how often did/does Fallout New Vegas crash or/and freeze on you

[Retal19]

I have had three crashes since I bought it around November-December time 2010. Maybe a little later than that. I'm on XBox, and those crashes were pretty far between each other, so, lovely.

Other games have performed similar. Fallout 3 has maybe had four or five crashes since I bought it and Skyrim has only crashed once for me so far. Everything plays pretty beautifully for me.

 

[uhddh]

I've got the 360 version and my copy has never crashed. It's frozen a couple of times but that's probably due to me playing it for too long in one sitting.

Out of interest have you had it since launch? Mine used to be damn near unplayable with bugs and glitches but now it's fine and only freezes after (greatly) prolonged play.

I pre-ordered the game. And no bugs. I'm REALLY lucky according to the internet.

 

[Goofguy]

Only ever had the crashing during fast travel.

How did you get around that? I'm currently playing through the Big MT and my game just started doing that. It's not too bad with this DLC as it's not a big region but I'm not really tempted to go back and travel through the Mojave Wasteland without fast travel.

 

[Blunderboy]

Not to tempt fate but on Xbox once, and on PC maybe twice? But I've got a lot of mods etc installed.
I always wondered why everyone moaned about it.

 

[Supertegwyn]

Never.

Never had problems with Obsidian games.

 

[DazZ.]

Out of 50+ hours played on New Vegas it's crashed around 9 times, but always just as it's loading a new area and it auto saved literally a second before so it's never really put me off.

However since I started using the 4gb launcher mod it's not really happened, so guessing it was some memory issue.

 

[aguspal]

Never crashed at all so far... Also had all the DLC, althougt no mods at all (I never found the appeal in mods. Except perpars the ones that fix very game breaking bugs.)

 

[Pearwood]

Runs far worse on my PS3 than Skyrim ever did.

 

[The Last Nomad]

Only once or twice that I remember, I only played about 15 or 20 hours though I think. My friend brought his copy to college with him, but the guy we were living with who owned the PS3 moved out after 2 or 3 months. So ended my New Vegas adventures.

 

[Agent Larkin]

I have had three crashes in Fallout New vegas.

All of them caused by over-heating problems with my computer by trying to play it in the middle of summer.

All and all i have found it to be very stable.

 

[DeathQuaker]

Very seldom. I am fully patched and have all the DLCs, no mods currently. I play on a PC that runs Windows Home Premium 64 with a good video card (NVidia GTX series) with drivers that are fully updated.

In the main game and most of the DLCs except OWB, I have had only a very rare crash--I can't even recall exact circumstances, as it was the kind of thing that happened once and on reload never happened again--no different from most other games I've played at some point.

In OWB, I had the aforementioned crash issue where sometimes when fast traveling, I'd get a crash to desktop. This happened several times, and always when fast traveling. Fortunately, it is a small enough world space that usually I just "slow traveled" to avoid it, and if I wanted to fast travel, saved my game beforehand just in case.

If you are running on a PC and you are getting lots of crashes, I'd suggest making sure you are 1) fully patched and 2) that your drivers are fully updated. If you're running on a console... *shrug* sorry, don't know what you can do.

 

[RedLister]

Only ever had the crashing during fast travel.

How did you get around that? I'm currently playing through the Big MT and my game just started doing that. It's not too bad with this DLC as it's not a big region but I'm not really tempted to go back and travel through the Mojave Wasteland without fast travel.

Yeah now you mention it big MT had a high crash rate for me too..well higher then the mojave anyway. I just gritted my teeth through it though. Only way around it is to not fast travel since Big MT isnt really the biggest region, just cluttered somewhat with loads of fighting.

 

[twohundredpercent]

Not that much actually. I got the PC version

Fallout GOTY for the PS3 was terrible with that though.

 

[AceDefective]

When I played Vanilla I really didn't experience any crashes that I can remember. It freezed a few times.
Though as I mod it it becomes more and more unstable.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

A lot, but so did every other game I own because my 360 is dying. I can't attribute a single freeze to New Vegas as they happened the same way for other games too.

 

[DustyDrB]

An actual game crash? Once. In five full playthroughs.
Other bugs:
-A bugged quest "I Put a Spell on You" on launch. Not a problem since the first patch the game received.
-Radscorpions stuck in the ground.

That's it.

 

[Radoh]

Well, without the DLC, it crashed twice. With all the DLC, it crashed an additional seven times, all of which were localised to Honest Hearts. And also localised in a single playthrough too, which seems weird to me.

So I guess I'm supremely lucky, or I don't bork up the game in the proper way to get crashes.

 

[Pink Gregory]

A lot less than Fallout 3 and Skyrim did.

I got lucky, I guess. This was on the 360 by the way.

For some reason, for me there are permanently a bunch of scattered tumbleweeds suspended in air in Goodsprings, and only Goodsprings.

Also 360.

 

[Saviordd1]

A lot, to the point where I barely managed one playthrough before I threw up my hands in annoyance and dropped the game for a long time.

Until recently when I finally managed to play it without to many crashes (but still an annoying amount)

It only took 1 and a half years for a game to become playable...
Obsidian...dafuq?

 

[hoboman29]

New Vegas never really crashed for me until I got all the DLC even then my only real issue is lag (game killing lag like about 1-4 fps) I blame the dlc more than the game itself.