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Revision as of 03:46, 24 November 2015

Fallout 4
Fallout 4 cover
Developers
Bethesda Game Studios
Publishers
Bethesda Softworks
Engines
Creation Engine
Release dates
Windows November 10, 2015
Fallout 4 on Wikipedia
Fallout
Fallout 1997
Fallout 2 1998
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel 2001
Fallout 3 2008
Fallout: New Vegas 2010
Fallout 4 2015
Fallout Shelter 2016
Fallout 4 VR 2017
Fallout 76 2018

Key points

Capped at 60 FPS with the V-Sync mode. Uncapped when V-Sync is disabled, higher framerates will cause the physics to behave oddly.

General information

PC Report
Bethesda Forum for Hardware & Software Issues on PC
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Incomplete installer.[1]
Windows
Publisher website
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Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
Amazon.co.uk
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Windows
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Windows
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Windows
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Windows
All versions require Steam.
The Fallout Pip-Boy App is available for Android, iOS, and Incorrect store name. See here for available options.. The Pip-Boy App Enabled setting must be enabled under Gameplay settings in-game.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Season Pass Automatic access to any DLC released for the game when available.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Configuration Tool

Allow stuff to be changed easily, such as the FOV, and things.

Shadow Boost

Results may vary, framerate may not improve in all cases.
Reduces stuttering and raises framerate by dynamically lowering the distance of the Shadows until a certain FPS is achieved.
Instructions

Game data

Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.

Configuration files location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/377160/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/377160/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

Launcher settings.
Launcher settings.
Launcher advanced settings.
Launcher advanced settings.
Graphics settings.
Graphics settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

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Vertical Sensitivity

Instructions

Audio settings

Most languages are region locked by default.
Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Not available in Japan.[2]
Traditional Chinese
Asia only, not included in Japan.[2]
French
Europe and North America only.[2]
German
Italian
Japanese
Japan only. No other languages are included.[2]
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
South America only.[2]
Russian
Spanish
Europe and South America only.[2]
Limited to English only in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish in most European countries, other than the United Kingdom. Not available in America.
Russia and Poland are limited to Russian and Polish, the English language is also available.

Issues unresolved

Crash to desktop during Hunter/Hunted

This issue blocks the continuation of a quest-chain.
Approaching the quest objective will result in a crash to desktop without any errors. As of current, if you wish to progress the quest-line, you will have to teleport into the related building and then teleport to an area that does not crash the game.
Instructions

Entering Cambridge Police Station makes the player fall through the ground[3][4]

This issue may block the continuation of a quest-chain.
You may speak to characters inside the building if you enable noclip: open the console and enter tcl.
To exit the building afterwards, as the doors did not spawn in, you must teleport to another location, i.e. coc sanctuaryExt.

Issues fixed

Pixel aura thing

This setting disables the volumetric lighting.
Instructions

Fix Stuttering

Instructions

Graphical issues during rainy weather

Instructions

Dark shadow layer over gameplay

Dark layer example.
Dark layer example.
Higher resolutions (e.g. 3440x1440, 3840x2160) may have an intrusive dark layer overlapping gameplay.[5][6]
Instructions

Console doesn't open when pressing the tilde (console) key

This issue occurs with some non-US keyboard layouts.
Instructions

No in-game audio

Instructions

Major screen tearing when Windows Aero is disabled while in a borderless mode

This is due to Aero's double buffering.
When using [Windowed][Borderless] in Windows 7 & 8
Instructions

Missing face textures

Currently the game does not support SLI and CrossFire, which might cause missing face textures on the main character. (e.g. Black face texture, wrong skin color etc.)
Crossfire appears to work fine when the CrossfireX Application profile is set to TESV.exe (Skyrim) (big fps gain on my 2x5870)
Instructions

Permanent Slow-motion Bug

This bug may occur when using Jet, or any other item that slows down time in-game.
You will be stuck in a slow motion state across all your saves. Reloading or waiting will not fix this.
Instructions

Frame Rate Won't Go Higher Than 48 FPS

Instructions

Network

Used to communicate with the Pip-Boy app.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)[7]
TCP 27000
UDP 28000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Shader Model support 5.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok[8]
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

A 64-bit system is required.
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2300 2.8 GHz
AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7870
2 GB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/377160/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (377160) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References