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Man.... if vanilla New Vegas is still giving you performance issues, you might wanna upgrade your toaster.
Todd, I didn't know you were a Lemmy user.
How much can upgrading a computer cost, $10?
-- Todd "I haven't had to buy my own groceries since Morrowind dropped" Howard.
It absolutely does, though. Vanilla crashes all the time and has several game-breaking bugs. I don't recommend that anyone plays New Vegas unmodded – especially on a newer machine that'll be less compatible (like my 7700X + 4090 rig running Windows 11) – unless you just hate yourself. You need community patches to get it in a playable state.
Same goes for Fallout 3. It's not nearly as buggy as NV, of course, but try running it Vanilla on a modern Windows 11 machine and let me know how well that goes for you lol. You get massive framerate dips and it literally crashes every 5 minutes on a brand new PC if you don't install any mods to make it compatible.
I mean I still play it on a modern system mostly unmodded (I do minor QOL mods like adding/moving fast travel points to limit loading screens but nothing super fancy or specifically for performance). Still on windows 10, though. I get no performance issues, though crashing is still a worry. It's not like every 30 minutes tho, like when it was new 🤣
Well there you go. Win10 is old enough now to still be compatible with those games. But like I said, try it on a modern machine running 11.
That said, even in my Windows 7 days, NV still crashed all the time. The game had a rushed development; it's a miracle that it runs at all on any PC.
Windows 11 is essentially a skin and experience pack for win 10, in fact it was.originally going to be the nezt update to 10. very little has changed that will affect how games run.
I played NV unmodded and hardly had any crashes in my +150 hours. All I did was to deactivate all but one CPU core iirc.
If it brings me a few minutes more battery life on my steamdeck, it is worth it
Nah, with mods the lack of threading makes oblivion and fo:nv unplayable once you add on enough eye candy
I mean, isn't vanilla New Vegas pretty famously unoptimized? I think its performance has less to do with your hardware and more to do with the engine (hence this mod).
The achievement is less about the need, but more that someone did it.
I'd be equally excited if something optimized the shit out a PlayStation 1 game too.
It's not a toaster problem lol. Every time to enter a loading screen you pray the game doesn't randomly crash
My toaster of a desktop can easily run the game at pretty good framerates yet the game just sometimes decided to just crash like it's nobody's business.
Hell, it ran it just fine before getting an upgrade from 4gb to something like 16gb of ram, but the problem wasn't performance issues. Instead it was random crashing. Mods completely fixed that issue.
New Vegas is a pretty good game, but I wouldn't wanna play it unmodded because I don't wanna deal with random crashes.
But I mean, this isn't just for Vanilla New Vegas, is it? Plus New Vegas is known for being particularly unstable.
Try playing F.E.A.R without the performance mod, a 5800x3d and 4090 will only get a studdery mess and that game is from 04
I would if I could
The vanilla game is still Bella buggy, awesome, but hella buggy.