For me, Fallout 3 ran perfectly but New Vegas is incredibly unstable and crashes often before I can even finish character creation. I have tried playing the game multiple times and never make it out of the starting area before the game crashes, and as a result I have never played New Vegas. And thats with the community mods and patches to help stability.
Meanwhile Fallout 3 boots and runs perfectly fine completely vanilla. It still crashes occasionally, but I can at least play it for an hour or two with it crashing.
Viva New Vegas should be a stable base to work from in terms of mods, as already mentioned. Vanilla New Vegas is almost unplayable but with the latest slew of community patches and engine fixes and even engine rewrites plus 4GB patch and all that it should be quite stable.
I recommend trying again, I had a playthrough just two years ago I think with pretty much no stability issues. And New Vegas is an amazing game.
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For me, Fallout 3 ran perfectly but New Vegas is incredibly unstable and crashes often before I can even finish character creation. I have tried playing the game multiple times and never make it out of the starting area before the game crashes, and as a result I have never played New Vegas. And thats with the community mods and patches to help stability.
Meanwhile Fallout 3 boots and runs perfectly fine completely vanilla. It still crashes occasionally, but I can at least play it for an hour or two with it crashing.
Have you since tried Viva New Vegas? It is apparently well supported and stable.
Viva New Vegas should be a stable base to work from in terms of mods, as already mentioned. Vanilla New Vegas is almost unplayable but with the latest slew of community patches and engine fixes and even engine rewrites plus 4GB patch and all that it should be quite stable.
I recommend trying again, I had a playthrough just two years ago I think with pretty much no stability issues. And New Vegas is an amazing game.