Need Help Identifying my problem

[ranafuineluva]

BIG EDIT: The below problem mostly disappeared when I uninstalled NMC's Large Textures. But I really do not want to play without them as they make a totally awesome experience. Can anyone recommend anything to fix this? My specs are below if it is of any help!

 

BIG EDIT2: Uninstalling NMC has dropped the frequency a lot. But it is still happening!

 

System:

OS : Windows 7 64 bit

CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

RAM: 8 GB 1066 Mhz DDR3

Disk: 2x7200 rpm Sata disks in Raid 0

Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 6850

 

 

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Hi everyone. I need help Identifying a problem I am having.

 

This is what happens:

 

 

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2. Sometimes out of nowhere I get weird texture bugs on my weapons. The weapons other than the one I have equipped usually start to show missing textures/meshes accompanied by that giant red exclamation mark. I use WRP mod and WMX but this happens with all weapons including weapons from other mods etc.
   
3. The game becomes non responsive. I can shoot and move etc. But sometimes I dont hear the sound of the fired gun. Just the reloading sound. And when I try to loot and interact nothing happens.
   
4. This happens mostly in combat. And the longer in combat the more responsive the games can become. NPC's sometimes begin to show giant exclamation marks.
   
5. At this point sometimes hitting esc does nothing at all.
   
6. Sometimes game CTDs at this point. Or sometimes it recovers and shows the textures normally.
   

 

I have attached my FalloutPrefs.txt and my Load Order and Mod List to the thread.

 

As can be seen from the Mod List the texture heavy mods I am using are:

 

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• NMC's Large Pack
  
• Weapon Retexture Project
  
• Bouncing Natural Breasts
  
• Breezes New Vegas Males
  

 

Also some more information I can give:

 

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• I am using FOMM and I have enabled Archive Invalidation. (I always toggle it when I install a mod that has textures in it)
  
• I am using NVSR with NVSR patcher applied. (version 4-1-28)
  

 

Any help or insight would be most welcome!!

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited September 23, 2011 by ranafuineluva

[GrindedStone]

1. Archive Invalidation- Yo!, find out how it works. You only toggle it once... Read more information about modding the game. Create more than one character, and make them all different. Start a new game an see if you have the missing textures an big red blucko ! missing mesh error.

 

2. Take the player made .BSA you have and you can also use any DLC .BSA you have then unpack them. Don't touch the Vanilla .BSA, the main .BSA for the game, just the .BSA you installed after that. Unpack all of it to the desktop into folders. Delete the extra .BSA, then drag the folders over to each other, so that they replace each other building a single folder, then drop the stuff in that folder into your data folder.

 

3. Don't upload text files with diagnosis data you could have just put in the post, I don't want to download that junk just to help you, an I won't risk getting a virus from trying to help people, it's stupid...

 

4. Waste your time trying a bunch of stuff that doesn't and won't work then when all else fails buy a windows install disc, format/wipe your drive, install windows, windows updates, hardware drivers, and New Vegas. Test the game for a month 8 hours a day to see if you ever have any problems. Install the DLC, repeat the test. Install mods one at a time, repeat the test.

[ranafuineluva]

1. Archive Invalidation- Yo!, find out how it works. You only toggle it once... Read more information about modding the game. Create more than one character, and make them all different. Start a new game an see if you have the missing textures an big red blucko ! missing mesh error.

Yes, I know that you only need to toggle it once. But I have read on the forums more than a few times that some mods may cause problems if you dont redo it after installing. So I am just playing safe.

 

2. Take the player made .BSA you have and you can also use any DLC .BSA you have then unpack them. Don't touch the Vanilla .BSA, the main .BSA for the game, just the .BSA you installed after that. Unpack all of it to the desktop into folders. Delete the extra .BSA, then drag the folders over to each other, so that they replace each other building a single folder, then drop the stuff in that folder into your data folder.

I did not get this one! I do not have a .bsa file made by me but I have plenty of .bsa 's that are placed by the mods I have installed. So you want all the .bsa's other than those that belongs to the original games (DLC's&Mods) extracted in to the DATA folder?

