Now I can't save at all--or open doors

[trosaire]

Have been playing FONV for several days and--despite numerous hang-ups--have managed to get to level 12. Starting this morning FONV has developed two new problems. I'm not able to save (using either method). The screen goes blank, then drops me out of the game. Same thing happens when I attempt to go through a closed door. Pisses me off because I killed off all the Deathclaws at the quarry north of Sloan TWICE. Very frustrating.

 

Another frustration: The FONV Game Guide (from Prima) is very difficult to use because it doesn't have an index. The table of contents up front is fine for general topics, but, when you've come upon something in the Wasteland that you want to check out quickly, the book is worthless.

 

Love the game, but the bugs and bad documentation are taking taking away from the fun.

[WastelandAssassin]

well, i just searched for an answer, and someone wrote something, so i thought it's worth checking

basically, you can't save (can't change areas due to autosaves on area transitions)

what that person says was that you need to load the game, then let your character die, and let it auto-load the last save, and that should fix the problem

 

i can't promise that this will work, but i think it's worth trying, don't you?? :)

[trosaire]

...you need to load the game, then let your character die, and let it auto-load the last save, and that should fix the problem

 

Yeah, tried that and it didn't work. That same person [or at least the original poster of that solution] also said to retrieving a save twice. That didn't work either.

 

BTW, I apologize for opening a new topic when the subject has already been covered in another thread. Will do a better job of searching existing topics next time.

[Meanmelter]

I got the same problem in Fallout 3, and since they used the same stupid engine (Thanks a lot Obsidian) many bugs are carried over.

Mainly, it deals with mods that place new cells around the world, are not properly saved onto the save file properly (Talk about bad mods?) OR sometimes the games Cells crash.

The only way I fixed this was to open up console '~' and type 'player.kill' and then I could save and go through doors. But I had to do it every time I started the game up.