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I normally avoid JRPGs, they tend to have no clue of how to make a PC game. As I can't use a controller for the life of me, think I'll avoid Dragons Dogma. Heck I couldn't even for the life of me even trigger a Down+Forward+Punch hadoken using a controller or in an arcade.
I think I'm almost ready for those pointers Jackal
So you reached the ... "ahem"?
Anyway I sent you a message, spoiler filled though, be warned.
In other news:
http://gamerant.com/...ll-floor-guide/
Yay! Looks like this would be more accurate then using CE to patch up my walls/floors/roofs.
I haven't built the *ahem* but I'm about to...Thanks for the run through! I'll be clearing quests tonight then studying up- you're not wrong that the path I choose is full of pitfalls! o.O
The Dragon's Dogma port has full KB/M support and to be honest I don't think you'd find it any harder than DAO. The grab/climb function is just a matter of getting close and hitting the button- I imagine it would be a left click on the mouse - rebinding is supported at any rate. 
@Godzilla- the thing about Dragoin's Dogma is- no one is going to spoil the story in a vid because nobody cares about the story lol! Seriously, I think anyone who's played it will agree- you don't play it for the story, you play it for the gameplay. Anyway, this dude's review in a pretty nice overview- faults and all. Bear in mind it is of the console game, not the pc version which will look and run much better.
I left out several unnecessary spoilers, so once you built the *ahem* you might be in for the surprise tonight 
I'm sure Danse's resolution was intended to be better, but based on reports of cut content and voice files, looks like the devs ran out of time. I would save constantly, especially before you use the console command I mentioned, as there could be DLC or a mod that will expand on this further. You chose a really tricky companion, tied into the main quest - it's a good and bad thing.
Still don't know about Dragons Dogma, I'll wait for reviews I think. I simply dont trust JRPG devs to make a good port, they never have from my experience.
Lol! The choice is kind of forced on you if you want to romance a boy- he's the only one who appeals apart from Deacon and Deacon isn't available.
Once again Danse is so much like Kaiden, if you choose him in one (gay shep hack FTW) then you have to choose not to kill him, then he's gone for all of two and can turn against you and need killing in three sigh. All the best companions are tricky and hard work lol! Zevran was a bit the same in DAO. I don't know why the devs hide their best male NPCs behind a tricky quest wall. Is depressing!
As is the fact that I didn't get to play at all last night BOO! Some cheery #*ck decided to have fireworks somewhere over the hill and the noise set Akira right off- I was playing with squeaky toys in a desperate effort to get him tired enough to sleep well past log off time. :/ I don't usually game during the day time but I'll make an exception to make up for it today.
Apparently Capcom are considered reliable in their pc ports, they've ported over the DMC franchise and everyone's happy, so your fears may not be realised. I'll play it with a controller anyway since the kb/m thing is awkward in a lounge chair so it makes no difference to me. I can't wait! They always swore it wouldn't be released on pc... must be the petition I guess. There are high hopes that if it does well on pc Capcom will release Dragon's Dogma Online in the west. Now that would be a beautiful thing. I'd even stop wishing for Monster Hunter Online to get a western release then.
Yeah I always found it strange that they didn't make Deacon romancable, either than Danse he's probably the only other interesting one. Overall I'm not really happy with the female romances, Piper has a sweet voice for me, but she doesn't tie into the story enough so she ended up being a friend with benefits just to keep my widowed character satisfied until Danse warms up lol, Cait is errr, a tad too damaged IMO. For me if I want my character to commit to a romance in a game it has to be tied into a story.
As for ports, I'm a KB+M player, to the bone, as I simply can't use a controller, nor do I like it, so my standards are higher, a standard that JRPG devs seem to be too clueless to achieve.
Mods I'm using now:
companion infinite ammo
all radiant quests marked 1.1
faster terminal displays
fr4nsson's light tweaks - bloom disable
improved map with roads - darker
lowered weapons 1.1
mo betta scrap
vivid landscapes 1k
vivid rocks 1k
realistic ragdoll force - action
patrolman sunglasses retexture by castroll - gas masks/other sunglasses
simple bug fixes
simple intersection
eyes of beauty fallout edition
True Storms wasteland edition ( removed due to bad fps )
darker nights
fogout
Better item sorting (strings version)
enboost with a lot of tweaking ( removed crashed to windows a few too many times )
modded ui
You need to add "True Storms - Wasteland Edition" and, as a bonus, "Darker Nights" to that list. Both work well together, but the latter is of course a matter of taste. The first it not, it's a matter of...AWESOME IMMERSION!!! 
