So I tried the fps dynamic shadows mod that claims to increase/decrease shadow draw distance on the fly. I thought it was working until I went east of Diamond City again with it turned on this time. It doesn't seem to visibly change the shadow draw distance, at least from my perspective. I'm not completely convinced either way, though. I could just be missing something.
Can someone who has good hardware but is also suffering from FPS drops in Boston install this? Here's the link:
http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1822/?I want to see if it actually works for other people or not. Also, you want to
download it from here.
I tried most of the optimized texture mods to no avail. Didn't change FPS at all. I didn't really expect it to anyway because textures are the problem with my fps drops.