Game freezes and then CTDs every 10-30 min

[erichmielke]

Specs:

AMD Ryzen 2600X 6 core processor @3,60 GHz

Nvidia RTX 2070 Super ( 8 GB VRAM)

G Skill Aegis 16GB+Crucial Ballstrix 8 GB RAM

Native Monitor Res.:1920x1080

 

The game crashes,as said in the title, after anywhere between10 to 20 minutes of playing,always preceeded by a freeze while the music is still playing normally.

Edited January 26, 2021 by erichmielke

[dubiousintent]

You should always start troubleshooting from any error messages you can see. (They are your best "clue"; and why they exist at all.) Reporting such messages accurately is an essential first step.

Anytime the game "Crashes to the Desktop" (CTD) it's typically going to generate an error message in the Windows Eventlog because the game engine was not able to predictably handle the error. Please see the "Windows Error Messages" section of the wiki "How to read most Bethesda game error logs" article. (A "freeze" means the programming got lost and has no idea where to go next. It's just short of a CTD.)

 

You should always reboot your computer after a CTD. Even if you can manage to get control back, you have no idea as to the scrambled state of memory and run the risk of corrupting your save game files.

Logs generated by the game itself (not Windows) are found in the game folder, where the "FalloutNV.EXE" file is located. They generally have the ".log" file extension, or a filename with "_log" in the name and a ".txt" extension.

* Do you have "New Vegas Stutter Remover" (NVSR) installed? If so, please see the 'Issue: CTD after 10-20 minutes of play (post-Win10 2017 FCU)' and 'Issue: CTD without warning, "Out of Memory error", or stops responding after the Main Menu' entries in the 'Solutions to "Crash To Desktop" (CTD) problems' section in the wiki "Fallout NV Mod Conflict Troubleshooting" guide. Note the default NVSR settings do not work with Win10, but there are some recommended by the author for Win10 further down in the article.

:* Currently, the recommended alternative to NVSR, if you are running Win7 or Win10, is to try using the "New Vegas Tick Fix (NVTF)" and "New Vegas Heap Replacer (NVHR)" mods instead. However, until NVTF includes the option, you may want to continue to use NVSR for the "iThreadsFixedToCPUs" setting. Note though, use of NVSR along with NVTF is unsupported.

* Related to the NVSR problem, for problems AFTER a save game is loaded see also 'Issue: Incomplete save game load' in the "Troubleshooting" guide.

-Dubious-

Edited January 29, 2021 by dubiousintent