• Fallout 4 Mods For Low End Pc
• Fallout 4 Low End Pc Mod

Last updated: August 2018

Today’s mod – the Fallout 4 Ultra Low Graphics settings bring us a new level of “low” in order to give you the best experience at the cost of the least resources possible. You will be able to play the game, enjoy it – and the truth is that the graphics won’t be that bad either! Here is the official description of this great mod. I'm 35, haven't done much gaming lately. Hell I was a mainstay on System Wars years ago but now I got more important things to worry about. I do want to play Fallout 4 badly but no console.Pentium.

The post-apocalyptic future is bigger and prettier than ever. In Fallout 4, you play as a vault dweller, a survivor of the nuclear apocalypse. You have emerged from your vault 200 years after nuclear war left the world in devastation, and you set out on a quest to kill mutants, build laser guns, and collect Nuka Cola bottlecaps.

This guide takes a close look at Fallout 4's graphical settings and the impact they have on the game. We'll also give you a good idea of the kind of PC hardware you'll need to run Fallout 4 to your own personal satisfaction. If you just want to know what to buy without all the in-depth analysis, you can skip to the recommendations sections.

If you already have a PC but want to know what settings to use for best performance, check out the recommended game settings.

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Fallout 4 is built on an updated version of Bethesda’s Creation engine, which debuted in 2011 powering the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Taking advantage of the engine’s significantly upgraded features (including physics-based shading and ambient occlusion shadowing), Fallout 4 definitely looks better than Skyrim, but the visual quality still doesn't match some of the nicest looking titles of 2015.

Despite that, the game is still quite tough on hardware. You will need a pretty beefy gaming PC to play Fallout 4 on its highest settings, though a moderately powerful machine should do fine on lower settings and resolution.

Let us take a look at what Logical Increments tier you should build to play Fallout 4.

What to Buy

We recommend PC builds in 'tiers,' with each tier containing the most powerful, most reliable, and least expensive combination of parts for that price. We don't list the individual parts in this guide because they change frequently based on local prices and new releases. You can see the latest individual part choices for each tier at the main guide page, which is updated regularly. Open it in a new tab to compare: Logical Increments PC Parts Guide.

These benchmarks assume that all of the graphical settings in the game are set to their highest or turned on. You can get even better performance out of your PC if you adjust some of the graphical settings, but we explain that in more detail below.

Standard Fallout 4:

*Please note that some of the Fallout 4 benchmarks for dual-card setups (such as those in the Extremist and Monstrous tiers) are extrapolated. SLI and Crossfire drivers have only recently been released for Fallout 4, and we have not seen a reliable source produce benchmarks for them.

Fallout 4 High Resolution Texture Pack:

The Fallout 4 High Resolution Texture Pack improves the game's visuals, but also significantly impacts performance.

A Note About Frame Rate (FPS)

Frames per second (FPS) measures the number of images your computer can produce every second. Higher frame rates mean that your screen will show more images per second, which means that you will see a smoother animation. Lower frame rates cause a game to appear to stutter, which is generally not enjoyable for the player.

For the purposes of our PC build guides, we recommend computers that will achieve 60 FPS in your game of choice. Some gamers are satisfied with frame rates as low as 30, but that depends largely on the gamer and the game.

For more information and animations explaining frame rate, please check out our Frame Rate page.

Fallout 4 Mods For Low End Pc

Higher Resolution for Better Gaming

Resolution refers to the number of pixels on a screen. High resolution means more pixels and generally more space and detail, while low resolution means fewer pixels, and often less space. If you are using a typical (not high-end) laptop or an old screen, you likely have a low resolution. When comparing screens with a similar aspect ratio, it is always better to get a higher resolution screen. Higher resolution will always looks better, as you have more real estate and a sharper picture. The image below shows the difference in real estate between common resolutions.

For more information on resolutions, check our Screen Resolution page.

Fallout 4 Hardware Requirements and Performance

Before discussing how various PC components influence your performance with Fallout 4, let’s take a look at the game’s Minimum and Recommended system requirements, according to Bethesda:

Official Minimum System Requirements:

• Processor (Intel): Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz
• Processor (AMD): AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Hard Drive: 30 GB free HDD space
• Graphics Card (NVIDIA): NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti 2GB
• Graphics Card (AMD): AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB

Official Recommended System Specifications:

• Processor (Intel): Intel Core i7-4790 3.6 GHz
• Processor (AMD): AMD FX-9590 4.7 GHz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Hard Drive: 30 GB free HDD space
• Graphics Card (NVIDIA): NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB
• Graphics Card (AMD): AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB

Now let’s take a look at how each component influences the game’s performance on your PC.

