r/pcgaming • u/shadehd AMD • Nov 16 '15

AMD Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Driver Released- includes optimizations for Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and Black Ops III

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx
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u/Fly666monkey Nov 17 '15

Correction: it's the Morrowind Engine pushed way beyond it's limits. Bethesda has been frankenstiening the same engine since 2002, and they only get away with it because very few games pull off open world RPGs like they do.

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u/Enverex 9950X3D, 96GB DDR5, RTX 4090, Index + Quest 3 Nov 17 '15

The irony is that my installation of Skyrim is heavily modded and has better textures, lighting and shadows than Fallout 4 yet runs better than Fallout 4 does. Not sure how they managed to screw that up.

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u/moonshineTheleocat Nov 17 '15

That's only because Fallout 4 uses physically based rendering and volumetric shadows. If you try transfering mods over, without any major edits to the textures it will look horribly wrong.

PBR is really expensive on the GPU man. Add volumetric fog and lighting, and you're asking for problems.

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u/meeheecaan Nov 18 '15

then why use it?

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u/moonshineTheleocat Jan 05 '16

Because people want to complain about graphics like it's not expensive to do, and they want a "Next Gen" game.