My Tech Support Topic

[johna711]

Well, I've been making a lot of Tech support Topics, and I figured it'd be better to just make one topic and edit the initial post...

Easier on everyone...

 

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First off, I Dl'd a bunch of texture mods, and they look great- for the minute or so until the game crashes.

I am Using:

 

_FO3_TT_LandscapeTexture_Tune-up_-799

ak47_version_2-535

BlackRileysRangers1-1-407

Cherry_Vanilla_Pack_v05-532

Classic_Black_Leather_Armor_Male_and_Female_v1_3-191

Enhanced_Enclave_power_and_tesla_armor-479

Enhanced_Night_Sky-442

Gun_metal_grey_and_black_laser_weapons-434

Josef_Greys_Makeup_Face_Retexture_v1-02-205

krzymar_HI-RES_Moon-0_2_0-bright-538

Non-Green_Mutants-112

PreWarMoney-360

SexyUnderwear1_1-389

Wasteland_Queen_Body_and_Head_Texture_v1_2-337

 

I know it's a lot but... what can I say? they're really cool.

 

anyone have any ideas what might be causing the very frequent crashes?

 

if it helps, i have:

Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT

1Gb RAM

AMD 64 3200+

Windows XP Pro

 

low specs i know, but I'm working on upgrades.

It runs the vanilla version fine at all minimum settings, and these are just different textures... they would jus tlower framerate, not crash it, right?

 

tips/ideas/suggestions?

[Smosh]

I'd start off by adding the texture mods one by one and testing them out to see at what stage your computer throws a wobbly.

[Uzibeatle]

Well, I've been making a lot of Tech support Topics, and I figured it'd be better to just make one topic and edit the initial post...

Easier on everyone...

 

------------------------------------

 

First off, I Dl'd a bunch of texture mods, and they look great- for the minute or so until the game crashes.

I am Using:

 

_FO3_TT_LandscapeTexture_Tune-up_-799

ak47_version_2-535

BlackRileysRangers1-1-407

Cherry_Vanilla_Pack_v05-532

Classic_Black_Leather_Armor_Male_and_Female_v1_3-191

Enhanced_Enclave_power_and_tesla_armor-479

Enhanced_Night_Sky-442

Gun_metal_grey_and_black_laser_weapons-434

Josef_Greys_Makeup_Face_Retexture_v1-02-205

krzymar_HI-RES_Moon-0_2_0-bright-538

Non-Green_Mutants-112

PreWarMoney-360

SexyUnderwear1_1-389

Wasteland_Queen_Body_and_Head_Texture_v1_2-337

 

I know it's a lot but... what can I say? they're really cool.

 

anyone have any ideas what might be causing the very frequent crashes?

 

if it helps, i have:

Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT

1Gb RAM

AMD 64 3200+

Windows XP Pro

 

low specs i know, but I'm working on upgrades.

It runs the vanilla version fine at all minimum settings, and these are just different textures... they would jus tlower framerate, not crash it, right?

 

No, texture mods, especially higher rez ones or bloated ones created by mod nubs that don't know what they are doing yet can and will make the game unstable or run like poo.

 

I'm not blaming any of the mods here by the way. First off I will say a 1 gig system is minimal if your going to be playing with high rez textures and that vid card is bottom of the barrel and lacks memory (i suspect anyway I am not looking it up but if it is less than 512megs of texture memory I'd be easy on high rez textures)

 

The mods in that config your using I'd suspect first are the landscape and the high rez night sky textures. Any landscape stuff.

After that I'd just go down the list and remove one at a time (after those two first) to see when the problem diminishes.

 

High rez textures that many modders put up eat up a good chunk of memory. There is a reason the game designers dont' use bloated textures. IT has to do with overall game performance on a wide variety of systems, blah blah.

Mod makers frequently, and Iv'e seen it here on Nexus, will upload horribly bloated textures that need nto be so bloated and yet could be optimized properly and still greatly enhance the appearance of said texture improvement.

 

So, what am I saying here is Caveat Emptor when it comes to mods. There are a ton of mod nubs out there too with great ideas but they don't have the technique down pat yet and they make mistakes.

 

ANyway, good luck guy.