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I'm finding this game very unstable ,I'm lucky if it lasts 30mins without a crash ,have tried adjusting all the settings but seems to make no difference ,have it set on steam to patch as they become available but dose not seem to have patched as yet .

Anyone found a solution ?
 
First thing to try is go back to stock clocks on your cpu,ram,gfx

Fallout3 was very twitchy when it came to overclocks and i'm pretty sure new vegas to be the same
 
It is without doubt the most unstable game I've come across since SiN tbh. I get constant CTD's and just can't get past it. Virtually every review I've read has cited issues with stability and scouring forums just shows exactly the same. As said, gamers had issues with Fallout 3 and just had to put up with it, or search endlessly for issues as a patch rarely did fix most of their issues. I was one of those gamers who had no issues with Fallout 3 though.

I posted this earlier today on the Steam NV forums as the game is over for me and I cba anymore.

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Well that's my game ended. I can't progress any further within Vault 22 as my savegame CTD's within 5seconds of loading.

I've been playing on and off since release day but haven't made much progress due to CTD's from the very first day, random ones I might add. Fallout 3 ran perfectly without a hitch, but this has just been a painful experience.

I've still managed to get to Lv15 and began venturing into Vault 22 last night. I began entering the lower levels looking for an npc when I kept CTD'ing in exactly the same spot as I enter some large cavern. Everytime I reload its the same. My only choice is go revert to an earlier save and lose about 2hrs.

I've updated my ATI 4870 drivers to v10.10 but that didn't help. I did use the dll fix early on to remove stutter, and that worked. I'm at a loss until a patch arrives. Complete waste of money tbh :/

Sys Specs:
CPU: Intel E6600 @ 3.7ghz
GPU: Ati 4870HD 1GB
OS: Win7 x64
Ram: 4GB
No mods or anything like that.
 
I found a thing, which of course I won't be able to find again now.

I'm replaying through FO3 at the moment and I get constant crashing, well, just the game freezing, alt/tab out and loading up again, nothing system killing crash wise.

I found something saying limit the game to 2 threads, and what I assume turned on multithreaded AI.

bUseThreadedAI=1
iNumHWThreads=2

It was those two options in the .ini file. The first one is usually 0, the second line you add in after it yourself.

Before that I could easily have 10 crashes in a bad hour, or occasionally can go a couple hours without a crash. Since then I've played about 10 hours with one crash.

Of all the various "fixes" i've seen for FO3 over the years, its the first one thats made a difference.

New Vegas has the same options and is basically the same game so is worth a shot.

So many people have crashing issues with both games though, its laughably unstable with no out and out fix, no patch to fix things and really no idea whats causing so many crashes for so many people.

IF it wasn't a very quick loading game I'd have given up a LONG time ago.
 
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I used the fix drunken master posted for fallout 3 and for New Vegas. For me, on the system below, it really improved performance, i still get crashes maybe once every 4 hours or so. Just make sure you save the game every 30 mins or so just in case.

I had one issue near point 188 and i would go from their upto the nearby NCR post and it crashed in the same spot about 8 times in a row. I completed a quest i had for boulder city nearby then it let me go their, was a weird one that.
 
I found something saying limit the game to 2 threads, and what I assume turned on multithreaded AI.

bUseThreadedAI=1
iNumHWThreads=2

It was those two options in the .ini file. The first one is usually 0, the second line you add in after it yourself.
I use this one as well. So far it's been fairly stable. A few crashes, but I can play for several hours at a time easily.

There are some more details of tweaks to try here (including the AI tweak above) : http://segmentnext.com/2010/11/02/fallout-new-vegas-tweak-guide/

akakjs
 
I used to crash Fallout 3 a lot, I got rid of Nero and that sorted it.

The fallout game engine is pretty sensitive to anything that makes it use an alternative audio codec. I'm sure the developers could have fixed this by specifically selecting what codec they wanted to use rather than using whatever windows has selected as the default codec, but that would be too easy.
 
I had a lot of issues with FO3 crashing (at one point it kept falling over after 5-20mins) but thankfully NV has been flawless so far - even alttabs with no issue :)
 
I've also been on of the lucky ones, both FO3 and FO:NV have been flawless, they both run perfectly, window mode, not a bug, error, glitch, whatever you want to call it.

Not encountered any quest/mission/ai issues either, makes me wonder how much of it is incompatibility or user problems but, I can agree it's not always the users fault.

I'd be pretty pee'd off if I had paid for a product that was so buggy.
 
Not encountered any quest/mission/ai issues either, makes me wonder how much of it is incompatibility or user problems but, I can agree it's not always the users fault.

I'd be pretty pee'd off if I had paid for a product that was so buggy.

I have found a bug (thankfully not gamebreaking) where you have to hire a smooth talkers for one of the casinos, I encountered 2 of them before going back to the casino, so when I went to speak to the bloke again he accepted the first guy but the second guy seems to be kinda stuck in limbo - he just sits around in the bar and I can continually talk to him about the job and earn 50XP over and over should I desire, but he never actually seems to get given the job as it's already been filled.
 
I have found what I assume is a bug (unless I am doing something wrong). At Cottoncove, you meet a member of the Legion at the dock to take you to the boss, (this I had already done), but when later on in the game I wanted to go back, there is / was no sign of the chap at the dock - even though the one in charge of Cottoncove said that (Lucius - is that his name, sounds like it anyway) was waiting for me. Several times I have tried and he is not there, well unless he is using a stealthboy with uber hacks.
 
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