New Vegas technical problem

[Kainan]

I started my second NV game and it works fine for a while but after say half an hour it starts flickering, like a slight blackening of the screen. I cant play it like this, but nobody knows how to fix it. Everyone says some random crap that doesnt work. I have Windows 10 with no mods except JSawyer Ultimate, NVSE in the data folder with those two options in the ini file "lightingcritical" or whatever ticked to "1" but it still flickers. FO3 i had with exact same settings and it was completely smooth. Fuck! I dont know why cant i just install the game and play it and not have to deal with crap like this so many years after the game came out.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

What I'd personally do is...

1. Copy your save games somewhere else, delete your local game data in Documents and relaunch the game so that it gets recreated properly, then readd your save games.

Then if that doesn't work,
2. Delete your local game data again, relaunch the game and start a new playthrough.

Then if that doesn't work either,
3. Delete your local game data again and also reinstall the game.

If none of the above work in solving the issue, then dunno.

 

[spockthewok]

Firstly, if it's true that the only mods you have installed are JSUE and NVSE, you are missing a required mod for JSUE - JIP LN NVSE (make sure you have the latest version of NVSE too).
Secondly, I would recommend taking a look at the Viva New Vegas mod guide, particularly from the 'Introduction' to the 'Bug Fixes' sections - this will tell you how to install FNV correctly and give you all the mods required to run the game in the current year, as well as detailed instructions on how to install and tweak them accordingly. While you don't have to follow the whole thing, it is good resource to have when trying to get the game to work.

 

[Kainan]

Thanks. Ill try all that tomorrow and see how it goes.

 

[Yosharian]

Imagine not playing VNV in 2022

 

[Kainan]

I do have JIP LN

 

[Kainan]

I'm giving this game one more chance tomorrow.

 

[Yosharian]

VNV is a more or less bug-free experience with very few crashes.

That's saying something for a game built on the Bethesda engine

 

[Kainan]

I had zero problems with FO3.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

you're supposed to have LOTS of problems with fallout 3.

 

[Kainan]

It crashed just once. NV didn't crash at least either but this stuttering/flickering is killing the game for me. Also the saves got corrupted and wouldn't load. I was level 7.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

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[Kainan]

Its still happening but i figured out it has something to do with taking screens. When i press print screen it takes a screenshot and thats when the flickering starts and it doesnt go away until the game is restarted.

 

[Poseidon00]

New Vegas doesn't have technical problems. It works precisely when it means to

 

[Kainan]

It does have and not even normal ones. I tested it for a couple hours now thinking it might be saving/loading related but no its just whenever i hit print screen. Its such a random problem and its just blind luck that i noticed it or i would've given up on the game.

 

[Kainan]

I bet no one on the internet even knows about this.

 

[Kainan]

Well thanks everyone for help anyway but man NV even though i like it and with zero mods you have to spend an entire week just to get it working.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Might just be a driver issue. Dx9 is old and the driver implementations of it are probably not well tested anymore. Try dropping the d3d9.dll from dxvk or dgvoodoo2 into the same folder as the fnv exe and see if it still happens.

 

[whydoibother]

Test if the flickering happens both in fullscreen and in window mode.
If windowed mode is fine, you might need to change compatibility settings to something lower, its an old game.

 

[Kainan]

Game started crashing constantly. Right after that deathclaw quarry, im sneaking past deathclaws towards Vegas and whenever i pass some invisible line it crashes. Im trying everything but nothing works. im level 7 again. Im giving up, i just cant deal with this shit.

 

[anvi]

Is the frame rate locked? Usually when something works and then goes wrong after a while it's because of overheating. Sometimes if the frame rate is unlocked in a game it can run the graphics card at 100% and it can overheat your PC if the cooling can't cope. So you could try making sure frame rate is locked at 60. But yeah it sounds buggy, I'd try a different version all together. That game sucks anyway.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

The problem is that it is a bad easy game with very easy skill checks. Also it was designed by Sawyer.

 

[codex account]

new vegas install guide
install game
run game once
install fixes:
4GB patcher
xNVSE
nvtf
jip ln nvse
JohnnyGuitar NVSE
ShowOff NVSE
YUP
run game again
configure fixes
if you want mods here is a good time to copy entire game folder so have a clean installation
but you gave up maybe will help someone else

 

[Kainan]

Is the frame rate locked? Usually when something works and then goes wrong after a while it's because of overheating. Sometimes if the frame rate is unlocked in a game it can run the graphics card at 100% and it can overheat your PC if the cooling can't cope. So you could try making sure frame rate is locked at 60. But yeah it sounds buggy, I'd try a different version all together. That game sucks anyway.

It's locked at 144. Supposedly you shouldn't above 60 but I played FO3 like that with zero problems...

 

[Kainan]

And why are all those deathclaws there? On the road right in front of Vegas. Couldn't they think of something else to block the way.