Game begins to stutter after a while

[ChancellorKremlin]

Yeah, I only just today managed to get the Catalyst Control Manager from ATI to work, had to delete GAC Global Cache Entries to get it to work, so I share your distrust.

 

Generally, I prefer ATI, but I will be considering NVIDIA in the future. At least I know it's not the HDD, thanks prideslayer. I'm going to see if I can scrounge up a few hundred pounds and buy myself a decent video card. If I still get shit FPS then I know there is definitely something wrong.

[prideslayer]

In the mean time just drop your resolution down to something a little more manageable like 1280x1024 on a 4:3 screen, or 1280x960 (iirc) on a widescreen..

[ChancellorKremlin]

Thanks prideslayer, I've done that. Funny thing is, while the FPS has not improved at all, the game does run smoother. Go figure!

[Guest Donkey]

not sure if you still have problems. But i think these games never had any decent AA so i switched those off and let Nvidia itself manage these settings. after that i can switch even shadows to high with no noticible slowdown.

[Ragged Robin]

Folks,

I think I've found a solution to the stuttering and lag problems. At least it works for me. I've spent the last week trying to solve the problem. I tried just about everything out there that promised to improve performance. I searched on Google and followed all the advice all to no avail. Altering the graphics settings made no difference. I removed all sexoutNG, clean saved and re-eneabled each mod one at a time testing and then moving onto the next. I found a partial improvement. The only mod I didn't put back was Sewer Slave. I thought I'd found the culprit. Wrong! (sorry Dogface)

I didn't report anything as I wanted to try a few more ideas.

I had bought FalloutNV from a local store so had the DVD. I uninstalled both NV and Steam. Then reinstalled to my boot drive. Moved the paging file, etc, etc....

I was just about to give up forever and then inspiration struck. I looked at the folders on the install disk. Since I am running Win7 64 bit I wondered if DirectX 64 bit had been installed properly. So I reinstalled from the DVD.

Success! I am running the game with ultra high settings and only experience slight stuttering occasionally. Nothing remotely like what I was experiencing before.

I'm even putting Sewer Slave through its paces and so far it's running incredibly smoothly.

 

I'd like to see if anyone experiencing similar troubles can duplicate my results. I hope this helps

[ChancellorKremlin]

It's taken me ages to properly read this, but here I am.

 

You are saying that you have re-installed DirectX 64 from the CD? How did you do that? I only have FalloutNV from Steam, and I was only aware of DirectX 9, 10, 11 etc, I never knew it was 32 or 64 bit based... I'm assuming I have the 64 bit, because it works for all my other games...

[Ragged Robin]

It's taken me ages to properly read this' date=' but here I am.

 

You are saying that you have re-installed DirectX 64 from the CD? How did you do that? I only have FalloutNV from Steam, and I was only aware of DirectX 9, 10, 11 etc, I never knew it was 32 or 64 bit based... I'm assuming I have the 64 bit, because it works for all my other games...

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Don't know much more than I've already said. It was only when I was looking at the file structure on the install disk that the idea occured to me to try. I only know that re-installing stoppped all my troubles in one fell swoop. Before that, I was ready to dump it all in the bin and never look back. Even Gommorah isn't stuttering and I even have Populated Casinos running (well...maybe just a little, occasionally - so little, it's hardly worth mentioning).

As for getting the right version of DX9, perhaps the microsoft site will probably have the 64 bit version archived. If your situation is any way near as bad as mine was then you've got nowt to lose. Fingers crossed for you friend.

I should point out however, my graphics card is an ATI Radeon 5800 series, with the latest drivers installed.

[ChancellorKremlin]

I might try a clean reinstall of FNV, but I'll check my drivers first, and definitely Direct X, it would be silly if I were to be running the wrong version.

 

Thanks for the help.

[KainsChylde]

Another thought if you're still having problems. I was dealing with NV being so crashtastic for a while that I couldn't even cross goodsprings without it crashing. Turned out I was being really dumb in my mod installing. I would take large, multi-part mods like sexout, FOOK, and others, unzip them all into one big folder, rezipping and installing in one shot. Once I stopped doing that and started installing as downloaded, my game became playable again.

 

I highly doubt anyone else here pulled such a bonehead maneuver, but I figured I'd share just in case.

[Toddi]

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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Did you fix that Problem in the meantime?

It sounds like my Problem in the "

Question Graphics starts to wobble with Sexout" thread.

[Snoopy911]

If you google for nv and directx you'll find quite a lot of entries.

I'm using this fix and wouldn't say i have perfect performance now but it seems better than before.

