Loads once to never load again

[ErythorbicAcid]

Alright so I have reached a point of extreme frustration with this game. The first time I load up a game with all my mods installed, the game runs BEAUTIFULLY. Frame rate is great, the game looks great, and load times are minimal. Then, when I come back to try and play there is disaster. The menu screens load with no problem, but when I try to load a save or start a new game I go to the desktop. I can hear the sound playing, but the video just will not display. Same load order as before, nothing changed except I entered the game world for a few minutes, then exit. I just don't understand at all what is going on. If I dump all the mods and restart, it will load, if I turn back on all the mods, it will load. But just once, then it goes back to crashing to the desktop. I have tried using FNVEdit to check for any terrible conflicts and as far as I can tell there are not any. Well, here's my load order. Please let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions.

 

[X] FalloutNV.esm

[X] DeadMoney.esm

[X] HonestHearts.esm

[X] ClassicPack.esm

[X] MercenaryPack.esm

[X] TribalPack.esm

[X] CaravanPack.esm

[X] FOOK - New Vegas.esm

[X] FOOK - New Vegas DLCs.esm

[X] Project Nevada - Core.esm

[X] Project Nevada - Equipment.esm

[X] AWorldOfPain(Preview).esm

[X] IWS-Core.esm

[X] MoMod.esm

[X] Caliber.esm

[X] Mo'.esm

[X] CHEMS.esm

[X] More Perks.esm

[X] More Perks for Companions.esm

[X] More Perks for Dead Money.esm

[X] More Perks for Honest Hearts.esm

[X] More Traits.esm

[X] NVR-Strip.esm

[X] ELECTRO-CITY - CompletedWorkorders.esm

[X] ELECTRO-CITY - Highways and Byways.esm

[X] AWOP-MoMod.esp

[X] AWOPMonsterPatch.esp

[X] IWS-MoMod.esp

[X] FOOK - New Vegas.esp

[X] FOOK - New Vegas DLCs.esp

[X] FOOK - No Loose Files.esp

[X] FOOK - No Loose Files DLCs.esp

[X] Project Nevada - Dead Money.esp

[X] Project Nevada - Honest Hearts.esp

[X] Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp

[X] Project Nevada - Rebalance.esp

[X] Project Nevada - Rebalance Rebalanced.esp

[X] NewVegasBounties.esp

[X] NewVegasBountiesII.esp

[X] Wasteland Explorer.esp

[X] Improved Throwing1.esp

[X] Improved Throwing DM.esp

[X] Improved Throwing HH.esp

[X] pnv.esp

[X] pnvhh.esp

[X] pnvnvbount1.esp

[X] IWS-Core-Patrols.esp

[X] IWS-Core-Guards.esp

[X] IWS-Core-Civilians.esp

[X] IWS-AS-LowSpawns.esp

[X] WeaponModsExpanded.esp

[X] WMX-PreOrderPackCaravan.esp

[X] WMX-PreOrderPackMercenary.esp

[X] WMX-DeadMoney.esp

[X] WMX-HonestHearts.esp

[X] WMX-AWOP Patch.esp

[X] WMX-FOOKNV CP.esp

[X] WMX-FOOKNV-DLCs CP.esp

[X] Project Nevada - WMX.esp

[X] AWOP-BOEWeaponPatch.esp

[X] Mo'Guns.esp

[X] NewRecipes.esp

[X] ExplosivesRecipes.esp

[X] CHEMS - Benches.esp

[X] CHEMS - Basic Chems.esp

[X] EnergyWeaponDeNerf.esp

[X] Sprint Mod.esp

[X] BetterLuckySuite.esp

[X] Light Step ED-E.esp

[X] Lucky38MarkerV3.esp

[X] More Perks Update.esp

[X] More Perks for Companions Update.esp

[X] More Perks for Dead Money Update.esp

[X] More Perks for Honest Hearts Update.esp

[X] More Traits Update.esp

[X] Expanded Traits.esp

[X] BR - Traits and Perks.esp

[X] SnowGlobePerks.esp

[X] UnarmedAndMelee-PerkFix.esp

[X] Four Traits v1.esp

[X] Level Cap 100.esp

[X] Tag Skills Improved.esp

[X] XFO - 6aa - Epic Skills - Effects Over 100 (NVSE req).esp

[X] Kobu's New Game Quick Start and Better Rebuild.esp

[X] Sorter - Combined.esp

[X] Sorter - Dead Money.esp

[X] ELECTRO-CITY - Inventory Sorters Compatibility Patch - ElectroCityCATEYEvalue.esp

[X] AllCompanionsEssential 2.0b.esp

[X] NVR-Version_10.esp

[X] NVFR-Version 1.esp

[X] NVR-NPCs.esp

[X] NVR-ELECTRO-CTIY_Patch.esp

[X] Nevada Skies - URWLHH.esp

[X] Interior Lighting Overhaul-Realistic Interiors-Full.esp

[X] ILO-RI-PipBoy Light.esp

[X] ILO-RI-Dead Money.esp

[X] ILO-RI-Honest Hearts.esp

[X] Fellout.esp

Edited July 29, 2011 by ErythorbicAcid

[TheReverendTholomewPlague]

Try verifying the game cache in Steam.

 

Make sure you have the latest update (1.4)

[drakeelvin]

If what Rev. said doesn't work, your situation sounds very similar to what happened to me when I first started playing NV.

 

What I did to fix it was I went in to the options and turned down all my graphics settings to minimal, then I started bumping them up bit by bit starting with the ones I wanted most (like distances in particular). You have some mods though for fx that may require certain minimums, I don't run with any of those mods so I was OK to start from absolute minimum graphics settings and push them up bit by bit to get something I could live with.

 

I had help with specific settings from some folks at Emma's site but IIRC I turned off a lot of the fancy features like fog and water and left those at minimum. The main thing for me was line of sight distances, I got them all to maximum which I wanted. And I did manage to tweak up some of the textures from low to medium and even enable HDR so the lights look nicer than without it.

 

Eventually I did get a setting I can live with that is stable and the game plays fine, and it looks OK.

 

A real pain to configure though because the game doesn't seem to do much in the way of detecting performance and features of individual video cards and giving you a safe but decent working setting.