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haha thanks man. I overlooked it in his previous post as well.

not sure what CASM is. i'll look into it. seems that blowing myself up or just dyin period fixes the problem temporarily, as a number of people have stated. not even sure where to start tracking this bug. =(

ok. gave that a shot. but it didn't fix the problem. =(

gotcha. thanks alot for the quick reply. damage thing is really just a tertiary concern. i just want combat to feel more challenging. i'll tweak around with it some more. i like the damage that mobs do to me, i just think i do too much to them. i'll give the merged mod thing a shot. but i haven't seen anywhere to remove wanamingos and such in fwe. will do more research as i have time.

so, i recently decided to pick up all the dlc and reinstall FO3. for brevity's sake, i'll keep this as short as possible and my issues are in bold and colored typeface for people who scan more than read. after modding up with lots of shiny, wonderful new mods, i've discovered that i have a ridiculously high amount of ctd issues. i've successfully troubleshot and fixed the majority of these problems, however, the MOST annoying one just will not go away. I ctd with terrible frequency on saving game.turning off autosave seems to have helped, but it's still pretty much a crapshoot as to whether or not i'm going to lose progress every time i save. i enjoy cranking difficulty up to high levels so losing an hour of progress from death is ok with me, but succesfully pillaging a camp loaded with angry, heavily armed super mutants only to lose my progress when i try to save afterwards is not! lol. Also, after loading dimonized type 3 female bodies and breezes male bodies, i'm getting what looks like a funky texture clipping issue around the edges of the npcs' armors and it seems that i no longer get project beauty faces on female char models. (sorry, no screenies, and i'm pretty sure it's just load order or file overwrite thats causing the face issue). lastly, before i list mod load order and pc specs, i was wondering if anyone had any advice on difficulty tweaking in respect to combat. i have FWE installed plus a number of other mods, as you will see. npcs do great damage, but at lvl 18, using any weapon that has been added or tweaked by my mods (anything non-vanilla FO3) just does too much damage. one shotting super mutants in vats or from stealth and being able to single handedly shred through evergreen mills without dying once seems thoroughly un-epic to me, so any suggestion on reducing my character's damage via mod or settings would be greatly appreciated. sorry for all the questions, i've fixed what i could on my own, but this has become majorly annoying and with two jobs, i'd like to spend my little bit of play time troubleshooting less and raiding supermutants more! i have run FO3 ram boost, and while i have fo3edit installed, i simply have not had the time to read the manual. i also have fose installed. I've seen lots of articles about FO3 and win 7 not playing well together, i currently run FO3 from fomm as admin in win xp sp3 compatibility mode Pc specs (i know, my box is pretty dated, upgrading in a couple months) intel core 2 e6400 3 gb 800mhz ram nvidia 9800 gtx+ - driver revision 197.13 windows 7 ultimate 64-bit os Mods NOT in fomm list (some were installed with fomm, some were not) Dimonized type 3 body replacer - with shoulders fix breeze's fo3 males - don't worry, underpants are installed, lol enhanced blood textures - not installed with fomm, but working properly foip fixes for project beauty, mmm and followers enhanced hi-rez weapons v3.1 - latest posted version, not installed with fomm, but installed before anything else that changes weapons (FWE, EVE, MMM) and never been an issue in the past. mods and load order from fomm Fallout3.esm Anchorage.esm ThePitt.esm BrokenSteel.esm PointLookout.esm Zeta.esm CRAFT.esm CALIBR.esm Project Beauty.esm FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esm Mart's Mutant Mod.esm Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm bzArmour.esp Project Beauty- Broken Steel.esp Project Beauty- Point Lookout.esp ACE2-0.esp CRAFT - Activation Perk.esp Enhanced Weather - Sneak Bonus during Storms.esp Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow in Fallout.esp Enhanced Weather - Radioactive Rain and Snow Plugin.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Anchorage.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC The Pitt.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Broken Steel.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Point Lookout.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Mothership Zeta.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - Followers Enhanced (BrokenSteel).esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - Followers Enhanced.esp (Inactive) FO3 Wanderers Edition - Project Beauty.esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - Project Beauty (Followers Enhanced).esp FO3 Wanderers Edition - Controller Assistance.esp EVE.esp EVE Operation Anchorage.esp EVE - FWE Master Release (Follower Enhanced).esp EVE Anchorage - FWE DLC Anchorage.esp EVE - FWE Master Release.esp EVE - FWE with WeaponModKits.esp (Inactive) Mart's Mutant Mod.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Anchorage.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC The Pitt.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Broken Steel.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Point Lookout.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Zeta.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - FWE Master Release.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - Project Beauty + FWE.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - Project Beauty.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - No Floaters.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - No Geckos.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - No Wanamingos.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - Hunting & Looting.esp Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp Enhanced Weather - Weather Sounds in Interiors.esp Fellout-Full.esp Fellout-pipboylight.esp MTC Wasteland Travellers.esp A Box of Quantum.esp PersonalTerminal.esp if any mod makers read this, THANK YOU GUYS SOOO MUCH for taking the time to make this game better in a million different ways for those of us who don't have the time to do it ourselves. Buggy or not, you guys took what was an incredible game and cranked it up to an indescribable level of fun!!!!!