Game begins to stutter after a while

[ChancellorKremlin]

Does anyone else get this? I recently upgraded my computer, I have an AMD FX Bulldozer eight core, 16gb corsair 12800 ddr3 ram, a radeon ati 3870 512mb card.

 

I find that the game starts off fine, but after 10-20 minutes playing, begins to stutter significantly, until it gets to a point so as to be unplayable. I did not have this problem before, on a measley dual core and only 2gb ram. I am aware my video card lets me down here, but still!

 

[sen4mi]

Does anyone else get this? I recently upgraded my computer' date=' I have an AMD FX Bulldozer eight core, 16gb corsair 12800 ddr3 ram, a radeon ati 3870 512mb card.

 

I find that the game starts off fine, but after 10-20 minutes playing, begins to stutter significantly, until it gets to a point so as to be unplayable. I did not have this problem before, on a measley dual core and only 2gb ram. I am aware my video card lets me down here, but still!

 

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I have seen some stuttering effects, for example a 1Hz slowdown that I never was able to isolate (but seemed to be tweakable by changing SexoutNG's scanning frequency).

 

This has been situational for me, though, and I have not noticed it recently (perhaps because I have not been in game long enough for it to develop?).

[Sizer]

Yeah, I've noticed that. I get the ocassional stutter after playing for a while - but only when I'm using the SewerSlave mod. It disappears when I go into menus and when I leave the sewers. How odd. Not too annoying though.

[Mickster]

Is it something like: load up game out in the open and it runs perfectly fine. Then go to some interior and exterior cells, talking to people, fighting and then you realize that after a while in exterior cells turning your view has the game struggling to load meshes and dropping your FPS to less than 10.

 

Does something similar happen to you?

[Madmartigan34]

Exact same thing is happening to me.

 

No idea what to do about it.

[ChancellorKremlin]

I can't say for sure about the exterior, because I spend the majority of my time indoors, so I have not tested outside for any large period of time.

 

What I get is something like this. Game starts, works fine. After five minutes, the game runs fine for 5 seconds, stutters for one. As time passes, it becomes runs fine for 3 seconds, stutters for one. Then runs fine for 1.5 seconds, stutters for one. Etc.

 

I'm going to try and de-activating most of the plugins. I don't know what could be causing it, I have loads of RAM and shitloads of processing power.

[Madmartigan34]

I deactivated all the Sexout mods and the game runs fine now.

 

Was having the identical problem as you were.

[gregathit]

Have any of you guys tried NVSR? It is a ported version of OSR from Oblivion.

 

I use it and it seems to work pretty well. Course I do have a pretty good rig so maybe that is it. Anyway NVSR link: http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=34832

[Madmartigan34]

I'll dl and reactivate the mods, see how it works.

 

Thanks for the tip.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Yes, I'm using NVSR and get nothing. I've also tried that dll file, and the 4gb executable file too. Nothing works.

 

What is bothering me is that I too have a powerful rig, more than enough to run this game. AMD 64FX Bulldozer 8 core, 16gb ram ddr3, HDI Radeon 3870 515mb...

[prideslayer]

More testing is needed from those of you experiencing this. Narrow it down to the sexout mod that is responsible by playing for a while with only the core mods you need loaded, such as sexout, scr, and brutal rapers.. or sexout, scr, and legion..

[ChancellorKremlin]

I've definitely narrowed it down to the Casinos, ie Tops, Gamorrah, Vault 21 and Ultra Luxe, but more so Gamorrah.

 

I would imagine it's the sheer number of scripts and packages the PC has to run for all those NPC's but I imagined the specs I gave in the previous page would be enough. I will now try to see if I can narrow it down to a mod, but I'm guessing it will be Sexout and populated cassino related.

[Madmartigan34]

With NVSR I didn't seem to have any more FPS drops, but the Sexmout Brutal Rapers mod just completely did not function anymore. So I shut them off again.

 

And now, ontop of that, the game is randomly Locking Up/Freezing to the point of having to End Task it.

 

So... yay... what a game.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Well, four hours later, and I have not managed to figure out why the stuttering keeps happening in the Casinos.

 

I noticed it gets worse with Sexout.esm, Legion, and the Tryout Plugins working, but I was not able to isolate it, as it persists to a smaller degree without those plugins working.

 

In the casinos, my FPS is consistently around the 10-12 mark, and outside it rarely ever goes above 20. I don't understand why I don't get better FPS with the rig I have, I can only blame the video card and the hard drive.

 

 

[Madmartigan34]

Mine doesn't stutter anymore.

