Havenspire

It's installed through Steam, though Steam is not the issue. It's an obvious code fault as it only occurs when targets either become hostile or take damage. The issue also never occurs unless I've loaded a saved game. My guess is it's either not saving or not loading properly. Once I'm able to kill something with a (really) old save file, the game never crashes until I save and try to play on another day. I've tried contacting the actual support team at bethesda by submitting forms through their site with detailed information, but I haven't gotten so much as one single email response. Currently running a quadcore intel 2.8 processor, 4 gigs ram, 32bit (ack) Vista, nVidia 8800 GT (steroscopic nvidia 3D ftw). The game is patched to the latest version Steam offers. nVidia drivers are also up to date, though it's not really a graphics issue anyway. Is there a way to copy your save to another machine? I have a laptop with higher specs running Windows7 and thought I should give it a go. I have F:NV on that machine with no issues so far, but I kind of want to keep my old save without starting all over again. The only mod made to the system is the DX9 replacement .dll to enhance framerate. On my laptop (the one without issues yet), however, I have a ton of mods... so I don't think it could be mod-related. I can reproduce the issue like clockwork, so I can't imagine it's hardware related; it only ever occurs when a target's hostility state changes from 0 to 1 ... or when any hostile target takes damage. Sometimes, when you mouse-over a friendly target they show red for a second... then move a bit and the HUD corrects itself. I'm guessing it's a fault with saving NPC reputation or something, and it's trying to push a value outside an expected number range with no exception handler. *shrug*

The game is simply unplayable. I have no mods installed. I cannot attack anything in the entire game without a crash to desktop. Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: FalloutNV.exe Application Version: 1.2.0.285 Application Timestamp: 4cd9d70b Fault Module Name: FalloutNV.exe Fault Module Version: 1.2.0.285 Fault Module Timestamp: 4cd9d70b Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00077aff OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: fd00 Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160 Additional Information 3: fd00 Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160 This is (not joking) close to the 200th or so time I've had my game crash, maybe more. I've had this above problem happen 8 or so times (where you can't shoot anything without the game crashing)... each time I've had to load from a save state hours older than my recent one. (I save a LOT because of this... up to 750 saves or so and only level 18). I don't know what the heck the problem is anymore. I've loaded from previous saves to fix this before, but now all of my saves are corrupt for no reason. No matter what game I load, or what I do in the game (it works flawlessly until combat occurs), it always crashes 1 or 2 seconds after I fire my first bullet at an enemy. Should I just quit and play something else? I've started a new game twice to see if I could avoid this issue, and currently 29 hours into this one and it's really...really...really pissing me off. For the record, I've respected, purchased and played every Bethesda game since Arena. This is the first time I've considered never buying another game by a certain company again. Obsidian, you're making a bad name for yourself with New Vegas.