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Revision as of 23:26, 2 May 2016

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

Massive amount of mod support and community-created addons.
Capped at 60 FPS through the default Vsync mode. The framerate is uncapped by disabling vsync. However, higher frame rates will cause the game physics to behave strangely and the lockpicking/hacking mini-games behave erratically.

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
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
All versions require Steam.
The Fallout Pip-Boy App is available for Android, iOS, and Incorrect store name. See here for available options.. This feature can be enabled under Options, Gameplay, and by setting Pip-Boy App Enabled to On.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Season Pass Contains all DLC.
Windows
Automatron
Windows
Wasteland Workshop
Windows
Far Harbor Releasing in May.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Utilities

Fallout 4 Configuration Tool

Instructions

Patches

Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch

A comprehensive bug fixing mod that aims to eventually fix every bug with Fallout 4 not officially resolved by the developers.


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Mods

ENBoost

Fixes issues such as stuttering when there is no more available video memory, a problem that occurs when using high resolution texture mods.
Can force V-sync and includes a frame limiter to help prevent stutter.
Instructions

Shadow Boost

Reduces stuttering and raises the frame rate by dynamically lowering shadow distance until a certain frame rate is achieved.
Instructions

Game data

Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.

Configuration file(s) 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
Stores up to 953.67 MB of game saves online (maximum 1000 files).

Video settings

Launcher settings.
Launcher settings.
Launcher advanced settings.
Launcher advanced settings.
Video settings.
Video settings.

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Widescreen resolution

Instructions

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Vertical sync (Vsync)

Major physics issues at frame rates higher than 60. Some input lag is also present.
Instructions

Disable Depth of Field

Instructions

Input settings

Input settings.
Input settings.

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Mouse acceleration

Instructions

Vertical sensitivity

Instructions

Audio settings

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

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Localizations

Available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish in most European countries.
Russia and Poland are limited to Russian and Polish, the English language is also available.
The global version has all the languages available, an example is purchasing the game on Green Man Gaming which has all languages even Japanese.[2]
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Not available in Japan.[3]
Traditional Chinese
Asia only, not included in Japan.[3]
French
Europe and North America only.[3]
German
Italian
Japanese
Japan only. No other languages are included.[3]
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Central and South America only.[3]
Russian
Spanish
Europe, North, Central and South America only.[3]

VR support

3D modes State Notes
Nvidia 3D Vision
See Helix Mod: Fallout 4.

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

This issue may block the continuation of a quest-chain.[4][5]
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

Pixelated aura around characters and objects

This setting disables the volumetric lighting, along with the god ray effect.
Instructions

Major stuttering

This does not solve the issue entirely (Placeholder text)
Instructions

Graphical issues while raining

Instructions

Broken shadows while playing

Dark layer example.
Dark layer example.
Ultra-widescreen and 4K Ultra HD resolutions are affected by this bug.[6][7]
Instructions

Console not opening when pressing the tilde key

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.
Instructions

Missing face textures while using SLI or CrossFire

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

Permament slow-motion while playing

Instructions

Frame rate locked to 48 FPS

Instructions

Mouse cursor not visible in menus

Instructions

Network

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)[8]
TCP 27000
UDP 28000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.
These ports are used to communicate with the Pip-Boy app.

Other information

API

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

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok[9]
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