1901

Nah, they don’t make games like that anymore, everything’s so linear these days.

1902

I used to have the same problem. Tried windowed mode, disabling AA, and the “4GB fix.” Nothing worked.

Finally, I tried this:

Open up the fallout.ini file in: Documents\My Games\Fallout New Vegas
Find the line: bUseThreadedAI=0
Change it to: bUseThreadedAI=1
Add another line after it: iNumHWThreads=2
This will prevent the game from using more than two cores. Multi-cores cause crashes in the Gamebyro Engine.
If the game still crashes change to: iNumHWThreads=1

You also need to change the root as well or every time you play it will overwrite and revert.
Goto: E:\Games\Steam\Steamapps\common\FalloutNV
Edit: Fallout_default.ini like you did the previous file.

Fixed!

1903

Todd was probably playing in “Todd Mode”.

1904

The dunmer screenshot has been released!

1905

Like the look of it, come on November!

1906

Nice aurora.

1907

The face, beard and model detail look a hell of a lot better than Oblivion, but it’s hard to say if that was post-processed at all.

1908

Wow, that’s a lot of detail (compared to previous ES games)!

Put a fro on him and he’d look like Blackula.

1909

Thank you. I dug up that solution independently, and sadly it doesn’t seem to have worked (though admittedly, I have only tried it once since implementing, during which try it froze).

If it worked for you though, I’ll give it another try tonight - maybe it was just an isolated crash that was independent of what this fixes.

1910

Yeah, that’s the thing. There is no solution that will get rid of every crash. FNV is really buggy.

I’ve played Fallout 3 for hundreds of hours with only a couple of crashes, but FNV is a crash-happy program.

1911

The leather armor texture looks like crap, though.

1912

He reminds me of a green-skinned samurai.

1913

And my experience was the opposite - FO3 crashed a lot more for me then FNV ever has, though both have the same Gambryo problem that was present in Oblivion as well.

Which tells me its an engine issue that they can tweak around, but what fixes it for some hardware combinations breaks it for others.

1914

Does anyone know how leveling and XP work? From Oblivion you used to get XP from certain tagged skills and that is what leveled you. One strategy (One I never tried) was to tag skills you rarely used so you would be very well rounded when you leveled up. Does skyrim work the same way and if so, do you think that tagging skills you do not use very much is a good idea?

1915

Great question DeepT, I wish I knew. I kind of hope they revamp that because it got a bit gamey trying to influence when you leveled and when you did not.

During the video he at least mentioned skillups and “enough and you level,” but no mention of tagged skills, nor how the perks unlocked, either at level up or at certain skill levels.

1916

All skills count towards leveling–although apparantly higher-level skills count more. No tagging at character creation, although there are Doomstones whose use will increase the leveling speed of relevant skills (until you use a different one).

1917

Great info Imryll, thanks for that.

1918

Yeah, my problems are with Fallout 3 as well; I don’t have Fallout New Vegas.

I suppose I will end up trying Skyrim if it has a new engine. Damned if I want to pay $60 for something that may just freeze up and crash though. I guess I will have to try to holdout until I get some good reports/the price drops.

1919

Run, it’s a Dunmer with Porphyric Hemophilia!

1920

Well then… still not worth the extra $90

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