Fallout New Vegas...performance increased!

Not sure if it was the preview 11.4 drivers or the latest update 5 for Fallout New Vegas, but this game used to run as badly as Bulletstorm did for me even with .ini tweaks. Ok well maybe not as bad as Bulletstorm, but it was pretty bad. I remember the game would semi-freeze every 20 seconds or so and pretty much constantly stutter. I played maybe 5 hours and I couldn't play it anymore. I was using 10.11 drivers at the time.

I reinstalled it last night out of a whim, and wow. This game is playing incredibly smooth on Ultra w/ AAX4 and AFx15. Playing with a 360 controller now makes the controls alot better IMO since aiming with a mouse isn't as necessary due to VATS.

But yeah, im just glad it works incredibly well now.

 

What notebook? Because I maxed it out no issue on my G73JH before updating my drivers and I haven't played New Vegas in well over a month. Only way I could get it under 40+ FPS is to use that adaptive focus blur mod thingy.

 

Yeah, NV was fine here. You sure you weren't running stuff in the background before?

 

Wow really? Using a g73jh here. I used to browse other forums and a bunch of other people were having issues on their more than capable rigs. There was this d3d9.dll file or something like that which was supposed to fix it but it didn't work for me. Also the .ini tweaks for quads didn't help at all.

I never run anything but FRAPs in the background while playing. Last time i played it only update 2 was released. And the update notes do specify increased performances in multi core systems. Not really sure why it was acting up for me, but now all is well.

 

Did you have any mods running? Like I said, I have a dynamic depth of field mod that drops my FPS to the 15-20 range if I use it outdoors, 30FPS indoors. If I disable it, I'm at 40+ FPS and running smooth.

 

Look into the DX9 mod. It ran like crap for me before it. I'm also using a sky mod that gets rid of the ugly yellow tint.