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After my last install failed after reinstalling the OS, I've been very cautious with mods this time. No merging the Strip, no wall removal, nothing heavy except for the essentials such as PN. Everything was installed with Vortex, it's managing the load order as well. Wrye Flash only used for diagnostics. I've got 78 ES* files running fine so far. However, installing any out of a number of unrelated mods causes a freeze-on-exit problem. (The game can only be ended by win+tab and a task manager on a new desktop. Alt+F4 makes it worse, have to sign out.) The mods in question include: https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/48863 (Penguin Remodels---Boulder City) https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/49695 (Novac Public Library) - both original and self esp-ified version Also had this with https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/52581 - but only base version, not EC (have EC installed). So narrowed it down to the two above. I'm sure there's a lot more that will cause the same problem. That's 3 mods that do almost nothing but change a few cells. These look too unconnected to be problems on their own. Experiment 1: Activating just the "problem mods" and nothing else works fine. No FOE. Experiment 2: Activating 5 extra random plugins (total 83 ES*) caused no problem. Merging mods didn't solve the problem. So it's not just total mod count. Experiment 3: Disabling EC and ILO does not remove the issue. So this looks like some compatibility issue, but... I have no idea what could be messing with what in this order. Sure, EC and ILO mess with everything, but removing them doesn't help. I can totally live without these mods, but I'm concerned that it's a symptom of a worse problem that will mess with other mods. Any idea what it could be? What direction to look into? Active Mod Files: NVSE DLL: NVAC, MCM, JIP_NVSE, UI_Organizer. No ENB. 4G-enabled Steam exe. System is W10 1809, Z390/9900k/64/1080Ti*2, no OC, almost new W10 install. Not even Alchemy.

I know that's beside the question, but why? "Modern X299 chipsets" is an oxymoron; you're looking at 3 year old technology, repackaged with more cores. Intel Z370 is better at less-recent games, AMD Threadripper at everything else. There might be a narrow niche where you need specific games at a certain level of performance, but not at their best, for the sake of still second-rate multithreading performance - but there's a lot fewer people actually inside that niche than people who think they are. FWIW, Intel plans to release an 8-core 1151/Z390 chip later this year. If X299 was waiting for something to completely obsolete it, this is it. It will easily outperform 10-core and match 12-core X299 chips in productivity, wipe the floor with them in games. Still won't match Threadripper, but the latter is there and it's finally competitive in games as well. Unless you're one of the few people who will get the 16-18 core version, the X299 isn't worth bothering with.

That thing is called a PC, not a CPU. The CPU is just the little chip inside. That might interfere with your searches. On the carpet is not a great place for the PC, though, because carpet fibers are very good at blocking ventilation flow. Like said above, a computer caddy should be what you need. Your case is actually not that large... try taking a full tower case with 10 PCI slots (clearance for that 3rd GPU), 20 kilos empty, fitting those GPU, filling it with hard drives, and adding water cooling. Now that makes for a heavy PC.

No NVSR. The mod and plugin list above is complete, nothing else used. Yes, Windows 10 1709 16922.248, latest release. But it worked fine on the same version before OS reinstall. User config was transferred as a folder.

Unscrew everything that unscrews. Take it apart. Assuming it's a cheap membrane - hopefully with a solid rubber pad, not a tiny dome per key - remove the membranes and the board, clean them separately. You should be left with a few hard plastic parts that hold 99% of the dirt. Don't bother removing the keycaps. Just open warm/hot water under as high pressure as you can get and wash it from both sides, the keycaps will pop out to let water in. If called for, add a bit of dish detergent, wait a while, use more water and a hard plastic brush. Remove some keycaps if there's something large stuck under them. Let dry for half a day on radiator or a day without once done. Leave compressed air for cleaning PCBs and mechanical keyboards. Water+surfactants are far superior for membrane ones.

