Modder ‘Rikintosh’ has released a new mod for Fallout 4 that attempts to improve its graphics by reworking the LOD of distant models. As such, players can now see more houses, trees, advertisements, and vegetation in the distance. At the same time, this mod decreases the pop-in of distant objects.
Do note that this mod is for high-end PC systems, and comes in two versions. The first one, Ultimate GFX, features high-quality models, and 512 or 1024 textures with optimizations. The second version, INCEL Edition, comes with the highest quality models, and large textures with high-quality BC7 compression. This second version is for those that have enough amount of VRAM, so avoid it if you own a GPU with 4GB or 8GB of VRAM.
Unfortunately, the modder has not shared any before/after comparison video. However, you can find a screenshot comparison below. As you can clearly see, the modded version (left) looks noticeably better than the vanilla version (right).
You can download the mod from here.
Speaking of Fallout 4 mods, we also suggest taking a look at the following ones. Whispering Hills is a cool Silent Hill mod and The Wilderness Mod adds a worldplace that is as big as Nuka World. Moreover, Fallout 4: Sim Settlements 2 Chapter 2 adds new quests and a game mode. Furthermore, this mod aims to overhaul the AI of the NPCs. There is also a 3.7GB Mod that adds 14 different weapons, and a 3GB Mod that overhauls all buildings of the Commonwealth. Lets’ also not forget this mod that adds an unofficial Photo Mode. You can also find an HD Texture Pack that overhauls the textures of all landscapes. And lastly, this mod adds 10 thousand trees to the game.
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“As you can clearly see, the modded version (left) looks noticeably better than the vanilla version (right).”
Okay I admit, I’m blind. I tried really hard to see the difference (I zoomed 200%), still nothing.
You can see more detail in the closer objects and more objects in the distance.
Look in the branches of the trees. There’s also some detail in the buildings and especially the elevated highway that can be seen in the INCEL screenshot that are missing in the vanilla screenshot.
The differences are so small that you can miss them if you’re not looking right at them when you switch from one screenshot to the next, so my recommendation is open them both in separate tabs and use the Ctrl+Tab shortcut to switch back and forth so that you don’t have to look away from the screenshots.
It’s a lot easier to tell the difference comparing the screenshots using this site:
https://imgsli.com/MTE4ODA1
This is a LOD mod, so pay attention only to the distant 3D models. You will immediately notice the improvements.
Immediately, huh?
This guy a friend of yours or something? Let him know he should post his own pics- maybe some that demonstrate the difference (because those shots don’t show much of anything- which may be why the user posted them). Straight up lazy. The endorsement to dload ratio is pretty low, so I assume people generally feel kinda gaslit.
Why was this worth writing about?
Pretty great name for a mod lol
What?
“Incel edition” for the mod version name was funny lol
Slightly better but not worth downloading you would never notice it in motion.
This game is still fundamentally broken AFAIK?
The draw call issue (Completely tanks FPS in certain scenes on any system) is still present isn’t it?
The mods would make things even worse if so.
There’s a mod for the game called “Buffout 4” which can massively improve performance on some systems by replacing the memory allocator with Intel’s TBB memory allocator. This mod does require several other mods, at least one of which needs to be installed manually (Vortex still doesn’t properly support mods that don’t go in the Data folder), but it’s not difficult to install them.
Bethesda’s games, sort of like the Arma games, have really inefficient memory allocation and benefit greatly from using Intel’s TBB memory allocator over whatever memory allocator they use (probably the default C++ memory allocator).
Note that you’ll also want the “High FPS Physics Fix” mod so that the game doesn’t go wonky when your FPS is higher than Bethesda expected (assuming your uncap the FPS via config file edits, which is limited at 60 FPS by default). Both of these mods can be found on NexusMods.
Game already funs like a potato with a 3080. Do I really want to punish myself more?
This LOD mod has now been taken down.