New Vegas crashing/hanging indefinitely due to 'out of memory' error.

[Vulon]

Hi,

 

I recently re-installed New Vegas along with a handful of mods and have been experiencing frequent crashes (typically every 5-10 minutes) and freezes. Usually the crash will be accompanied by an error stating that I've exceeded my available memory or something to the effect, which I assume can't be accurate because I've checked NV's resource usage in task manager and it has a pretty minimal impact. I've looked it up and it would seem as though a large number of players have experienced this same issue.

 

I tried activating/deactivating mods that I thought might be problematic, and while I initially had NMC's large texture pack installed (which I determined might be the cause, since many others seemed to have similar issues with this texture overhaul in place), I overwrote the textures with his 'medium' pack and subsequently the 'small' pack. I noticed very minimal improvement in switching from large to medium and no noticeable improvement from medium to small. I still crashed or got hung up indefinitely regardless of the texture quality. Three times I've been unable to successfully close NV through the task manager and have been forced to sign out of Windows and sign back in.

 

For reference, my PC specs are as follows.

 

OS: Windows 8.1 64-Bit

CPU: AMD A8-6600K APU 3.9 GHz (yes, I realize running an APU alongside a dedicated GPU is redundant, but it was really, really cheap)

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC ACX 2.0+

RAM: 8GB

 

It's not a behemoth of a PC or anything, but I shouldn't really be struggling to run NV at all with these specs. I ran NV on my old PC (which wasn't even half as powerful as this one) with a larger number of mods running alongside many of the mods I currently have installed. I experienced very few crashes and greater stability overall.

 

Speaking of, here's my current mod list, exported directly from FOMM and sorted by LOOT.

 

 

FalloutNV.esm

DeadMoney.esm

HonestHearts.esm

OldWorldBlues.esm

LonesomeRoad.esm

GunRunnersArsenal.esm

ClassicPack.esm

MercenaryPack.esm

TribalPack.esm

CaravanPack.esm

YUP - Base Game + All DLC.esm

NVInteriors_Core.esm

FreesideOpen.esm

NVInteriors_ComboEdition.esm

NevadaSkies.esm

NVStripOpen.esm

YUP - NPC Fixes (Base Game + All DLC).esp

Armor by Race w Undies.esp

Better Burned Man.esp

outsidebets.esp

FreesideOpenPatch.esp

vault22FloralOverhaul.esp

Delay DLC - DM + HH + OWB + LR + GRA.esp

The Mod Configuration Menu.esp

Beards.esp

DYNAVISION 3.esp

FCO - Sweat.esp

dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp

StripOpenMain.esp

Reactive People - Ultimatum.esp

awilderwasteland.esp

FSOmusic.esp

FCO - HD Teeth.esp

Sprint Mod.esp

NevadaSkies - Ultimate DLC Edition.esp

Total active plugins: 35

Total plugins: 43

In addition to the above mods, I also have the New Vegas Anti Crash and Stutter Remover NVSE plugins installed.

Any help at all would be appreciated. I've scoured the internet in search of a fix and have tried just about everything I can think of. INI tweaks -- which I normally avoid -- the 4GB patch, disabling/enabling mods one by one, toggling ArchiveInvalidation on and off religiously in FOMM, starting a new game (both with and without mods active) just to see if my save was somehow corrupt, etcetera. At this point I don't know what else to do aside from a complete re-installation, but I'd really rather not. Considering my previous PC was Windows 7 and I'm currently operating on Windows 8, I'm thinking that could be part of the problem. I know from experience that FO3 is a bit of a pain to get working properly on 8, so...*shrugs*

Edited June 15, 2015 by Vulon