CTD when leaving Vault 101 for first time

Post by **lam.i.am** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:15 pm

System:

Lenovo Yoga 3 / 256GB SSD / 8GB RAM / HD 5500 / i5 5200U

Installed FO3 and FNV clean from Steam and then the TTW mod. I played up until I am leaving the Vault. I didn't set my perks so I set those. When I leave the Vault, I crash to desktop.

Load order is attached but its the plain jane version.

What I have tried thus far:

Set FO3 and FNV exe to compatability mode for Win XP SP3

Validate game cache in Steam

Copy in the d3d9.dll but I get the error: The procedure entry point SfmDxGetSwapChainStats could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Program Files (X86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout 3 goty\d3d9.dll.

Running dxcpl.exe and setting both exe's to different DirectX versions

Anything else? It runs flawlessly up until leaving the vault.

Post by **Puppettron** » Wed Dec 30, 2015 11:38 pm

~~what's your load order?~~ it's the thing that says ttw.txt up there. you using texture/model replacers?

Post by **lam.i.am** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:27 am

[quote=Puppettron]

~~what's your load order?~~ it's the thing that says ttw.txt up there. you using texture/model replacers?

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None at all

Post by **Puppettron** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:29 am

using nvac? if so, what's the error code on the crash?

Post by **leafonthewind** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:26 am

You have stash pack options plugin enabled, but not the stash packs, that may be part of the issue. Also, what luthien said.

Post by **lam.i.am** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:25 am

[quote=luthien]

lam.i.am wrote:

Copy in the d3d9.dll but I get the error: The procedure entry point SfmDxGetSwapChainStats could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\Program Files (X86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Fallout 3 goty\d3d9.dll.

Running dxcpl.exe and setting both exe's to different DirectX versions

What the hell is this and why?

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There are posts/reports that this file (d3d9.dll) can become correct and need to be replaced. Obviously this didn't work or was not releveant.

dxcpl.exe is (what I am told) the control panel for Direct X. It allows you to force an exe to use a specific version of DX in the even of incompatibility issues and is "popular" for FO4 fixes.

Post by **lam.i.am** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:27 am

[quote=leafonthewind]

You have stash pack options plugin enabled, but not the stash packs, that may be part of the issue. Also, what luthien said.

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Hrm, ok. I'll retry with that disabled. I used the movetoqt console command and got to the town just fine. I keep crashing in random places though...which leads me to think its a texture/graphics issue. I'll turn them down to see if it improves.

Post by **RoyBatty** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 10:16 am

Also if you have NVIDIA drivers, Open GeForce Experience, go to Settings -> Games and untick "recommend optimal game settings"

Experience doesn't work properly with New Vegas.

Post by **lam.i.am** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 5:23 pm

Ok, back to vanilla install.

I went to steam to verify the game cache and NV was missing a file that was supposed to be reacquired. Does this happen even if I am playing with TTW

Post by **RoyBatty** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 5:37 pm

That was probably just the default ini file.

If your laptop uses integrated graphics and also a video card which it switches to at runtime, then the game probably won't ever work correctly because the launcher cannot detect your video hardware correctly. There might be a work around for this, but you'll have to search the internet for the solution for your particular laptop. This is a known issue with the game and TTW cannot address such issues.

Using the 3rd party d3d9.dll forces the game to think you are using an old nvidia card, which is a terrible kludge that may or may not work and either way you are stuck playing in directx 8 mode.