I notice that thses errors seem to be quite common even just taking a quick look in this forum and with a google search, but I have the same problems. I don't know if any body knows of any fixes so I just though I should ask in the forum, I've made a tech support query to bethesda too but no reply so far and patch 1.3 has not solved any thing and has introduced new problems. First of all is the crashes, they are random in the time it takes for them to happen from when I first start to play but once it has crashed in a particlar place on re-starting the game often it will happen in exactly the same place again imediatley, the crash just causes the game to close but my pc is fine im just back to steam where I can re-start the game and it will re-start. As of 1.3 update I now have a new problem I didn't have before on exiting or entering an area it can become stuck on the transition loading screen the animated roulete wheel still spins and the back ground changes but the game will never finish loading, I have left it up to half an hour last night whilst I was busy and came back to find it still there so it isn't just a matter of waiting. I don't have any mod's installed, I have tried re-installing the game yesterday and this has not helped I tried deleting the .ini files and having steam check the integrity of the game files this has not solved anything. I don't have the DLC and I won't buy any with the game in this state as I can't play the game as it as. I have owned this game quite a while and personnally I don't see any attempt to fix it being made as two patches have not fixed the crashes and 1.3 brought a new problem which stop me from being able to play but maybe the community has come up with a fix although it isn't the communities job to fix a broken product that never worked right out of the box.

Endless not endles sorry!

I feel your pain, I'm getting a lot of them too, usually when moving from an interior to an exterior cell. I've tried it with no mods, some of my mods and all of my mods but the result is the same... moving between cells has become a lottery.

Since the 1.3 Patch, I'm having something similar, when I load my latest savegame, it puts me on an endless loading screen who's running smoothly but doesn't appear to load anything. So I'm obligated to do Alt+Crtl+Del to close the game which is not responding. I thought first that my savegame was corrupted, so i loaded some previous savegames until it load my game properly. Then i just loaded from there my latest, and now it works, which seems really strange to me.

So each time it happens to me, maybe 1 time everyday for 2 hours of gameplay, well i do this process that i just mentioned and it works ok, it's just annoying, that was something i wasn't supposed to be doing before 1.3.

-T4K

I've have the endless loading screen problem as well. I noticed that it started happening ever since I picked up the Q-35 matter modulator. I've noticed in the http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Q-35_matter_modulator, one of the x360 bugs is that having it in your inventory may cause loading trouble. I wonder if the latest patch introduced this problem to the PC version? Are you other guys carrying this gun? I might shove it in a box in Novac and see if that clears things up for a while.

(Wow, I haven't posted here since FO3 was new....)

As a followup to my last post, dumping the Q-35 has indeed fixed the problem for me. I've been playing a couple hours since then with no trouble. The load problem was happening every 20 or so minutes for me previously.

I've been using a Plasma Defender instead. It does about the same job.

Me too. After getting through the rest of the patches etc, this one is a real pain. I go infinite load about half the time. In Freeside now.

I get the endless load when choosing "Continue" from the main menu, but when I go to Load >> Quicksave or Autosave, it's loading fine.
Also the issue with continue is a random thing, it works fine sometimes, that's why I can't get used to load through quicksave.

The crashes are the same with my, but not reproducible. For example, sometimes going into and out of a building fixes being able to transit to the North Gate of New Vegas. Other times that trick does not fix anything. I need my swift travel!

It's pretty bad for me too. I can't play 30 minutes without a freeze. Doesn't matter if I'm loading an interior cell or fast travelling, it'll freeze regardless of what I'm doing. And this was without any mods activated. Safe to say this patch thoroughly [censored] my game up.

Ergh, well, the Q-35 turned out to be coincidental. I'm still having trouble transitioning into Freeside. I always have to save whenever I step out of the Mormon Fort because that goes to the load screen about half the time.

If I save my game while in Freeside, I have to do the "verify integrity of game cache" via Steam to allow me to reload again. Doing that always updates 1 corrupt file, even if I just ran it a moment before. :cheat:

Same here. Most recently, I came out of the Lucky 38, and could not walk to the Kings. Had to go to the east entrance to Freeside. Could not even go through the north gate.

I've got the same issues and then some going on. Two hours into playing it the first day I purchased the game I began crashing. It can freeze up after the intro, maybe when entering/exiting a cave/hideout/etc, sometimes when only walking. It simply crashes to the desktop whenever and whereever it pleases.

I sometimes think I've "won" a scene when discovering a site - but after crashing and relogging - I come back to enemies shooting at me that weren't there previously. I never know if what I've done, I've played the way the game was meant to be played or if I've accomplished something because of an infestation of "bugs" in this game.

I don't use mods because I'm new to gaming and I haven't a clue what a mod is. I often don't even know what the abbreviations are that others use (ie: ctd = crash to desktop). I DID go through the .ini fixes after extensive Googling and research because I needed to find out why I couldn't see my .ini files in Vista and how to get them to 'show.' I've tried the patches. I've uinstalled, reinstalled, cleared the cache, removed the Cloud Sync and I've tried to follow any instruction and suggestions I could find AND understand. If I wanted to be a game maker and a fixer of its bugs, I'd have gone back to college and taken up the trade. I WANT TO SIT DOWN, RELAX AND PLAY A GAME!! It strikes me as odd that after going through all these forums and off-site forums too - that no one has taken this company to court. I'm not a sue happy individual but could you imagine if this was a car maker? The blinkers don't work, the brakes don't work, the doors don't close, sometimes it starts - sometimes it doesn't... and oh yeah... YOU figure it out and fix it.

I think it's rather pathetic for a company to be able to spend more resources in pushing out expansion packs for this game that can't even run smoothly on its own! When I purchase a product, I expect it to work. I also expect that if it doesn't work; the company is going to make it right and not leave me to my own devices to figure out how to make it run. It makes them look like incompetent creators and an uncaring company - so how about a fix that works and actually getting back to all of us who have sent in our issues with the game?

I can't see myself buying any of the new packs let alone anything that carries Bethesda's name if this is the quality of work and lack of pride to be expected from them.

From my previous post , they have fixed the 'endless loading screen' on the XBOX 360 which was caused in the recent 1.3 patch , and allegedly updated the PC 1.3 patch with the same fix . I was told maybe the updated patch hasn't filtered down to my region ( UK ) yet - I presume they mean Steam has not got it on their servers yet - bring back the old fasioned standalone patch files so that we can download them manually ! . If the patch does turn up i'll let you know . For the time being i am on average ctrl-alt-del into task manager 12 times before the game will load a saved game .

Since making this post on the 2nd of May I've had 1 reply in 6 days from tech support and that was just to ask what platform I was playing the game on, so I doubt I'm going to get much help from them. The game is really screwed for me now I have just finished "dealing with contreras" quest and the quest itself was broken and I couldn't finish it with the speech checks I had to go back and kill keller to get the quest to end. But after recieving "this machine" and the reward my game has now become completly broken and trying to leave freeside where I last saved the game is immposible as the game crashes instantly after passing through any gate to the strip or out to the wasteland. I only have that last save so I am stuck, without a fix my 200 hours of gameplay are lost.