Exactly, if they don't fix this bug before the 8th it won't matter anyway because everyone will be buying and playing CoD instead of New Vegas.

Did you even read what the glitch does? For most people experiencing the glitch, it corrupts all of your saves, making you lose all that time and making the game unplayable. One of the times I got the glitch I couldn't even start a new game for 3 days until it just decided to fix itself. I've experienced it 3 times.

It has nothing to do with downloading DLC, if you've read anything about it. People randomly experience the glitch without having downloaded anything. The game blames the glitch on DLC and then it says it can't locate your hard drive. I don't have any DLC and I have experienced it numerous times.

Um ya i agree you are ill informed. I have a group of friends and we have all had this glitch happen to us. Some of them could load their older files but others, like me, have to wait becasue all my files had the dlc problem. I would have to say that most people with this problem dont post on this forum and have delt with it in thier own way. My dad has not had this computer he has it for the pc. Still i would say that the percentage of people who have stumbled on this problem is large and a major concern. So ya glad you have been lucky but dont belittle though who havnt. We payed for the game too and would like to get back to exploring the wastes! Love ya

I'm not ill-informed as another poster said, I know exactly what the glitch does. That said I stand by my statements, this is a skewed poll. A very low percentage of people that have working copies of the game are coming to the "Hardware and Software Issues" forum to say "everything's good!". Of course the percentage of people experiencing the glitch is going to be higher than those not, those who aren't have no need to come and complain.

Why are you here? If you don't have a bug and are in the support forums you appearr to be contradicting your own theory. Just sayin' :cryvaultboy:

Not sure this has been mentioned on here. Bethesda have found a fix for the DLC error bug and are testing the patch. Will be out in 2-3 weeks.

http://www.incgamers.com/News/25865/fallout-new-vegas-pc-patch-next-week---conole-update-soon

I cannot believe this. I found this forum and thread because this happened to me after leaving vault 3. I LOST ALL 3 OF MY 90 + HOUR SAVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Level 30!!!! My closest uncorrupted save is 25 hours, thats 65 HOURS LOST!!!! And no I wont apologize for speaking in caps (no pun intended). I am done with this game until they fix this!! And I will only play again if the "fix" actually recovers my level 30 save. If they just says its fixed, but only that it wont happen again, and tell us all to reload our old saves and cross our fingers then this game going straight back to Gamestop. And they will have lost a huge fan. I have over 140 hours into my fallout 3 ps3 save, and my fallout 3 360 save. Along with purchasing all dlc for 360, all dlc for ps3, buying the GOTY Fallout 3 PS3, and now the collectors edition New Vegas. Bethesda, if you guys are actually reading these please fix this. Im going to email them now, hopefully enough of us will do the same to get this fixed.

Bethesda should have waited until the end of November to release Fallout. They thought that they would release it before black ops but ended up screwing themselves over with 70 bugs.

Why? just to voice a counter-opinion. This forum is just turning into a bunch of people saying "yeah, we all have the glitch so this game is a piece of garbage! I'm never buying their games again!". I came to this forum to see if anyone had a workaround for the "frozen black screen upon entering Vegas" glitch, and there was (along with 6 more topics created asking about it because people are too lazy/selfish to read the already made topics). All this amounts to is fear-mongering for people who either just bought the game or were considering buying the game, and I'm not saying that these bugs don't exist or that people shouldn't be concerned about them, but they don't effect everyone. Even worse is the "they don't care!" stance. First off, I'm with everyone else, the bugs shouldn't exist in the first place, I don't want to buy beta software either. But they realized they're having problems, they've posted that fixes are coming... I know you guys wish they'd just have someone from Bethesda sitting at a computer responding to every one of your grammatically nightmarish posts but they're working on fixing it! I'm not saying "shut up and be thankful they're doing anything", we all paid our $60 or whatever and they owe us a fully functional game or a refund. HOWEVER, everyone's whining and threats won't help anything. Look at the forum to see if the bug has been posted, if it hasn't, post it, and you're done. I can guarantee you that all these double/triple/quadruple/etc posts of the same thing just delay the people that actually do have to read though these forums from getting their actual work done.

I found several nightmarish grammatical errors in that block of text.

If you say so.

does anyone know if the patch that fix's the dlc glitch error will be released online so i can download it off of my pc onto my xbox?

I don't think it'll work like that, you have to download it with the Xbox (you start the game, it says there's an update and you choose to download it). The PC patch won't work for the Xbox game either if that's what you're asking.

