FO: New Vegas, crashing inconsistently whilst playing.

[Aerionyx]

Hi everyone, this is my first post here so apologies if this is the incorrect board (I noticed another technical support board concerning 'individual' mods, but I'm unsure exactly what's causing my crashes)

To start from the beginning, I stumbled across a video on Youtube that provided a nice overview of several mods of different varieties to overhaul the experience of NV, ranging from graphics mods, to new additions such as weapons and armour as one might expect from any large 'overrhaul'. The video can be found at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35FS4rvRvN4

 

It has 1m+ views so it has clearly garnered some popularity, and many (but not all) of the mods I downloaded were linked in the description.

 

After starting a new game, I experienced some minor problems attributed to NV buggy nature, such as corrupted saves, endless loading etc, all which I managed to troubleshoot, however after playing for a while the game seems to crash very inconsistently. Sometimes it would crash during a cell change/fast travel, sometimes when I open the main menu, sometimes when I open my pip-boy, and sometimes it would just abruptly crash when I am not doing anything particularly interesting in-game (just walking around, for example).

 

Additionally, I had encountered some troublesome noteworthy issues on at least two occasions. The first was in Goodsprings saloon; basically the first/second time I entered was fine, but when I completed the tutorial quest and entered again it took an abnormally long time to load, when I was finally in I encountered a buggy mess with floors and surfaces being invisible, and I could even walk forwards and fall 'under' the level. A similar thing also happened in the Nipton building on the third floor. Curiously, these issues only ever happened once (for each location) and I was able to move through those areas fine on reload.

 

One final note is that these crashes are typically not crashes straight to desktop, my game simply locks up and I am forced to kill the game through the task manager. Sometimes it locks the whole monitor and I have to bring up the task manager on my second monitor, seems odd. Additionally, sorting my load order via LOOT indicated there were no specific errors of any kind.

 

This is my load order, I used LOOT to organise it, and (almost) all mods were installed through Nexus Mod Manager;

 

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 More Traits.esm

11 b Project Nevada - Core.esm

12 c More Perks.esm

13 d oHUD.esm

14 e FCOMaster.esm

15 f Project Nevada - Equipment.esm

16 10 Project Nevada - Rebalance.esp

17 11 Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp

18 12 Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.esm

19 13 SomeguySeries.esm

20 14 Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Leveled.Lists.esp

21 15 WMIMNV.esp

22 16 Weapon Retexture Project.esp

23 17 Asurah_reanimation.esp

24 18 More Perks Update.esp

25 19 More Traits Update.esp

26 1a B42Inertia.esp

27 1b Roberts_NewVegas.esp

28 1c Vurt's WFO.esp

29 1d FCO - NPC Changes.esp

30 1e TLD_Travelers.esp

31 1f Mojave Raiders.esp

32 20 Mojave Wildlife (FO3-Style).esp

33 21 FNV Realistic Wasteland Lighting - All DLC.esp

34 22 WEATHER RUDY ENB.esp

35 23 NukaCola-Ojo.esp

36 24 TGsArmorCollectionVegas.esp

37 25 TGsArmorCollectionLeveledList.esp

38 26 1nivVSLArmors.esp

39 27 FO4-FNVPorts.esp

40 28 FO4PowerArmorReplacersWithDLC.esp

41 29 FO4PowerArmorReplacersNoDLC.esp

42 2a pyDoF.esp

43 2b Diagonal movement.esp

44 2c FCO - Roberts Patch.esp

45 2d FCO - OHSB NPC Edits.esp

FCO - Russell.esp ----------- #DISABLED

46 2e dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp

47 2f The Mod Configuration Menu.esp

48 30 JIP MiniMap.esp

49 31 JustHitmarker.esp

50 32 CASM.esp

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thank you for taking the time to read this. Best regards.

[dubiousintent]

Most video "modding guides" are good at suggesting mods and even "how to install" them individually, but lack the boring and time-consuming information necessary to understand "why" things need to be certain ways and are needed. That tends to be the realm of "computer geeks" and "documentation", and most people just want to "install and play". Unfortunately, things are not that simple and you have to invest some time and effort in reading about "the boring stuff".

 

Please see the 'Common Game Problems' section of the wiki "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article.

If the problem persists, then see either the 'Solutions to Starting the game problems' or the 'Solutions to "Crash To Desktop" (CTD) problems' sections in the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide.

I recommend anyone read the entire "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article to understand the differences between this game and others you may have experience with; especially if this is your first attempt to play a modded FNV or it's been more than a year since you last did so. All of your problem symptoms are addressed between those two wiki articles, but you need the foundation of "General Advice" to go along with the specific problems and solution in the "Troubleshooting" guide.

I would suggest you uninstall (or at least disable) ENB until you get a "stable" FNV that does what you need first. Then you can let ENB perform it's "post-processing" without having it confusing the picture (literally and figuratively).

 

-Dubious-