TTW Performance Guide (OLD, Do not use!)

Post by **RoyBatty** » Sat Sep 09, 2017 7:30 am

Well that's an issue with ENB then.

Post by **Tanis41493** » Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:28 pm

So I was having some performance issues, and I found some other ways that helped to fix the problem.

1) Clear your temp files (C:\Users\Your Username\AppData\Local). It will tell you that some files can't be deleted because they're in use. You can either go terminate that program, or just ignore it (chances are, the amount of space it occupies is usually negligible)

2) Increase the amount of virtual memory you're using. Go to System (Windows 10 users, right click start and at the top select "System") then click Settings under Performance on the first tab that pops up. Choose virtual memory under the "Advanced" tab that will pop up. From what I was told, the maximum you can set it to by default is 3x your total RAM in MBs. Change your "Initial Size" to whatever the value under "Currently Allocated" is at the bottom of that window. Change the Max size to anything else, I went with 3000 (I have 8 GB) and it's made a noticeable difference.

3) If you have Windows Defender (all Win10 users do), there's a pesky little program that likes to eat your memory usage like crazy. Antimalware Service Executable, or MsMpEng.exe. There's a whole guide on what to do about this, and they explain it better than I could so just click the hyperlink right here. Not included is one additional step option at limiting it. Go to Task Manager > More details > click on the Details tab; Right-click msmpeng.exe > select Set affinity > select the CPU limit threshold. Or, click this link here and just disable Windows Defender in totality.

Hope this'll help somebody!

Post by **CVB_Taihou** » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:24 pm

hmm.....seems like people's mileage is vary with the iNumHWThreads value?

Post by **Deathclaw_Mayor16** » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:13 am

[quote=John]

Ok I discovered something about iNumHWThreads it says to set it to two but I find out that that it depends on how much cores you have I was crashing every half an hour until I changed the 2 to 4 (I have 4 cores) and I was able to play for an hour without crashing or freezing

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That isnt true.New Vegas can only use two cores.Setting it to more wont do anything.Your crashing issue is more likely something to do with mods or mod conflicts.

Post by **Jish** » Wed Oct 04, 2017 4:11 am

is it absolutely needed to use clean saves for this to work properly? i got kind of far in my current save despite performance drops.

Post by **RoyBatty** » Wed Oct 04, 2017 4:55 am

No, you can apply the performance tweaks at any time.

Post by **toggy twonga** » Fri Nov 03, 2017 10:12 pm

Hello. I'm trying to get the absolute maximum performance possible mixed with balanced textures.

I've already done all the suggestions above, I just have a few questions.

So do performance enhancing mods, like NV optimized and Performance of the Gods, add to performance, or are they, as you said earlier, placebos? On that same note, are tweaks to the inis, like the background loading tweaks and cell buffer sizes, placebos too? Also does performance increase while using an ENB with the effects disabled?

Post by **toggy twonga** » Fri Nov 03, 2017 11:10 pm

Also what about texture compressions?

Post by **RoyBatty** » Fri Nov 03, 2017 11:14 pm

As for NV optimized and Performance of the Gods and similar mods, I've never understood the reasoning of removing content to add content... the ones that delete records are bad.

INI tweaks are mostly placebo, or harmful. Never touch ugrids, or cell buffers. I've not tested background loading enough to make a determination. The other multithreading settings should not be touched, most of them aren't used by the engine anyway.

Performance can increase with ENBoost because MSAA (quite taxing) is disabled, among other image effects. It also breaks any image space modifiers in the game which are used for various things. I don't personally recommend it.

Texture "optimizers" do the opposite, they are crap, avoid.

Post by **toggy twonga** » Fri Nov 03, 2017 11:24 pm

In particular, this is what I used:

Clutter Be Gone - DLC and Base Games moveables statics and statics

No Muzzle Flash

Blur Killer

Clean Delux TTW

FNV Base and DLC optimized

Performance of the Gods

I've also used Ordenator Texture Optimizer

Whats weird is that it seems to increase my FPS. is it just a giant placebo?