Camp Searchlight CTD

[Spyder Arachnid]

So having some issues with a new playthrough.

 

When I first went to Camp Searchlight, everything was fine. No crashes or anything. Killed some guys, went into the school and came back out, killed a couple more guys, then went into the Church Basement.

 

But now I can't leave. If I try to leave, instant crash to desktop.

 

So I tried to use the console to get myself out. I did the "coc" command to go to the Airport just south of it, and then try to run back to Camp Searchlight. Well as soon as I got a few feet in, crash to desktop.

 

 

Now I can't go anywhere near Camp Searchlight or I crash instantly.

 

I checked around online to see what might be the issue, but couldn't find anything that solved the issue. Seems a lot of people have this issue, but no one has solved it. Someone said it was the Fallout Character Overhaul causing it, with the Glowing Ones patch, but I don't use that. I mean, I use Fallout Character Overhaul, but I don't use the Glowing Ones patch. I don't even have the .esm or .esp enabled for Fallout Character Overhaul (cause I use New Vegas Redesigned 3).

 

So I have no idea what else could be the issue. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

Load Order:

 

 

 0  0 FalloutNV.esm
 1  1 DeadMoney.esm
 2  2 HonestHearts.esm
 3  3 OldWorldBlues.esm
 4  4 LonesomeRoad.esm
 5  5 GunRunnersArsenal.esm
 6  6 ClassicPack.esm
 7  7 MercenaryPack.esm
 8  8 TribalPack.esm
 9  9 CaravanPack.esm
10  a YUP - Base Game + All DLC.esm
11  b Sexout.esm
12  c New Vegas Redesigned 3.esm
13  d Lings.esm
14  e Gomorrah Redesigned.esp
15  f oHUD.esm
16 10 ELECTRO-CITY - CompletedWorkorders.esm
17 11 ELECTRO-CITY - Highways and Byways.esm
18 12 T6M Equipment Replacer NV.esm
19 13 URWLNV-001-Weather.esm
20 14 SexoutCommonResources.esm
21 15 SexoutSlavery.esm
22 16 YUP - NPC Fixes (Base Game + All DLC).esp
23 17 SexoutSpunk.esp
24 18 SexoutSound.esp
25 19 SexoutSex.esp
26 1a SexoutStraponSex.esp
27 1b Sexout-Amra.esp
28 1c SexoutPosNew.esp
29 1d christinecos.esp
30 1e Vurt's WFO.esp
31 1f New Vegas Redesigned 3.esp
32 20 Cass alternate version.esp
33 21 Roberts_NewVegas.esp
34 22 MoonShadowRace by Dracomies.esp
35 23 EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp
36 24 dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp
37 25 PerkEveryLevel.esp
38 26 No Scope Wobble.esp
39 27 Mens Magazines Replacer.esp
40 28 Zan_AutoPurge_SmartAgro_NV.esp
41 29 T6M Old World Blues Replace.esp
42 2a PrnOut.esp
43 2b T6M Dead Money Armor.esp
44 2c T6M CH Raider Armor.esp
45 2d PinkPrincessSuitEN.esp
46 2e DarNifiedUINV.esp
47 2f Readius_NV.esp
48 30 NCR Rearmament v1.5.esp
49 31 ClearWindows.esp
50 32 Laurens_Bathroom_poetry.esp
51 33 SunnyCompanion.esp
52 34 RSCR-Expansion_Decks.esp
53 35 PrewarBooks2.esp
54 36 TheSinkRemodel.esp
55 37 OCD-Cass outfits.esp
56 38 Ghost Variants Adjutant.esp
57 39 1SBSteamOutfit.esp
58 3a Motorcycle replacer V2.esp
59 3b BabyDoll.esp
60 3c The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
61 3d AradiaKatoArmor.esp
62 3e ShadesXIarmor.esp
63 3f 101Posters.esp
64 40 101Billboards.esp
65 41 Pretty Sinks!.esp
66 42 I5K-TVReplacerMMtopless.esp
67 43 RiverWaterHH.esp
68 44 URWLNV-002-DeadMoney.esp
69 45 URWLNV-003-HonestHearts.esp
70 46 URWLNV-004-OldWorldBlues.esp
71 47 URWLNV-005-LonesomeRoad.esp
72 48 ShilohDS-Color Maps and Icons.esp
73 49 SmallerTalk.esp
74 4a RSCR-Standard.esp
75 4b SexoutLust.esp
76 4c SexoutFadeToBlack.esp

