Textures causing freezing

[thenoseknows]

I'm currently experiencing an issue with soem custom textures I downloaded. It is the re-textured Outcast PA by macintroll: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3786

 

The problem is that whenever I enter a cell with somebody wearing the armor, or when I equip it myself, the whole game will freeze for the duration it takes to load the textures, and then it carries on as normal. Obviously, this causes severe gameplay hick-ups, especially out in the Wasteland with the random Outcast patrols. The texture size is 4096x4096 and it's 16MB large.

 

However, I also use two of macintroll's other re-textures, the BoS PA, and the T-51b: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3191 http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8499

They are both 4096x4096 and even bigger: 21.3MB, yet the game will load them as smoothly as the default texture, so I don't think it's my computer's performance that's at fault here.

 

My specs are:

Phenom II X4 B50 3.1GHz

6GB RAM

Radeon 4850 512MB

Windows 7 64-bit

WD Caviar Blue 640GB

 

Is it just my computer that isn't up to loading the texture in good time, or could it be something else?

[nosisab]

I'm currently experiencing an issue with soem custom textures I downloaded. It is the re-textured Outcast PA by macintroll: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3786

 

The problem is that whenever I enter a cell with somebody wearing the armor, or when I equip it myself, the whole game will freeze for the duration it takes to load the textures, and then it carries on as normal. Obviously, this causes severe gameplay hick-ups, especially out in the Wasteland with the random Outcast patrols. The texture size is 4096x4096 and it's 16MB large.

 

However, I also use two of macintroll's other re-textures, the BoS PA, and the T-51b: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3191 http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8499

They are both 4096x4096 and even bigger: 21.3MB, yet the game will load them as smoothly as the default texture, so I don't think it's my computer's performance that's at fault here.

 

My specs are:

Phenom II X4 B50 3.1GHz

6GB RAM

Radeon 4850 512MB

Windows 7 64-bit

WD Caviar Blue 640GB

 

Is it just my computer that isn't up to loading the texture in good time, or could it be something else?

Hardly that's a texture problem unless the files are corrupted. I don't know the specific mod but the symptoms points to conflicting issues... scripting or cell changing features are my best guess.

 

You should try downloading again and reinstalling the mod.

[thenoseknows]

The freezing behaviour didn't change at all after re-downloading it. However, it's definitely something to do with the texture because I followed the excellent instructions in this article and shrunk it from 16MB to 5.3MB and it has made a world of difference. Unless no other solutions can be found, I'll stick with this because I can't notice a decrease in visual quality anyway.