maboru Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) You're not using Nvidia d3d9 perf fix by any chance? That's the .dll used as a hot fix after FONV launched. nVidia has long since corrected that problem with subsequent drivers and d3d9.dll is known to strip some of fnv4gb's functionality. [Although it does seem to help some of the older video cards out there it still won't allow fnv4gb to work properly.] Edited July 23, 2011 by maboru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdfgsdjfasdjk Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) You're not using Nvidia d3d9 perf fix by any chance? That's the .dll used as a hot fix after FONV launched. nVidia has long since corrected that problem with subsequent drivers and d3d9.dll is known to strip some of fnv4gb's functionality. [Although it does seem to help some of the older video cards out there it still won't allow fnv4gb to work properly.] Nope i never used that file, never really had any problems people who used it described and i had FNV the day it released - umodded pure vanilla first release ran stable 50-60fps 1920x1080 when i exited docs house. At the time I played it on 512mb geforce 9800gt and without the so called "fix", now i use ATI HD5670 in fresh install of FNV - so we can rule out the d3d9.dll. That's consequently the main reason why I did clean reinstall of the game and the mods, to rule out mod conflicts, leftover data and such. For those wondering, all my system drivers, audio drivers, video card drivers, any other kind of driver you can think of, directx, Virtual C runtimes, windows updates, SP1, etc... are of the latest possible release, I have an OCD thing about stuff like this and often check for updates to all my apps/drivers/mods more than just several times per day. Thanks for giving my problem a thought, hopefully we can get to the bottom of this. regards Edited July 23, 2011 by sdfgsdjfasdjk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothikaGeist Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) Oh just as a side note: the guy who made the Fake Fullscreen app made a new version, the "Game Companion". It does the same thing but has more features and will be updated more often. BUT, it decreases my FPS by a lot. Really cripples the game. Edited July 23, 2011 by GothikaGeist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdfgsdjfasdjk Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) Oh just as a side note: the guy who made the Fake Fullscreen app made a new version, the "Game Companion". It does the same thing but has more features and will be updated more often. BUT, it decreases my FPS by a lot. Really cripples the game. thats really strange, you must have some sort of internal hw incompatibility/conflict. I tried the said Game Companion and game ran as smooth as with Fake Fulscreen from same author and seeing as I dont need any other function it provides I'll stay with Fake Fulscreen only. On a totally side note Fallout/Gamebryo/Crapthesda etc really gets under my skin lately and im kinda sick of doing developers job (making the game stable and thus playable) for them. I reinstalled Dragon Age and have a blast in it even though i already completed it 3 times (not DA:2 mind you, that was worst game sequel in game history and someone in EA should be fired over the crapiness of the sequel to one of greatest rpg titles) and am contemplating just deleting fallout, forgetting all about it and wait for Skyrim, then go set Bethesda HQ on fire if they dare to botch Skyrim. The bloody Fallout I spent more hours trying to get it run without crashes than actually playing it. I'm close to just shout ENOUGH and press delete key. And the nvse 4gb thingy wont use more ram no matter what, I'm off to Ferelden... regards Edited July 23, 2011 by sdfgsdjfasdjk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothikaGeist Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 xD Dragon Age 2 was definitely a letdown (Oh my god... did I just say that BioWare just let their fans down D:) Oh! I came bearing news! It seems that maxing out the interior and exteriors buffers and threading everything actually LOWERS your FPS. I turned off a lot of the threading and lowered the interior and exterior buffers and I got a smooth 40 FPS :D Basically, threading everything makes the CPU mad at you, and then decides to only partially power the game. And getting too greedy with the buffers offend your RAM sticks and they lower the amount of RAM available to the you D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Gothika, it depends on your rig. A 4core/8thread rig with plenty of ram, a high end GPU and fn4gb working can handle the load. I run maxed out and still maintain 60fps. (Granted my CPU usage runs @75%!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothikaGeist Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 That's true. This budget rig can only do so much -smacks desktop- :D Oh and do you know how I can turn off smileys? I like my D: <- text looking smileys... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maboru Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) Can't you disable them with the smiley button? (I prefer just exclamation points myself.) sdfgsdjfasdjk, any chance you're running enhanced shaders? I noticed on another thread that and some other mods probably, adds d3d9 without you're knowing it. You can check you fallout new vegas file and see. (I agree that it's pathetic that Beth's customers are forced to work out the glitches on products they purchase. Can you imagine that business model working any where else?) Edited July 23, 2011 by maboru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GothikaGeist Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 If it wasn't Bethesda and Fallout, someone would have been sued by now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdfgsdjfasdjk Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) Nope not using Enhanced shaders either. Basically whats in my Fallout New Vegas folder is:the stuff you get after clean installnvse2b9fake fulscreen exenvse4gb I really am at loss what could cause this. Only other way to be sure it's not SW related would be to do a clean install of whole system, as in, format C (I only keep system on C, I even call it / not C to spite M$), reinstall Win7, reinstall FNV and see if the issue still persists. However I am lazy to do that, and even if it solved FNV problem I'm not quite ready to have to set up the bazillion apps I use again just because Bethesda/Obsidian/"whoever is responsible for the release of the great game in prehistoric dysfunct crap of an engine" didn't bother to fix their **** :) regards Edited July 23, 2011 by sdfgsdjfasdjk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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