You can tweak loot abundance in settings. Also even in 17 weapons were all over the place. There you needed mods to make a gun work and scrap the rest, now you have to scrap all the rest to craft a decent one so you don't just waste ammo or luck out with rng. (i don't look at xml at all, but if...
Something with recent windows update made a similar problem for me and throttle everything:video/internet/fps. Clean windows installation: same. Changed SATA cable / changed power settings to high performence / got another windows update while doing so and after those 3 PC ran well again.Guess...