Fallout 4

Question for PC players:

I got my hands on a used GTX 1080Ti through a friend who's upgrading already. I installed the new drivers over the old ones since this is supposedly fine these days. It's the same generation anyway.
I did a Heavens benchmark test and it gave me almost twice the score as my 1070. So far so good.

BUT in FO4 when I'm in my heavily modded settlements I have ZERO performance improvement. Graygarden still gives me 18 fps from some angles same as before. WTF?!
So I fired up Assassin's Creed Syndicate and here I have better performance. I can finally max out all graphics settings and get 58-60 fps. If it's a drivers issue shouldn't I get bad results everywhere?

I'd actually be careful. You're having a lot more luck than most people.

For the record, deleting your reserved space probably isn't actually helping, except by coincidence. At least, the people researching the issue are quite convinced that it's not doing anything. Some of those reporting the issue are saying it helps sometimes, so there may be something to it, but because the problem is on Bethesda's end it's probably just resetting the connection to the server temporarily.

I haven't played any of the games you mentioned, so this is pretty much a shot in the dark:
for some games, the CPU may actually be a performance bottleneck just as much as the graphics card. If for example all those FO4 mods and their integration into the main game require some CPU power, an upgraded graphics card may not be much help. The same is probably true for games with intense AI calculations and the like.

That's a pretty good CPU that should have little difficulty with anything, but some engines/games/mods might be coded badly (or just "expensively") enough to cause surprising losses in performance, especially if you combine them with mods that increase the engine's standard capacity for something. Limits like that are often imposed because they represent what the game engine can handle under normal circumstances.

I don't know what these FO4 camps are like, but if 5-15 times the normal size also means that many more NPCs wandering about or items lying around, that could be the reason. System RAM might be another possible cause (and is also easier to upgrade).

You could always try starting an unmodded game for science and see if the performance is different.

I have 16GB of RAM. Should be enough.

The CPU is now probably the bottleneck but I would think a new one would reward me with only 5-10 fps improvement. So not worth it. I don't have any other big AAA games installed right now like Witcher 3 I could test. But I suspect my settlements are just too big and have developed into a black hole, lol.

Thanks for your input, guys!

I have an I-7 4770 with 16 GB or RAM and don't have nay problems with Fallout 4 or any recent games with slow downs.

Today, I was in Vault 88. I was in the main area where you meet the Overseer. A ghoul came at me while I was in build mode. I accidentally clicked on it and the ghoul was scrapped, broken down for its parts. This was repeatable with ghouls, deathclaws, mole rats and radscorpions.

I think a mod might be responsible. I have one that supposed to let me scrap corpses so they don't clutter up areas where I want to build. I did once have one that allowed for the removal of rocks and bushes that stick through floors. I got rid of that one because I'd accidentally removed the ground and that looked even worse.

Did anyone else ever encounter something like this or is it just the mod?

The raiders have turned chicken shit whenever I approach any of them, they scream and run away. I don't know if its because I am at a high level compared to them or I happen to have the Silver Shroud outfit on. Thought I had this thing happen in an older game to.