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So I got New Vegas just before Christmas, and everything worked fine for a while until the patch came out. After Steam automatically patched the game, it told me my it had updates for my video card drivers, so I decided to install them (ATI Stream SDK.) That's when everything went to s***. New Vegas would hang on startup, just getting to the black screen before the first intro slide. When I check it in the Task Manager, it's using ~50% of my CPU. FO3 would get to the first intro slide before crashing. Since then I've tried everything. I tried every ArchiveInvalidation fix I could find, the dxd9.dll fix, reinstalled several times, starting with no mods, starting with one mod at a time, with the new FOMM and NVSE, with the new FOMM and not NVSE, and without either. I tried einstalling Catalyst Control Center (this was especially enjoyable :pinch:) and actually ended up making it just flat-out not start, and it was then I decided to just take off and nuke the site from orbit. I backed up everything and used my recovery disc. That got FO3 working again, but New Vegas would still hang on startup. I have the latest .NET 3.5 service pack. I am totally out of ideas. My DXDiag is included.

So I got New Vegas just before Christmas, and everything worked fine for a while until the patch came out. After Steam automatically patched the game, it told me my it had updates for my video card drivers, so I decided to install them (ATI Stream SDK.) That's when everything went to s***. New Vegas would hang on startup, just getting to the black screen before the first intro slide. When I check it in the Task Manager, it's using ~50% of my CPU. FO3 would get to the first intro slide before crashing. Since then I've tried everything. I tried every ArchiveInvalidation fix I could find, the dxd9.dll fix, reinstalled several times, starting with no mods, starting with one mod at a time, with the new FOMM and NVSE, with the new FOMM and not NVSE, and without either. I tried einstalling Catalyst Control Center (this was especially enjoyable :pinch:) and actually ended up making it just flat-out not start, and it was then I decided to just take off and nuke the site from orbit. I backed up everything and used my recovery disc. That got FO3 working again, but New Vegas would still hang on startup. I have the latest .NET 3.5 service pack. I am totally out of ideas. My DXDiag is included.

Recoil with the JAE is really light because the total weight with scope is like 18 pounds :pinch:, and I can get an AR mod of some sort for the Troy sights, but we're getting into too much IRL stuff which really doesn't apply to New Vegas. I already have Khugan's FO3 EBR mod, I mainly want the JAE for asthetic reasons.

I never said I thought building weapon models was easy. I've a little (emphasis on little) work with 3ds Max and NifScope but I want this done right witch is why I'm not just doing it myself. And the other stocks are good (even though the Troy doesn't free-float the barrel) I like the JAE because I'm just a sucker for the classic old-school stock shape.

http://www.harristacticalonline.com/images/1226266440669622827725.jpg http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/3824/ajae100colorsvy7.jpg From J. Allen Enterprise's website: IRL this is really the only stock that will make the M14 accurate enough for sniping without glass bedding the stock, which the M14 has a tendency to chew to s***. A National Match M14 in this stock can shoot .5 inch groups at 100 yards with the right ammo (for reference, an M4 with standard military grade ammo will shoot 2 inch groups at 100 yards.) That, and it just looks cool. :cool: I think version in the second pic (minus the accessories and with a full-length barrel, perhaps) would make a good replacement model for This Machine, since then it would actually fire the right ammo. Throwing .308 ammo into a .30-06 rifle always irked me. The scoped version would make a cool sniper rifle replacementa There are a lot of options for customization (colors, rails, etc.) so a very in-depth mod kit could go along with it.