I'm usually the one helping people with problems, but this one has me stumbled. A month ago, my W10 Insider crashed irreparably, and I had to do a clean install. Clean formatted GPT SSD, UEFI boot, non-insider version this time. I reinstalled New Vegas via Steam and merged my previous New Vegas folder with the new one, my usual procedure. All games on a separate SSD. The game's mods were installed via NMM (last time I use it, promise) and I lost a couple files due to VirtualInstall bugs, all meshes. These included a few in \Data\meshes\characters\_male\, mentioning this in case it is serious. Now the game starts normally, but freezes in 2-3 minutes of loading a pre-reinstall save, consistently. It doesn't seem to matter whether I run around doing area loads or just stand still. Starting a new game (not that I want to) causes an instant freeze. Disabled CASM, no difference. Actually the game saves fine. Without NVSE, the game won't start at all, CTD. Without NVAC, also CTD in main menu. Active Mod Files: The last 5 plugins are my own low-risk tweaks (cut the frequency of random dialogue, change a few item stats) and two auto patches. NVSE plugins: Any ideas what could be the issue, what to investigate?

Don't mean to be insulting, but... grow up, new hardware fails as much as used hardware. Your GPU chip's connection to the board is breaking apart. Thank the EU for the "ROHS" act, which has led to the premature dumping of half a million tons of electronics, soldered with leadless alloys, which don't last (and thus probably a hundred times the environmental damage ROHS sought to prevent). Nvidia's cards were hit the hardest, since they didn't pay much care to keeping their chip compatible with new inferior solders. Their 480 to 780 generations are especially infamous for breaking apart mid-life for no visible reason. It's kinda temperature related, your video card still works until temperature forces its broken solder apart. It will gradually get worse until it refuses to start altogether.

They do. In my limited experience, as much as 30% of that software is completely closed source, and about 80% if you include semi-closed, i.e. transferred to the admin of the responsible department, but not disclosed otherwise. In most cases, re-compilation is possible, it's just nowhere in the procedures.

Not to dump on the tool, but please keep in mind - - there have been no known attacks so far exploiting Spectre or Meltdown vulnerabilities. There are no developed-but-unused implementations, either. Such attacks are very difficult and generally not worth it in the world where people turn UAC off and click on whatever site they think might be funny. What makes Meltdown and Spectre significant is that they allow for a security breach on hardware level, which was previously thought implicitly secure and safe to rely on.

This is why closed source software should never be used or considered for life-critical tasks. It's fine for entertainment, fine for creating and editing entertainment content, but its doctrine simply isn't compatible with the fundamental requirements of industrial and infrastructure control systems.

If you're still around in 2108, I recommend that you feel no hesitation about using Windows XP. Any infection is still a probabilistic effect, and with your Luck maxed out, you have nothing to worry about. XP is not "popular", there's simply a large number of users, as in overwhelming majority, who would've had zero idea how to upgrade it, if they were aware of such a concept at all.

The important question is, was your fps GPU bound or CPU bound? In my experience, Skyrim tends to be CPU bound. Most mods also tax the CPU, not the GPU. Although there are some processing modifications that can slow down the rendering.

I don't think Skyrim can take advantage of even half of a GTX 1080 Ti's power, even in 4K. If you're playing at less than 4K, it definitely can't. Not that there's anything wrong with that card for other purposes. But if you're playing in 2K, Skyrim will leave probably 85% of its power unused.

It's not a hardware/software question. But yes, you can. Mass Effect mods do not require a new game. AFAIK none of them at all.

While there are some extra features in Pro, I just don't see the probability of someone who isn't a serious power user ever using any of them as more than maybe 2%. And most have free alternatives, which tend to be more popular outside of corporate environments. For a novice user, some of the features (deferred updates and RDP) are outright counterproductive. Unless you actually want something in W10 Pro, I'd save the cost, small as it is, for something else. If you were buying it retail, Pro is the one to get (since it's transferable and can be used to upgrade another system), but this is just OEM OS tied to the rig.