 

3. Don't upload text files with diagnosis data you could have just put in the post, I don't want to download that junk just to help you, an I won't risk getting a virus from trying to help people, it's stupid...

Don't worry you will not catch a virus from .txt files. I dont think the forum would let you upload an .exe file. Even it was an .exe file renamed as .txt file your pc would try to open it as a text file so all you would see would be its content.

 

4. Waste your time trying a bunch of stuff that doesn't and won't work then when all else fails buy a windows install disc, format/wipe your drive, install windows, windows updates, hardware drivers, and New Vegas. Test the game for a month 8 hours a day to see if you ever have any problems. Install the DLC, repeat the test. Install mods one at a time, repeat the test.

I really would love to have such time :D But sadly I dont :(

[luthienanarion]

You are over the safe limit of plugin files. Try to trim some of the fat and get the number at least under 140. The game [i[should[/i] cap out at 255, but it starts tripping over itself with a MUCH lower number.

[ranafuineluva]

You are over the safe limit of plugin files. Try to trim some of the fat and get the number at least under 140. The game [i[should[/i] cap out at 255, but it starts tripping over itself with a MUCH lower number.

Thx a bunch mate. I will try to crop some of it.

[n0t0ryczny]

I've seen a lot of those symptoms in Fo3. You've packed so much content into your game that it's running out of steam (no pun intended).

Ditch those BIG texture packs and look for something smaller. If you use Ojo Bueno, replace it with Poco Bueno. Even look for 'reduced textures pack', there was something like this here on nexus - textures that were smaller than vanilla ones while still retaining the good looks - dling small textures and running the game on high textures settings looks a lot better than reducing the ingame texture setting from High to Medium.

Forget about unpacking .bsa files - this will only add a lot of work for your HDD (loading compressed files and juggling them in RAM is faster than loading large files; RAM is a LOT faster than any HDD).

Beside reducing your loadlist try to set higher preload (iPreloadSizeLimit=104857600) in fallout_default.ini, it will override settings in falloutPREFS.ini and fallout.ini. And of course defragment your HDD (this one is a must).

Try not to run programs in the background.

 

You know, that sort of stuff.

 

And, if you use a loooong loadlist, disable all autosaves.

[ranafuineluva]

I've seen a lot of those symptoms in Fo3. You've packed so much content into your game that it's running out of steam (no pun intended).

Ditch those BIG texture packs and look for something smaller. If you use Ojo Bueno, replace it with Poco Bueno. Even look for 'reduced textures pack', there was something like this here on nexus - textures that were smaller than vanilla ones while still retaining the good looks - dling small textures and running the game on high textures settings looks a lot better than reducing the ingame texture setting from High to Medium.

Forget about unpacking .bsa files - this will only add a lot of work for your HDD (loading compressed files and juggling them in RAM is faster than loading large files; RAM is a LOT faster than any HDD).

Beside reducing your loadlist try to set higher preload (iPreloadSizeLimit=104857600) in fallout_default.ini, it will override settings in falloutPREFS.ini and fallout.ini. And of course defragment your HDD (this one is a must).

Try not to run programs in the background.

 

You know, that sort of stuff.

 

And, if you use a loooong loadlist, disable all autosaves.

I have just recently saw your answer. Thanks a bunch mate.

[GrindedStone]

I'm all for the huge vanilla sized .BSA, it's just that you end up with more than one small player made .BSA which often have duplicate files in them, along with the vanilla duplicates, plus the many loose files you end up with anyway. It can create a hodge podge mix an match list of content rather than a single set of content. You got 4-5 versions of the same file an no idea or control of which is going to be used. Edited October 18, 2011 by GrindedStone

[Bitdman]

Howdy ranafuineluva!

 

Have tried kicking your settings on your graphics card up a little bit with the "AMD Vision control center"? and If you know how you should probably try to get a little more speed out of your memory. This requires making a change in the BIOS or you can download AMDs Overdrive utility. Feel free to e-mail me if you need help or more information with these suggestions. You will also need to use FNVEdit and preferably wrye Flash