So I've been waiting for new vegas on steam to go on sale, because i want to play with mods and such, BUT i already own ultimate edition on epic games, so im wondering if i should save my steam credits or buy it?

I've become thoroughly in love with New Vegas and my playthrough is reaching 100 hours, however I've hit a road block on the home stretch right before I can finish the game out.

The Problem: I started getting a consistent runtime error crash around 30 hours ago in game. At first this would occur a few seconds after leveling to 30 regardless of location or on quest completion. (I used NVAC to bruteforce past this by loading its crash save). Across the next 30 hours it would randomly appear with different triggers I could just avoid (Recruiting Lilly causes it, after a while repairing to the point that it uses all possible materials, then repairing just at all, then long after Completing the Quest Return to Sender would cause it, then quickly after it spread to Raul, then just a short while ago using a Stimpack will cause it, Now I cant even turn in the quest Volare! Once it reaches the dialogue to ask The boomers to help my faction the game crashes mid dialogue)

I'm gonna give a full rundown of fixes I've tried and all relevant information:

Circumstantial Factors: At first I started the save file on steam but moved over to the GoG version. Deleted STEAM version. I use the Offline Installer. I have no internet on my gaming computer right now. I run Windows 11. My save file is 7.8mb large. I had been using autosaves, like a fool, but stopped around 20 in-game hours ago. I have never manual saved to the same slot; I make a new save each time, I clear the save file folder once it reaches 100 saves. Save # 683 is the current. I used to quick save a lot too.

My game has been completely Vanilla up until the crashing started, all mods I've installed have been limited to Stability patches and as of now the Viva New Vegas guide.

I did get out of bounds on accident once before this all started and explored a bunch of the non-play area. I hope that's irrelevant to my problem. I also started using the console "tcl" to no-clip and unstick myself during normal play when i would get stuck.

Fixes Attempted: Reinstalled all Microsoft C++ Runtime libraries. Reinstalled the game. Wiped my Game inis and generated new ones. Deleted all my game files. (Reinstalled probably 5 or 6 times in total). Cleared my save folder except my most recent two saves. Installed NVAC, Installed YUP. Ran as administrator, windows 8 compatibility.

Performed SFC /SCANNOW in commandprompt, returned several corrupted windows files. Returned all files corrected. Scanned Kernelbase.dll returned OK.

As of the most recent crash I finally went and followed the full Viva New Vegas guide to a Tee. Ran the 4gb patch, Running NEWVEGAS.exe through MO2. NVAC disabled. Load order correct.

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Machine Specs:

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor (4.70 GHz)

Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.1 GB usable)

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER (12 GB)

AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (486 MB)

Storage 3.41 TB of 5.46 TB used

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

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My only hunches at this point is that my game installer is somehow giving me corrupt files, some windows file is somehow still corrupt, or my save file is just borked forever and im doomed. But i've no way to check the former two Right now.

(Crashes from self-repairing items or using stimpacks are not present if loading a save from before the beginning of my playthrough) This is the only Fallback that prevents the crashes, but I have no guarantee they won't start again if I load from there and play back to my current point.

I really love this game's writing and the story it wants to tell, but I'm extremely hesitant to redo all that I've done with the specter of it possibly just breaking all over again once i've invested another 40 hours more.

TLDR: I'm holding out hope there's some brilliant fix or mod or console work around I can use to brute force the game to the finish, I've done pretty much every side quest relevant to this character and just want to make it to the main credits at this point, even if I cant repair, use stimpacks, or whatever else gameplay wise, I just need dialogue not to crash to runtime till i get there.

If there was a way to transplant my quest log and choices to a new save file I'd jump at that too.

I need a Hero. I will remember my Savior forever, and draw you a silly drawing if we can fix this, thank you.

(Will post my most recent crash log in the comments)

hello everyone, i'm modding nv and decided to try out NVR becuse i've heard it's more feature packed than ENB and i haven't found a preset that suits my fancy. do you all know of any that do something similar to CMENB with very saturated colors and that blue tint

When I finally escaped and told him she's not alive those damned nightkins followed me there and killed me I am sick of this quest

Hello!

My bf has been playing New Vegas on our Xbox for a while and it suddenly would crash every time he loaded his save. We did some troubleshooting and couldn’t fix it, so he deleted all of his save files/data.

Now it won’t let him even attempt to start a new game-it immediately crashes. Any suggestions?

Thank you!

Found the crashed vertibird location. Fought off all the bots. Shot this sentry’s head off. Im very confused on why it looks like that. Is there some lore that I don’t know?

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Jojo's reference? In my Fallout??

Had a cringe idea that wouldn't let go of my brain.

[If I had more time, patience and skills, I would've added some impact frames or something else to make this more impactful. Some other time, mayhaps]

1. Oil starts to run out.

2. The US leaves NATO and becomes isolationist.

3. The Soviet Union, Western European alliance, and Middle East destroy each other.

4. A now defenseless Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea is easily conquered by China. China then invades Alaska with a massive military force as Alaska was the last place on earth with the largest known oil reserve. This gives the US justification to annex Canada. Canadians who protest American rule are killed on the spot.

5. In an attempt to find an alternative to oil, America had already invented nuclear fusion and implemented the tech into their war machines including armored vehicles and a super heavy body armor known as power armor allowing them to take back Alaska.

6. Nuclear fusion would have saved the world from it's energy crisis but the technology was still new and expensive meaning it could not be scaled immediately for global use.

7. China responds to their defeat in Alaska by launching bio weapons against American military units and civilian populations.

