Crashing at Novac

[adman85]

Ok I recently reinstalled new vegas because of crashing both when I loaded the actual game (it used to crash 50%of the time, now not at all) and also when around the north of Novac, near Helios 1.

 

I have eliminated the crash on startup bug, by reassessing the amount of mods i have (and compiling many smaller ones) and I now have my personal minimum without compiling other more intensive mods into one (which is possibly the next step).

 

The problem is I still get crashes around Novacs north entrance (near Nobarks shack). If I remove most of my mods (80%), it doesn't seem to crash at all in this area (i tried for hours to pin down which, if any, of my mods was directly causing it and it seems like none in particular are responsible, just that there are too many on in general).

 

I really am at my mod "minimum" here (there are still about 60-70 loose mods loading, but I really do need all of them. My previous list was around 120-130 and it was still running for the most part)

 

Apart from my personal changes (around 20 or so mods) I have a few big mods too (AWOP, MOMOD, EVE, CFWNV, Warzones, OWNB, IWS, NVR, NVRF) but as I say no one of these in particular seems to cause this crash, just the combination of these plus mine, plus the few smaller mods I have seems to send it over.

 

Has anyone else had trouble around Novac? Has anyone managed to fix this in the past?

 

Note; I have a merged patch, I've checked through most of my mods in FNVedit for conflicts and errors etc, and I use 4gb nv loader in my NVSE version of NVMM. So that's not the problem.

[DarkHighlord69]

Came on here to find a solution to the exact same thing. Spent ALL day yesterday doing what you did to pin down the mod causing it.

Same thing with me, got it to fast travel in and was able to walk in to Novac with a lot of my mods disabled, but so far cannot find one that seems to be the key factor.

 

Looks like it is the number of mods causing the crashes, but I am completely baffled as to why and what exact load order would stop it.

 

I have randomly unchecked for hours, and thought I found the exact mod, then when I went back to the newly editted LO, a crash or screen lock everytime I either travel into Novac on foot, fast travel, or teleport in with my marker. Repeatedly I have deleted the one mod it seemed was the tipping point, only to have the lock or crash happen with a new mod as the last one I checked off again.

 

I'm going to have to stop playing this freaking game if this is going to be a continuing issue. I have to go to Novac to update the main quest, and now I can't even enter the damn townb at all.

 

If anyone has a fix, please post. I am a pro beta tester, and have never seen a problem I couldn't pin down and isolate. About to admit defeat and go play Witcher and AC3 for a while.