Well I just got screwed out of playing this game... -.- worked fine until today.. wow

Irrelevant.
Whether its one person 200 or 200,000 people does not matter.
This game is an XBox 360 title which is a stable platform.
Its not a PC game with numerous configurations.
It has supposedly undergone stringent QA tests by Bethesda,Obsidian and Microsoft who deemed it a satisfactory releasable product.
Which it is clearly not.
It's bugged, glitchy and for a huge amount of people, unplayable to the point of frustration.
Not everyone is internet savvy,not everyone has the internet, not everyone would know to come on here and complain.
This game should NEVER have been released in its current condition and anyone who says otherwise is either insane or works for Bethesda.
We paid our money, we deserve satisfaction, we deserve our money back.

Then go get your money back.

I never made excuses for them, I said that the percentage of people able to actually play the game is probably higher than those who can't, and that the ones not having problems are not on the board answering polls.

You're right, it shouldn't have been released, but it was, so you can do one of two things... take it back to the store and hope you get a full refund (good luck), or wait patiently for the next patch that they have said should fix the issues. Threats and angry forum posts won't speed that process up one bit.

You have answered my point, in a way.
Stores will not refund you because it is'nt their fault that the game is bugged.
Its the publishers that should be refunding people, its their fault.
So we are left waiting an indeterminate time for a patch which could/should fix the issues. What if it does'nt?
Obsidians track record says we should'nt be too optimistic..

I apologise if i seemed to be having a go but the point is that i'm sick of being used as a paying beta tester for games.
If i buy a TV and BBC1 does'nt work, i get a refund, i buy a radio and i can't pick up FM, i get a refund. I buy a game that crashes all the time, i'm screwed.
Does'nt seem right to me.

I think the logic behind this thread is flawed because obviously there are going to be more votes for people having this bug because this is the TECHNICAL SUPPORT section. Not many people who have not encountered this bug will be on this part of the forum. Makes sence don't it?

I just got the bug today, after nearly 50hrs of gameplay and about 10hrs of play after the CFWM quest. I have to say I really enjoy this game but glitches like this are BS, honestly this is pathetic for a game in 2010 Bethesda/Obsidian. Please fix soon cause I'll buy every DLC if my game will load again.

I completely agree with you on everything I've read that you've posted Jonesy201. It's poor business practice to make consumers pay for a companies mistakes, and then force them to just sit idle while the Co. only say it's being worked on. With no real conclusive answers on problematic issues. (Mainly if the corrupted saves can be retained.)

I have had the DLC error a good number of times now, the thing is it has always happened when I buy and attach weapon mods to my guns bought from npc's in game. I have tested this quite allot and it loads up with the DLC error at least 80% of the time and when I reload a previous save with no mods the npc has totally different mods to what I bought from them previously. This could be the missing content it cannot load and so I haven't used them since and no DLC error has happened as of yet (apart from the usual loading screen of forever) since I ignored using weapon mods, hope this helps.

I had 15 hours into the game before the DLC message appeared...

Anyway, i'm glad that i'm not the only one! And the people who think it happens just with a minority of the people will be hushed when at one time or another they will encounter the same problem!! As you can read it also happens to people who are already 50+ hours into the game!!

Off course i'm not playing this game again at the moment before there is at least a patch!

If no patch arrives i will never play this game again!! (which is a shame because i find the scope and atmosphere in this game so unique)

I know that a lot of us are crying and shouting about Bethesda's lack of prompt action- or how evil they were to release a defective product, but let me postulate something here(which is another way of saying that I could be absolutely wrong, but hear me out).

At best, the circumstances of the glitch, from a tech support point of view, are still rather vague. It might just be a specific set of circumstances that causes the glitch, and it was truly only revealed after releasing it to the 100's of thousands currently playing. If someone at Bethesda were to read this thread, they'd gather that a) that they've lost at least 15 customers for the next time around, and B) that the DLC glitch occurs sometimes in the Vaults, sometimes not, and that it may have something to do with the order in which the missions are played, but it's undetermined whether or not it matters if the mission in question has been activated yet. Now, I'm no programmer, but it seems like this would be a nightmare assignment to have to unravel.

Maybe they have bigger fish to fry, but it'd be nice if representatives from Bethesda would chime in on these forums and just say: We've been reading this thread and we're working on the solution. I haven't read too many other threads on this forum(this problem is the only reason I'm here), so maybe they have been. It would shut a lot of us up, anyway.

Oh, and just one other thing: has anyone posted a warning about this glitch in the non-tech support sections of this forum? People who are oblivious to the problem won't be checking in here, but they should somehow be made aware of it. I mean, it seems like that would be a big part of the solution; to warn the ones still happily playing that they should stack their save games up and periodically test them as they play. I've warned everyone I know that's currently playing(none have experienced the glitch).

Guess, I'll go and check the other sections.