Fallout 4 Low End Pc Mod

GPU

As with most games, your graphics card will have the greatest impact on performance in Fallout 4. And while the game doesn’t quite look as aesthetically spectacular as some of the prettiest games of 2015, the fact that it’s an open-world game means that the draw distance is quite long (i.e. the game renders objects that are far away from the player), which requires significant graphical power in its own right.

According to GamersNexus, Fallout 4 uses a little under 3 GB of video RAM at 1080p with Ultra settings, but even many 2 GB graphics cards can handle the game at around 50+ frames per second (FPS) on 1080p Ultra. Thankfully, Fallout 4 is still very playable in the 45+ FPS range, which we consider “smooth.”

At 1080p on Ultra, the most affordable graphics cards to achieve high framerates will be the GTX 1050 Ti.

For 1440p on Ultra, you’re better off with the GTX 1060 6GB. For 60 FPS at 4K resolution, you’ll need a GTX 1080 or better.

Fallout 4 CPU Requirements

Your CPU will play a role in how well Fallout 4 performs, but not nearly as much as your GPU. Benchmarks from Tom’s Hardware suggest that Intel Core i3 CPUs are enough to handle the game without major hits to performance. You should be fine with a CPU even in the range of an R5 1400 or an i3-8100.

If you want to run Fallout 4 on high settings without breaking the bank, make sure you get a sufficiently powerful graphics card, but feel free to save a little money on the CPU. As long as it’s powerful enough, you won’t notice a huge performance difference between a budget CPU and a higher-end one when it comes to playing many games, including Fallout 4.

Fallout 4 RAM Requirements

Bethesda’s minimum and recommended specifications both call for 8 GB of RAM, which is reasonable. If you really wanted to push it, you could get away with playing the game on 4 GB of RAM, but that’s as low as you would want to go.

Fallout 4 Game Settings

Fallout 4 has 20 graphical settings to tweak, and some of those settings have a greater impact on FPS than others. If you’re experiencing unsatisfactory framerates while playing the game, there are a few settings you can lower that may significantly improve your gameplay experience without sacrificing too much visual quality.

In particular, there are three settings that have an enormous impact on FPS, according to NVIDIA*: God Rays, Shadow Distance, and Shadow Quality. Let’s discuss each of those first.

^{*NVIDIA's excellent Fallout 4 guide was taken down for some reason. This is the cached version.}

God Rays: These are part of NVIDIA’s volumetric lighting technology, and they do enhance the look of the game’s environment significantly, making Fallout 4 generally look more epic. But epicness comes at a big performance cost. Switching them to Low from Off will cost you a small ~6% in performance. But turning God Rays from Off all the way up to Ultra can result in a huge ~40% hit to performance. The visual differences between God Rays on Low and Ultra are negligible, so if you’re looking for a way to easily get a performance boost, consider lowering your God Rays settings first.

Shadow Quality: This affects the level of detail in the shadows. On lower settings, shadows look more pixelated and jagged. On high settings, they look smooth and more realistic. You’ll see a ~20% hit to performance between the lowest and highest settings.

Below, we show two comparisons for shadow settings. The first is between Low and Medium, and the second compares Medium and Ultra. You will notice immediately that Low shadow quality is much worse than Medium, but the differences between Medium, High, and Ultra are much less pronounced. If you need to improve performance, Medium quality shadows are a good compromise.

Shadow Distance: This affects the amount of shadow detail on objects in the distance, making the environment generally look more realistic on higher settings. You’ll see a ~15% performance difference between the lowest and highest settings with shadow distance.

In summary, for best performance:

• Set God Rays to Low.
• Set Shadow Quality to Medium.
• Set Shadow Distance to Medium or High.

Tweaking these three settings will produce the greatest bang-for-your-buck in terms of improving performance without hurting the game too much visually. If you tweak those and still aren’t satisfied with your framerate, continue lowering other settings down to High or Medium.

One other thing: If you’re noticing framerate drops particularly in grassy areas, lower the Grass Fade setting.

Logical Increments Tiers and How They Fare

To determine how your PC will perform Fallout 4, you’ll need to consider three things:

1. The resolution you want to play at (usually your screen’s native resolution)
2. How much graphical detail you want
3. How smoothly you want the gameplay to run

For our purposes, we aim for a very smooth 60+ FPS with the graphical settings turned all the way up. If you’re willing to lower any graphical settings, or you’re happy with framerates lower than 60 FPS, you can get by with an even lower-tier PC.

Below, we list the the tiers on our parts list that would achieve that 60 FPS baseline with Fallout 4 at a range of progressively more demanding screen resolutions.

