Cargo Hold Crash

[apaosha]

So, I'm on Zeta and I'm in the Cargo Hold looking for the MPLX Novasurge. I can get in there fine, fighting enemies fine, looting interacting everything.

 

But after around 5 minutes, after killing most of the Aliens the game freezes, the screen fades to black slightly and it crashes entirely. After a while (it takes ages to quit out of the application) I get the Error Report window.

 

I'm not entirely sure, but it seems to happen when I approach the garbage chute thing with all the junk, cows etc flying from the ceiling into a pit in the floor.

 

But it doesn't happen immediately. It seems to only happen after spending a certain period of time in this cell, as if it occurs in response to something that is triggered after a x amount of time; perhaps a piece of junk in the chute appearing/disappearing.

 

Anybody else come across this? Any ideas?

[Fonger]

never found the cause, just needed to move and save quite often.

 

however I later found that I was running fo3edit in masterupdate mode incorrectly

 

so try fo3edit in masterupdate mode - make certain it works correctly

 

problem vanished outside of that area -----

 

only plausible cause was enemies spawning in non-pathed spaces, like behind walls or below decks

 

but this cannot actually be confirmed.

[apaosha]

I've just finished the entire Zeta quest, bar going into the Cargo Hold cell. The problem is there.

 

I even tried going in, saving every 30 seconds.... guess what? I've got a save where the game crashes immediately after I get control. I can move two steps, then bam! Crashed.

 

It's slightly funny actually. I seem to have managed to save it just before the crash trigger comes into effect. Which seems to suggest there is something scripted to happen after a certain period of time in the Cargo Hold which is the cause of this.

 

I lost a save where I got all the bobbleheads cos of this bug. Shame.

 

I'm going to try load the save, then coc to another cell. I'll report back with the results.

[apaosha]

Immediately upon launching the crash save I entered the console and typed:

 

coc DLC05EngineCore

 

..... and teleported to the Engineering Core.

 

Everything worked fine after that, so it's not a corrupt save. There's something in that cell that causes this.

[Aldjeron]

Could you tell me what mods you were running? for one I suspect to bethe problem is MMM (I'm currently in the same boat as you were. I think its when it spawns a alternate brahmin cause i always hearthe Moo just beforethe crashe, and its not every time a Moo, cause there are some Moo's that make it thru the portal and don't CTD.

 

Moo?

[apaosha]

Yeah, I was using MMM. Maybe disable the MMM Zeta plugin and see what happens... If not that then disable MMM entirely.

 

ATM I don't have Zeta installed, so I can't test it.

[thebic4]

same thing happening to me your not alone ill will tell you if i find a way to fix this

[thebic4]

found a fix simply load back to the entrance or not in the cargo hold and use cheats to get it

[bluemarvin]

So years after the original post, I'm here to deposit a definitive answer. lol Although the answer is the the details above in conjecture, I'd like to just confirm it works.

 

I had the exact same behavior today as described (quite nicely) by the OP. In the cargo hold, close to the chute, the game would crash every 10-20 seconds or so. The game was stable elsewhere.

 

Seeing the comments above about MMM, I decided to give that a try as a possible culprit. That was indeed the problem, however you cannot just disable the Zeta portion of the add-on, you have to disable the entire thing. After disabling all elements of MMM, I re-loaded from a save, then saved the game again. Then I loaded the from the new save (one that has no MMM details in it), and problem solved.

 

Once out of the area, you can re-enable MMM.