Fallout 4 might look a smidge better (and more colorful!) than its last-gen predecessors, but it could always look better, right? As “a love letter to our amazing PC fans,” Bethesda announced on Monday that a high-res texture pack is coming to The Commonwealth sometime next week, for free.
The Fallout 4 Subreddit. Talk about quests, gameplay mechanics, perks, story, characters, and more. The Fallout 4 High Resolution Texture Pack is now out on Steam (store.steampowered.com) submitted 2 years ago. Yeah I could just let it download the textures when I'm at work and come back and play but the overall improvement doesn't. Turns out there's actually an extra Fallout 4 DLC following Nuka World after all, and you don't have to even pay for this one! It's a high resolution texture pack that will overhaul the look of your game -- and a massive download, clocking in just shy of 60 GB.
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Fallout 4's high-resolution PC texture pack has landed on Steam. You can grab it right here ( via NeoGAF ). As announced previously, the texture pack is meaty, requiring 58 GB of hard drive space. Fallout 4's mammoth high-resolution texture pack is now available to download through Steam as a free add-on. Provided you already own a copy of Fallout 4, you simply need to head to the Steam. Is Fallout 4's High Resolution Texture Pack Worth It? (Patch 1.9) #. I figured I would review it and let you guys know whether the High Resolution Texture Pack for Fallout 4 was worth it or not.
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This is the GeForce GTX 1080 you’ve been waiting for. The EVGA GTX 1080 FTW puts EVGA's personal touch on Nvidia’s beastly card, and it's a winner, from its high base clock and custom cooling to its extra 8-pin power connection.
The catch? You’re going to need one hell of a PC to run it. The official recommendations from Bethesda include a six-core i7-5820K and 8GB of dedicated VRAM on your graphics card (a GeForce GTX 1080 is specifically listed). Oh, and on top of that you’ll need a whopping 58GB of storage space for all these hot textures. That’s in addition to 30+ GB for the game itself.
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Now sure, you could possibly find better textures through extensive piecemeal modding. But if you’re still playing Fallout 4 or haven’t started yet, then this is a presumably stable first-party solution a la Skyrim HD. Pretty cool.
The irony though is that many of the popular texture mods on NexusMods take things the other direction: They further compress Fallout 4’s textures, many of which are already huge for seemingly no reason.
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For instance, here you’ll notice the most downloaded mod is the “Fallout 4 – Texture Optimization Project,” which aims to reduce stuttering by “replacing the high-resolution textures with properly compressed and resized textures.” Yes, the mod description terms Fallout 4’s existing textures high-resolution, because many of them already are.
Anyway, the free texture pack will be at least a slight boost for the few, the proud, who manage to run it. Not as noticeable as a lighting overhaul perhaps, but hey, never before have trash and rusty cars been so crisp and lovingly rendered.
Whether it’s worth playing Fallout 4 at all? Well, that’s a different question.
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