Irritating Stutters and Frame Hiccups in Fallout New Vegas

[RobinHood2005]

Hey y'all. I have a mild issue that's been annoying me since I started a new Fallout New Vegas save.

 

I was having a problem with frame rate and stuttering, as well as crashing, so I started a new save, switched from Vortex to NMM, watched a few Gopher videos and reinstalled a lot of my mods. Now, the frame rate of the game is much better, a solid 60 fps, and it looks MUCH better than before.

However, 50% of the time, when I try to turn around, open a safe, open/put away my Pip-Boy, pull out a gun, throw a grenade, etc. my game freezes for about 2 seconds and the sound loops, before everything going back to normal again.

 

It doesn't always happen, and it's not game-breaking, but it can be very irritating and take away my enjoyment when playing the game.

 

I have a GTX 1070 and an i7 7700k CPU.

 

I have the Large Texture Pack for NMC (all parts), Ojo Bueno Ultra, 4k supermutant textures, Dynamo ENB (default presets), Nevada Skies and the following:

 

0 0 FalloutNV.esm

1 1 DeadMoney.esm

2 2 HonestHearts.esm

3 3 OldWorldBlues.esm

4 4 LonesomeRoad.esm

5 5 GunRunnersArsenal.esm

6 6 ClassicPack.esm

7 7 MercenaryPack.esm

8 8 TribalPack.esm

9 9 CaravanPack.esm

10 a YUP - Base Game + All DLC.esm

11 b oHUD.esm

12 c New Vegas Redesigned 3.esm

13 d ELECTRO-CITY - CompletedWorkorders.esm

FCOMaster.esm

14 e Gomorrah Redesigned v2.esp

15 f Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.esm

16 10 SomeguySeries.esm

17 11 AWorldOfPain(Preview).esm

18 12 More Perks.esm

19 13 More Perks for Dead Money.esm

20 14 ELECTRO-CITY - Highways and Byways.esm

21 15 Bitter Springs Redesigned.esp

22 16 AWOPDeadMoney.esm

23 17 More Perks for Honest Hearts.esm

24 18 More Traits.esm

25 19 Project Nevada - Core.esm

26 1a Project Nevada - Equipment.esm

27 1b Project Nevada - Rebalance.esp

28 1c Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp

29 1d More Perks for Old World Blues.esm

30 1e More Perks for Companions.esm

31 1f NevadaSkies.esm

32 20 YUP - NPC Fixes (Base Game + All DLC).esp

33 21 More Perks for Dead Money Update.esp

34 22 Project Nevada - Dead Money.esp

35 23 Project Nevada - Honest Hearts.esp

36 24 DarNifiedUINV.esp

37 25 The Mod Configuration Menu.esp

38 26 DYNAVISION 3.esp

39 27 EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp

40 28 Project Nevada - Gun Runners' Arsenal.esp

41 29 CASM with MCM.esp

42 2a Better Game Performance.esp

43 2b Vurt's WFO.esp

44 2c New Vegas Redesigned 3.esp

45 2d WeaponModsExpanded.esp

46 2e WMX-ArenovalisTextures.esp

47 2f WMX-DLCMerged.esp

48 30 Project Nevada - Old World Blues.esp

49 31 Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Leveled.Lists.esp

50 32 christinecos.esp

51 33 Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Honest.Hearts.Grunt.Patch.esp

