Can’t get this game to play without being choppy. Even at the lowest possible settings I’m getting fps between 5-28. This is absurd with my computer specs. Something must be going totally wrong as this game is completely unplayable for me…
i7-940, 4870x2, 6 gigs ram - much more than should be necessary
Oh yeah, it gets harder. I’ll have to wait on the prison.
Yep. There’s a problem somewhere in there - you might want to try deleting and reinstalling if you aren’t too far into the game yet.
I’ve only played about 3 hours but with a i7-860, 4890 and 4 gigs of RAM I’ve had no frame rate issues or graphic glitches at “ultra-high” quality w/ a resolution of 1600x1200.
Well, One nice thing. I find myself using a lot more strategy and variety of weapons in this one then I did in Fallout 3. The armor mitigation makes a combination of shotgun, pistol, rifle, grenades, melee and flame throwers(sweet against dog/wolf packs) all have their place.
In 3 I just grabbed the best thing I had found,and blasted, keeping the second best in case of primary ammo shortage. But now I have to plane and prepare. But maybe I just made a crappy toon.
Try disabling CF.
Well, level 14 and still haven’t managed to make it to Vegas yet. 
Really enjoying the game, though I’m starting to become a bit outclassed since I’m running into even nastier nightkin and super-mutant commanders and such, and I’m still wandering around with ThatGun and the lever action rifle and pretty crappy armor (stuff I wouldn’t have even bothered picking up to sell in FO3 by this point in the game).
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Out of curiosity, where is everyone at right now? I’m currently exploring and trying to work out a quick raid on Black Rock Mountain (I’m not high enough level nor do I have the equipment for a serious explore). Just finished the solar power plant.
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Level 7 (Fast Shot, Kamikaze, Softcore). Just finished the Solar Plant, and since the Nightkins decimated me in the previous side quest. (i pretty much had to sneak for the first encounter with them), I either need to grind out a few levels or invest more fully in sneak. There’s only been one encounter so far that I couldn’t win (rattle snake coyotes? I forget what they were called, but they effed me harder than the nightkins).
I’m level 10, and just got to New Vegas. I just got ahold of a hunting rifle; it looks looks a lot like the hunting rifles from FO3, except
a) it was very expensive
b) it fires .308 ammo
c) you can put a scope on it
d) it doesn’t have a “kick” the way the FO3 sniper rifle does.
I wish I had time before tomorrow night to try it out on something other than coyotes and radscorpions.
Speaking of the hunting rifle, does anyone know how str requirements work? It said in the pop-up when you first go into the inventory your aim would be reduced but as far as I can tell that isn’t the case. Is the requirement either xstr OR xGuns skill or is it xstr AND xGuns? I havent noticed any penalty for not meeting one or the other so far but have avoided guns I don’t have the str for cuz I feel like I’m cheating when I use them.
CF?
I’m having bad performance issues as well. Bizarrely so. It runs at a nice smooth 60fps much of the time but often I’ll get weird lag spikes. Like one legionnaire camp would lag horribly if I looked at it from one direction but not at all if I circled around and approached from the other. Sometimes looking at specific areas will drop my fps to single digits, but it’s usually not complex areas, it’ll usually be like a filing cabinet or blank wall or something. I can’t imagine it’s a graphics card problem as I’m using 2 GTX470s in SLI but at the same time my CPU doesn’t exceed 80% usage during any of the laggy areas where I’ve thought to glance at it. I also get bizarre black and white flashes if I have HDR on, but luckily I dislike HDR anyway and so just turned it off.
Crossfire, but nevermind - you have the dual-gpu single card, not 2 4870s as I first read it. Crossfire can sometimes cause weird problems with certain games.
I told Ed-e to wait in Goodsprings because I just wanted her perk. After a while(I think three days, but not 100% sure) a pop up told me she had left my party for Primm(where I was able to go rerecruit her and tell her to wait in Novak). Presumably the same would happen with a companion you booted manually.
In Fallout 3, I found that I get major problems if I leave Ad-Aware running even with a recent major hardware upgrade. When I reboot and plan to play Fallout, I open the task manager and shut down both the AA processes. Often I have to shut them down multiple times, presumably because they don’t want malware to be able to just shut it down. Other games seem unaffected, but Ad-Aware has an unmistakable impact on Fallout performance. If you don’t have Ad-Aware, maybe something else is interfering.
