Fallout New Vegas stability issues

[Freddie1980]

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]

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).

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.