How to Make Your Fallout 4 Look Like Fallout 5 (Graphically)

Mods:

Enhanced Lights and FX

NAC X Legacy edition

Godrays for NAC X

Cinematic Lensflares

Quantum Horizons ENB

Fallout 4 HD Overhaul

True Grass

Nuclear Reloaded

Nuclear Reloaded DLC patch

Don't leave Nuclear Reloaded's plugin at the end of your load order or you will get weird save file names for some reason.

0:00 Fallout 4 to Fallout 5
0:13 Enhanced Lights and FX
0:42 NAC X Legacy edition
1:47 Godrays for NAC X
2:18 Cinematic Lensflares
2:32 Quantum Horizons ENB
3:28 Fallout 4 HD Overhaul
4:19 True Grass
4:41 Nuclear Reloaded

[markfusion]

It's a more stable than what I showcased here (although it has some of the same mods I used here).

Edit: by the way, Nuclear Reloaded, although beautiful, it turned out to be very buggy, after using it for months. I suggest you use something more stable, like Luxor's Summer.

[dattru]

This is a great modlist, makes it a lot more realistic without completely ruining the fallout aesthetic. In vanilla everything looking so dead doesn't make sense since it takes place 200 years after the war. With these mods, it makes it look like nature has taken over.

[markfusion]

Edit: it seems that a mod, showcased in another video, Flora FX Overhaul, can cause big drops in framerates, so watch out for that people.

[CihanSan]

I just started a new playthrough and I wanted to update / change a few mods, this helped a lot, really nicely done friend. Thank you!

[rynlo]

I'm using True grass + Natural Grasses & Groundcovers (loaded after true grass), with this combo grass looks much thicker and more varied 😉 For people like me, who wants dense grassfields in their game 😊

[dantauche]

This is SUCH an extremely helpful and useful video! There are so many different graphical guides on YT for FO4 but this one is my favorite. Step by step instructions for a caveman like myself to get my game looking phenomenal. Thank you!!

[xanthosamoni]

Thanks for this video. Pretty clean and easy to follow.

[seangoulden]

With NAC X I would also recommend disabling lens distortion, under the noises tab. It makes the edges a lot clear and for me don’t strain my eyes.

[TheStealthFreak]

I watched this video almost a year ago, I recently got a new PC and had to reinstall mods. I just spent an hour looking for your video!

[zhy]

While i think Quantum Horizons does a good job with colors, i also think Reactor is the far more advanced ENB between the two. My biggest issue is Reactor's lens flares are so intense.

[hickhick]

Many of these mods are on the series s, and it is running silky smooth, thanks!

[ClassicalPan]

Trying Quantum Horizons now. Immediately lost a ton of fps so i'll run it for a while and see if I can live with that. I play in 4K and, with other mods this really pushes an RTX 3080 to its limit. I cap my FPS at 60, but enabling this immediately drops me to the 40s. It's a shame because this is one of the better-looking ENBs I've seen.

[sulj]

Thank you for the links & patches. Great video!

[devonhc]

If your on console you can use this one too it looks great and removes ugly pixelated shadows at every corner and changes quality of sharpness for every sunlight beam called "Candy Eye "ported by drmabuse1981, also use with "TLS graphics improver" with speed increase (%7 increase version)to lessen the 30 fps unplayability on console and fix the ugly blur effect on surfaces by sharpening the effects on objects almost like what enbdev and reshade 4 does, the best you can get in lighting overhauls is still "wasteland illuminated shadows" and "enhanced lights and fx " "forest fungus de-lit" also takes out ugly fake wall clipping tree lights, atomic cataclysm will make the game noticably more clear and immersive powered lights atually light the area around instead of 1 ft away, ugly flat grass is changed to look less noticeable, saturation adjusted just right too for playstation users.

[gamingrealmhd]

Nice one! Looks incredible! Hope u will make a new video when u can use mods in the new fo4 update again

[jaymurray]

The exterior looked worse like a unmodded old game from the early 2000’s while the vanilla shots looked like next gen graphics, I love NAC but I’m not a fan of people going for the washed out colorless look. Your exterior looks terrible but your interiors are great.I prefer my set up for my lighting & weathers
I use NAC X
Better Graphics And Weather DLC
Realistic Lighting by SirGreenThumb
Intensity - ENB
Better Ambient Occlusion Lighter
And Enhanced Flickering Firelight

[adrianbahar_]

Looks like i'm going to torture my graphic card with all of these mods lol
btw, thanks for the video

[smple-eipt]

why Before looks better then after i will prefer clear graphics over blur, noise, motion blur any week of the day

[gpgmjkk]

if you cant dinwload the fallout 4 hd overhaul just donwloadthe 4k landscape its alternate mod if you doesnt have premium

[racherim]

ELFX make some cells too dark though, for there's no light emitting at third rail idk why, and also its not compatible with PRP you have to install correct patch.