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/34970

[BCk9]

Had/have the same problem. All of my research, queries, and efforts to remove this problem have consistently led back to script-heavy mods ie; Sexout Slavery, Sexout Tryouts, Sewer Slave, that seem to impact the Sexout NG Scanner function. Even turning it down to 1 MHz from the default of 10 MHz only helps me for a few minutes. Deactivating Slaves and Tryouts ALMOST removed the issue, it certainly improved my performance in this matter. It was suggested that the scanner function needs working over, but that's beyond my scope of ability to look at [and not my mod, so I'm not messing with it]. My specs are worse than yours, and I didn't have this problem before Sexout NG was released.

 

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[ChancellorKremlin]

I'm yet to achieve the 70-19 FPS some people seem able to play by, and now I've gotten a ATI RADEON HD 7970. My game typically runs at 20-30 FPS (lower at NPC heavy or other places) and sometimes I get the odd 40-50, which is nice, but never higher.

 

I'm adamant this is an ATI driver issue (Yes, I have the latest ones). Next upgrade, I'm going back to nvidia. Never hear their uses complaining of this crap.

[Snoopy911]

...Deactivating Slaves and Tryouts ALMOST removed the issue...

 

Same for me. Tried a lot before to improve the performance, but i never was completely happy. Had slaves deactivated already but didn't feel any major improvement. Now without tryout the problems are gone.

[PhilMc2]

...Deactivating Slaves and Tryouts ALMOST removed the issue...

 

Same for me. Tried a lot before to improve the performance' date=' but i never was completely happy. Had slaves deactivated already but didn't feel any major improvement. Now without tryout the problems are gone.

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I can confirm that ^^

 

I wonder if there is a mod (other than sexout) we all have together and what might cause this stuttering?

...some kind of special conflict that only those people with a very well designed load order (merged, patched, conflict solved) do not have.

[Snoopy911]

Just tried it with only workinggirl and ncr running from the tryout mods and it was quite ok for about an hour until a crash ended this test.

[maelion]

Just tried it with only workinggirl and ncr running from the tryout mods and it was quite ok for about an hour until a crash ended this test.

 

Do you have many items in inventory and could it have consequences on stuttering ?

 

My game began to stutter and crash with lot of stuff (thanks to cloth collection ^-^), maube there's a cause and effect?

 

And game did not stutter for a long time with many sexout mods so...

[Snoopy911]

...Do you have many items in inventory and could it have consequences on stuttering ?

 

Don't think so. I just had Old world blues finished and cleaned my inventory before coming back. It's only the essentials, 1 armor set, about 5 or 6 guns, ammo and the usual quest items. Hmm ... this sounds...well i don't usually walk around with half a dozen guns . I have the cloth collection too, but don't use any item from the collection at the moment.

[majordespair]

I'm yet to achieve the 70-19 FPS some people seem able to play by' date=' and now I've gotten a ATI RADEON HD 7970. My game typically runs at 20-30 FPS (lower at NPC heavy or other places) and sometimes I get the odd 40-50, which is nice, but never higher.

 

I'm adamant this is an ATI driver issue (Yes, I have the latest ones). Next upgrade, I'm going back to nvidia. Never hear their uses complaining of this crap.

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im not sure its an ati issue, my gx card is nvidia 560ti 1 gig, and i get stuttering after about 30 mins of play, if i carry on playing and let it stutter it sometimes clears itself up, but most time results in crash when zoning, i havent tryed locatging the mod it is though, tbh i thought it was just bad vanilla game issues, because from day 1 of release and intstall of fnv i had stutter on a system that is 5 times recommended spec.

 

as time went on i made small improvments with the stutter remover and 4gb.exe and nvec (new vegas error corrections) but thse programmes havent really fixed issue fully, more mods or less mods doesnt seem to make much differance. My game is better now than it ws on release though, instead of constant screen stutter/jerk every 10 secs or so i now get smooth high framrate on ultra high setting for as i said for about 20-30 mins (sometimes hours)but then it will start to stutter again but in a different fashion stuttering every second as i move, rather than the original release issue of once every 10 secs or so.

 

would love an easy explanation/fix for it, but with so many differant PC configurations and fnv not being the most stable game ive ever played im not sure there ever will be one.

[adradox]

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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Yes, I figured that there is something with Sexout mods, they somehow connected with this stuttering. After I deactivated every Sexout Tryout plugin stuttering decreased much, I could play about 2 hours without any issue, after this time I had a little stutter but this still were playable. I think that this might be something with scanner, because tryouts force scanner to check everything around often and this might cause stutter, but I'm not sure after all.