Out of Memory error while in New Vegas

[Darmonte]

So I'm in New Vegas proper and go to enter the Atomic Wrangler and my game crashes and I get an out of memory error. I've gone though the forums, added the NV4GB loader (still get the error even with Steam running), and looked at everything on FNVedit and there aren't any conflicts with the mods I'm using. I have no idea how to fix this so if anyone has any ideas I'd apreciate the help. Since I know the question of which mods I'm using will be asked here is the list:

 

FalloutNV.esm
DeadMoney.esm
HonestHearts.esm
OldWorldBlues.esm
LonesomeRoad.esm
GunRunnersArsenal.esm
CaravanPack.esm
BoulderCityFaceliftProject.esm
domecity.esm
FreesideOpen.esm
AWorldOfPain(Preview).esm
NVStripOpen.esm
MikotoBeauty.esm
AWOP v5dot3dot1 Hot Fix.esm
UnderCover2.esp
TOUTUlyssesR.esm
VDreadlocks.esm
NVEC BugFixes.esm
NVEC Reduce CTD.esp
Machienzo-[DM]ReturnItemFix+SMArmorFix.esp
GalaxyNewsRadioPodcast.esp
The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
Tag Skills Improved.esp
2HandedSmgs.esp
Dark Justice Duster.esp
jodasbootz.esp
Holster.esp
zzClothes.esp
jotoughgirl.esp
Glasses Auth.esp
Better Game Performance.esp
MOD.Weapon.10mmTacticalSMG.esp
GRA WRP Compatibility Patch.esp
G3SG1.esp
Uzi.esp
AUGA1.esp
CaravanDeckFix11.esp
ForecasterDialogueFix.esp
MeleeReachFixed.esp
NVVariousFixes - Honest Hearts.esp
Vendors Wear Their Own Armours.esp
YoungHeartsDialogueFix.esp
NCR Safehouse Upgrade.esp
contactlense.esp
Plausible Starting Outfit.esp
Black market.esp
BCFollowersClinic.esp
SadiesSundries.esp
WildBillsPawnArmory.esp
Mobile_Bus.esp
Depth of View IE.esp
Depth of View IE Custom.esp
BetterRepairKits2b.esp
Rebuild Ed-E.esp
RedRockVault.esp
SMSHACK0-1k.esp
SMSHACK0-2k.esp
SMSHACK0-3k.esp
SMSHACK0-4k.esp
SMSHACK0-5k.esp
SMSHACK0-10k.esp
SMSHACK0-100k.esp
StartingGear.esp
thestrippolice.esp
MikotoBeauty.esp
Cassnextdoor.esp
realistic headshots.esp
RWD-NV v1.4 [standard Version].esp
Wild Wasteland Integration.esp
More tunnel snakes.esp
Talon Company In New Vegas.esp
Fellout.esp
HoverBoard.esp
Wellcometohell.esp
WelcometohellHH.esp
WelcometohellLR.esp
WelcometohellOWB.esp
StripOpenMain.esp
AWOP Revs - Help In Goodsprings.esp
AWOP Revs - Original Goodsprings Fight.esp
AWOP Revs - You Are Still The Hero.esp
AWOPDeadMoneyVendorPatch.esp
AWOPDeadMoney.esp
outsidebets.esp
FreesideOpenPatch.esp
AWOPFSOPatch.esp
FreesideOpenBoulderDomePatch.esp
FSOmusic.esp
Dog_City3.esp
LiveEntertainment.esp
MurderMystery.esp
PrimmSheriff.esp
LosIlluminados.esp
RaiderTower.esp
The time machine.esp
NicePaperweight.esp
Better Burned Man.esp
EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp
Laurens_Bathroom_poetry.esp
Mojave Nights.esp
NCRRCombatFix.esp
NVM_Clean.esp
AWSW.esp
Extra-Characters---Fiends-Quest-ENABLED.esp
GRARG.esp
New girls in Ultra-Luxe Bathhouse new girls only.esp
New girls in Ultra-Luxe Bathhouse.esp
RangerSignPatrol.esp
populatedcasino.esp
Sheriff Meyers.esp
friendofnightforfellout.esp
hh end slide fix.esp
DLM_Dead Money Deans Blackmail holo fix.esp
WelcomeToNewVegas.esp
CassFix.esp
DialogFixes.esp

 

Thank you for taking the time to go though this and help.

