Not much content there if you want more to the game besides standing around looking pretty in the rain. So we have the usual visual tweaks to make pretty stuff more pretty. There’s very little loss of quality, but a noticeable performance boost. If your PC is straining and a wobbly FPS is giving you a headache, these textures might be a big help. It takes the original Fallout 4 textures and replaces them with compressed and resized versions. The Texture Optimization Project is more of a performance mod than a graphics overhaul. You will feel depressed, and maybe you’ll even start questioning why you’re fighting your way through this miserable world (it’s for your terrible son), but that’s all part of the post-apocalyptic experience. By draining the world of its vibrancy, the Commonwealth starts to look a lot like STALKER’s Zone. If the thought of pretty colours makes you violently retch, and even the default appearance is too chipper for you, then Stalker Lightning might be more up your street. If you find the Commonwealth a bit too gloomy, then this might be exactly the panacea you’re looking for, significantly livening up the world with more vibrant colours and lighting. There are loads of ENBs and Reshade mods out there that can dramatically alter Fallout’s appearance through post-processing wizardry, but I’m rather partial to the Enhanced Wasteland Preset, which has been around forever.