 

Now it just randomly locks up and has to be End Task'd to close it.

 

Fuck. I miss stuttering...

 

Edit: eh, figured out why i was locking up. unrelated to any mod here on this site. was the Willow companion mod... no idea why that would cause my whole game to freeze, very unfortunate it. She was a neat companion character.

[prideslayer]

Well' date=' four hours later, and I have not managed to figure out why the stuttering keeps happening in the Casinos.

 

I noticed it gets worse with Sexout.esm, Legion, and the Tryout Plugins working, but I was not able to isolate it, as it persists to a smaller degree without those plugins working.

 

In the casinos, my FPS is consistently around the 10-12 mark, and outside it rarely ever goes above 20. I don't understand why I don't get better FPS with the rig I have, I can only blame the video card and the hard drive.

 

 

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And your framerate is better without any sexout mods loaded, but with everything else you have still enabled?

[ChancellorKremlin]

Yes, marginally, by maybe 4-7 FPS, but it does make a difference when you're playing at say 12 FPS and then 18-19 FPS.

 

I watched this video on youtube and it nearly made me cry:

 

 

What I wouldn't give to have my game running that smoothly. I'm going to give this 4GB thing a try, last bastion of hope though.

[prideslayer]

My game runs very smooth, and I don't use the 4GB thing or any of that stuff. I do keep my mod list very lightweight though -- especially compared to yours, if it's anything like it was 2-3 months ago. Less than 30 ESM + ESP most of the time.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Are you maxed out on settings? What kind of FPS do you get? I would be quite happy with just 30, which tends to be the average.

[prideslayer]

Are you maxed out on settings? What kind of FPS do you get? I would be quite happy with just 30' date=' which tends to be the average.

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1920x1080, 4xAA, 8xAni, HDR.

Detail high/high.

All water options on. Reflection & multi set to medium.

Shadows on, medium/medium, sliders maxed.

View distance sliders maxed.

Distant LOD sliders maxed.

 

Fraps reports an average of about 60, sometimes dipping down to 40 or so.

 

Win7 Pro x64

AthlonII x4 635

16GB

GeForce GTX 560Ti

[ChancellorKremlin]

Thanks prideslayer,

 

Running on the same settings, no mods loaded whatsoever, I get 30 FPS outside with no combat, dropping to 15-20 during combat.

 

Inside Gomorrah, I get 10-15 FPS constantly. This is with no mods loaded! I can only attribute this to either my video card (AMD HDI Radeon HD 3870 512mb) or my Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache hard drive.

 

Otherwise, I can't possibly fathom what the problem is.

[ChancellorKremlin]

I know that, but it's still a few generation ahead of the 'minimum' requirements for FNV, in fact, it's the recommended one, so I thought I would be fine.

 

At the moment, I can't afford to buy a new one. Clearly, shitloads of ram and processing power is not enough to offeset the problem.

 

EDIT: lol @ lowering everything down to a minimum, and still getting 15-20 FPS in Gomorrah despite literally seeing textures materialise in front of me as I walk. Also could not get above 30 FPS outside, it literally was capped at thirty, I think the iFPSClamp in the ini file may be active.

 

It's for reasons like these I can see why so many people have turned towards consoles. You pay a quarter of the fraction than you would for a good rig, and then have no worries for 5-7 years.

[ChancellorKremlin]

No, it's a separate PCI-Express card. I've tried it, but I had a few problems:

 

It told me FNV Extended could not be found when I loaded a game, and thus things like MCM and a few mods wouldn't run, and it didn't seem to make any difference otherwise. I don't think I'm using it correctly, the website I found it from says you have to 'crack your exe file to use it, while the readme just says to load it up straight, doesn't even have to be in the game folder.

 

I put it in the game folder, just to be sure, but it had no noticeable effect.

[ChancellorKremlin]

Really? You would be willing to do that? That's amazing! I've never had a problem with this card before, but this 'glitch' is getting on my nerves. I will PM you to discuss this further, thanks again.

[prideslayer]

Have to agree, I believe that old video card is to blame as well. It meets the requirements, but all that means is that the game should be reasonably playable at low settings and resolution; like 800x600 with most of the stuff turned down or off.

 

Your HDD is not to blame. If it were, it would only be slow while textures were being loaded, then it would pick up and run fine until the next time you ran into an area with new textures.

 

Before this card I had a BFG geforce 6800OC that also ran the game fine, though with lower settings. I also am not a fan of ATI cards, but that's mostly because the drivers *used to be* complete shit. They are a lot better these days though, I have some RadeonHD thing in my HTPC and it works OK for that.