Now if only ESL support could be backported to FNV/FO3/TTW... 254 mods would be a paltry collection. And it would still CTD.
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I hoped someone integrated FNV into FO4 like TTW does in FNV
How in the fuck is that a sentence, and why can I actually understand it.
I have never played a Fallout game, and these comments are gibberish to me.
- FNV = Fallout: New Vegas
- FO4 = FallOut 4
- TTW = Tales of Two Wastelands
In case you didn't know, fallout went 1, 2, 3, New Vegas, 4, 76.
TTW summary:
A total conversion project that seamlessly merges Fallout 3 and its DLC into Fallout: New Vegas
Only way I managed to play FO3 and NV was by playing with TTW, to me the franchise ended at the second game...
ESL, CTD, DLC?
ESL (ESP Lite) is a newer file format for mods in the Creation Engine, the whole backend to the game basically. Fallouts 3, NV, 4, 76, and Starfield all run a very heavily modified Gamebryo engine (from back in the Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind era, ~2001), which over time mutated into the Creation Engine. Previous types were ESM and ESP, and they were locked to a total of 254 individual mods. If you went over the game would most likely crash... speaking of, CTD is crash to desktop. Lastly, DLC is downloadable content, aka usually extra paid stuff to add into the game. That can be perceived as it being good extra content or bad in that the content should have been part of the main game all along.
This solves a lot of the crashes:
Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/51664
I have yet to find an unofficial patch that actually fixes the crashes. They also have a tendency to claim that they'll let the game work on modern PCs, but that is also a lie in my experience.
I don't feel like digging out the old rig for just one game, so New Vegas will forever be little more than a great memory in my mind.
Follow the viva new Vegas guide. It’s allowed me to play on modern systems with minimal issues. Still the odd crash on occasion but it’s rare
Fallout New Vegas is cruel because Arcade Gannon is not real and will never be my boyfriend.
I need to figure out how to do the SSD mod on Linux since having a drive that's too fast will sometimes crash the game and I got no HDDs anymore.
It ran super stable for me on Mint a few years ago without any fiddling
Never got this game to run for more than a few hours. Not sure if I made it far out of the first town. It was a hot mess
There Is a pretty detailed video on YouTube that explains why it happens, some memory leak. And a few mods that can fix issues but they didn't work for me and yeah crashing every 15 minutes was too annoying. Having to hit quick save every 60 seconds was stupid
I needed this laugh today
🎶I've got spurs, they CTD CTD CTD🎶