If not. Then I'll probably get it and report anything I find on here.

I don't exactly expect a miracle but if it doesn't work out I can always return it.

bethesda sent me an email saying they want my fallout save data to look at it and see why its happing i hope they fix it

Hopefully but I'm honestly not counting on it.

I've just received the Ultimate Edition and I'm going to start fresh with everything,

I'll report any kind of improvements if I'm noticing any.

Some news for anyone still following this.

I've been playing up until quests in Novac. And so far I haven't gotten any framerate issues, though it did lock-up twice every once-a-blue-moon.

I'm still going ahead and see if I'm getting any framerate issue in places I usually expect it. Like Camp Mccaran or somesuch.

How many hours are you playing already?

About 2-3 on the weekdays but now I'm about to 4-5 hours.

So far common framerate issue places like Camp McCaran and Freeside have been okay. I'm hopeful but I've got tons more to cover before I can be conclusive on this.
Lock-ups occur as I've said but only after a long while.

Stay tuned.

Did you had any froze ups and crashes?

Freeze-ups, crashes, and lock-ups are basically the same thing. I've had only a few here and there.

Last night I was able to get through Lonesome Road without any framerate issues, which is what I'm more concerned about.

I appreciate your comments, I want to buy this game this week but with all the problems that have the standard version I have to know this version is more stable or is the same and the game gona be crash constantly.

i hope you can submit a veredict of this game version is more playable and stable and if you recomend me buy this version (ultimate edition) or the standard version, in case of the both versions have the same issues and no have a plus gaming (except DLC) i buy the std version because is more cheaper

I'm not touching the Ultimate Edition. I'm never buying a Bethesda game on console ever again after they burned me with New Vegas. It was unethical of them to sell this game on the PS3 knowing there were stability issues with their game as designed when running on the PS3's split-512 meg memory.

They've made enough money off of me with their deception. Bethesda is a special kind of evil. The game showed a lot of promise after Fallout3. I bought the Collector's Edition. The game was really good those first few weeks. Game was so good I stuck with it, like many others, believing they would fix the game. I bought the DLC. I was burned on a wretched experience revolving around how good New Vegas actually was versus how poorly it played.

I even bought it on the PC once I had my very last of last straws on the PS3 and finally got 100% trophy completion.

That's $79.99 for the Collector's Edition, $9.99 for Dead Money, $9.99 for Honest Hearts, $9.99 for Old World Blues, $9.99 for Lonesome Road, $1.99 for Courier's Stash, $2.99 for Gun Runners Arsenal. Then, another $36.27 for the whole set-up on the PC through Steam during a sale - and wouldn't ya know it, I bought it one day before it went on sale even more and dropped to half that. That's $161.20, assuming I didn't miss a number here or there - and that's all the business they're going to get out of me.

It's really a shame that they cannot make better games out of their outstanding content. It's really a shame that this is the best thing going.

No problem. Also if anybody would like me to test a certain area or reproduce a certain situation to test issues in New Vegas please let me know in this thread.

Right now I'm only testing in areas I get to and areas I've experienced issues with before.

So I just spent 40 or so hours getting to Level 30 and accomplishing a lot because it was my 2nd play through of the game. This was on my regular New Vegas disc mind you. So I decided today to treat myself to the Ultimate Edition thinking I'd be able to use my saved game. I should have #!@$$# known that it wasn't going to work. Same thing happened when I went from Fallout 3 to Fallout 3 GOTY edition...

That's pretty ridiculous when it says RIGHT IN THE MANUAL, and I quote, "If you've already played Fallout: New Vegas, you will see your saves in the Load/Saves menus, so you can continue with an existing character." Then explain to me why my Ultimate Edition disc tells me there are no saved games?!?

So now what am I supposed to do? Wait for a fix, or just create a new game. Which I refuse to do at this point in time, eventually I'm sure I will cave though. But what a disappointment, I paid almost $60 dollars today to be disappointed. Thank you very much, Bethesda.

Odd. I also had saves from the original version of New Vegas. And I was able to load them up just fine. Especially considering I was in a downloadable addon.
Don't know why it's not letting some people.

I don't think I've done anything out of the ordinary in my gameplay. Aside from only having like 3 save files, that is somewhat of an oddity with my friends who tend to have at least 10 save files for each play through.

The only thing I could think of is have a considerably older model ps3?

On that point, I'd like to say that I'm using an older 60GB PS3 model to test these issues.
In case that information was relevant to anyone.

Now I just read a thread explaining my situation could involve an American copy of the game and a Canadian copy of Ultimate Edition not having compatible save files. I heard something along those lines regarding this same problem with CAN/US compatibility between Fallout 3 and Fallout 3 GOTY edition, a problem which I had as well. I may just go back into EB Games tomorrow and demand an American copy of the game.

is there lag in this Ultimate edition?

That's what I'm testing to see. So far so good but I'm not ready to give the green light.
It would help if someone else would also go and test the edition and report on it.

Keep in mind that your experience with it may vary if you decide to take my word for it. I make NO guarantees that it will be smoother for you just because it was for me.
Though I will report what I find for everyone's benefit.


On a another note: I have plans this coming weekend so I may not be able to play as often. I'll get back to you all when I can after the weekend.

Please, Please, PLEASE tell me of any areas you'd like me to test or reproduce. I'm playing as much as I can but I'm starting to run out of areas to test that I know I had issues with.

I want to be as through and conclusive as possible for everyone and everything.

And after months of playing only Fallout: New Vegas, Heavy Rain is beginning to draw my attention. So please inform me.

Worse lag I dealt with was the Tops, and the leaving the sink in Old World Blues. If there's no lag there I'm going to pick up a copy.

I've been in and left the Tops several times and have not gotten any issues. I'll do Old World Blues tonight and report on The Sink.

maybe when we download the DLC it added incomplete files. its suppost to be 2718 but mine was 2740 so there are files that are not suppost to be there. so im reinstalling the DLC

I doubt that's the reason. I've re-downloaded and re-installed the New Vegas DLC's many times and it didn't improve anything much.

One thing to note: When I started testing the Ultimate Edition I started completely from scratch.

Meaning I deleted old New Vegas saves, and the old game data, along with the DLC data.

I felt this was the only way to accurately measure the Ultimate Edition's improvements without any kind of interference between the old version.

Just did the My Kind of Town quest on UE. Nash and towns people still stuck in casino after finishing the quest.

That's an OLD issue. And it's not really a game breaking one unless you really have to buy things from Nash.

^{The best work around for that is having Prim Slim become sherrif. He still won't leave the casino but you can buy from him. Does the ultimate edition have new trophies or does it just award the same ones from regular New Vegas?}