Fallout 4 has just been released, and below you can find some comparison screenshots between the game’s Low and Ultra settings. Fallout 4 is powered by the Creation Engine and as we can see below, there are some noticeable differences between the game’s Low and Ultra presets.
In open areas, the distance sliders make a huge difference between Low and Ultra settings. Unfortunately, however, Textures appear to be almost the same, something that kind of disappointed us.
The lack of SSR, lens flares and Godrays is also immediately noticeable.
Low images are on the left whereas Ultra images are on the right.
Enjoy the screenshots and stay tuned for our PC Performance Analysis!
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My Intel HD 4600 intergrated graphics are ready for this game!
It looks ugly, yeah, but still is ridiculously high-demanding. 3 gigs of VRAM recommended.
Makes sense, some of the areas are massive and full of details.
It doesn’t use 3GB of VRAM at all, it barely hits 2GB of VRAM on ultra at 1080p outside.
Same, haven’t had a GPU in months.
Godrays on ultra is really demanding but looks really nice, espeically with the fog. Check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBOMbtSpfFs
Reminds me of Stalker Clear Sky’s god rays.
Yeah but these God rays are real geometry not faked effects. BTW, did you know Batman Arkham Knight don’t use tessellation on walls at all? They use Virtual displacement mapping, a 2004 tech similar to Parallax Occlusion Mapping, fake effects in a 2015 game LOL.
Those godrays look really annoying, I’ll be turning that off once I get the game myself.
Textures are somewhat blurry, but besides that graphics arnt that bad. I hope moders will improve texture quality in this game :), and by the time I will finally play fallout4 it will look superb
There is no difference between medium texture and Ultra texture but other settings work fine
Unrelated to this but one thing that really irked me was their choice to limit content on the physical discs for PC. They cited piracy as the reason but all they did was save money by not having to press multiple discs.
Obviously it didn’t do sod all to even slow down Piracy as the pirated version was released right on Day one. I am afraid more developers are going to follow suit and inconvenience buyers who have either limited bandwidth or atrocious internet speeds.
This is no diffirent from skyrim.
Man this excuse is laguhable i bought wolfenstein new order retail so i wont have to download 45 godamn gigabytes and i had to download 10 more gbs.
WTF?
Seriously wtf?
Lets not talk about mgsv that apparently the disc contains only a steam exe.
Hows gta v? Anyone who bought it retail knows?
GTA V was alright, it shipped with 7 discs. I wouldn’t mind that many discs at all if it includes the entire game.
well at this point they released so many patches that techicly gta v is not the full game on disks.
Well that’s the whole idea of preloading, you can download most of the game before it unlocks. Installing a 40Gb game from disk is slow anyway ,even more of a joke on consoles.
But that would involve buying it before it comes out isn’t it?
Also having a decent-to-good internet connection without a data cap.
Avoiding those annoyances is the point of going retail.
Of course but at least you have the game when it unlocks. retail still takes time to install anyway from multiple disks. Who wants to disk swap now days? lol
Not everyone has unlimited bandwidth to download how much they want. Furthermore for some people it may take a week to download the game due to their atrocious speed. Discs will take an hour or two, and I am fairly certain that the nuisance of swapping discs can be easily overlooked.
I never experience such issues with retail disks, I posted a screenshot of my Borderlands 2 installing from disk via Steam. Fine, if you want retail get it, I just don’t understand the downloading from the internet when you got the disk thing because all my retail disks installed from disk not downloaded from Steam.
Yeah most games definitely used to have entire game on disc, however these days some games like fallout 4 and Phantom Pain don’t and that is the problem we are talking about.
Sorry, I didn’t realise that, only until later did I and my mate was saying the same thing with Skyrim retail.
It’s cool man, sorry for confusing you. But yep, that’s what pisses me, to save money printing discs, publishers are cutting content from disc, giving you no other choice but to download.
People with crappy internet and data caps, those are the ones that benefit from retail discs.
Well, who’s fault is that? Retail is a minority now, it’s expensive for retailers too.
Yes, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that buying a bunch of disks with f*ck all in it forcing you to download it is a d*ck move.
Why even bother printing the sodding thing if I have to download it anyway?
I’ve heard this before and I don’t get it. I brought Skyrim and Just Cause 2 on retail disk and they both installed from disk, not downloaded instead. I can put the disks in now and they will install from the disk so I don’t get it. My mate claimed he had to download Skyrim fully, my skyrim installed from disk.
Then you got extremely lucky or are lying (I’m giving you the benefit of doubt lol), because everyone that I know, was prompted to log in and download the rest of the content or even the whole game.
Also, this right here direct from Bethesda:
The speed of the install from disc will vary according to different situations. For example, I have an SSD, and it will hardly take me long to install to it.
Not only that, but as I have mentioned in my post before, a lot of different people do not have access to either high speed or unlimited internet. Mind you, I am not talking about third world countries only here, but even developed countries like the UK and USA have a substantial amount of people still living on Data Caps, where they are limited to a set bandwith each month.