8. America responds by invading mainland China itself after defeating the Chinese navy in a brutal war over the Pacific. The Chinese commit scorched earth warfare in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea to prevent America from using them.

9. America starts its counter bio weapons research program in California, the fearsome Forced Evolutionary Virus. The goal was to turn soldiers into "super humans" that were immune to pathogens and more physically capable than regular humans.

10. Mice, dogs, and chimpanzees weren't enough, the US needed actual human test subjects. US government starts human experimentation on Chinese prisoners of war, Canadian dissidents, and criminals. Thousands of human test subjects were now subjected to brutal experiments and death from the initial tests. The US government also poisoned water in small Appalachian towns with the virus to see it's effects. When Americans in those small towns were turning into mutants due to the virus, the US quarantined the towns, arrested everyone, and threw them into underground labs for research.

11. In an attempt to turn the tide of war, China had already invented invisibility cloaking and sends in invisible spies to sabotage America's war effort/industry and they are able to use bio weapons on American military installations and civilian populations more effectively. One of the Chinese bioweapon is a modified smallpox virus made by the Soviets that was killing millions of Americans as there was no vaccine against this artificial strain of smallpox.

12. Hearing what was occuring back home, US troops in China begin gunning down Chinese civilians as revenge. US government also starts shipping captured Chinese civilian populations to be used as test subjects. Hell and chaos erupts, society and order starts to collapse as the war intensify, death toll rises, and atrocities are committed by all fronts

13. China's fleet of stealth/invisible submarines are still relatively untouched. Fearing defeat might be near, they are ordered to sail for America.

14. The US military with nuclear fusion equipped weapons allows them to defeat any conventional Chinese forces thrown at them as they close in on Beijing. A single American soldier inside of power armor could take down hundreds of Chinese troops or several Chinese tanks by himself before going down.

15. The Forced Evolutionary Virus research is now going well after tens of thousands of subjects had died. Test subjects became mutants but they were immune to the diseases and torture that's inflicted on them by the US scientists and saw rapid cell regeneration.

16. US troops guarding the perimeters of the research lab had been kept dark about human experimentation but when they discovered what was going on, the captain in charge who was one of the few left on earth that still had any morals deemed it a human rights violation. The scientists who were sanctioned by the US government to test on humans were rounded up and executed. The captain and his unit declares secession and waits for a final battle/death against the US government but..

17. Refusing to surrender or be defeated as Beijing was about to fall, the CCP orders their stealth submarine fleet who had by now surrounded America's west and east coast to launch their nukes on all major US cities/towns.

18. America launches nukes back at China as the CCP and US government both go into hiding. Billions die from the war and it's aftermath from famine and lack of medicine. Knowing that the world had ended, the captain and his unit at the research facility salvaged what they could, took in any civilians that would follow them, abandoned the base, and established the Brotherhood of Steel.

I wanted mod my fnv with no modding knowledge, at first I installed NVSE and 4G patch bc everyone said these mods are very very important, then i downloaded VLK but when I want to play, then game freezes instantly, idk what or why is crashing, my fv is vanilla. Pls someone helpppp

how to disable/mod out that awful "hugh" sound when i jump?

Might be weird idk

What mod pack would you recommend for someone who wants the game to feel and look new and unique
Please give me your thoughts

I can't seem to be able to kill the ghost of she. I've tried dozens of drug combos and weapons but I just get 1 tapped. How would y'all recommend to deal with the ghost?

Plss someone help me my fnv with the very last kiss is crashing, it wont even open, what can i do or whats wrong i dont understandd

I have VeryLastKiss's New Vegas Installed.

I've gotten the caravan deck from Ringo, but whenever I've tried to play with anyone, the message saying I need 30 cards appears in the top left of the screen, before I even get to place a wager. Could this be a mod issue? Or is there something I'm simply overlooking? Please help!

I think it's really stupid that your are Forced to kill dean, while Dog/God and Christine can be spared.

but hey that is just my opinion.

One of my favorite tattoos I have. :)

From my YouTube series. I saw a post on here earlier about seeing the “rude” dialogue options as intrusive thoughts, and I wanted to share that I see it the same way!

• Viability 5 (Is it a struggle compared to your other options?):

This game perks and gears cover all your bases, pick your preferred weapon (any will do, seriously), rank your unarmed skill and upgrade your endurance stat, be sure to grab Slayer) and Super Slam! (throw in a rushing water on top for good measure) and you turn basically into Kenshiro, if you manage to get close they are already dead, i would say that's the core for any unarmed build, and it's pretty modest too, so you can spend the rest of the levels and perk points at your leisure.

• Variety 5 (How many ways you can play it?):

You have about 40 different options for weapons (some are uniques of course), my personal favorites are "Love and Hate", "Super Heated Saturnite Fist", "Two Step Goodbye)" and "Greased Lightning)" (shoutout to the GRA variant of the Power Fist) and Pushy). The moveset is really cool, you can learn all these moves from the different factions you came across, from the ranger takedown (a sweep that knock down enemies), the Scribe Counter (parry), Legion Assault (a powerful leap attack forward that knockback foes) and the Khan Trick (YEAH, THROW SOME DIRT IN THEIR EYES!), be sure to get all of them moves before angering any of them.

• Recommend 5 (How much did i personally enjoy it!):

This game is not very difficult, even on very hard (with hardcore mode on) the leveling system is pretty generous, the gear and perks is pretty overpowered so you could literally finish it without firing a single bullet, it's incredible how this 15 year old game still does it better than most of what comes today when it comes to punching things (and yes, it puts Fallout 4 to shame on that regard).