New Vegas keeps crashing [solved]

[The Extreme Potato]

I've had this problem and it makes the games basically unplayable. Fallout new vegas keeps crashing in goodsprings and near wolfhorn ranch without warning and keeps crashing at cottenwood cove with massive stuttering issues. Does anyone know how to fix this problem

specs:http://www.agadget.co.uk/product/id/58909/ with windows 8.1

and yes I have done the thing with:
bUseThreadedai=1
and
iNumthreads=2

[talgaby]

Pinned thread about stability. Linked engine hacks. Reduce crashes. Impossible to make them go away completely.

Edit: Also, congratulations for spending 500 pounds on a 380-pound rig. Also, with an AMD FX that is not 8150 or 8350 don't expect much stability, or decent frame rates. Due to how the engine works, the FX line is currently the absolute worst CPU family to run this game (and Fallout 3 and TESIV: Oblivion) on.

[The Extreme Potato]

Originally posted by talgaby:

Pinned thread about stability. Linked engine hacks. Reduce crashes. Impossible to make them go away completely.

The thing is I have these mods installed and they don't do ♥♥♥♥...

[talgaby]

As I said, you cannot make them go away completely. The price for the game using a decade-old engine made for Win9x that was never updated, just patched with garage hacks for all the years. The good news is that FO4 won't have this problem until the next Windows after X comes out.

[The Extreme Potato]

Originally posted by talgaby:

As I said, you cannot make them go away completely. The price for the game using a decade-old engine made for Win9x that was never updated, just patched with garage hacks for all the years. The good news is that FO4 won't have this problem until the next Windows after X comes out.

So basically your saying that I cannot start a new game or continue with any of the main quest lines because all of these things require going to or near an area that is causing me to crash...

[The Extreme Potato]

The thing is, I had this game working fine, even with mods. then I installed a mod that puts a neak cover on the ncr ranger armor and it's enssentialy broken my game, even when I uninstalled it.

Originally posted by talgaby:

Also, congratulations for spending 500 pounds on a 380-pound rig.

This PC is nearly 3 years old and I got it for £400 off ebuyer. But they don't do it any more so thats the only place I could find it.

[talgaby]

Well, then it was a good catch. But generally speaking a pre-built is never a good idea. Most stores will build you one for a small fee if you buy the parts there separately, and it always costs less than a pre-built one.

If a mod broke your game, you can try to remove said mod. In many cases it is not enough, you may have to wipe (not just uninstall, but manually delete) the game and reinstall and re-mod it. It happens to everyone with mods, and it is often not some specific mod's fault, you just happened to find a bad mix of them. We just experiment and hope for the best.

Also, if you have frequent crash spots, but they are not always at the same instance, then you just have to cop with it. My worst area used to be around McCarran with an average 30 second play time before crash. I just persevered and played until I finished the area. But if you always get a crash at the same spot even 1 second after loading in, then you have to mess around with your mods.

[The Extreme Potato]

Update:
I completely reinstalled the game and played with the recommended crash fix mods and with the bUseThreadai thing and still crashed when I left doc michall's house.


Well ♥♥♥♥. I don't know what the ♥♥♥♥ to do now!

[AstroSauce]

just re install fallout or get the 4gb version off of nexus

[talgaby]

It may sound crazy, but try this:
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/58646/?
Although it is a frame-rate enhancer in functionality, but if your problem is that you did something in the INI files that wasn't a good idea (that FX CPU cannot really take much of this game), this may actually work. Somehow. (I still have no idea why the pack I linked actually works for that many people, but it does.)

[The Extreme Potato]

Originally posted by RICKGRIMES:

just re install fallout or get the 4gb version

-got the 4GB version
-Did you even read what I just said?

[AstroSauce]

have you re installed?.......... carl

[The Extreme Potato]

Originally posted by talgaby:

It may sound crazy, but try this:
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/58646/?
Although it is a frame-rate enhancer in functionality, but if your problem is that you did something in the INI files that wasn't a good idea (that FX CPU cannot really take much of this game), this may actually work. Somehow. (I still have no idea why the pack I linked actually works for that many people, but it does.)

Doing this and running it in the 4GB mode fixed my game. Thanks!

[S-Class DaNewb™]

I agree that pc sucks, you happened to get a super weak cpu along with a weak gpu. Building your own allows you to fit better components into your budget.

I dont agree that the FX sucks at this title. I have the 8320 overclocked to 4.5 ghz and a bios hacked 760 striker with 1 high resolution texture pack and 100 other mods that push other characters, items, etc into the world. I ran the game at 30-60 fps, never had crashing issues.

[talgaby]

Originally posted by S-Class DaNewb™:

I dont agree that the FX sucks at this title. I have the 8320

That was the magic world. The FX 8000 line is good at single-core operations, but everything under it, including the top of the FX 6000 line is not. Believe me, it has been tested and experienced numerous times. If you have an FX 8xxx, you don't have to worry and a number of AMD-using gamers have made this switch to experience significant boosts. But under that games like this suffer, and sometimes suffer in a spectacular fashion (just visit the Final Fantasy XIII boards once to see).

[S-Class DaNewb™]

Word you mean?

I would push for getting a 8320 or a 8350 if the extra binning and overclocking matters. You can get these cpus for 130-200 on amazon. You then can sell your amd cpu on amazon used and low ball it to offset the price.

If you decide to do that now its the case of your motherboard supporting it. The cpu will physically fit but can throttle there are cases like these with the very low end boards.