My .357's Cannot Be Used

[cobaltsprctre]

I apologize if this has already been addressed-- I was surprised that I could not locate this topic fairly easily.

 

Whenever I reload any .357 revolver (including "Lucky"), my game is dead. I can no longer look down the sights, fire, access menus, or do anything but exit. I have a similar problem with the cowboy repeater (using, of course, the same ammunition). Before figuring out that it was a problem, I found that I could reload the cowboy repeater 0-2 times before I had a similar problem, being able to look around until I wanted to exit and start playing, again.

 

I already eliminated Bethesda's list of usual suspects-- my computer meets the specs, my drivers are current, I installed without even my anti-virus program running; I've allowed Steam to patch my game, but I play offline with my anti-virus and all other programs turned off.

 

Bethesda's position (when I talk to tech support) is that there has never been a problem with .357's; I may have more trouble than most, but I know that others have had problems. Alternatively, they say that, if there ever was a problem, it would have been fixed in the latest patch. I gave it a shot, but my .357's still lock up my game as soon as I reload one of them.

 

Can anyone please shed some light on this for me? Am I (as Bethesda would seemingly have me believe) unique in having this problem? If not, is there a fix? If not, are there enough similarly situated players to make it worth Bethesda's while to patch it, or might some modder do it? I really wish that I could use .357 caliber weapons-- they represent a not insignificant percentage of the limited number of weapons in this game.

[Fonger]

have you tried the mod that borks the reloading animation to fix this?

[budwyzr67]

I'm having the same issue so you are not alone. Will have to do some research on the problem.

 

 

 

I apologize if this has already been addressed-- I was surprised that I could not locate this topic fairly easily.

 

Whenever I reload any .357 revolver (including "Lucky"), my game is dead. I can no longer look down the sights, fire, access menus, or do anything but exit. I have a similar problem with the cowboy repeater (using, of course, the same ammunition). Before figuring out that it was a problem, I found that I could reload the cowboy repeater 0-2 times before I had a similar problem, being able to look around until I wanted to exit and start playing, again.

 

I already eliminated Bethesda's list of usual suspects-- my computer meets the specs, my drivers are current, I installed without even my anti-virus program running; I've allowed Steam to patch my game, but I play offline with my anti-virus and all other programs turned off.

 

Bethesda's position (when I talk to tech support) is that there has never been a problem with .357's; I may have more trouble than most, but I know that others have had problems. Alternatively, they say that, if there ever was a problem, it would have been fixed in the latest patch. I gave it a shot, but my .357's still lock up my game as soon as I reload one of them.

 

Can anyone please shed some light on this for me? Am I (as Bethesda would seemingly have me believe) unique in having this problem? If not, is there a fix? If not, are there enough similarly situated players to make it worth Bethesda's while to patch it, or might some modder do it? I really wish that I could use .357 caliber weapons-- they represent a not insignificant percentage of the limited number of weapons in this game.

[SColla]

I only have issues with the Mysterious Magnum. It quits working and I'm frozen, so I end up dieing from being attacked and can't defend myself. I buried the Magnum in the Northern Passage grave.

[Fonger]

I only have issues with the Mysterious Magnum. It quits working and I'm frozen, so I end up dieing from being attacked and can't defend myself. I buried the Magnum in the Northern Passage grave.

IIRC that's a reloading issue

 

and its cured by yet another bugfix on the nexus

[secksegai]

I apologize if this has already been addressed-- I was surprised that I could not locate this topic fairly easily.

 

I think that's because there are a lot more "common" bugs to be found.

 

As mentioned earlier, I've read about a reloading issue - something to do with the animation I think, but your solution should be on the nexus.