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You'll need to manually change this important setting to get a better Fallout 76 experience.
Years after its rocky launch, Fallout 76 has improved a lot, though unlocking its frame rate is still a prerequisite to having a good experience. If you're arriving in Fallout 76 for the first time and feeling frustrated with how it controls, you may be fighting against that default 60fps frame limit that it uses by default.
Locking frame rate has been a standard part of Bethesda's RPGs for a long time, thanks to a system that tied in game frames to its physics system in ways that can make things go wacky at higher frame rates. Luckily Fallout 76 doesn't have this problem, but frustratingly you still cannot change the frame rate in the settings menu while playing. Just like in the old days, this requires a little extra legwork.
Thankfully, there's a solution to the limit in Fallout 76, and it will be familiar to anyone who has played previous Bethesda games from the series. (As with tinkering with any game file, you do so at your own risk.)
Years after its rocky launch, Fallout 76 has improved a lot, though unlocking its frame rate is still a prerequisite to having a good experience. If you're arriving in Fallout 76 for the first time and feeling frustrated with how it controls, you may be fighting against that default 60fps frame limit that it uses by default.
Locking frame rate has been a standard part of Bethesda's RPGs for a long time, thanks to a system that tied in game frames to its physics system in ways that can make things go wacky at higher frame rates. Luckily Fallout 76 doesn't have this problem, but frustratingly you still cannot change the frame rate in the settings menu while playing. Just like in the old days, this requires a little extra legwork.
Thankfully, there's a solution to the limit in Fallout 76, and it will be familiar to anyone who has played previous Bethesda games from the series. (As with tinkering with any game file, you do so at your own risk.)
- Open Documents > My Games > Fallout 76
- Open Fallout76Prefs in Notepad
- Hit Ctrl+F and search for iPresentInterval
- Change iPresentInterval=1 to iPresentInterval=0
- Save the document, and close