CaptainPatch Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 (edited) The game was working well and stable for several hours. I Saved and then Quit the game. That's when the game decided to CTD, _after_ I quit. I figured that since I Saved before Quitting, I should have no problems. But when I Load that Saved game, the roulette wheel just keeps spinning and goes nowhere. The same 3-4 cached sequence of tip splash screens keep playing in the background in an endless loop. If I Alt-Ctrl-Del to bring up Task Manager, it says that FNV is "not responding", letting me know I'm wasting my time. Any suggestions on how to push past this roadblock? [dxdiag.txt attached] ADDENDA: _ALL_ of the Saves I had made before Quitting do this. Edited July 14, 2014 by CaptainPatch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yungskiz Posted July 15, 2014 Share Posted July 15, 2014 you have encountered the infinite load bug, theres no real "fix" sadly. insanity seems to work here, just keep trying to load a save you can also backup all your saves then try to load them individually with no other saves in your nvsave folder. to remedy this in the future -disable the games autosave features -use a save manager - many people including me like CASM -make a manual save before you exit i have had the ctd on exit before and it causes this same issue 90% of the time, so i no longer give NV the chance to crash, do a manual save, then go to the escape menu. then CTRL ALT DEL and open the task manager, then go to the processes tab, find FalloutNV.exe, right click and terminate process. thats basically like turning your computer off by ripping the plug out of the wall, but windows is designed to be able to end applications this way, ive yet to find any negative side effects and it DOES remedy the CTD's on exit...but only because you technically arent quitting the game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPatch Posted July 16, 2014 Author Share Posted July 16, 2014 -make a manual save before you exit i have had the ctd on exit before and it causes this same issue 90% of the time, so i no longer give NV the chance to crash, do a manual save, then go to the escape menu. then CTRL ALT DEL and open the task manager, then go to the processes tab, find FalloutNV.exe, right click and terminate process. ************************** I religiously make Saves before Quitting or going through portals. I'll give the Task Manager approach and see how that works out. THANKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPatch Posted August 2, 2014 Author Share Posted August 2, 2014 UPDATE: I've been able to ascertain that if I get the Loading-forever spinning roulette wheel, If I reboot the PC, then once I'm up and running again, I can Load that exact same Save and it will go through. This is also the case for game freezes that occur when trying to change locations either by fast traveling or going through a portal. In the past, that kind of fixit indicated that the program was having trouble flushing the RAM cache. Full cache, game crashes the next time the program tries to stuff more data into an already-full RAM cache. But I can't see how that can be the case for a system that has 8 Gb of RAM. Especially when the crash sometimes occurs only less than 10 minutes into the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarchUntoTorment Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Quick question - do you run FNV4GB? Sounds to me like you're running into out-of-memory errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPatch Posted August 2, 2014 Author Share Posted August 2, 2014 Quick question - do you run FNV4GB? Sounds to me like you're running into out-of-memory errors.Not sure what that is or how to activate/deactivate it or what it does. And I agree that it sounds like out-of-memory errors to me too -- which is why I'm wondering how that can be with 8Gb of RAM. Even OOM errors with 4 Gb seems odd. [Remember the Bad Ol' Days when we used to have to partition a portion of ONE Mb to be used as RAM?] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPatch Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 UPDATE: By switching to Windowed mode (rather than full screen), the frequency of crashes of any sort went way, way down. Not entirely gone, but at least I'm not crashing 90% of the time when I fast travel or change locations. Sure would be nice if that window was scalable to fill up most of my large-ish monitor. Makes me squint a lot, because it uses only @1/3rd of the screen. Also makes the graphics a LOT darker, even when I have Brightness set to max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M48A5 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 UPDATE: By switching to Windowed mode (rather than full screen), the frequency of crashes of any sort went way, way down. Not entirely gone, but at least I'm not crashing 90% of the time when I fast travel or change locations. Sure would be nice if that window was scalable to fill up most of my large-ish monitor. Makes me squint a lot, because it uses only @1/3rd of the screen. Also makes the graphics a LOT darker, even when I have Brightness set to max.Maybe you should try this: http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41381/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPatch Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 Maybe you should try this: http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41381/? Okay, I installed that and read what there was on the mod page. But I don't see anywhere where it tells how to resize the window the game is in. It seems to be meant for more smoothly Alt-Tabbing between open windows than it is for scaling the game window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blove Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 You should set your aspect ratio and resolution from the FNV launcher options. Game Companion is the better option to use especially if using NVSE and 4GB patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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