Overview
- Bethesda’s version 1.2 update adds a 60 Hz display option with “Prioritize Performance” enabling 60 fps and “Prioritize Visuals” locking playback to 30 fps.
- The 60 fps setting works in both handheld and docked modes, with early hands-on reports confirming significantly improved responsiveness and mostly steady performance.
- Performance mode reaches higher frame rates by reducing object density and LOD, lowering texture and shadow quality, and introducing more pop-in and blur in the distance.
- Official notes list wide-ranging fixes across crashes, UI, controls, audio, and localization, including remedies for save/load menu glitches and specific quest or spell crashes.
- Player reaction is broadly positive to the smoother option, and the update lands days before Fallout 4’s confirmed Switch 2 release on February 24.