As you can imagine, due to that, even if you have a good head start to download the game, you will be limited by the data allocated to you.
Then there is the issue of speed. Would you rather wait an hour or two to install 40gb from disc or days?
Why are you making the case based on your internet bandwidth and caps? It’s not anyone’s fault but the ISPs or your willingness to pay more for uncapped downloads. I pay £10 a month for a 38mb line with no download cap, that’s not expensive at all.
Some areas, like gorton in Manchester, are severely limited by speeds. There is absolutely no optical fibre available here, and neither will be for the foreseeable future. The maximum speed you can get there is barely an mb. You really can’t do much.
Also I am completely allowed to make a case using that. Your objection to it does not make the circumstances null. They still exist.
Like I said below, retailers won’t stock many PC games because people mostly buy from Steam, it’s not worth their time and money.
And I absolutely understand that, even agree with you. However, when you are providing a physical mean of distribution to your AAA game, why would you half tackle it and not go all the way through with it ?
you pay !0 POUNDS!!! holy hell, in Texas I have to pay $100/month for my internet! Comcast has a monopoly over here ;/
Wow, that horrible. :/
the best way to get them to drop their price is to get everyone in America to cancel their subscription in protest. They will lower their prices, unfortunately that won’t happen.
tbh if you have a friend that own this on steam, all you have to do is get them to share their account with you and then play offline when its installed.
But you’d still have to download it.
my point was about piracy.
Texture setting does nothing. Textures are effectively identical on Medium, High and Ultra.
exactly what I was going to say. I bet if they had Ultra, they wouldn’t know how to optimize it. Bethesda is a lousy company.
The pics looked the same to me sans the lighting of the ultra settings in which case I prefered the low settings.
Just to clear things up. People keep saying there is a frame-rate cap in this game. I can assure you there is not, it’s v-sync forced on internally, Bethesda’s usual way via a command. So, if you have a 60Hz monitor you will get up to 60FPS, if you have a 144Hz monitor you will get up to 144FPS. V-sync is not a FPS cap.
Also note that NVIDIA users can force v-sync off in the NCP which works with Fallout 4, AMD users DF reported that AMD users can’t by doing it in the CCC.
So why does my 144hz monitor get 47fps?
Something wrong your end then, I can get over 100FPS on my 144hz monitor, I’ve done videos.
Because your computer sucks?
Except the game logic breaks above 60 fps, so there’s that.
We’re using a 120Hz monitor and the game is locked at 60fps (unless we remove the cap manually)
John, can you approve my comment with the links to Godray pictures? Thank you.
It’s not FPS capped John. This is with v-sync set to “Use 3D applications Settings” for fallout 4.
http://i….imgur.com/gLq1hbl.jpg
Turn down the Godrays on low to avoid the Nvidia sabotage.
http://images.nvidia.com/geforce-com/international/comparisons/fallout-4/fallout-4-god-rays-quality-interactive-comparison-006-ultra-vs-low.html
http://images.nvidia.com/geforce-com/international/comparisons/fallout-4/fallout-4-god-rays-quality-interactive-comparison-002-ultra-vs-low.html
http://images.nvidia.com/geforce-com/international/comparisons/fallout-4/fallout-4-god-rays-quality-interactive-comparison-001-ultra-vs-low.html
Texture wise it’s sub Far Cry 2004. Almost PS2 textures.
By your logic, AMD sabotaged NVIDIA GPUs in Dirt Showdown. AMD has poorer tessellation performance, it’s a known fact, even AMD admitted it.
dont mistake malice for incompetence.
But PC users want the best quality possible with options right, not console level fidelity with no options?
Low looks like a bad console port and ultra looks like a good console port. From last gen!
FFS, now they are just taking the p!ss.
He doesn’t know those shots are at 4K so the high pixel density doesn’t show the low God ray volumetric lighting precision. Look at my 1080p ones.
Yeah, yeah, I’m watching you two fighting over and over in the comments lol.
I care not for this, I think it’s useless, taxing, and don’t make a lot of difference compared to their other stuff and it is just the usual Nvidia marketing shenanigans.
Turn it off, move on yadda yadda.
Yes, some files would be installed from the disk, others will be downloaded, specially if its a old game because it will have a bunch of updates and/or updated content.
Why does the Low screenshots consume more system RAM? Also the Ultra screenshots have higher framerate.
Cause no one else is even remotely making similar games, much less allowing modding to the extent that fallout allows.
The lighting looks good on the outside, but those textures make me wanna puke. Also why is nothing casting a shadow in the interiors?
Not too much of a difference… Trying playing the new Black ops on ultra and then turn it on low. Its like a game from 1999 vs a game from 2013-4. Fallout 4 just has some better lighting and some better distance on the shadows..
Why are the textures almost the same? Hm.
all i see is a little aa here and there added windows and some grass. what is the point in their sliders then ?