Instant crash help

[LieutenantIDan]

Well, I'm sorry if you get this thing a lot, but I'm a total ditz, and know not what correct load orders are for what.

 

I've no idea what I did wrong, I'm guessing it's just load order, or I'm an idiot using too many mods simultaneously or what it is, but I think it's just load order.

It was running before with no crash or anything other than the occasional failure, but I don't know what my load order was, because, well, I'm an idiot.

Now, I've lost what I had before, and I never really knew, so, some help for a nimrod?

Here's what my mod list looks like, so please tell me what I should do if it's not too much of a trouble.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7614/modlist.png

Now, I've been loading BetterGamePerformanceV3 first, but I don't know where to go from there.

Thanks.

[XSoldier]

FalloutNV.esm must load first, and ALWAYS first.

[LieutenantIDan]

Well, I was doing that, that one's sort of self-explanatory, at least to me.

I meant I was doing the better performance mod as "01" not "00". Maybe I accidentally changed that...

[Fonger]

FalloutNV.esm must load first, and ALWAYS first.

and activating it would seem to be beneficial.

[PerroLoco53218]

FalloutNV.esm must load first, and ALWAYS first.

 

If this just started happening to you... it's the new Steam "update" - forces you game to crash from the launcher if your ArchiveInvalidationInvalidated!.bsa isn't deleted and your Fallout_default.ini isn't as installed by Steam!

[LieutenantIDan]

So... What does that mean? I gotta delete, replace, and reboot Archiveinvalitationinvalidated!?

The grammar hiccup at the end is really throwing me off, friend, sorry if I offend.

[PerroLoco53218]

So... What does that mean? I gotta delete, replace, and reboot Archiveinvalitationinvalidated!?

The grammar hiccup at the end is really throwing me off, friend, sorry if I offend.

 

If you did any editing of your Fallout_default.ini file (there are 2 of them, one in your "my documents" usually something like C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\My Documents\My Games\FalloutNV and one in your program folder *:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\fallout new vegas folder.)

 

Either delete these and let Steam rebuild them or replace them with your saved backup files - you did save the originals as backups, didn't you?

 

1) Open Steam

2) Right click on Fallout: New Vegas

3) Hit Properties

4) Click the "Local Files" tab

5) Click on "Verify Integrity of Game Cache"

 

If that doesn't work, delete your ini files and repeat steps 1-5