Forum:New Vegas Generally Freezing On Me?

'Almost every time I play NV my game freezes on me. It is not always after a certain amount of time, sometimes it tends to freeze after roughly half an hour. Other times it freezes after a few hours of game play. Any how, I was just curious if it does this because my copy has been played a lot. I have put probably 400+ hours into NV so that could be the cause? I haven't a clue so help any one. I'd appreciate it. '

In my experience, if I played the game longer, it froze more often. For example, after 3 hours gaming it took one minute to exit a building. After 4 hours the game crashed sometimes. So maybe if you play longer, your game freezes more often. --Felix ---&gt; der Besuch lohnt sich...nicht. 23:00, May 3, 2011 (UTC)

It freezes on me sometimes, not all the time, but enough to aggravate the s...t out of me. Once I played for about 20 mins, and then it froze 3 times in a 10 min period, so I turned it off for the day, and the next day, it didn't freeze once. It's just one of THOSE kinda games I guess. The longer you play, the longer it takes to load, also let me add, I hate the loading time for this game.Pappy002 04:40, May 4, 2011 (UTC)

94.174.234.85 16:43, May 5, 2011 (UTC) This happens to me too, it used to happen actually, I've now fixed it :P In my opinion, because of how long it takes to load, I think it puts a lot of pressure on your Xbox/PS3/PC, which causes it to become hot, which obviously causes it to overheat. Well I'm not sure about the PC, because they're probably a lot better to play on, but I'm pretty sure thats the case with my xbox, it gets red hot :P Yeah anyway, if you have an xbox, I installed the disc onto my xbox, I'm pretty sure you can do that on PS3, but not sure about a PC.. When you install the disc most of the memory is already stored on your hard drive, making the loading at least twice as quick, and I haven't froze once since :P Hope that helps :P 94.174.234.85 16:43, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

I installed it on my xbox, and it still freezes on me, but like I said, not all the time. It does make it load quicker, but still, after you play for awhile, it takes FOREVER to load, but still faster than not having it installed.Pappy002 02:51, May 7, 2011 (UTC)

To (94.174.234.85|94.174.234.85), good for you, you fixed it! But how can this be of ANY interest for us if you don't say HOW? Irrelevant post... An NO, all those most common bugs have nothing to do with the hardware, they're a matter of game design and dev bugs. I just built a new PC with ATI HD6950 2Gb + i7 950 + 6Gb DDR3 RAM + 90Gb SSD for the Win7 64bits OS + 1.5 Tb SATA 6 Gbps HDD holding my games (7.7 on Windows performance scale), and let me tell you that it's NOT a matter of hardware : my graphic card never gets above 56 Celsius, same for my CPU, and I can play Crysis 1 and 2 maxed out + 8xAA + 15xAF for hours, very smoothly and without any problem... But not that NV game. Every time I play NV it's like I'm walking over eggs, there's always some tension in the background over whether or not the game will crash on my next move, and I hate that, it's a total immersion breaker.

Have you checked these links, , guys? I did some tweaks on the ini files based on these guides and I have no freezing problems, not even with the GECK and browser with 20+ pages started. I had with Fo3 before editing the files, but with FNV I did the tweaks from the begining. --GobTheGoul 19:05, May 14, 2011 (UTC)