Crashes, Freezes, Infinite Loading

[thevinnz]

I've been playing for a while and every 2 to 3 hours the game randomly crashes. Then when I load up it either has an infinite loading screen or it freezes my computer and I have to hard reset. I don't have any mods installed and I'm running at Ultra with a 1080ti (I also have the radio on, I dunno if that causes crashes though) any advice brothers?

[Knux Redbeard]

How have you been loading games? If the game crashes, hitting the continue button is usually a bad idea, but opening the saves menu and loading the most recent save for whatever reason avoids infinite loading. You can get much longer periods of stability out of the game if you avoid quicksaving and quickloading as much as possible. At the same time, it's a good idea to drop a quicksave every 15 minutes or so just to make sure that, if the autosave is borked, you can roll back one further and not lose much progress.

Eventually you'll learn when the game is about to crash. Make a full save, exit, restart, reload. That's what I do to prevent technical headaches.

Depending on how bad it gets, here's a trick I discovered with other games. Open notepad. Type some gibberish. Don't save. Then, if the game locks up real bad and freezes your computer, hit the power button on your computer. Windows will close everything, more or less, but will wait for input and make an interrupt window because you've got unsaved work in notepad. Abort shutdown, relaunch steam, relaunch game.

[thevinnz]

Originally posted by Knux Redbeard:

How have you been loading games? If the game crashes, hitting the continue button is usually a bad idea, but opening the saves menu and loading the most recent save for whatever reason avoids infinite loading. You can get much longer periods of stability out of the game if you avoid quicksaving and quickloading as much as possible. At the same time, it's a good idea to drop a quicksave every 15 minutes or so just to make sure that, if the autosave is borked, you can roll back one further and not lose much progress.

Eventually you'll learn when the game is about to crash. Make a full save, exit, restart, reload. That's what I do to prevent technical headaches.

Depending on how bad it gets, here's a trick I discovered with other games. Open notepad. Type some gibberish. Don't save. Then, if the game locks up real bad and freezes your computer, hit the power button on your computer. Windows will close everything, more or less, but will wait for input and make an interrupt window because you've got unsaved work in notepad. Abort shutdown, relaunch steam, relaunch game.

Awesome advice thank you so much

[Salamand3r-]

These crashing issues can be solved with a handful of mods. Either the Viva New Vegas guide of the GamerPoets video that Corona will be posting shortly should get you to a much more stable game.

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install New Vegas Anti Crash and 4gb memory patch. All you need.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Hots:

install New Vegas Anti Crash and 4gb memory patch. All you need.

Not really. For instance, if they are running at high resolution (4k as an example), the game still mirrors VRAM to system RAM. That can still push the exe to use more memory than the 4gb patch allows. NVTF fixes that.

In some instances on a longer save, the game may need more memory handles in order to keep functioning. Mod Limit Fix fixes that.

Aside from that, NVAC doesn't actually fix crashes - it bandaids them by just telling the game to ignore errors instead of crashing. Those errors can actually be *fixed* by proper mods, meaning that when NVAC misses one (as it invariably does), you've fixed the base issue and not merely bandaided it. Mods like Stewies, JIP LN, and several more included in the various guides fix those problems.