MarchUntoTorment Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 This is a really odd bug that I've encountered recently. In certain areas, NPCs will randomly flicker in and out, with different appearances and equipment each time. The most consistently affected NPCs are the nameless Brotherhood Paladins in the Hidden Valley bunker, but it happens to other NPCs as well. It usually stabilises after around thirty seconds, the NPC spawning properly after that time. I'm wondering whether this is caused by a mod conflict or something else, although I can't for the life of me work out what it is. It lags the living hell out of my system until it stabilises, although this isn't exactly unexpected (I'm running New Vegas on more or less minimum requirements while I scrape the money together for a proper gaming PC). Has anyone else ever seen this issue? It feels as though it's something that would be rather known-about and a common issue (also seems like something that could be easily-fixed), but I'm not exactly sure. Help? Regards,MarchUntoTorment P.S. It also affects several mod-created areas, including the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel soldiers spawned by the Midwestern BOS mod (which I have since deactivated for the time being to cut down my load order - I'm not really getting much use out of it) and the Enclave soldiers in the For The Enclave!'s Henderson Bunker cells. Come to think of it, it only seems to affect power-armored NPCs - if it helps, I'm running Powered Power Armor, although I'm not sure if that'd have any relevance here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienzerox Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) hmm anytime anything flickers for me I think texture not loading ... so did you install any other PA mods? I use the PPA mod also and I use daughters of ares as my toon ... with the sharl PA as my PA Edited March 13, 2014 by alienzerox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarchUntoTorment Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Got a few (the Colossus series, mostly), but that's not the issue - they're actually spawning in and out of existence, as they restart their weapon-draw animations every time they flicker (which appears to be once per frame or couple of frames). Until they stop flickering, the 'Talk To' activation thing flashes in and out with them, and I'm unable to engage conversation until they're done flickering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienzerox Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 (edited) wow you mean they vanish .... hmm ... okie are you also having ground texture issues @ these locations? like when you approach an area it take a while for all of the info to load so it might be hardware related --- so update your video drivers & DX to the latest versions post your LO also so maybe performance of the gods may help and grab YUP for the bug fixes EDIT FOR SPAZZING OUT Edited March 13, 2014 by alienzerox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarchUntoTorment Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Negative - doesn't appear so. If I had to take a guess, it seems almost like the game is trying to decide which NPC to spawn, although I'm not well-versed enough in NV to know whether or not that makes any sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarchUntoTorment Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 Wait - Just saw your edit. How do I post my LO? It's truly enormous at this point, so typing it all out by hand is a rather daunting prospect... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienzerox Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 (edited) !?!? >>> within nexus mod manger on the side tabs there is a function to export current LO onto clipboard ...do that then paste here in comment window .... writers cramp free method FTW! Edited March 15, 2014 by alienzerox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarchUntoTorment Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 ...Now that's odd. For reasons I do not understand, this thing's refusing to let me copy-paste any text at all. Is it because I'm a recently-added user or something...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienzerox Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 dunno ... too far back for me to remember if there were any kind of posting restrictions for young-lings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alienzerox Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 but reading back into what you said about your LO being enormous ... I suspect that you may be over the limit -- 255 for original -- and I imagine less and less with each added dlc -- bc I have nv ultimate which included all & my mod/data limit is 140 so I my build starts to freak out @ about 120 - 30 depending on the size of the mod I decided to try that day (game accounts for items in the data folder also according to nivea & bben) and I trust them to know their stuff ... so maybe deactivate some to see or merge some of the loose that can be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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