Fallout 3 stuttering performance

[Deleted member 61728]

Hi i have fallout 3 v1.7 am getting lots of stuttering inside buildings but not at the wasteland or vault 101 any ways to reduce the stuttering ?

My rig is a q6600 @3.0ghz,gtx260 am running game at 1920x1200 high graphics settings.

 

[Meridian]

Turn shadows down or off?



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[Deleted member 61728]

Ok ive got shadows and water effects aswell as vsync completely off theres still stuttering going on in most buildings quite annoying when outside runs very smooth.

 

[barmyllama]

There are many fixes for the stuttering posted all over the internet for this game, but for me NON have worked for me.

The best of it is, the stuttering is worse now that my PC is more powerful than when I first owned the game when it first came out.

 

[Dutch Guy]

Do you mean that the framerate is high but doesn't feel smooth or is the actual framerate dropping low?

 

[Sobtanian]

Edit your fallout.ini file (in your documents\fallout 3 folder) and change ifpsclamp to 60. Default is zero.

See if that helps?

 

[sammo62]

Serious Menu and Pip-Boy lag in FO3 for me. Can't quite understand it given my computer.

 

[Vince]

I used to get the stuttering problems in closed areas, Vats and in the pitboy when running 2 x 38xx series ATI cards. More recently I fired this up gain with the 5850 and its been great.

The strange thing was, on my old setup I could change all of the settings to their lowest, dissable crossfire and still have poor performance. With the same board, processor and ram but just a new card its flawless now.

I guess its just one of those games that is a little sketchy on particular setups. Does it still stutter if you turn averything right down?

 

[dmxdex2020]

Its the games engine. Get a couple of SSD drives to make it more or less gone.

 

[Deleted member 61728]

Im getting above 45fps on average inside its when you move and look to the left or the right when it stutters.Ive turned shadows off,water off,vsync off,aa and af off,changed ifpsclamp to 60 in the fallout 3.ini, tried different screen res still the same annoying stutter remains.

 

[GeezerButler]

Try the fpslimiter program - helped me with stutter problems in oblivion and seems to be recommended for fallout as well. Google for it, it's a quite well known tweak.