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New Vegas crashing/hanging indefinitely due to 'out of memory' error.

Vulon

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Vulon

Vulon

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I recently re-installed New Vegas along with a handful of mods and have been experiencing frequent crashes (typically every 5-10 minutes) and freezes. Usually the crash will be accompanied by an error stating that I've exceeded my available memory or something to the effect, which I assume can't be accurate because I've checked NV's resource usage in task manager and it has a pretty minimal impact. I've looked it up and it would seem as though a large number of players have experienced this same issue.

 

I tried activating/deactivating mods that I thought might be problematic, and while I initially had NMC's large texture pack installed (which I determined might be the cause, since many others seemed to have similar issues with this texture overhaul in place), I overwrote the textures with his 'medium' pack and subsequently the 'small' pack. I noticed very minimal improvement in switching from large to medium and no noticeable improvement from medium to small. I still crashed or got hung up indefinitely regardless of the texture quality. Three times I've been unable to successfully close NV through the task manager and have been forced to sign out of Windows and sign back in.

 

For reference, my PC specs are as follows. 

 

OS: Windows 8.1 64-Bit

CPU: AMD A8-6600K APU 3.9 GHz (yes, I realize running an APU alongside a dedicated GPU is redundant, but it was really, really cheap)

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC ACX 2.0+

RAM: 8GB

 

It's not a behemoth of a PC or anything, but I shouldn't really be struggling to run NV at all with these specs. I ran NV on my old PC (which wasn't even half as powerful as this one) with a larger number of mods running alongside many of the mods I currently have installed. I experienced very few crashes and greater stability overall.

 

Speaking of, here's my current mod list, exported directly from FOMM and sorted by LOOT.

 

 

FalloutNV.esm

DeadMoney.esm
HonestHearts.esm
OldWorldBlues.esm
LonesomeRoad.esm
GunRunnersArsenal.esm
ClassicPack.esm
MercenaryPack.esm
TribalPack.esm
CaravanPack.esm
YUP - Base Game + All DLC.esm
NVInteriors_Core.esm
FreesideOpen.esm
NVInteriors_ComboEdition.esm
NevadaSkies.esm
NVStripOpen.esm
YUP - NPC Fixes (Base Game + All DLC).esp
Armor by Race w Undies.esp
Better Burned Man.esp
outsidebets.esp
FreesideOpenPatch.esp
vault22FloralOverhaul.esp
Delay DLC - DM + HH + OWB + LR + GRA.esp
The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
Beards.esp
DYNAVISION 3.esp
FCO - Sweat.esp
dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp
StripOpenMain.esp
Reactive People - Ultimatum.esp
awilderwasteland.esp
FSOmusic.esp
FCO - HD Teeth.esp
Sprint Mod.esp
NevadaSkies - Ultimate DLC Edition.esp
 
Total active plugins: 35
Total plugins: 43

 
In addition to the above mods, I also have the New Vegas Anti Crash and Stutter Remover NVSE plugins installed. 
 
Any help at all would be appreciated. I've scoured the internet in search of a fix and have tried just about everything I can think of. INI tweaks -- which I normally avoid -- the 4GB patch, disabling/enabling mods one by one, toggling ArchiveInvalidation on and off religiously in FOMM, starting a new game (both with and without mods active) just to see if my save was somehow corrupt, etcetera. At this point I don't know what else to do aside from a complete re-installation, but I'd really rather not. Considering my previous PC was Windows 7 and I'm currently operating on Windows 8, I'm thinking that could be part of the problem. I know from experience that FO3 is a bit of a pain to get working properly on 8, so...*shrugs*

Prometeus5879

Prometeus5879

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I did the same thing some 3 weeks ago. Fresh install of FNV some addons and gave up 2 days later, tired of all the crashes. Playing for 10 - 15 minutes, crash. Enter/exit places 90% chance to crash. Don't know what was wrong as I didn't have problems previously with way more addons.

 

But well, now that 10/11 is on the horizon, I'm gonna stick to Skyrim.

wulfgear09

wulfgear09

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Sorry i couldn't help maybe use a save cleaner if you are using an old chr. If it happens all the time new or old .. I would bet its windows 8. I have a few friends who make a living with computers and they say it is abysmal.

Guest endgameaddiction

Guest endgameaddiction

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My FNV just crashed about 2 hours ago with a pop up box saying "Out of Memory". I myself have NVAC installed. Never had this issue with Fallout 3. My Fallout 3 is much more heavily modded at the same time.

 

It's very rare that it happens. Not sure why by NV is much more unstable. Even with stutter remover I get very common lag spikes.

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