FPS Dynamic Shadows - Shadow Enhancement

This plugin for Fallout 4 adds the ability to dynamically control shadow draw distance based on the desired user-defined fps.

Many of you may have noticed that at some points in Fallout 4 fps even with good hardware the fps drops, like in New York City, most of it happens in

Areas with many objects. Because the game isn't properly optimized, almost everything it does with the objects it renders takes a lot longer

It actually should. One of the most time-consuming operations in Fallout 4 is shadow rendering, since the game only has predefined shadow extraction

Distance, works for every place anywhere and we have a choice either we set it to a high value but have a good picture but

Eventually facing fps drops in locations with a lot of objects, or we lower the value to make fps generally more stable. that's exactly the point

This plugin comes in handy!

Install

• Copy ShadowBoost.asi and ShadowBoost.ini to the game's main folder, where Fallout4.exe is located.
• In order to load the asi plugin, you need to install the asi loader, so copy the Fallout 4 asi loader (xinput1_3.dll) from this ditrib to the main game folder.

Tweak

The settings in ShadowBoost.ini are very simple

fTargetFramerate - your desired fps, the shadow draw distance will be adjusted smoothly until the game fps meets this value. If you are using vsync or fps lock, you must set this value to a few fps (2 to 5) lower than the actual fps limit, otherwise boost may treat the locked fps as balancing itself and stop increasing the draw distance

fDistChangeSpeed ​​- distance change speed, safe range from 0.5 to 5.0, default = 1.0

fShadowDrawDistMin - Minimum value for shadow draw distance, it will never be set lower than this value in game, default = 2000.0

fShadowDrawDistMax - the maximum shadow draw distance, it will never exceed this value in the game, default = 15000.0

x360ce

If you are using the x360 controller emulator library with Fallout 4, you will need to rename it to x360ce.dll in order to load it.

FAQ

Q: Can this plug-in access the game's .ini files?

Answer: No, it is not, the only ini file plug-in uses is ShadowBoost.ini.

Supported game versions

1.1.29.0,1.1.30.0,1.2.33.0,1.2.37.0,1.3.45.0,1.3.47.0,1.4.125.0,1.4.132.0,1.5.147.0,1.5.157.0,

1.5.205.0,1.5.307.0,1.5.416.0,1.6.3.0,1.6.9.0,1.7.9.0,1.7.10.0,1.7.12.0,1.7.15.0,1.9.4.0

You can see a comparison to the original game in this video, fDistChangeSpeed ​​is 1.0 here