Edited April 19, 2015 by Darmonte

[truehopee]

install the Fnv4gb http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35262/? this should solve your problem, I had the same issue and this worked great.

[Darmonte]

I did that already and it didn't fix the problem.

[drithius]

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[Darmonte]

@ drithius: I took out populated casino as suggested, unfortunately it didn't fix the problem.

[bben46]

Out of memory error means just what it says. Your computer ran out of memory to handle the next part of the game that it tried to load.

This can be caused by things outside of the game as well as things in the game - especially if you have a 32 bit computer or just 4G of ram on a 64 bit system. For best results on a 64 bit system, you need at least 5G of RAM, for a 32 bit, 4G is the max no matter what you do, and the game will not be able to use all of that as Windows and anything else installed will take a portion of it. http://s1.zetaboards.com/bbenlibrary/topic/4865172/1/

 

As for the game, I see a lot of resource hungry mods in your load order that eat ram. Anything that increases resolution - such as improving what things look like takes extra ram. And mods that combine cells that were originally separate, such as that open strip mod - will use a lot more ram than the original. ( I never liked the way Beth divided the strip into several cells, but I do understand why they did it that way) And mods that add a lot of scripts will also use more ram. By themselves each of these mods only takes a small amount of more ram, but those small amounts soon add up.

 

And, you also have to consider video ram as well as system ram. A video card with 512K of ram will run out a lot faster than one with 2G. Whenever you go from one cell to another - the game has to load the new cell into memory. To speed things up, they may not purge the entire previous cell first limiting the available ram for the new cell. :pinch:

[JimboUK]

Are you starting the game with the 4GB loader? if not it won't work. Also check this post http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/1417360-out-of-memory-crash-with-fnv4gb/?p=15762670

[jcdenton2012]

Jesus Guys, why use a jackhammer when their is a perfectly good clawhammer on the shelf? Dude, have you considered merging that massive list of Esps to decrease your load order processing? If you cut down on that laundry list of esp's checking one another against those esms your game should run A LOT smoother and the crashing might stop.

[Darmonte]

@ bben46: I understand the ram requirements and exceed the ram needs. My computer is well equiped to run New Vegas without any problems. Or at least there shouldn't be any problems but the Out of Memory error persists.

 

@ jim_uk I've tried with the 4GB loader and the game still gives me an Out of Memory error when trying to enter the Atomic Wrangler.

 

@ jcdenton2012 The game has run fine without having the need to merge anything. It's quite stable and I haven't had problems except the Out of Memory error while trying to enter the Atomic Wrangler which shouldn't happen with 16 gigs of ram.

[madmongo]

The Atomic Wrangler loads a lot of stuff, so it tends to be one of the first places to break when you run into memory issues.

 

I personally ran into this issue when I added New Vegas Redesigned (I think version 3) and found that a lot of the textures didn't work properly at lower texture resolutions. I switched everything to high resolution textures under my graphics properties, and from then on out every time I entered the Wrangler my game crashed with an out of memory error.

 

The fix for me was to set the graphics back to using low resolution textures, which significantly reduces their memory usage. The difference between lower and higher resolution textures on my machine isn't that noticeable (especially since I don't exactly have the sharpest vision in the world these days), but depending on your system and your graphics settings it might be more noticeable than that. You also are likely to run into the issue that made me switch to higher resolution textures in the first place. There are a lot of folks out there creating textures for mods that only work on the highest texture resolution. My solution for those, since I can't run the game in highest texture resolution or it crashes, was to simply open up the misbehaving textures as I found them using Paint.Net with the dds plugin, and just saving them again. Sometimes I would have to fiddle with the normal maps too, which involves GIMPing since Paint.Net doesn't handle normal maps (or if it does, I don't know how to do it, so someone please tell me).