Can't enter Prospector Saloon or even leave Goodsprings

[Nav1tek82]

So, I can load the game up and get all the way through creating your character, talking with the doc in his house and finally leaving his house. But as soon as I try to go into the Prospector Saloon, or leave Goodsprings, the game freezes on me while it tries to load the saloon, or just won't let me do anything when I get to the edge of Goodsprings.

I can play Fallout 3 just fine with the random crash here and there and I've tried to do all the tweaks in the tweak guides I've found, but I still cannot get it to load the Saloon, or let me out of Goodsprings. My laptops specs meet the bare minimum to run the game, so I knew it would be slow, but I figured I'd at least be able to play!

Can anyone help me figure this out?

[baddude1337]

Try the community fixes, for you mainly New Vegas Anti Crash and New Vegas Stutter Remover:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/22380/discussions/0/522730700736948013/

[JDC UK]

You can use NVAC on Fallout 3 as well, though it doesn't fully support it, it does work.

[Nav1tek82]

I have downloaded the Stutter remover and that didn't seem to do anything to help, but I didn't see anything about the anti crash one.

[baddude1337]

Originally posted by all2him:

I have downloaded the Stutter remover and that didn't seem to do anything to help, but I didn't see anything about the anti crash one.

It helps with a lot of the random crashes and more specific ones like infinite load screens, auto saving crashes... The list goes on. it's a great little tool.

[Nav1tek82]

I'm trying to get it now, but the site you reference: Nexusmods, isn't letting me download anything. every server I try to pull it from gives me an error. Is there anywhere else to get these mods?

[baddude1337]

Not that I'm aware of. The servers could be a bit overloaded at the moment. I can only suggest to keep trying, or get an free account and see if it lets you use more servers., as if you want to mod the game you will need one for that site anyway

[Nav1tek82]

Ok. Thank you for the tips man. I'll try to download those again later.

[JDC UK]

You shouldn't need to make an account for smaller mods.
And you do have to be patient with it at times.

[RedwoodRogers]

I doubt anyone is still paying any attention to this thread, but I am having the same issue, even with the Stutter Removal and 4GB patch mods, and I already had NVAC. I didn't know about not being able to leave Goodsprings until I read someone was having that problem and then tried it myself. Got a decent distance away before the game froze on me.

For the record, I am playing via Tale of Two Wastelands, and the New Vegas side of things has so far given me a lot more trouble than when I was playing through 3.

UPDATE: Upon yet again looking through my load order, I noticed that the plugin for UPP was way out of place, being near the bottom of the list instead of being near the top, after all the TTW and YUP ones. After moving that back to its proper place (which it should have been in the first place, but things don't always stay in their set order when adding mods), I am now able to enter the saloon, leave Goodsprings, and listen to Radio New Vegas with the MusicPackRNV mod enabled (before, trying to play RNV would freeze my game, although I'm not entirely sure if that was because of the mod, because I never actually tried it after initially disabling it), so it seems like that was the problem. The lesson to be learned is: always check your load order a few times, and then a few times more.