Companion infinite ammo? Thanks for the headsup, will be using it. Companions either than Danse can be pretty much useless with their default weapons. Especially Preston... hell... even Piper can kill faster than him with her pistol.
BTW Peregrinus, be warned with texture packs, unless you are using an SSD. The vanilla game streams in the textures from the BA2 archive, and the cycle is much lighter compared to the engine loading loose files. And texture packs have ALOT of loose files. I'm holding off on the big ones myself until they find a way to pack BA2 files - as I lost performance instead of gained.
@Jackal I pulled the texture packs and gave it a go. It seems to run about the same so I'll wait til people start packing the texture files in BA2. I did have to lower the shadows to low which don't bother me too much but it is pretty ugly.
I'm still using Vivid landscapes though, it doesn't replace too many files hence doesn't stress out the CPU/HDD cycle too much and it uses much better looking 1K textures compared to the vanilla 2K ones.
Also use ShadowBoost if you want the shadow distance to be drawn dynamically according to your FPS - though it might (in theory) suck up some of your CPU.
Some of the city areas are too much for my laptop. I had to reduce quality settings to low. I think the game still looks fairly nice. I wish I could set the shadows higher but that creates too much lag.
So, on a gut instinct.. I uninstalled the crimson drivers and reinstalled my ATI catalyst 15.5 drivers which I ran Witcher 3 on.. The game is a lot better in cities now. I get stutter here and there but it's not unbearable like it was on the crimson set. strange.
Now you know my problem, you need a top-end computer just to run the game smoothly when in Boston. For me no graphical quality settings helped, it's the CPU. The engine is struggling to render next-gen graphics efficiently with its ancient framework, unlike something like Red Engine 3. Even i7s and FX9590s are having FPS problems in the city apparently.
I've been testing the ini tweaks to see how I can squeeze out performance and make the game playable in the city on my 4 yr old PC. Here's some tweaks under the General section of my Fallout4.ini , so far it's stable and has improved my FPS quite a bit after a month of experimentation. Be sure to backup and test these one by one, as they may hurt your performance (but for me I've tested with/without and this is the best so far):
bUseThreadedAI=1
(unsure of the gain here)
iNumHWThreads=4
iHWThread8=3
iHWThread7=3
iHWThread6=3
iHWThread5=3
iHWThread4=2
iHWThread3=2
iHWThread2=2
iHWThread1=2
iAIThread2HWThread=3
iAIThread1HWThread=2
iRenderingThread2HWThread=1
iRenderingThread1HWThread=0
(Boris recommends against this, but for me, it definitely helps. What the above tweaks do (in Skyrim as well) is 2 cores dedicated to rendering without any other touching it, it helps alot in Boston, and it doesn't seem to cause any crashes for me - obviously you can play around with this depending on your CPU. It seems on default the cores are processing everything at once instead of being dedicated to tasks)
fProcessListsUpdateHighFrameRate=30.0000
fProcessListsUpdateLowFrameRate=22.5000
fProcessListsUpdateTimeMax=1.0000
fProcessListsUpdateTimeMin=0.2500
iLowProcessingMilliseconds=2
(These tweaks are experimental but for me it works, I don't know what it does exactly but I noticed periodic 1.5s spikes of -10 FPS in the city, like it's processing at the cost of stuttering the game. So - in theory, I cut down the time the engine dedicates to processing in between frames, letting it trigger at a minimum of 22.5 instead of 20 FPS, and allowed it to only spike for 1 second max instead of 1.5.
For me it helps smoothen out the lag spikes in the city, though it will still spike if running fast (you may encounter an unloaded cell that magically renders a few feet ahead of you for eg, but it helps it to be smooth enough to aim during heavy battle)
Updating the drivers and putting my CPU on max performance power mode as well as these tweaks has allowed me to play without VATs. All without overclocking.
But yeah, hopefully there will be mods or a patch to fix the performance issues in this game. Bethesda did release a patch back in Skyrim that overhauled/optimised the CPU usage of the game, so I hope they do the same here. If not the modders will do it in time. Or we can upgrade to a top-end machine, which is what I'm doing eventually.