1600x900

The Fair tier, featuring the GTX 1050 Ti and the R5 1500X, will get you very smooth performance in Fallout 4 for around $600 at 1600x900.

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Great tier, featuring the GTX 1060 6GB and the i5-8600K, will get very smooth performance for around $1000 at 1080p.

2560x1440 (1440p)

The Outstanding tier, featuring the GTX 1080 and the i7-8700K, will get very smooth performance for around $1400 at 1440p.

3840x2160 (4K)

You’ll likely need our Exceptional tier PC, with the GTX 1080 Ti and the i7-8700K to safely maintain very smooth framerates at 4K. That PC will cost you roughly $1800.

Note: As we mentioned in the CPU section of this article, you can reasonably build a PC with these higher-end GPUs and a weaker CPU. However, for each tier, we recommend a strong CPU that maintains a good overall balance with the strong GPU.

Video

If you want more specific build advice on hardware suitable to play Fallout 4 on a variety of settings, we have a video for that!

Conclusion

Once again: With Fallout 4, you want to make sure your GPU packs a punch. You can, however, skimp a little on the CPU, if you need to save money anywhere. However, our PC build recommendations aim to strike a balance of power between the GPU and CPU—not because you need a powerful CPU for gaming, but because you ideally want a balanced PC that can handle anything you might need it to do.

We hope this guide has helped you determine the hardware you’ll need to play Fallout 4 to your satisfaction, and what settings to use to help strike a balance between good visuals and good performance. If you want to do any more research on PC hardware, visit our homepage.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments below, or email us at contact@logicalincrements.com.

About Us

James has played Fallout 1, 2 and 3 extensively. He’ll be available again once Fallout 4 is completed.

The Falcon played a little of Fallout 3 and New Vegas. He intends to finish Fallout 4, if he can find the time.

Logical Increments helps more than a million PC builders each year with hardware recommendations for any budget.

Sources

1. Geforce: Fallout 4 Graphics Guide (cached version)

Gotta say I’m intrigued by how many different ways players have found to beat the game in survival mode. Every time I read a comment on the subject the “Here’s how you can survive Survival” advice seems radically different from what I did or what other commenters have done. And yet there’s no reason to doubt that it worked either.

My starting build was Strength 3, Perception 5, Endurance 5, Charisma 3, Intelligence 7, Agility 3 and Luck 2. Going high with Intelligence allowed me to level up quickly and get the Chemist perk early on, which made it possible to craft a lot of good things like antibiotics and gave an extra edge to chems. I also maxed intelligence out fairly quickly to get Nerd Rage, which went a long way towards ensuring I could survive tough combat situations and keep my progress.

I also poured points into Endurance both for the hit points and because, in my opinion, the best perks to mitigate survival mode are on that tree: Toughness, Lead Belly, Aqua Boy/Girl, Adamantium skeleton and –especially– Solar Powered. The other starting SPECIAL stats allowed me get the other perks that I though helped: Armorer, Rifleman, and Lone Wanderer.

This set-up worked very well for me. I was able to avoid settlement building and live off the land. Rarely even used stimpaks, RadAway or Rad-X in order to avoid the side-effects and got by on cooked food and Refreshing Beverages for healing instead. Stripped most weapon mods off of guns looted from opponents or bought from merchants so I didn’t need the crafting perks either. Still got one-shot killed a fair number of times in the first two dozen or so levels but never lacked for resources.

What was your approach?

First Answer

I never did a no-settlement survival build, might have to give that a try! I always end up building up at least a couple that I can retire to and re-up on water. And admittedly, I try to build a decontamination arch as early as possible. But anyway,

Favorite survival build: Shadow of the Apocalypse (Survivalist build; no mods required)

S:4 P:4 E:1 C:6 I:2 A:8 L:3

Put extra point from You’re Special! into Agility (for Blitz). Recommended to get Perception bobblehead early too for Demolition Expert.

This build has high agility, so yes this is more of a stealth type build. But it’s not the typical sneaky-archer type. You’re more brutal and uncaring, and do whatever it takes to improve your chances of short- and long-term survival.

Low endurance means low health, so you need to kill fast or be killed fast. +END gear can help with this if you want, but you still need to be smart with how you approach an engagement to make sure you don’t get yourself caught in bad situations.

Try to find a silenced long-range weapon ASAP. Take all perks that increase damage, especially stealth and silenced damage. Go for melee stealth kills often. Only use VATS for Blitz (great for stealth killing high-level enemies).

If you do get yourself caught in a bad situation, that’s where Demolition Expert comes in. Use mines to disrupt their plans of following you. Huck grenades at them. Do whatever, today is not the day you die! (unless you blow yourself up. don’t do that.)

