
A great many problems and performance issues - particularly stuttering and crashes in Fallout: New Vegas - can be traced directly to sub-optimal settings in Windows and out-of-date or badly configured drivers. General System OptimizationĪlmost as important as any in-game setting is the way your Windows installation is configured.

The aim here is to give you enough information so that you can make an informed choice as to the settings you enable or disable to obtain the precise balance of visual quality and performance that is acceptable to you. Performance information is also provided, although bear in mind that the precise impact on your particular system depends on your specific hardware combination and your other game and system-wide settings. What follows are full descriptions for all of Fallout: New Vegas' in-game settings, including screenshot comparisons to highlight the impact on image quality of changing the most significant settings. Basically, if your system can run Fallout 3 then you should be able to run Fallout: New Vegas at similar visual quality. The requirements are quite modest because Fallout: New Vegas is based on a game engine which has been around for many years, most notably used in Fallout 3 and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.


If you're unfamiliar with the Fallout series of games, the quirky premise is that America effectively became culturally stuck in the 1950's 'Atomic Age', right up to a devastating nuclear war which occurs in the early 21st century.
