Bizzare issue with Project Nevada, any hope for me here?

[TehWarsmith]

Recently started a new game of New Vegas in the hopes of finally finishing it and playing the DLCs (never quite got there before, for various reasons). Decided to spruce up my experience with the following mods, playing on Windows 7 64-bit:

 

New Vegas 4GB

 

Archive Invalidation

Project Nevada - Core + Rebalance installed

 

The Strip Open

Populated Casinos

Fallout Character Overhaul

 

Companion Sandbox Mode

 

Immersive Karma

 

MTUI

 

CONELRAD 640-1240 Radio Station

 

Nevada Skies

 

SomeguySeries.esm + New Vegas Bounties I, II, & III and The Inheritance

 

Plus all DLCs + Gun Runners' Arsenal installed.

I play for about 40 hours with no problems. (Or, more accurately, with frequent crashes when transitioning between areas, but I don't know if that's actually a sign of trouble with mods, I've heard that's just a problem with the game's inherent autosave feature.) Then, abruptly, after having been to the Strip/Lucky 38 multiple times over 40 hours of play time with no fluctuations, I leave the Lucky 38 and try to enter Gomorrah and the game crashes. (This is after I had already been inside Gomorrah and explored it extensively.) I try to start the game repeatedly, 10+ times - every time, it either crashes before I can load my save, or crashes as soon as I transition into Gomorrah.

 

I uninstall a few mods, one at a time, to see if I can fix it - at first I thought the game was being overwhelmed by the Populated Casinos mod, since Gomorrah is so goddamn huge, but no luck at all. I also validate my game files on Steam, this also does nothing (despite supposedly detecting some broken/missing files and reaquiring them). In the process, I uninstall Project Nevada and reinstall it through the NMM.

 

Eventually, I just give up and decide to never go back there, since that apparently triggers the crashes, and head back out into the wasteland. But I quickly realize that Project Nevada's features aren't working. I can't throw grenades with the grenade key and the inventory organization tags are missing, and the mod configuration menu is missing from the pause menu.

 

I try to fix this manually and reinstall Project Nevada again, to no avail. I note that PN reccomends installing it through the FOMM instead, so I decide to switch over to that entirely, since the NMM has been a bit unstable and I don't need to download any more mods anyway. I back up my saves and reinstall New Vegas, then reinstall everything.

The result is that if I start a new game, the mod configuration menu shows up again and everything works correctly, but in my existing save, I can't access it, and on top of this my weight limit in that save has been abruptly set to below the minimum possible carry weight and I don't seem to be able to fix it. I assume this is a feature of PN messing with the carry weight variables, but even when I start a new game and set everything to the way I want it, the issue isn't resolved and none of the settings seem to be saved.

 

So now not only can I apparently not use PN, but my original file is now damaged beyond repair, losing me about 40 hours of play. Does anyone know if there's a way I can untangle this and get my original file working?

 

Unfortunately I'm also going on vacation tomorrow and I won't be back at my PC for a week, so I won't actually be able to mess with anything >_> I just wanted to write this down before I forget what I actually did and what actually happened.

Edited November 1, 2015 by TehWarsmith

[TehWarsmith]

I am now back at my home computer. So, is there any hope for me? :confused: