear devastation across the United States. It makes use of a number of local landmarks, including Bunker Hill, Fort Independence, and Old North Bridge near Concord, as the bridge out of Sanctuary Hills. The game is set within an open world post-apocalyptic environment that encompasses the city of Boston and the surrounding Massachusetts region known as "The Commonwealth". It is the fourth main game in the Fallout series and was released worldwide on November 10, 2015, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Optionally, there’s a version that’ll make your weather remain clear to avoid performance drops due to weather effects like rain.Fallout 4 is an action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. Modder Terso simply played around with the settings for how the game handles fog, the quality of shadows and the amount of grass, among other things, looking for the most FPS with the least loss in graphical fidelity. We start our list with an easy-to-install compendium of small tweaks to give your game a performance boost without messing too much with the textures or anything of the sort. You’ll be surprised what your toaster can achieve with the right mods. So I’ve put together a ranking with the most useful mods to boost your FPS and stability while roaming the Commonwealth.

Luckily modders have been working tirelessly since release to optimize the experience in such a way that even the most humble of rigs can run the game acceptably well.Įven integrated cards, if you’re willing to play at 20fps.Īs a low-spec gaming enthusiast, I consider myself an authority on the subject of performance. Even with budget gaming rigs – but not everyone has the spare cash, and few things beat playing Fallout 4 on your laptop at work when you should be double-checking accounting files.

But it was still a lot.įive years down the line, these requirements are much easier to meet. It was expected of a game as expansive and beautiful as the latest Bethesda masterpiece. Back when Fallout 4 came out in 2015, not everyone had the 8GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 780 required to run it as it was meant to be played.
