Fallout: New Vegas

James_Johnson · 2010-10-19T15:12:56.000Z

Mightynute:

I switched my order from the 360 to the PS3 version upon hearing of all the bugs - haven’t seen a single glitch or had a freeze yet.

How’s the performance on the PS3?

Murbella · 2010-10-19T15:25:40.000Z

So are pistols with the cowboy perk actually any good?

stusser · 2010-10-19T15:41:07.000Z

For those of us playing on PC, it looks like the quick/autosave disappearing bug was actually Steam’s fault. The steamcloud synced up with the initial quick and autosave from when the player first began playing then would re-sync them every time you started the game back up. None of the reviewers hit this bug, because the game wasn’t released and steamcloud wasn’t activated. They disabled steamcloud to avoid this, so it shouldn’t happen as of a couple hours ago.

Also, if you bought the DVD version and want to install off the disk rather than downloading the whole thing:

Delete local content for F:NV inside steam
Fully close steam. No icon in your taskbar etc.
Assuming that steam is installed on your C drive and your DVD drive is D, run “c:\progra~1\steam.exe -install D:”

There are also reports that performance is significantly improved if you disable AA and AF inside the game then force them on through your video card’s control panel.

_Poe · 2010-10-19T15:49:23.000Z

Grifman:

I have a bad problem with sound. Music and sound effects cut in and out, conversations lag lip movement or I never hear anything at all, gunshots are heard 5 or 10 seconds later. Basically unplayable for me at this moment :(

But it looks great!

I had a similar problem with Fallout 3 a few days ago and solved it by doing what docvego said - switching from the software accel thing to hardware. But as you say, there ain’t an option for that in the game. If you have a creative x fi card, all you need to do is run the updater and get the latest version of Alchemy and use that to manually add the game to the “always use hardware acceleration list”. Hopefully that’ll work for you.

Aszurom · 2010-10-19T15:58:57.000Z

I have an issue in win7 with Fallout3 where I can’t play fullscreen when I have a 2nd monitor active. Is this maybe cured in NV?

Raife · 2010-10-19T16:13:09.000Z

Aszurom:

I have an issue in win7 with Fallout3 where I can’t play fullscreen when I have a 2nd monitor active. Is this maybe cured in NV?

Sorry, I don’t think where you play the game is going to make any difference.

Musashi · 2010-10-19T16:17:05.000Z

Angie Gallant:

Yes, it’s called Wild Wasteland and the perk description says not to use it if you don’t like humor in your post-apocalyptic settings. So of course I took it.

So it turns Fallout: New Vegas into Gamma World 4e? I’ll be havin’ some of that, please…

Gendal · 2010-10-19T16:22:13.000Z

Aszurom:

I have an issue in win7 with Fallout3 where I can’t play fullscreen when I have a 2nd monitor active. Is this maybe cured in NV?

I have 3 monitors going (Eyefinity setup, but Fallout has poor support for it) and NV is running fine on just one, with the other two showing my desktop.

MattKeil · 2010-10-19T16:25:58.000Z

Angie Gallant:

Yes, it’s called Wild Wasteland and the perk description says not to use it if you don’t like humor in your post-apocalyptic settings. So of course I took it.

Note that it’s a trait, not a perk, so you pick it at character creation. You can’t add it in later.

mike · 2010-10-19T16:26:45.000Z

James Johnson:

How’s the performance on the PS3?

PS3 fine for me so far. Performance seems on par with fallout 3.

Wild Wasteland trait is too good to pass up, I think.

Edit to fix dumb.

Angie_Gallant · 2010-10-19T16:34:59.000Z

Whoops, that’s right, it’s a trait. Don’t get sucked into my vortex of terminology confusion.

Grifman · 2010-10-19T16:37:27.000Z

_Poe_:

I had a similar problem with Fallout 3 a few days ago and solved it by doing what docvego said - switching from the software accel thing to hardware. But as you say, there ain’t an option for that in the game. If you have a creative x fi card, all you need to do is run the updater and get the latest version of Alchemy and use that to manually add the game to the “always use hardware acceleration list”. Hopefully that’ll work for you.

Uh, don’t you have it backwards? The PC automatically uses hardware acceleration unless you tell it to use software. And I’ve tried changing it with no luck :(

Charlatan · 2010-10-19T16:40:18.000Z

I’ve been playing a little on PC and am having some technical issues - couple of times Steam has stopped responding, and once the game just froze up (right after I killed the stupid geckos the second time, because I didn’t save enough!). Plus it seems to stutter every couple of seconds for no good reason, plus it freezes up for about a second whenever it switches to the external view when I’m killing something in VATS. Playing 1920 x 1090 fullscreen, with everything turned up, going to turn stuff down to see if it helps (fyi, Fallout 3 ran fine with this same setup).

Reldan · 2010-10-19T16:50:57.000Z

I just had my second crash in the first hour…

I’m digging the setting so far, but I"m hoping the bugginess clears up a bit.

MattB · 2010-10-19T17:37:17.000Z

stusser:

Also, if you bought the DVD version and want to install off the disk rather than downloading the whole thing:

Delete local content for F:NV inside steam

Fully close steam. No icon in your taskbar etc.

Assuming that steam is installed on your C drive and your DVD drive is D, run “c:\progra~1\steam.exe -install D:”

Bless you. I had another 6-7 hours of download left. Idiotic design decision to force a download.

stusser · 2010-10-19T17:54:22.000Z

The steam integration was obviously VERY last minute, with the savegames being obliterated and all. Can’t blame that on obsidian or gamebyro, although I’m sure some would try.

maxle · 2010-10-19T18:04:52.000Z

Charlatan:

Plus it seems to stutter every couple of seconds for no good reason

I get this too. Not every couple seconds, but frequently enough to be annoying.

Rob_Merritt · 2010-10-19T18:34:21.000Z

stusser:

The steam integration was obviously VERY last minute, with the savegames being obliterated and all. Can’t blame that on obsidian or gamebyro, although I’m sure some would try.

They annouced it 5 months ago. How could that be considered last minute?

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64175

delirium · 2010-10-19T18:47:27.000Z

delirium:

Tom Chick?

My friend has been playing all day and said he hasn’t had any problems with it. Yet.

scratch that. he said he’s now had to restart the game at least 4 times today.

BigWeather · 2010-10-19T18:59:04.000Z

Best Buy failed to have my CE pre-order so I guess I’ll have to go through Amazon. Did get four sweet coasters out of it, though, so it’s not a total loss.

Edit: Annnnd great, Amazon doesn’t have them anymore. Friggin’ Best Buy. First time I tried to go through them in a year and of course they suck.