Clothes-related mini freezes when closing pipboy

[Grumpfbork]

For some time now I have a problem which seems to be related to some clothes.

 

When I put on certain clothes/armor and try to close the pipboy the game freezes for about 40 seconds or longer, then closes the pipboy and runs normal again.

When I unequip the armor I can close the pipboy without freezes most of the time, but sometimes the only thing that will help is to drop the armor completely.

 

This problem appears with winterised armor, outcast power armor, pretty much every combat armor, stealth suit and several types of clothes.

 

The strange thing is, that this problem appeared out of nowhere. I was using several major and small cloth/armor-related mods like "cybernetic dawn" and "warhammer space marine replacer", all DLC´s and patch 1.7 without problems for quite some time now and suddenly I have this strange and annoying problem.

 

I tried to defrag my harddrive, uninstall and reinstall or deactivating several mods one by one but nothing seems to help. Any help would be highly appreciated.

[csb]

On the customized armors, look in your Data/Textures folder and look at the size of the .dds files. There's always the off-chance that if the .dds texture is very high resolution, your graphics card is having a problem rendering it in a timely way and FO3 has to wait for it to "catch up."

 

Others might have more technical solutions :) ... this is just what popped into my head because I had that problem when using the uncompressed texture (21mb) for Type3 body replacer. Once I replaced the texture with a more reasonable (compressed version (5mb)), the problem went away.

[Grumpfbork]

Thanks for the answer, but unfortunately this seems not to be the reason. I had a look and most of the files are not that big. It also happens with very small files, like 500 kb or so.