Fallout: New Vegas is choppy as hell

[Hashime]

im not much of a tech guru, but perhaps more RAM good sir? i think the bare minimum was around 2 gigs, and if your running it on a pc im sure that the framerate/lagging could be helped alot with adding a couple/few more gigs of ram. if its more of a software thing then maybe perhaps make sure nothing is running in the background and defrag everything? it can help smooth it out.

do NOT take my opinion without a few shakes of salt though, as like i said, am not a tech guru

I'm running XP and it doesn't recognize more than 3 gigs of RAM, in actuality I have somewhere of 20+ gigs of RAM

20GB of RAM?

Dear god.

Skynet called - they want their baby back.

^
I loled. hard. but seriously 20 gigs of ram? what do you need that much for?

Server / workstation computers. Imagine loading a 3d model of a city off of a hard drive, each change would need a read / write. So workstation computers load the whole thing into a ton of ram.

 

[Hashime]

Nah, that was the high end HD 2000 and 3000 series cards that could be reflashed to become FireGL cards.

It can be done to a 4870. My cousin uses one on a workstation he built for his client (my grandfather).

Hmmm... Yeah, I can see how it would be possible... but that's more of a frankenstein job than what you can do with the 2000 and 3000 series cards (which is just flash-in the equivalent FireGL card bios and you're golden)

I agree. He upgraded to a GTX something and decided to sell the card to the client.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I dunno, I guess the company I "borrowed" this from likes to download "Cake".

You can NEVER have enough ram when you're doing large scale graphics work.

 

[Zackary Yakumo]

im not much of a tech guru, but perhaps more RAM good sir? i think the bare minimum was around 2 gigs, and if your running it on a pc im sure that the framerate/lagging could be helped alot with adding a couple/few more gigs of ram. if its more of a software thing then maybe perhaps make sure nothing is running in the background and defrag everything? it can help smooth it out.

do NOT take my opinion without a few shakes of salt though, as like i said, am not a tech guru

I'm running XP and it doesn't recognize more than 3 gigs of RAM, in actuality I have somewhere of 20+ gigs of RAM

20GB of RAM?

Dear god.

Skynet called - they want their baby back.

^
I loled. hard. but seriously 20 gigs of ram? what do you need that much for?

Server / workstation computers. Imagine loading a 3d model of a city off of a hard drive, each change would need a read / write. So workstation computers load the whole thing into a ton of ram.

didn t see it was a workstations. my father does industrial designing for local cities and ives seen inside his computer. crazy stuff.

 

[Hashime]

im not much of a tech guru, but perhaps more RAM good sir? i think the bare minimum was around 2 gigs, and if your running it on a pc im sure that the framerate/lagging could be helped alot with adding a couple/few more gigs of ram. if its more of a software thing then maybe perhaps make sure nothing is running in the background and defrag everything? it can help smooth it out.

do NOT take my opinion without a few shakes of salt though, as like i said, am not a tech guru

I'm running XP and it doesn't recognize more than 3 gigs of RAM, in actuality I have somewhere of 20+ gigs of RAM

20GB of RAM?

Dear god.

Skynet called - they want their baby back.

^
I loled. hard. but seriously 20 gigs of ram? what do you need that much for?

Server / workstation computers. Imagine loading a 3d model of a city off of a hard drive, each change would need a read / write. So workstation computers load the whole thing into a ton of ram.

didn t see it was a workstations. my father does industrial designing for local cities and ives seen inside his computer. crazy stuff.

There is this one at my school that has 16 physical (double slot board) cores, 4 GPUs and, god knows how much ram, I wish I knew more but the ECE students were being tight lipped (probably to bug me).

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

So what I need to do is upgrade to windows 7 and get a new video card?

 

[xDarc]

The OP aside...

You know this game had performance issues when you take one look at the bare feet of the male mesh models. They lost their toes, to save a few polys... seriously?

I run an E6600 at 2.8.
4gb ddr2 800
Gtx 260

Still getting some chop after taking aa and af down by half; even though the auto opti set it to ultra. I'm sure its some sort of LOD issue and has little to do with the graphical demands of this old ass engine.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I guess I'll upgrade to Windows 7 in the morning.

Remember to check how much RAM whatever version of 7 you get can handle because Starter, Home Basic and Home Premium won't even cover the RAM you've currently got while Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate all have a 192Gb limit.

Oh yeah, unless you stay 32bit, in which case you get to eat dick in the shape of the 4Gb limit.

