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Revision as of 07:31, 11 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

Frame rates above 60 FPS cause mechanics such as lockpicking to speed up, resulting in unplayable gameplay.[1]
Game speed is locked to frame rate.[2]

General information

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

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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DVD only contains a small portion of game data (5 GB).[3]
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.

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

Game data

Gameplay settings.
Gameplay settings.

Configuration files location

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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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Mouse acceleration

Instructions

Audio settings

Audio settings.
Audio settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Australian, European, North/South American, New Zealand, Polish, Russian, United Kingdom, and Asian (excluding Japan) copies only.[4]
Traditional Chinese
Asia only (Excluding Japan).[4]
French
European (Excluding the United Kingdom) and North American copies only.[4]
German
European (Excluding the United Kingdom) copies only.[4]
Italian
European (Excluding the United Kingdom) copies only.[4]
Japanese
Japan only.[4]
Polish
Russian and Polish copies only.[4]
Brazilian Portuguese
South American copies only.[4]
Russian
Russian and Polish copies only.[4]
Spanish
European (Excluding the United Kingdom) and South American copies only.[4]

Issues unresolved

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]

Issues fixed

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

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

No in-game audio

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.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok[8]

Pip-Boy app

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.

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