Bandi427 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 (edited) Hey guys, I originally posted this in the PC hardware/software forum a little under a month ago, and I had no response aside from someone who had a question about the 280x. I've decided to post this here to see if I get any feedback. About two months ago, I had built a computer for my sister for her birthday, and gave her my old graphics card, which was a Sapphire Radeon 6850. It ran New Vegas, Fallout 3, and Skyrim just fine with a number of rather graphically demanding mods installed, including an ENB setting for each. With my old card in her build, I was left to buy another one. I chose the XFX Radeon R9 280x as my new card. Due to shenanigans with Fallout 3, I had to reinstall it and play without mods for a bit and installed another ENB setting. Worked/works fine. I played Skyrim and even downloaded more hi res textures. Didn't touch any ENB settings. Works fine, probably even better than before. I play New Vegas for the first time after installing my card, which had been about almost a month as of originally posting this , and I install a new clothing mod. I launch the game, and it starts skipping. Heavily. I thought it was the mod. So I turn it off, and it still happens. I thought maybe I had something that was too demanding for my card, but then I immediately think that that can't be possible because the 6850 ran 2k/hi res textures just fine without skipping or stuttering for the most part, not to mention it even played Battlefield 3 at a High/Ultra setting at almost 60FPS without MSI Afterburner. I turn my ENB setting for New Vegas off, and it works fine, but after about twenty minutes, it CTD's and says "out of memory". My card has I think 4GB of dedicated memory, I don't even see how that's possible. That over double of what my 6850 had, not to mention I have 12GB of RAM simply because I didn't want to give up the initial 4GB I started with two years ago. So I uninstall New Vegas and all my mods, and run through which mods could possibly make my card have this problem. The answer was none of them. Turns out, any ENB setting on this card, whether I use the Wrapper or Injected Version, makes me stutter hard, down to like, 2FPS. Almost literally. I don't know what it could be. I've tried everything. I've Googled possibilities, thinking it was a memory leak, but I don't know if it's that. My Steam version of the game is correct, and obviously with that said, it's a legit Steam copy of the vanilla game; not the ultimate edition. I have all the DLC installed except for the pre-order packs. If anyone can help me, please, give me a solution.. Other specs: Intel i5 2500k processor @ 4.3GHz (overclocked) 12GB of DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MHz PNY SSD 128GB Western Digital 500GB Caviar Blue @ 7200RPM Edited December 5, 2014 by Trey7191 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M48A5 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 The problem you are experiencing has nothing to do with video ram, but system ram. Fallout:New Vegas, being a 32 bit game, can only address and use 2GB of system RAM. However, there is a work around. The 4GB Fallout New Vegas Updated. http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/55061/ This will allow your game to address up to 4GB of system RAM and should end the "out of memory" error messages and crashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandi427 Posted December 6, 2014 Author Share Posted December 6, 2014 I tried that and got the same error. I made it so that the ENB would load with FNV4GB Updated and it still stuttered when it ran. Even before the updated version I ran the first FNV4GB and it worked fine before I built the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M48A5 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 "it worked fine before I built the computer." This would lead me to believe that the problem is with the hardware or the installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandi427 Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 I guess I'll have to reinstall the drivers and maybe even reseat the card. I uninstalled New Vegas twice after this kept occurring and ran it with an ENB without any mods, and the problem still happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandi427 Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 (edited) This is as close I have gotten to a working ENB so far:http://i.imgur.com/8svT7Y2.png While it's like this, it doesn't skip at all, but obviously the main problem is that glaring white... graffiti on the screen. I don't know what it is, and I had the problem before and was able to fix it, don't remember how, but I've followed the instructions to install Blackout ENB and the Wrapper version of ENB settings to the letter, and this happens. I tried using another ENB, and I was back to Square One with the obscene framerate lag. Oh, and don't mind the HUD. I went back to make sure my .ini settings were right, and I didn't change the font section back to what it needed to be for DUI. Edited December 14, 2014 by Trey7191 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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