Willow mod

[thetorturedbodysoul]

I have had several issue with freezing in my game recently since playing through the willow mod and I wondered if it wasn't something I had done until I tested a bit more and found that while having Willow, ED-E, Boone, and J.T follow me I will have frequent game freezes throughout the game at random intervals. I tested this to make sure it was something in Willow so I told the dog to wait at his home marker to which he did and left him there and since have had no freezing problems. Has anyone else experienced this and what could be causing it? I assumed Willow and J.T didn't count towards the cap but maybe it's causing some backlash with having boone and ED-E all follow at the same time. Anyways I really wanted my dog to travel with us but if he can't I can live with it, but I was interested to know if anyone else had this issue and if they found out what would be causing it. I have the willow mod almost towards the body of the list with only a norespawn mod I made below it and I am very selective with the mods I use so I don't believe there is any mod conflicts going on, but never know I guess.

[llamaRCA]

Yes, other users have had this happen, but I've never discovered a reason why it would be J.T. Although, I'm open to it being him, but I need some data to go on to solve any problem it could be. How long after you had him with you did the problem start? If you had no problems for a while when he was with you and then something else happened in your game (added another follower, added another mod, etc) and then the problem started it might not be him. Do you have no freezing at all when he's not in the party? Does it only happen in some cells and not others. Are you positive it's a follower problem and not related to anything else? Could it be related to ED-E? I recently had a player come back and tell me he had told me his freezing issues were Willow related but they turned out to be caused by ED-E. Any information you have that can help shed light on this would be helpful, but it's happened very rarely that I've heard about so I've been unable to solve it if it is indeed an issue with J.T. And, just so you know, the two followers I add absolutely do not affect your total, however, there is more strain on your PC the more followers you have with you when you enter areas with lots of spawns, etc. The more work your computer has to do the more likely you are to have a freeze or a crash.

 

:) llama

[thetorturedbodysoul]

Okay let's see if I recall correctly the freezes started about one or two minutes after J.T was hired as I had Willow, ED-E, and Boones from the start well before I got J.T with no problems and as long as I kept hiim in my party following I had constant freezing. There was no particular cell or times it would usually be at random in a random cell though it would usually happen in exterior cells or when attempting to leave on interior cell for another interior(something like that, though it could have something to do with what you say about it partially caused by a large amount of spawns but even in small areas it could happen). Also it would happen at random times too; sometimes it would happen like 30 seconds from when I loaded my game and other times it would be like 15 to 20 minutes but usually not more than that before a freeze would occur and it wouldn't matter what I would be doing...I could be standing still and just staring into space or looking at one of my companions it wouldn't matter and I would have to ctrl alt del to get out of the game. This went on until I finally figured let me take out companions to see if it's J.T since I really noticed it as soon as he was following so I told him to stay at our home marker and lo and behold as soon as I told him to wait and then left with everyone one of my companions except for him I have had no freezing issues...and i've been playing for about 40+ hours since then with no issues so I tried taking him back to be sure so I used his squeaky toy to call him and suddenly two minutes after I did and he was following again I just started walking through the town of primm doing nothing but walking and bam, a freeze. I figured it had to be him but I wanted to post to ask and be sure, hope maybe what I mentioned helps a little :)

[Moksha8088]

Best to leave annoying dog at the Lucky 38 (or if you are feeling sadistic toward animals, leave him in Dead Money).

 

LlamaRC says that Willow works well with Wendy, so you might try Willow, Wendy, Boone and ED-E. If for some blue-moon reason Willow doesn't follow as well with Wendy, then please post it here.

[thetorturedbodysoul]

Another strange thing to note...for some reason in Westside Willow even if nowhere near the Coop constantly runs to the coop and goes inside even if I don't follow her. If I keep going she will teleport to me and then begin running back to the coop again...if I don't follow her and let her to her dialogue she will continue going there and even the emergency radio option doesn't stop this...I was waaay away from westside and vegas and she tried running back that way. If I go there and let her do the dialogue it's fine but if I stay in westside after that she'll immediately begin to try and go to the coop again. Very strange...thought i'd mention it while we were talking about J.T's problems...I just discovered this one tonight.

[llamaRCA]

It's lucky I came back to look at the J.T. stuff again, if you have further issues you should come into my Willow thread :)

 

Which versions of the game and Willow do you have? That might have some bearing on what's going on with J.T. as well. The easiest way to stop her doing that is to take her caps away. However, if you have an old version of the mod, because your game is an old version, this problem might persist. I've solved it in later versions. So, if you have an earlier version come talk to me in my thread, okay? I'll tell you what not to do to avoid the issue besides taking her caps away, because there may be a continuing problem, although you could try, as a trick that might work, taking her journal away from her when she's determined to go shopping. That can cure a lot of problems with her packages when the radio will not.

 

:) llama