Quite annoyed. After steam updated FO-NV to the latest version, I am now experiencing microstutter to such a degree that the game is basically unplayable.

Prior to the update, the game was running butter smooth and aside from an occasional crash, ran perfectly. Anything I can do to get rid of the stutter? update drivers?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

System specs:
HP Envy 17
windows 7 home 64-bit
i7-720 processor
8gb DDR3 RAM
1gb radeon 5850 graphics
640gb hard drive

Thanks in advance.

I am also experiencing microstutter to the point of it being very annoying and makes me not want to play. Game was running really smoothly prior to the patch.

My system:
Asus Crosshair IV mobo
8 gigs RAM
2x 5850's in Crossfire
AMD 965 Black Edition proc
windows 7 64 bit

I''ve noticed a slight microstutter too, which wasn''t there before i installed the latest patch. doh!

Curious what you guys are seeing... Remember, microstutter really means microstutter which means you won't be able to show it in a video, you'll have to see it with you own eyes. If it's something you can see in a youtube video then it is just plain stuttering (or macrostuttering perhaps )

Do this, fast travel to the north vegas gate and enter the gate. If you notice the game stuttering right after it loads the area with gomorrah and lucky 38 then that's just the game loading in the background and it always does that. If it's something else though, I dunno game runs the game for me performance-wise

mine stutters as new objects appear in the distance. it didn't happen before the latest patch though.

It's always done that, you most likely didn't notice it was doing it.

The game is slowing down as it loads from your slow hard drive into speedier RAM, hits a slight bottleneck

Most open world games do this and even some FPSs like half life 2 used to do it (but they got it to load better after a few years)

You can try some ini tweaks (search for Fallout 3 tweak guide).
If you are on PC and have a version that is supported by NVSE you can also try using the FONV stutter remover.

So is there no way for me to correct it? Some one else suggested the NVSE stutter remover - do you think that could help? Or is this just something I have to live with?

http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35819 but you'll have to wait for them to update it for 1.2.0.314 compatibility.



http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35262

I tried the NVSE stutter remover, and it worked in the sense that it removed the stutter as new objects appeared on the horizon, but the game suffered an overall quality loss, as the animations now seemed less smooth. So I switched back to the vanilla game, to confirm this, and the vanilla is much smoother without the stutter remover. So I think I''ll accept the slight judder as new buildings appear.

I''ve tried the 4gb patch, but that doesn't effect the game whatsoever for me.

Is the NV Stutter Remover Complete any better than the NVSE version?

Honestly I haven't been playing much. (Went back to Morrowind.) I used an older version of the stutter fix. I have to reinstall the game (Windows corrupted.) and I'll do some testing of my own. I think I know what you mean by the less smooth animations, but let me be sure. I do notice that movement gets slower after using this fix, but the animations themselves look fine. Is that what you see or are the animations actually borked? (I did manage to get around the slow effect but I forget how. Blast my memory!)

The FO3 stutter remover did manage FPS in a way that you would get max 30 FPS.
May be that this is implemented in the latest version.

This is supposed to further reduce stuttering and as a side effect also reduces work on pc and graphics card.
The downside is that 30 fps does look less smooth than, say, 60 fps.

IF this is the cause for what you see, you could try to disable this option by opening the ini of the stutter remover (gets created in the same directory as the dll) and disable the fps management (cannot remember the name right now).