the first time i started Fallout New Vegas and had my first trip with shooting, exploring and so on............... it was so horrible to play because anytime NPCs are running around i got massuvelay lags and no chance to do anything it is unplayable, but.............
with that System:
Windows 7 64bit
8 gig DDR 3 1600
ATI HD 5970
AMD Phenom X4 965 Black Editon Quad Cors
i cant play with more then medium settings..................uhm ? The first Step that made the game running a bit smoother was to set the virtuell memory in Windows 7 to "off".
So the next step has been to resolve this Problem. After searching the following keywords in the www............... "Fallout New Vegas performance".
I just found a downloadable file called d3d9.dll and the instruction to copy it into my Fallout Game folder. So i did and now i can play everything on max settings without getting that bunch of lags.
Hope this might someone else help out to get the game running smoother like it did for me.
Greetings Markus