Crashing and freezing on intro slides. Need some kind of killswitch.

[Chowder138]

For some reason I can't get New Vegas to stay stable. About 50% of the time, my game freezes on the intro slides. Here are my mods for anyone that cares:

 

A Better new main menu.

Centered and raised 3rd person camera.

CR-HD Combat Ranger armor Retexture V3

DOF Depth of Field - DOF bundle v1-1

Fallout New Vegas ArchiveInvalidation Invalidated. (for Project Nevada)

Fellout NV

Hectrol ED-E deluxe HR Retex EVOLUTION PACK.

Lonesome Road duster from concept art.

Lucky 38 Balcony with map marker.

MTUI.

Nevada Skies.

Project Nevada.

Weapon Mods Expanded WMX

Weapon Retexture project WRP.

 

If anyone sees anything out of the ordinary (conflicts) go ahead and tell me. Anyway,

 

I'd like to know if there is any kind of ultimate killswitch for the game. The reason for this is that, when the game freezes and I cntrl-alt-del into Task Manager, one of 3 things happens:

 

1. The task manager comes up and I'm able to end the task.

2. The task manager comes up and New Vegas is black in the background, but TM is in the background and I can't bring it in front of NV.

3. My mouse is gone and all I can do is use the keyboard to restart with the Start Menu.

 

When 2 and 3 happen, all I can do is click restart from the start menu and click cancel when it shows the programs that are holding it up. This crashes all of my Chrome tabs and closes Nexus Mod Manager, which is an inconvenience. Alt+F4 obviously doesn't work. So is there any kind of ultimate kill switch that will end the current program automatically, every time? This is getting annoying.

 

NOTE: I'm posting this on the Steam, Nexus, and Official New Vega s forums.

[Xaranth]

I see a mod that modifies the main menu, I see troubles involved with loading the main menu, I wonder if these two things could be related/

 

Have you tried running it without mods, and seeing if it behaves the same way?

 

Have you run your load order through BOSS?

[Chowder138]

I see a mod that modifies the main menu, I see troubles involved with loading the main menu, I wonder if these two things could be related/

 

Have you tried running it without mods, and seeing if it behaves the same way?

 

Have you run your load order through BOSS?

 

Actually, the main menu freezes started before I downloaded that mod. I actually downloaded it hoping that it would reduce the amount of said freezes. It has, but not by much.

 

Also, what's BOSS? Is it a mod manager?

[Xaranth]

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/35999 A load order sorter

[Chowder138]

Ah, thank you. I'll see if that fixes it.

[Chowder138]

Doesn't look like it has. Got anything else?

[Chowder138]

I disabled every mod I have installed and verified game cache for good measure. It's doing the same thing.

 

I give up. I wish Obsidian would fix their game.

[bobh3604]

don't know how to fix it but may know a trick to avoid the system restart. I have the same problem. when it locks I start task manager but have to use Alt Tab to bring it to the front. I have mouse again at that point and can shut down the game. When the final dialog that closse the game comes up you have to alt tab again until that dialog is active and can then use the mouse to click the last close button.

 

I'm fairly certain it's a memory allocation issue and there may be a startup switch for the game engine or a setting line in one of the config files that will make it go away but haven't had a chance to look into it yet