Fallout 4

You actualy have only 8gb or RAM for gaming with the information picked up from outside this thread.

The Intel HD5500 is NOT a graphics chip, its a hybrid CPU.

Which means that in practice you have a much lower CPU clockpseed then listed, and only 2/3rds your ram, since every thing else is trying to emulate a graphics card.

Unless the chip reads Nvidia or Radeon you can not expect a laptop to work consistently for games, since those are the only two discrete chip makers, and you need a discrete chip if you want them to work right. (or just play much older games)

edited 28th Feb '17 3:07:54 PM by Imca

I see.

And I have a laptop that isn't chip-friendly...

Well... There could be a way to get extra graphics goodness for Fallout 4 without paying the over inflated cost of a so-called gaming laptop, but it's a bit involved.

Have a look at this:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984716/laptop-computers/how-to-transform-your-laptop-into-a-gaming-powerhouse-with-an-external-graphics-card.html

It's a pretty detailed guide, I reckon. Anyway, could be worthwhile for a visit.

So I'm buying a laptop. I've got my eye on a $600 ish machine that has 8gb of ram, an Intel processor, and a 2gb dedicated GPU. I can't remember the details off the top of my head.

Will Fallout run well on this machine? Or should I just accept the fact that lag's going to be shit and put ALLLLLLL of my perk points into VATS?

What GPU?

The modle number is the most important bit.

" NVIDIA Ge Force 940MX"

Good thing you changed it to include the X, there both good cards but the X is about 50% more powerfull.

Either way that video-card should be fine..... I think..... its about comparable to the 760m, which I know will play FO 4.

This is an exciting mod: Transfer Settlements - Shareable Settlement Blueprints. I haven't tried it out yet, but being able to just import finished versions of Sanctuary, Red Rocket or the Castle instead of (re)building them for the nth time would save hours and hours of playtime. Plus it means I might be able to explore all those wonderful mega-settlements I see on the Fallout 4 Settlements subreddit.

Interesting mod. Thanks.

new computer has arrived.

Fallout 4 runs so amazingly on it. It's breathtaking.

As celebration:

That must have been a hella high-priority target

You feeling okay, Doctor Penske?

I know, this game is great!

I have to say . . . the Supermutants have always considered themselves superior but we never see any kind of effort by any of them, even the smart ones, to strike up a true symbiosis with humans. I mean, we reproduce, they don't. It seems logical for them to at least try painting themselves as a second stage in the human life cycle, rather than as autocratic assholes who kidnap people. I don't know very many people would willingly go through the FEV, but it's worth seeing if maybe the reason so many people die or turn out wrong with it is because they AREN'T willing subjects. The fight or flight response lets loose so many hormones like testosterone that maybe those things poison the subject against the FEV and make things worse.

It's like the Tok'Ra from Stargate SG-1. They can take the sick and old and make them better again for a while. Granted, that might also poison the body against the FEV, but somebody facing imminent death is more likely to strike up bargains and willingly try crazy things for a longer lifespan.

Other than The Master... have they ever been portrayed that way? 80 percent of the ones the player meets are rampaging, cannibalistic monsters. I recall hearing a few saying something along the lines of "the time of humans is OV-VUR!" in either 3, 4, or NV.

If they did that they'd BE PUNY HUGH-MUNN'S themselves.

They're MADE from puny humans, so they ARE puny humans at heart. Just most of them are brain damaged. Possibly because, again, most of them weren't willing test subjects. The scientists in this series mostly aren't ethical. If you actually had a slightly more ethical (can't say an actual ethical scientist, because no one ethical leans on the fear of death to lower peoples' resistance to something that often directly causes death) scientist who offers it up to people who would be more willing to try it, you might actually get more sane and reasonable ones like Marcus and Fawkes.

Fallout 4 does a HELL of a job with the humanizing enemies, dude. I slaughtered my way through those raiders in that giant fortress made of ship carcasses.

And then I read the log that the leader was keeping. Holy shit.

I didn't so bad about killing Wire — the guy was a Minuteman deserter and I just barely managed to avoid getting exploded by that one goon who carries around a Fat Man. I was just relieved the place was cleared after I blew his brains out.

Oh I didn't feel bad about killing him at all. He had become a criminal and a monster, and needed to be put down. I just feel sad when I think of what he used to be. The ideals he used to have. He once executed his two best fighters for raiding caravans, and when he remembers his old General, he's so ashamed he can't even bear to write logs anymore.

I mean, I felt more sympathy for Wire than I did for Kellog.

Was that humanizing enemies, dude comment aimed at me? Because it didn't really relate to what I was saying . . .

I haven't been reading many logs, mostly because I've been distracted leveling up my relationships and grabbing perks to fight the Glowing Sea. I took the level nine endurance perk about radiation but it feels bugged to me, maybe. I still take rad damage. Only thing I noticed different was that my health bar increases a little bit right on the Pipboy screen when I eat irradiated food. Which might have always happened and I didn't notice because I didn't look.

ETA: Wikis are wonderful. And now I understand it. Level one only gives you half as many hitpoints as rads you take. So at full health you won't heal. Level 2 heals 100%, level three 150% and level four is where I need to be for that perk to do its thing. This is going to be a long slog. At least it prompted me to take that mission going into Far Harbor to help Kasumi.

edited 27th Mar '17 8:12:53 PM by Journeyman

Oh, no. I was just rambling.

Between the terrible jokes, the endless supply of purified water, and fact that he can take out enemies in a single swipe of his buzzsaw I think Codsworth might just be the most useful companion starting out. I didn't even care that I had a dog until I got that mod that lets you keep Dogmeat around even if you have another companion.

I really like this game's command interface. Much better than New Vegas's. And New Vegas was otherwise my favorite game. I got a mod that lets me keep all my companions. Companion army!

Same. If I didn't gimp myself with style over substance by keeping that sweet Drifter's outfit on instead of proper armor, we wouldn't be dying so much. And by we, I mean me. Even then we've managed to take on Deathclaws and win. Heck, only reason that Alpha Deathclaw beat me was because it zeroed in on ME and wiped me out. If it had focused on my allies we could have taken out the last of its health.

Oh my god guys

a Bottomless Magazines double-barrel shotgun.

Oh my god nothing can touch me anymore

edited 30th Mar '17 6:07:06 AM by blkwhtrbbt

I got one of those in an automatic rifle, so I slapped it in Nick's hands and kept rolling with shotguns, ten milimeters, and Righteous Authority.

??????? What the hell is this?

Who puts a scope and a silencer on a goddam shotgun?

Who the fuck built this weapon

Silencers actually help shotguns a lot in this game.