Blackout and time to go to the fridge
Bethesda seems to have deliberately included a nostalgic element for all fans of waiting. While waiting for the new, “improved” game areas to finally load, you can almost build a real-life Nuka-Cola blender. You’d think that next-gen technology would be a little faster, but apparently it’s a trip back in time to the early days of gaming history where loading screens took longer than some quests. A true “achievement” in the world of modern gaming, brought to you by the masters of time theft.
By the way, you can take your time and even boil a soft egg. Despite a clean install, a Ryzen 9 7950X3D as well as 32 GB DDR5 6200 and a GeForce RTX 4090, some loading times are simply the spawn of hell. And they are not even reproducible in length! Once Cambridge to the Plaza with almost 4(!) minutes (at first I thought the PC was hanging again), then back through the door in at least 54 seconds, then back in and waited another 2 minutes, then back and bam! Crash.
Speaking of crashes, the “update” also brought back a nice old bug, which apparently only affects NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX (not the GTX) and also causes a premature return to the desktop. The good old option for “weapon debris” likes to crash the game. Simply switch it off completely and you can play for longer at a time. Ok, a little longer… Of course, I played with the “Extreme” preset, for the full graphical drone or what they think they can put in front of us.
I also adjusted and limited the frame rate to my monitor, which was also very helpful for stability, especially indoors with very high FPS numbers. I could largely forget about the savegames; if you’ve used mods, it’s better to start from scratch. Otherwise the loading times become even longer and sometimes nothing loads at all.
Modding? What modding? Go watch the movies and pay!
In the universe of Fallout 4, where the modding community is actually the lifeblood, the next-gen update has dealt a real death blow. Players are complaining en masse about mods becoming unusable, which has led to a storm of indignation in numerous Steam reviews. Technical problems such as performance drops and regular crashes have done the rest to turn the whole thing into a real disaster. Bethesda certainly did not intend this, but it will be interesting to see how they react to this harsh criticism. Clearly they’ve managed to simulate time travel back to the early days of gaming, where every click was a gamble.
I think the move with this completely useless patch, just to condemn the upcoming and long awaited big mod with London as a game world to failure before the launch, is outright spiteful, arrogant and only served to their own sales with the colorful little movies. And that is precisely the point of not even watching this cinematic bastardization. Not on principle alone, especially as the infantility of what was served up in advance as a trailer can hardly be topped.
But since I knew what I might be getting myself into, I backed up the game folder and savegames beforehand and deactivated cloud storage. This gaming pile-up is going down again and I can only advise everyone to buy the game from GOG. Even downgrades are possible without such finger exercises. And otherwise? I’ll play the original again, use the community’s great mods and hope that the London expansion makes it to release after all. But please don’t adapt it, leave it as it is. The next-gen update is not one.
That’s exactly why I didn’t waste any time with benchmarks, because my inner monk fought it tooth and nail. He’s right!
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