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Fallout 4: True Next-Gen Overhaul
🕑 Added 2024-05-05 15:47:40 +0000 UTC
With patch 1.10.980, Bethesda finally updated Fallout 4 and all its DLCs with the long awaited "Next-Gen Upgrade"...but the reality was much more disappointing than expectations.
Except higher framerate on the current-gen consoles and a slightly FPS bump on the PC version, literally nothing else was actually "upgraded" like most people where hoping for.
Some things actually got worse, like AutoHDR support now completely dropped both on consoles and PC...
So, following the stellar hype that the Fallout TV Show left on me, I ended up like:
After many hours of research and testing, I'm glad to announce my:
Fallout 4: True Next-Gen Overhaul Mods Collection (for PC)
Main features:
Ready to Install Collection of very carefully selected and correctly ordered Mods to truly upgrade the Fallout 4 experience + All DLCs to a real "Next-Gen" status
Graphics Upgrades including: Re-done Global Illumination and Reflections both for outdoors and indoors, 4K Textures and Blood, Enriched vegetation and Forests, New Dynamic Weather system, More realistic water/fog/volumetrics, Improved NPC and Enemies/Creatures faces/details and models and many other details. All without ruining or distancing too much from the original tone and style of Vanilla while getting closer to Fallout TV Shows style
Audio Upgrades including: Ambient & Reverb overhaul (e.g. new natural background sounds, gun shots reverb outdoor), more realistic and immersive sound
Gameplay Upgrades including: improved HUDs, immersive Inventory/Menus through Pip-Boy, Lowered weapons when not in use, Tactical Reload, QoL additions (e.g. Wait everywhere) and more
Additional Bugfixes and Optimizations: thanks to the community Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch, which will also remove stutters and smooth out performance over Vanilla.
Before you start
Requirements
Fallout 4 G.O.T.Y. Edition and/or ALL DLCs installed (via Steam or GOG. MS Store / Xbox Game Pass version may NOT work fully/properly)
Game version 1.10.980 or newer
NO OTHER MODS INSTALLED: the game must be Clean/Stock before proceeding
Launch the game at least once BEFORE installing the mods (to generate .ini files for the first time)
Use the game launcher to set all graphics settings to Ultra/Max Settings (except the "Debris" setting to be set to Off to avoid crashes on NVIDIA cards). If you have performance problems or low FPS, try lowering your resolution a bit
A NexusMods valid account
Vortex Mod Manager installed
(Optional but Recommended) LOOT installed (for better organize Mods launch order)
Best practices
Considering the big size of the whole Collection, I recommend to subscribe to NexusMods Premium Account (even for only 1 month) to remove download bandwidth limitations and install everything much faster with 1 click
If you want to stay with a Free Account, you must manually click on "Download" for each mod to be added in Vortex and then leave your PC/Vortex downloading/installing at a much slower pace overnight
These mods will disable Achievements. If you want to try to restore them, have a look at Achievements Mods Enabler
If you have an NVIDIA RTX GPU (2000 Series and newer) and using an HDR display, I highly recommend enabling RTX HDR
Let me know what you think of it.
Personally, I'm (literally) having a blast.
Enjoy! :)
-P
Comments
P40L0
Well then no, you have to stick with Windows 11 AutoHDR which will only work for selected SDR titles, not all.
Emil Mathisen
Ya but got a amd card
P40L0
You can with RTX HDR now (which will auto convert anything SDR in DX9-12 and OpenGL-Vulkan through a small NVCP setting change to HDR10) I can clearly see by eye when a game is SDR or HDR but I also measure them and post results here :) But to be sure usually you can just launch them in Exclusive Full Screen mode and you would see the usual HDR logo triggering on the TV when launching them.
Emil Mathisen
Unrelated question but can you use hdr on every pc game? Like how would you know if a pc game supports hdr?
Victor Luong
Thanks brother! I appreciate the update
P40L0
Just an update: HDR is back thorugh AutoHDR support now re-enabled. But RTX HDR remains the best option if you have it ;)
P40L0
For sure. Unfortunately native HDR is out since the next gen patch, so RTX HDR remains the best option (on PC) for now
Victor Luong
If there happens to be HDR implemented (native, not auto) as a result of today's update, let us know how it fares 😋
Luke Spring
Ah my bad, was browsing on a Mac (with no Vortex installed). I was looking for a traditional 'download all' button. All good, downloading on the PC now! Thanks!
P40L0
Be sure both Vortex and LOOT are installed on your PC, you're logged in in Vortex and Fallout 4 folder is ready/linked to Vortex. You have links and instructions for both here: https://next.nexusmods.com/fallout4/collections/4lmnvs Then click the "ADD TO VORTEX" button up in the page to begin download and install everything automatically.
Luke Spring
I'm probably being stupid, but how do I download all of these in one go on Nexus Mods? (I have premium)
P40L0
Honestly I don't think I will as I consumed so much time to create this collection on PC that I almost have nausea to think in re-doing it again on Xbox (which is way more limited at mods support and there's no way to re-enable achievements there once mods are enabled)... Generally speaking, if and when you find the same mods also on Xbox mods' search go for it.
Vogeliano
Will you make a post of recommended mods for xbox?
