Constant Save Corruption

[Cowboyofthewastes]

I'm having a problem with my saved games corrupting. My game was working just fine a few days ago. I got a few mods off the nexus here and then my save files corrupted. I exited the game to go delete the corrupt files and they were not there. I then loaded the game back up, created a new character, and saved the game immediately. After saving the game I chose to load it to see if everything was fine. It wasn't, it was corrupted again. I repeated this process several times. Every time I did it I got the same problem. I uninstalled the mods that I thought might have caused it and after going through the process several more times my save games are still instantly corrupting. Does anyone have a fix to this?

[bjornl]

Drop back and punt.

 

The corruption being reported in game is due to memory management failures caused by those mods.

if you are still getting the problem after uninstalling them, then uninstall your game delete the folder (back it up if want), then do the same to the fallout new vegas folder in "My Games".

 

Re-install, and it should be fine. If it is not then there is something wrong with your system causing memory failures. Things to troubleshoot would be malware (virus scan, anti-malware scan, diskchk, patching) and also look at background tasks and programs which start automatically with the PC.

[Cowboyofthewastes]

Thank you very much. I'll get on that immediately.

[jazzisparis]

Also, make sure the total number of mods your game loads is lower than 140.

[ZxAsriel]

This happens every time my mods reach 90, so I delete mods completely from my archive when they're not in use.

[dubiousintent]

Please note the date of the previous post, and see the Nexus "Terms of Service" about not resurrecting old threads.

 

That said, we've learned a lot about the game over the last 7 years since the last post. One is that by default a 32-bit game is only allocated 2GB of System RAM no matter how much is installed. We can now double that with the FNV 4GB Patcher (even works with the GOG version which already has the fix implemented). In addition the mod FNV Mod Limit Fix (released 20 Apr 2020) fixes the smaller "plugin cap" problem by increasing (4x) the maximum number of file handles to the common "2048" normally used by Windows to enable the full 255 plugin limit of 32-bit games. This appears to have the side benefit of smoother (possibly a few FPS faster) play and reduced or eliminated audio stutter reported by some users.

 

There are a host of other things which can cause problems. Please see the 'Common Game Problems' section of the wiki "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article.

 

If you need further assistance, Please start your own thread and provide ALL the information requested in the wiki "How to ask for help" article. Don't forget to identify things that do not appear in the "load order", such as the version of Windows, if you are using a "Steam" or "GOG" and/or "regional language version" of the game (even if you are playing it in English); using the FNV4GB Patch, NVSE and it's related plugins; replacements for textures (specifically their larger image sizes: 1024x1024, etc.), animations, or "bodies", etc.; and "post-processors" like ENB or SweetFX. It saves us playing "20 questions" and gets you a more specific answer more quickly. (The usual turn-around on post and reply in an older game forum is 24 hours.) Screenshots of the "load order" don't usually work so well because they tend to cut off or fail to display needed information and are hard to "piece together" into a complete and coherent picture.

* See "How to markup images (etc) in forum posts and comments" article for how to use "Spoiler tags". "LOOT" already includes those tags in the "load order" it copies to your clipboard, so you can just paste it's list into your post.

-Dubious-