Fallout NV intolerable glitches

[runzwithsizorz]

I love the game, but it sure is a beast to get running correctly on Win 7 64! I'm stubborn enough, so I refused to let the crappy game engine prevent me from playing the game. I have 41 active mods which might have caused some of the problems, but IMO without some of those mods the game would be unplayable. D: I have fixed most problems, but on occasion the game just crashes...until I figure out the "fix". Don't believe the reasons given for the crash. either. I have had everything from "missing Steam API" to "video card stopped working and has recovered". Generally, it takes me all of two minutes to find a fix and continue playing. Honestly, without Loot, FNVEDIT, Nexus and FOMM I could never have figured out the fixes for the problems in FNV.
Anyway, I had similar problems in Oblivion (fixed with Wrye Bash). It's too bad Bethesda doesn't update these games which are still being played on today's computers. By the way, is Fallout 4 experiencing the same glitchy performance, or is it just the older games?
Suffice it to say, I can play all of the Mass Effect games, RTCW and even POP Sands of time without ANY problems at all. Go figure.
Thanks for "listening" to this post. Anyone having problems with FNV, post...I feel like I have become an "expert" in finding fixes to annoying game problems (gameplay not included...you're on your own there). Also, downloading 100 plus mods will definitely cause problems in FNV.

the Wife

 

[Markbnj]

By the way, is Fallout 4 experiencing the same glitchy performance, or is it just the older games?

FO4 has been flawless for me, for 65 levels so far. Easily the most stable Bethesda title I have ever played.

 

[Newbian]

Remember that bethesda was not the developer of NV.

 

[werepossum]

In Fallout 4 I can recall one CTD and one lock-up in several hundred hours (I'm essentially on my second play-through) and I have not a single mod. It's nothing at all like the last two, neither of which I could play more than a minute or three without crashing until modded. Even after adding all the stability mods and fixes I could find, I seldom played FO3 or NV for four hours without a crash.

 

[Stg-Flame]

It took me a while to get NV running on my current setup (Win 7 64 as well), but I went through the game without any mods and I didn't have a single issue. Not being able to run was a minor annoyance, but soon enough I got used to the speed and just went from there. Over 200 hours on a single save file and the game crashed a total of 0 times on me.

I'm not sure why you think you need any mods to fix anything in the game because I didn't have any issues. There could have been some improvements and I noticed a few little things here and there like typos or an incorrect quest marker, but those were so minor it wasn't worth installing a mod for.

New Vegas is great by itself, but I was going to try A Tale of Two Wastelands before FO4 came out, but I underestimated how long I would be playing a single save file and I ended up running into the release date of FO4 then swapped over.

 

[DaveSimmons]

41 mods? Yes, I'm not surprised it's erratic.

I just used the big fixpack and for one playthrough the Willow companion mod and I normally only got crashes if I played too long. Oblivion, FO3 and NV all seem to have slow memory and/or resource leaks that eventually crash the engine.

FO4 is much better. I have had a rare VATS freeze now and then but after the first patch last November it has been the most stable Bethesda game ever.

 

[shortylickens]

New Vegas was very stable for me. On my first run thru I made it 40 hours before anything bad happened. As I recall it was a crash to desktop and it did not repeat.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Happy to hear Fallout 4 is stable. I have played FNV for 12 hours straight with no problems once I figured out how to make the game work. Ten of the mods were performance enhancing mods (such as the 4 gig fix). I also play in windowed mode (full screen). I prefer the UI mods (DunVv4, MCM, etc) and really like Project Nevada, Adv Recon, Nevada skies, and Poco Bueno among others.
However, I do understand that playing FNV vanilla would make a more stable game. I do like modding, so I try to mod without changing too much of the original game play.

The Wife

 

[futurefields]

Fallout New Vegas has such horrible microstutter on all my rigs I never played it more than a few minutes.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Fallout New Vegas has such horrible microstutter on all my rigs I never played it more than a few minutes. __________________

I use NV Stutter remover mod...Gopher has a great video on this.

 

[Oyeve]

Since FO4 I have not bothered with NV. Tried it a couple of days ago and it was like going back to the NES after the WiiU.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Since FO4 I have not bothered with NV. Tried it a couple of days ago and it was like going back to the NES after the WiiU.

So... it was amazing?

 

[shortylickens]

NV has better gameplay overall, and eliminating skills was just plain stupid.

I kinda prefer customizing my guns over customizing my ammo, however. And the ability to mod armor is nice as well.

 

[Oyeve]

So... it was amazing?

Well, yeah!

 

[runzwithsizorz]

I kinda prefer customizing my guns over customizing my ammo, however.

I did use "Weapons animation replacer" and "WRP". Also like the ability (modded) to attach and detach weapon accessories, scopes et al.