Fallout New Vegas stability issues

Freddie1980

Freddie1980

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I've been playing Fallout New Vegas for a while now and I've noticed this game does RTD fairly occasionally. The game is patched and I'm running Catalyst 10.12 for HD 5770 on Windows 7 and I'm not really looking for any fixes but I would like to know how many of you are getting random crashes in this game?

I'm going to be doing a full reformat soon so if this is down to my specific system this should hopefully resolve it but I tend to think the problem is down to the game as all my other games work fine (Crysis, Dirt 2, F1 2010, Audio Surf, Mount & Blade) and I do remember Oblivion and Fallout 3 being unstable as well which all use the Gamebryo engine.

Any thought's?
 
Freddie1980 said:
Any thought's?
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Tell us your PC's specs.

I have an Asus Xonar DG and FO:NV does not play nicely with the gaming 'GX' mode. I had random crashes on average every twenty minutes.

Since disabling GX - no crashes whatsoever.

However there are a million and one things it could be, since New Vegas is essentially a buggy piece of crap (but also such a great game unfortunately).
 
I do recall someone comment, that its just as well that the game reload so swiftly :)

I had no issues at all with crashing in NV until they launched the first patch, then I had random drops. Somewhat annoying, occasionally reproducable forcing me to go back to an earlier save, which was a major annoyance if all i'd been doing all night was quicksaving.
 
Robbie G said:
Tell us your PC's specs.

I have an Asus Xonar DG and FO:NV does not play nicely with the gaming 'GX' mode. I had random crashes on average every twenty minutes.

Since disabling GX - no crashes whatsoever.

However there are a million and one things it could be, since New Vegas is essentially a buggy piece of crap (but also such a great game unfortunately).
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Intel Q6700 @ 3Ghz
OCZ 4Gb DDR3 1333Mhz
Radeon HD 5770 1Gb 10.12 CCC (stock)
Foxconn X48 s775 Blackops
SONAR audio card, Realtek® ALC885, 7.1 channel Audio
Lian Li PC50-R Mid Tower

It could be my sound card, I might just have a poke around the properties and see if I can spot anything.

The crashing is annoying because it's a pretty good game (not as good as Fallout 3 though) but I have noticed anything running on this engine has these DTD issues.
 
Freddie1980 said:
Intel Q6700 @ 3Ghz
OCZ 4Gb DDR3 1333Mhz
Radeon HD 5770 1Gb 10.12 CCC (stock)
Foxconn X48 s775 Blackops
SONAR audio card, Realtek® ALC885, 7.1 channel Audio
Lian Li PC50-R Mid Tower

It could be my sound card, I might just have a poke around the properties and see if I can spot anything.

The crashing is annoying because it's a pretty good game (not as good as Fallout 3 though) but I have noticed anything running on this engine has these DTD issues.
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Yup. Had the same problem until I updated the sound card drivers. All fine after that.
It was the last thing I could think of. I heard sound, it must be ok!
Wrong..
 
I've mentioned before this game would be in most peoples bins if it didn't load so damn quickly, though its a pain it actually takes longer to get to the main menu than to load into your save afterwards :p

Fallout 3 was just utter tosh for me in terms of crashing, I think its area specific because some area's, especially I believe some indoor area's, more out of the way buildings, would just crash so often you can barely get through them, or back out into the real world where theres the pretence of stability. I'd be lucky, VERY lucky to go an hour in that game without crashing, which frankly is shocking for a game today, or 20 years ago.

New Vegas though, I just finally finished it, couldn't get into it compared to FO3, but forced myself to play a while, it suffers from the same/worse difficulty scale as at least in FO3 with expansions you had the uber hard mutant masters and albino rad scorpians, in Vegas I could one shot 99% of enemies for 60-70% of the game.

Anyway, sidetracked, Vegas barely crashed at all, with no seemingly horrible area's that crashed at an insanely higher rate. Stability wise Vegas was, for me at least, a massive improvement. Its weird, during both playthroughs on different computers now, different almost everything, nothing else but those two games would crash.


I think its safe to say its more a shocking lack of Quality control than anything wrong with your computer.

For Vegas though I'd say saving is almost more important, one of my companions tended to get stuck or go completely missing at several points so I'd have to roll back a while till he was working. Check for your companions constantly, first time he bugged out and dissappeared I hadn't noticed for a long while so had to go back several saves and a couple hours :(
 
In my experience Fallout NV is the only game I've ever had serious stability issues with. EVERYTHING else runs fine (the occasional CTD once every few days is normal, it happens) but this is quite messy.

One thing I've noticed though: All of a sudden the framerate takes a dive, as if the GPU were struggling to catch up. If I stop any character movement the second it happens, the machine recovers and I can carry on after a few seconds. If I just carry on moving though: certain CTD.

I've gotten used to it now, and it's still one of my favourite games ever.
 
Duke said:
Fallout 3 had terrible stability.
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Amen to that.

It ran OK on my XP laptop but I've just installed it on my new computer (GX660R) and it keeps crashing. The furthest I've got is "One Year Later" when you're a toddler about to select your special skills.

After bit of googling it seems that there could be any number of different causes and I'm getting fed up with none of the proposed solutions fixing the problem.


I was thinking about buying New Vegas but now I'm not too sure. I don't want to end up wasting thirty quid.
 
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