In other news, while I was installing, I was flipping through the playing cards that came with my Obsessive Nerd pack, and I noticed that not only were there Roman themes a-coming, but that apparently somebody at Obsidian actually knows how to use a Latin dictionary. Ecce:
Frūmentāriī - Foragers
Speculātōrēs - Explorers (though with a picture of a gladius)
Lupa - She-wolves (possibly also Whores)
Vulpes Inculta - Wild Fox
That’s just beside the bunch of Roman first and last names. And soon into the game, somebody makes a crack about the pronunciation of Caesar with a hard-k (as it would have been pronounced by the Romans). So, it looks like I’m getting the Bilingual Bonus on this one. My two years of intensive study (and ten previous years of piddling) in Latin are going to pay off in a video game. Suck on that, Esperanto!
Apparently the game doesn’t utilize GPU processing power properly. This has something to do with the version of DirectX the game uses. There’s a quick fix to the problem over at New Vegas nexus. Download an older dx9d9.dll file and put it in the New Vegas directory. The file is available here. I noticed a massive improvement after I did this fix.
EDIT: Makes the game crash if you use two monitors apparently.
Absolutely loving the game so far; I’m at level 10 and I’ve finally arrived in Vegas.
Some things I’ve noticed:
Someone on the design team is a serious firearms enthusiast. The 9mm pistol is a Browning Hi-Power, the .357 Magnum is a Single Action Army clone, the “Cowboy Rifle” is a Winchester Model 92 clone, the Single-Barrelled Shotgun is a Harrington & Richardson break-action, there’s a Thompson M1928A1 Laser Rifle (Yes!), and so on. Also, the entire reloading thing; brass, powder, lead, different primers depending on the cartridge; the fact .357 Magnum guns can fire .38 special ammo… someone there definitely knows firearms, in other words.
I have to say I haven’t found any decent armour (reinforced leather is the best I’ve come across) yet, but considering the heat it makes sense that there wouldn’t be many people running around in the Space Marine-type armour so prevalent in Fallout 3.
Also, having arrived in New Vegas, the “Main” questline has splintered into a “I’ve completely lost count” number of quests. I think I can see the “Main” path, but the other stuff is just too fascinating to pass up. There’s a lot going on (both in Vegas and outside it) and it’s evidently going to take a number of playthroughs to see it all. And I’m still nowhere near Hoover Dam, which is clearly going to be important later on…
The slightly odd sense of from humour from Fallout 1 & 2 is back, even in the “Normal” mode. It’s not as silly or self-aware as Fallout 2 but it’s probably only taking itself 95% as seriously as Fallout 3 was.
Finally, does anyone else think the DJ on Black Mountain Radio sounds like Stewie Griffin doing an impersonation of Rick from The Young Ones?
I’ve noticed a a lack of any decent armor too. Anyone using factional armor? Since my game is still in the early stages and my character is pretty weak I thought it best not to risk wearing any for fear of being attacked by a horde of the opposite faction.
I was clearing out some giant ants for an NCR ranger. Got down to the last one (a huge one!), when I ran out of bullets. So I pulls out my trusty shovel and whack that monster into paste. Man I’m loving this game!
I’ve been checking out the profiles of some of you playing the game. I’ve been playing as much/longer than some of you, and am no where near where you guys are. How do you cover so much ground?
Yeah, careful with that. An opposing faction will shoot you on sight, and won’t stop unless you get away, remove the armor, and wait some time before returning. Also, wearing faction armor isn’t full proof, sometimes the faction you are trying to infiltrate will make you.
The best armor I’ve found is still the armor I got as part of the Steam pre-order bonus, and that shotgun is also still my best weapon, though my modded vermint rifle is great for taking out distant baddies.
I love the arguments the gun models on the talk pages of the wikia almost as much as the guns themselves. That may be a sign of too much nerd though.
I haven’t taken the Wild Wasteland trait yet (I usually end up restarting about three times before I settle into a complete playthrough), but I’m betting that it opens up a lot of the stuff that made Fallout 2 so good. It’s certainly not as serious F3, talk to Cass about the statues and Caesar’s bull icon :D.
I figured I’d try it despite using 3 monitors. It seems to work quite well. FPS hasn’t dropped below 50 since trying it and the only crash was while exiting the game. Thanks for the heads up. It seems like a huge improvement so far.
I have a 4870x2 too, with the 10.9 win7 64 bit drivers. I haven’t had any problems yet. The settings are ultra-high @ 1920x1200. Adaptive AA and Catalyst AI are set to their highest settings in the CCC. I had HDR flickering in F3 but it’s absent in NV. IIRC the frame-rate drops to high 30’s when there is a lot going on but normally sits between 50-60 (V-Sync On).
i5-750 @4ghz, 4gb RAM, 4870x2 cat10.9, Win7 64bit.
My main problem was the god-awful mouse acceleration that slaps you across the face when you first load up the menu screen. Luckily the same fix that worked for Fallout 3 works here.