


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. It also applies to headlights, so exploring dark areas will be a whole new experience.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. No longer is the Wasteland a canvas, but a 3D space that you inhabit. It’s much more realistic and immersive, not by making the environment look more real though.īut by giving your brain feedback from your actions. We start off our list with a mild but smart change made to enhance the impact of your character’s presence in the environment by allowing the PipBoy’s lights to cast shadows.

So without further ado here are my top picks for the coolest graphics mods to throw into your game play. I obviously didn’t install them all to build my perfect game, but I thought I’d share my findings with other seekers of visual enhancement so that they, too, could build the Fallout 4 of their dreams. I scoured the Nexus for days looking for just the right things to make the game look crisp, appealing, and, in some cases just different.ĭuring this time I found a lot of great mods – ENBs, ReShaders, and improved textures and effects galore.

And I needed to spice things up if I was to have any fun. After trying out Fallout 76 I did what most fans of the franchise would do – I promptly uninstalled the game and booted up Fallout 4 to rinse the bad taste from my tongue.īut as I walked the Wasteland, staring at the same old textures and washed-out color palette, it hit me – I was stuck in the Commonwealth for at least another six years.
