What's clashing? Tearing my hair out over this!

[neptuneuk]

Right Ok here's the short(not really) version. I've recently re-installed FO:NV a couple of days ago. I'm not a complete noob when it comes to modding, I've used mods on Oblivion, FO3 and Skyrim etc. Last time I played New Vegas I had a metric-f***-ton of mods installed yet it somehow managed to work alright.

This time round, however, I didn't try to go overboard. All I want to do is figure out how to get these mods working without the game crashing every 20 minutes, it happens when moving around outdoors and occasionally when entering buildings.

Something I've noticed: I can play the game fine for around half an hour or so (depending on how far I move) after this, I either crash or start to see black missing textures on various objects. I then have to quit, re-invalidate archive and then load up again. Everything works alright again for around 30 mins then BANG same thing all over again.

 

Mods I'm trying to use :

 

Project Nevada

EVE

Nevada Skies

WMX

Electro-City

New Vegas Uncut (except open freeside)

A World Of Pain

MTUI

 

and FNV enhanced Shaders

 

I've reinstalled the game about 4 times the past few days, tried various load orders, checked NVSE version, tried a couple of individual mods by themselves, disabled steam community, disabled steam updates, re-invalidating archives, changed the graphics settings, verifying integrity of steam cache then reinstalling, praying to pagan gods, human sacrifice, I've tried everything!!

 

Now this is not the first time mods have caused me problems, it always happens, It happened last time, and with FO3, Skyrim and Oblivion etc. Usually after a few hours or so of tinkering with load orders and checking for clashing mods I have everything sussed out and everything works. I've been bashing my head against the keyboard with this for several days now. I feel like I'm missing something basic that's just screwing everything up.

 

 

My system :

Win7 8GB, Phenom Hex 3.2, GTX 570SLI blah

 

edit: I've just noticed that steam keeps enabling auto-updates for FO:NV even though I disabled it, if this is causing the issues, how can I permanently disable it?

 

edit2: I've uninstalled most mods (via nexus mod manager) except Project Nevada, now the game will not start.... It looks like I'm going to have to reinstall the game again for a 5th time... then all of the mods again, and then tomorrow I'll have to do the same thing again. I feel like I'm going round in circles, as soon as the game is working alright it seems to somehow break itself.

Edited June 27, 2012 by neptuneuk

[neptuneuk]

SOLVED : The one thing I forgot to do was install the 4gb enabler for FO:NV. Installing this seems to have solved all of my issues. I don't know how or why though. Edited June 27, 2012 by neptuneuk