 

 

[Content Consumer]

Did you enter the building with Private Edwards? I have found that sometimes I get CTD after talking to Edwards and then exiting his building. I think it has something to do with his request to kill the radscorpions - it might be that they're spawning incorrectly there or something.

[Spyder Arachnid]

I haven't even done the quest there yet.

 

I came in from the Airport and have just been exploring at the moment. Came across the Camp, and started killing the bad guys. It wasn't until I went into the Church Basement and then tried to leave that it started crashing.

 

So just exploring right now is all.

[zippy57]

Wait for three days and try to leave again. Corrupt spawn points are a common cause of location-specific crashes and waiting for three days causes the cells to reset and usually fixes them.

[Spyder Arachnid]

Yeah.... tried that too. Saw somewhere online it said to wait four days to reset the cell, so I tried that.

 

Still get crashes at the same spot. It's when I am entering Camp Searchlight from the south end (from the Airport), and once I get past the radiation signs and I can see the turret behind the sand bag barrier and I think the fire station to the right, is when it crashes. Once that part starts loading in, it crashes every time. I haven't tried from a different angle, but I'd assume it would still be the same either way.

 

Just wish I knew what exactly was in that area that kept causing me to crash. I seriously hope my save game didn't get corrupted because of this.

[zippy57]

It's odd that waiting didn't fix it because that sort of crash is always, at least in my experience, a corrupt spawn point causing the game to crash when the cell is loaded. At this point your best bet would probably be to open up your load order in FNVEdit, find any mod that makes changes to that area, remove it, reload the game, wait three days again, and see if it keeps happening.

[Spyder Arachnid]

I'll try waiting again and see if it might work, hopefully.

 

I have no idea how to do any of that FNVEdit stuff though. I just know how to clean mods using FNVEdit. I don't get all the other stuff lol.

[Spyder Arachnid]

Okay so I'm narrowing it down to something on the East side of Camp Searchlight.

 

Cause I went to Cottonwood Cove and then headed to Camp Searchlight from there. Got past the Sniper Nest, but when I got in barely enough range of the Camp Searchlight East Gold Mine, I crashed again.

 

Then went to the NCR camp outside Camp Searchlight (to the west). Started following that path on the road, got to the middle of the bridge there in the camp, and then crashed again.

 

 

So it's got to be something on the east side of the camp, either in or around Camp Searchlight on the east side.

 

I don't know of any of my mods altering that area, except for maybe NCR Rearmament (which actually gives the NCR ghouls the new armors). Otherwise might try resetting my ini files as I've made some changes in there too. But otherwise I'm at a loss.

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: YEP, Narrowed it down. It was something in my ini files that I changed that is causing the crash. I made of backup of my current ini files, and then ran the launcher to reset them back to High quality. Then started up the game, and ran all around Camp Searchlight, inside and out, without any crashes. So yeah. It is a change I made in my ini files that is causing it.

 

Now the problem is, finding out what I changed that is causing the issue........... ugh......

[Spyder Arachnid]

And just like that, I figured out what the problem was.

 

iNumHavokThreads

 

That little setting was causing my crashes. It was set to four because I'm mental and thought, "Hey Skyrim uses Havok for HDT and it is set to four! So it must be the same for FNV!"........

 

Yeah..... I messed up. Seems you can only set it to one or two. I had it at four. So changed it back to one, and now no more crashes. Ran through Camp Searchlight with no problems.

 

Thanks for the assistance though. I appreciate it.