BTW have you guys seen Star Wars yet?
You need to add "True Storms - Wasteland Edition" and, as a bonus, "Darker Nights" to that list. Both work well together, but the latter is of course a matter of taste. The first it not, it's a matter of...AWESOME IMMERSION!!!
I'm using darker nights along with fogout and it's pretty nice. I'm unsure if I want to mess with the weather system though especially if it takes away from performance.
@Jackal tickets were sold out for Star Wars where I am so possibly in a week or two.
I think I'm going to leave the .ini alone. I'm pretty happy with how things look and run. I wasn't expecting it to run well as it does so I'm not going to tinker too much til I've gone through the game at least once.
Sold out? Even now? Wow lol
And yeah that's the safer bet to leave inis alone, I'm a tinkerer so I can't help myself 
Especially when I want to squeeze that FPS out that I need for combat playing on survival difficulty. Speaking of which, some more shots!
Pistol VATs is so OP on ghouls
Awww you poor baby!
And...
I FINALLY found it! I always found just pieces here and there but yay!
I'm using darker nights along with fogout and it's pretty nice. I'm unsure if I want to mess with the weather system though especially if it takes away from performance.
Performance loss is there, but you have a choice: Choose the "rolling fog" option during installation and there might be a noticeable performance drop during heavy fog weather. Or you leave it out and there should be almost no noticeable performance loss.
You gain very immersive weathers. When it rains, it poors. Sometimes there is even thunder and lightning with visible lightning forks. He pulled all of that off without any scripts even. It's amazing.
Oh and I'm not saying "install it to see it", the videos on the mod page are impressive enough. If they still don't convince you I'm afraid the mod itself wont either. And of course I can totally understand the need for good performance. ^^
GODzilla Good call on True Storms! It works great with fogout and darker nights.
I was so impressed by it that I installed the true storms for Skyrim.
PS : I actually get better frame rates with True storms because it's not constantly changing weather patterns multiple times a day. It's also more realistic weather wise unless of course you are thinking Florida weather which is what the default system reminds me of.
I also added better item sorting. That was driving me nuts.. Waiting on Gopher to make his immersive UI for FO4.
I tweaked some .ini elements. The biggest fps gains I got was from altering :
My task is done here...back to heaven.
...oh wait, I'm a human being and bad to the core. Must have dreamt it... 
Here's my christmas gift to you guys/gals. If you are tired of the Get Windows 10 icon and notification like me.. This utility will get rid of it permanently. http://news.softpedi...er-490567.shtml enjoy!
I haven't seen it on Windows 7 either. It seems to be Windows 8/8.1 that is plagued by it.
Huh? I'm not getting the notification on win 7
Anyway merry xmas!
Muhaha, great vid!
BTW: (SLIGHT SPOILER IF YOU KNOW THE CONTEXT...but then again if you know you already know. ^^
http://i.imgur.com/tuHMpzp.jpg
Captain Scarlet embarking on her maiden voyage through the Wasteland...sailing through...wad? 
Merry Christmas to all! Great vid Jackal!
Argh! I accidentally aligned with the railroad before going to bed, then forgot about my mental note to reload from the hard save point the next night... now I've lost a few hours of play... lol! Thankfully I was just mopping up already active quests but some of them were hard going... *sobs*
I haven't noticed any performance drops in the cities at all...I'm starting to think the i7 4790 and gtx 760 combo is like a special blend or something... weird!
Umm... yeah, your i7-4790K is the best CPU for FO4 actually, have a look:
http://www.gamersnex...ance-difference
BTW Peregrinus I'm surprised you dared to lower shadow distance, for me I can't stand the shadows being drawn in front of me so it's minimum 3000! heh
So I tweak other dangerous settings instead... >.<
Mine's the 4790 3.6gh not the 4790K 4gh but still not having issues.
Sorted my reload issue and am now ready to roll. interestingly enough Deacon admires me now and I got extra dialogue which I didn't have before. Odd but cool. I'm all Dansed up and ready to push on though, Jackal do you know about the *secret* 5th ending?
I haven't played much this past week or been in here because of ongoing issues from my concussion, random room spins and gaming are not a good mix lol! Seems to have settled now though, I hope to be finished in time for Dragon's Dogma, which I am unreasonably excited about.
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