 

[joshthor]

man these people know nothing about computers. your computer is far more than enough to run this game great. max settings even.
first: check your temperatures. report those if possible. use hardware monitor to find them or something of the like.
second: check your power options. go on balanced or high performance, if your on power saver your computer will slow down.
third: go into CCC: make sure your gpu is set on maximum performance on power options.
finally: make sure your not running too many unnessasary programs, perhaps you have a virus scan running you didnt think about.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

So what I need to do is upgrade to windows 7 and get a new video card?

Probably not the GPU. HD 4870s are still bloody good cards.

 

[joshthor]

What GPU are you using?

ATI 4870
If that's what you mean.

Integrated or dedicated?

Dedicated
Raidon 48 HD card

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

THE HD 4870 IS NOT A MOTHERF*#@ING WORKSTATION CARD!! do not bother replacing it with a 5770. there will be almost no difference at all in framerate.

 

[SyphonX]

If you can get the game to run properly on your system, then there is something wrong with your system. Try reinstalling drivers for components. Go through and delete pretty much everything you don't use. Uninstall junk. Sweep for viruses and spyware etc.

Take care of your system, your system will take care of you.

Fallout Vegas uses the same engine as Fallout 3, with even more optimization tweaks. It runs generally better, so you need to fix up your PC and fix something.

 

[Teeth Kicker]

I see the problem...it's a Dell! AMIRITE?

I never had problems running Fallout 3 on my laptop with an NVIDIA GTX 260M 1gb in it but Oblivion was never silky smooth...Damn you Bethesda!

 

[octafish]

Fallout 3 (New Vegas) should run fine on 32-bit. Don't upgrade to Win7 just to get NV to run. Do upgrade eventually because it is a pretty neat OS. Don't upgrade that 4870 either, it's good enough to hold out to at least when the 6000 series comes out and the 5870 drops in price (drool).
I'm guessing you mean you have a poor framerate rather than lag because lag is an online gaming thing. What hard drives do you have? I have known people to experience choppiness in F3 when they had WD "green" HDDs, an upgrade to a "black" (7200RPM) fixed their problem. I haven't experienced it myself but I have also heard that Fallout 3 doesn't like quads so you may need to disable a couple of cores.

Oh just thought of another thing to check. It may seem stupid but check that the two power cables are fully engaged on the 4870. If only one is connect the card will work but won't perform correctly.

Oh and check your drivers.

 

[Blunderman]

Don't forget the swearing. It's the most important part of any technical work.

I just had to quote this; it's so very true.

 

[Kouen]

the HD4870 is more than enough to Run Vegas,

Infact its hugely better than the minimum card

OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP
Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 10GB free space
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series

X1300XT vs HD4870

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=448&card2=564

Actually what lags down the Oblivion / Fallout Engine in my experience is actually HDD Speed.

Defrag that Sucka! (or if you can can you let me / us know what Brand and model it is - if its already defragged that is)

Edit: I Highly Recommend this Defragger "Auslogics Disk Defrag"

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/

 

[Hashime]

What GPU are you using?

ATI 4870
If that's what you mean.

Integrated or dedicated?

Dedicated
Raidon 48 HD card

I see now. That is a workstation card. It has been optimized for parallel computation and data processing. Basically it is great for rendering a 3d object in a program like autocad, but to it the requirements of a game are too much. Plop an Ati 5770 in there and it will run like a champ.

THE HD 4870 IS NOT A MOTHERF*#@ING WORKSTATION CARD!! do not bother replacing it with a 5770. there will be almost no difference at all in framerate.

Read further down man. His computer is a workstation computer. By a simple soft hack a 4870 can be turned into it't firegl equivalent. I assumed this had been done based of the specs of the rest of the computer.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

So what I need to do is upgrade to windows 7 and get a new video card?

No. The 4870 is more than enough for the Oblivion engine. My only suggestion is an upgrade to a 64-bit OS and 6-8 gigs of ddr3 memory. This engine is very, VERY RAM intensive.
Make sure to check which processes are running in the background too. (-run msconfig)

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I tend to have framerate issues in the game as well in spite of the fact that I ran Fallout 3 with a multitude of HD mods added to the game and never once had a hitch. I'm not quite sure what the reason was but I didn't really want to stop playing to tinker with anything. Then I got a CTD while reloading my .44 Magnum so here I am.

 

[captaincabbage]

im not much of a tech guru, but perhaps more RAM good sir? i think the bare minimum was around 2 gigs, and if your running it on a pc im sure that the framerate/lagging could be helped alot with adding a couple/few more gigs of ram. if its more of a software thing then maybe perhaps make sure nothing is running in the background and defrag everything? it can help smooth it out.

do NOT take my opinion without a few shakes of salt though, as like i said, am not a tech guru

Y'know too much RAM can lead to emergencies. RAM emergencies.

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