52 34 AWOP-NVR3.esp

53 35 More Perks Update.esp

54 36 CNR_Beta.esp

MMUE-CP-Electrocity.esp

55 37 AWOPDeadMoneyVendorPatch.esp

56 38 Conelrad 640-1240.esp

57 39 More Perks for Companions Update.esp

58 3a More Traits Update.esp

59 3b More Perks for Honest Hearts Update.esp

60 3c More Perks for Old World Blues Update.esp

61 3d boa ncrpahelmet.esp

62 3e Boacombat2glove.esp

63 3f pipboy2500_edisleado.esp

64 40 ADAM Complete.esp

65 41 ADAM - MERGE.esp

66 42 MojaveSandyDesert.esp

67 43 NewVegasBounties.esp

68 44 NukaCola-Ojo.esp

69 45 SR556.esp

70 46 M14.esp

71 47 Project Nevada - Lonesome Road.esp

72 48 TheLozza's_Gasmasks_V2.esp

73 49 RWD-NV v1.4 [standard Version].esp

74 4a Centered 3rd Person Camera - Unraised.esp

75 4b dD-Reduced Dismember Force - EVE.esp

76 4c dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp

77 4d dD-Smaller Wounds - EVE.esp

AWOP-IMPACT-WMX-EVE AllDLCMerged.esp

78 4e Project Nevada - WMX.esp

79 4f Project Nevada - EVE All DLC.esp

80 50 WMX-ModernWeapons.esp

81 51 WMX-POPMerged.esp

82 52 NevadaSkies - Brighter Nights.esp

83 53 FNVLODGen.esp

84 54 NevadaSkies - TTW Edition.esp

85 55 NevadaSkies - Ultimate DLC Edition.esp

86 56 NevadaSkies - Basic Edition.esp

I have tried using Nvidia Inspector, using NVSR, changing one of the values in NVSR to eliminate stutter like Gopher said, nothing. I read the entire article about mod troubleshooting (the NVSR section) and did most of the thing on there. Still, nothing.

Can you guys try to help me?

 

[HeyYou]

Have you tried it without the hi-res textures? I wonder if that isn't at least part of it.....

[RobinHood2005]

Have you tried it without the hi-res textures? I wonder if that isn't at least part of it.....

I mean, I could try it, but I don't want to risk corrupting my saves or crashing. It's time consuming, too. Besides, though it could be a part of the problem, I find this to be highly unlikely, as it happens in every area of the game and does not impact FPS beyond that.

[HeyYou]

Oddly enough, the times when you are experiencing the stutter, is when the game needs to load some new textures. I would be that the stutter while turning, only happens once, in any particular area, and then not again until you move to a new area. I see this on my machine, and I don't use any texture enhancers at all. It was DRAMATICALLY reduced to moving from a mechanical HDD, to an SSD though...... With high res textures, I could see that little problem being exacerbated by the larger than stock files.

[RobinHood2005]

Oddly enough, the times when you are experiencing the stutter, is when the game needs to load some new textures. I would be that the stutter while turning, only happens once, in any particular area, and then not again until you move to a new area. I see this on my machine, and I don't use any texture enhancers at all. It was DRAMATICALLY reduced to moving from a mechanical HDD, to an SSD though...... With high res textures, I could see that little problem being exacerbated by the larger than stock files.

Speaking of SSDs, I actually did the same thing. I once ran the game on a HDD that I salvaged from an old laptop of mine, but reinstalled it on my Samsung 960 Evo, which is my main drive. Strangely enough, when the game freezes like I mentioned, or when something needs to get loaded, I hear this faint noise coming from my PC. It's like something is speeding up, while building up to a clicking sound, which causes the game to unfreeze. I hope that my SSD is not on its way out...

 

I only got it a couple of months ago. :sad:

[RobinHood2005]

My other two drives are a 640GB WD HDD and a 500GB Samsung 860 Evo. I don't quite know if that is of any major significance, though.

[HeyYou]

SSD won't make those kind of noises. No moving parts. :D Sounds like your mechanical drive may be having some issues. Would your machine be trying to read anything from that while you are playing? O/S installed on SSD as well?

[RobinHood2005]

SSD won't make those kind of noises. No moving parts. :D Sounds like your mechanical drive may be having some issues. Would your machine be trying to read anything from that while you are playing? O/S installed on SSD as well?

Exactly what i was thinking, with the moving parts and all. And yes, my OS is installed on the same SSD.

 

EDIT: Dude..... I just realised. NMM for me stores my mods on my HDD. Think that could be the problem? If so, how do I migrate my mods onto the SSD?

 

Edited November 19, 2018 by RobinHood2005

[HeyYou]

I am not exactly sure how NMM deals with that... Does it actually copy the files to the right spot? Or are they just symbolic links? If they are just links, then, yeah, the game is trying to read them from the HDD..... I have two SSDs, (no mechanical drives.....) so for me, it just doesn't matter where they are.

[RobinHood2005]

I am not exactly sure how NMM deals with that... Does it actually copy the files to the right spot? Or are they just symbolic links? If they are just links, then, yeah, the game is trying to read them from the HDD..... I have two SSDs, (no mechanical drives.....) so for me, it just doesn't matter where they are.

I fixed my problems with the random freezing, but instead now I get memory bugs. Could you help me?

Link to my new thread is here:

 

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/7169656-fallout-new-vegas-memorytexture-issues/