All weapons, armor, and mods are scavenged or bought from vendors/caravans. Work/scavenge for caps as often as possible so you can buy better weapons, armor, and supplies when needed. Always ask for more caps (hence the higher charisma, also gets you lower prices). Give priority to armor that has muffled/sneak-friendly mods. Give the highest priority to anything that makes you look more like a post-apocalyptic badass that kills from the shadows (i.e. road leathers, disciple’s gear, muffled leather, etc.)

Settlements are little personal outposts. You’re a survivor, you know how to provide yourself with a safe shelter, water, and fire to cook the food you went out hunting for.

Second Answer

On my recent starting of survival I decided to purposely play a different game to what I had when Fallout 4 came out. In particular no minute-men stuff (until I finish the main game as Institute), focusing on the story until I reach the institute and playing it more like a FPS shooter than an action-rpg. So very little VATS use (only really to identify enemy locations). Also no making things easy via stealth and blitz (legitimate strategies people are welcome to use but I’m purposely embracing the difficulty). Also no lockpicking or hacking (just Cait and Nick)

To this end I think I started with STR 9, Int 9, LCK/PER/CHA/AG as dump stats and the rest in Endurance which I focused on with your SPECIAL and adding to throughout the game. Plus bobbleheads etc. I love the speed I level up though. I wear data-based helmets or a sharp combat armour piece with ushanka when out of armor. I’m using companions a lot more too so I don’t need lone wanderer (and I have a mod that makes dogmeat an extra companion like they seemed to have originally intended).

Early on I mainly focused on chemresistant-Lifegiver-toughness-nuclear scientist and chemist-science-guns-blacksmith-armorer. I used Big-leagues to save a lot of ammo in early levels and started focusing on commando once I had a good stockpile of fusion cells. I will look at Gunner once I have a good gatling laser and a pile of fusion cores. I’m working towards Nerd Rage, Pain Train and Solar Power.

I really like using automatics in survival. Once you get over the fact that you are going to burn through ammo like crazy they’re great. The goal of survival is surviving, and the best way is to kill the enemy quickly. I have a rapid laser rifle that makes medium range combat great (a trigger tap fires 5 times on target) and in close quarters when getting overwhelmed firing from the hip shreds attackers.

Third Answer

My favorites are as follows,

Caveman Build Rough description: Harness the energy of your ancestors and beat the living hell out of everyone with a big hammer to display your dominance.

Mods required: More Uniques/Unique Uniques

Weapons: Bongo Bongo Bongo, a mod weapon, it’s a hammer that does more dmg the lower your intelligence.

Armor: Cito’s loincloth from nuka world for it’s look and the grognak effect.

SPECIALS: S: Base 10, boost high as possible. P: Low priority special, your choice. E: Base 10, boost high as possible. C: Boost this for intimidation type encounters if you want. I: 1, and only 1. A: Get this up to 10 for blitz if you wanna have melee vats as a helping hand. And to outrun anything tougher than you. L: Get this to 10 if you do with agility for the melee vats part.

Perks needed: Idiot Savant, Big Leagues, Blacksmith, Solar Powered, Life Giver, Toughness, Leadbelly and Aquaboy since survival.

Perks reccomended: Blitz, Better Criticals, Critical Banker, Action Boy, Grim Reaper, Four Leaf Clover, Moving Target, Rooted

Next build,

Scavver. Rough description: Tired of being a walking killing machine? Kick back and let the machine do the killing for you, while you get absolutely rich on the fruits of the Wasteland; JUNK!

Mod’s Required: Mobile Mechanic, Automatron DLC highly reccomended.

Weapons: Something small to defend yourself like a decked out revolver or something, but try to focus on your robot’s killing potential more than yours. Any weapon that fits the scavver feel.

Armor: Anything scavver-esque, preferably stuff that will boost your carrying capacity.

SPECIALS: S: 10 eventually, for carryweight. P: Not really a high demand special. E: 10 off the bat, for surviving. C: 10 off the bat for better prices and getting money out of people. I: 8 for robot building. A: as high as you can get it for outrunning anything your robot can’t handle. L: 3 or so.

Perks Required: Scrounger, Scrapper, Fortune Finder, Robotic’s Expert, Caps Collector, Inspirational to make your robot better passively, Science, Gun Nut, Armorer, Blacksmith, Lead Belly and Aquaboy for survival

Perks reccomended: Local leader perks for supply lines and building workbenches and shops so you can get yourself a proper scrap monopoly going down the road.

EXTRA NOTE: For the Scavver build, if you have automatron I recommend building yourself some cheap protectron off the bat to carry your scrap for maximum profit. Improve it’s capacity where you can, you’ll be rolling in the materials needed for sure.

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