Unfortunately your testing missed the real issue with Fallout 4 performance which is the CPU. Others have reported that the game is very demanding of high cores/threads and my i5-6600 struggles with this game. It turns out that the recommended i7-4790 is not an exaggeration. Your tests using the i7-5960x would never have detected the problem. Only a few have i7's so this is a bad idea by Bethesda.

most of my friends have older CPUs such as 920, 2500K and for all of them performance is fantastic, they play on ultra preset with 60+fps. i just don't see how your cpu can struggle in this game, i suspect user error / hardware / drivers conflict.

Well based on what benchies are showing, the difference between Medium/High/Ultra is literally nothing.. so really, when people like yourself mention "playing on Ultra", actually.. there is only one setting. You can call it Ultra, but Medium=High=Ultra practically, as far as performance is concerned.

I'd argue it actually looks worse in motion. The animations are awful. I think elements of the gameplay are good and the story is decent and maybe even the art direction is interesting but the rest is sub average. This is Bethesda, not some indie game studio. The UI/Item interface is terrible (like every Bethesda game). The animations are terrible. Some of the textures look like they are borrowed from Fallout 3. The Engine is a complete mess -- the physics simulation rate is still tied to the framerate of the game. The open world excuse doesn't hold water anymore. GTA does it fine, Witcher 3 does it fine, Farcry 4, Just Cause, Metal Gear -- they all do open world games now and yet their graphics feel like they belong from this year. Bethesda sold upwards of 10M+ copies of Skyrim -- it's one of the best selling games of all time and yet they are still sitting here using a modified version of the Morrowind Engine. Will I play the game? Yes. Will I mostly have fun with the game? Yes. But I think we as consumers should be demanding a little bit more return from them. They can do better.

I'd argue it actually looks worse in motion. The animations are awful. I think elements of the gameplay are good and the story is decent and maybe even the art direction is interesting but the rest is sub average. This is Bethesda, not some indie game studio. The UI/Item interface is terrible (like every Bethesda game). The animations are terrible. Some of the textures look like they are borrowed from Fallout 3. The Engine is a complete mess -- the physics simulation rate is still tied to the framerate of the game. The open world excuse doesn't hold water anymore. GTA does it fine, Witcher 3 does it fine, Farcry 4, Just Cause, Metal Gear -- they all do open world games now and yet their graphics feel like they belong from this year. Bethesda sold upwards of 10M+ copies of Skyrim -- it's one of the best selling games of all time and yet they are still sitting here using a modified version of the Morrowind Engine. Will I play the game? Yes. Will I mostly have fun with the game? Yes. But I think we as consumers should be demanding a little bit more return from them. They can do better.

SPOT ON MATE! so happy I didn't cash out for this title like my 3 friends who aren't happy. I might once it's gonna be on sale for under 20 euro and there will be proper texture packs from modders. Let's hope that Bethesda won't disappoint with next DOOM or they won't be seeing a cent from me,like ever

There's a funny rumor that the head animator was hired because he was a friend of a guy whom works there. The guy had failed animation classes twice so he must be a legit guy if true. Well the animation quality at least would be explained by lack of skill.

I was disappointed with use of gameworks and all that brings to most of games. But it hardly matters now. As shops, game review sites and such rated it 8.7/10. Then users themselves 4.6/10. If it gets GOTY in time and there is nice discount, then it may be worth it.

Yeah yeah we know is a good card in DX11...this year. 😀

What! If this gets goty then that simply makes the award of goty something that isn't earned, but instead bought. Unless you're referring to a goty edtion containing all dlc?

I am still getting more and more happy about my 980Ti 😀 Destroys everything ! :P

who use this nvidia blackbox.

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Honestly it is a crock of ****e that this game is getting anywhere near 9s. LOL. This industry is a ****ing joke when it comes time for the holidays. A JOKE. This is a rehash. Not even close to as good as Far Cry 4 was. NOT EVEN CLOSE. And yet here we are acting like they did anything right in this game. I feel like I am playing a game from 5 years ago. The animations are so bad it's funny. The graphics are terrible. The story is complete schlock. Dear god I cannot believe people convince themselves this is a great game. In what world has this buggy POS earned a Grade A 9/10 ranking? This game is a 6.8 for me and nothing more. Will wait two years before I actually buy it because by then mods will have made it playable. Over and out. Glad I have loads of better games to play for sure.

Honestly it is a crock of ****e that this game is getting anywhere near 9s. LOL. This industry is a ****ing joke when it comes time for the holidays. A JOKE. This is a rehash. Not even close to as good as Far Cry 4 was. NOT EVEN CLOSE. And yet here we are acting like they did anything right in this game. I feel like I am playing a game from 5 years ago. The animations are so bad it's funny. The graphics are terrible. The story is complete schlock. Dear god I cannot believe people convince themselves this is a great game. In what world has this buggy POS earned a Grade A 9/10 ranking? This game is a 6.8 for me and nothing more. Will wait two years before I actually buy it because by then mods will have made it playable. Over and out. Glad I have loads of better games to play for sure.