Let’s face it: If it weren’t for the modding community, games like Fallout 4 probably wouldn’t still be a major part of the AAA gaming world. Despite the Bethesda RPG coming out in 2015, it’s still getting plenty of love, as evidenced by this one modification that fixes load times.
Thanks to Nexus Mods user Antonix35, you can now enjoy speedier loading times with their Fallout 4 plugin. As well as making the game load faster in general, the mod also fixes “in-game vertical sync for high frame rate monitors,” adds in the ability to “select loading screens,” and more.
The modder says the whole thing works by “speeding up slow locations in game code that are slowing down other loading threads.” Now, I don’t know much about the inner workings of modding so that means nothing to me. However, some of you out there will have a better understanding of what Antonix35’s Long Loading Times Fix does. I mean, it works!
The proof of the pudding is in the loading
Just to make sure that we get an idea of just how fast Fallout 4‘s load times are now, a video has been provided that shows the mod in action.
A timer in the corner displays how much quicker it is now to fast travel between locations and other loading zones. Some of the times are now just a couple of seconds. The quickest one seen in the clip is when the player enters an internal location at Diamon City, which clocks in at 0.64 seconds.
In fact, the longest time we get to see is when the game itself is loaded up at the start. It takes just over eight seconds to boot up the save file, which is still pretty impressive.
