Right now I have FONV working pretty nicely on my PC with ArchiveInvalidated text and about 6 mods (some of my own design..)

I've been thinking of letting the new patch install... should I take out ArchiveInvalidated text file and the mods first and then patch
and then put them back in to avoid problems?? It really doesn't bother me to do this...

what do you guys think?

M

If you can I'd suggest back up what you have so if you do patch yourself out of a working game you have a chance to restore it to it's former glory

I am now seeing several posts coming up saying that some important things are broken from this patch... pip-boy, VATS, reloading, among others...

darn it guess I'm going to keep waiting...

Yes, I think you're right and backups are mandatory at this point...

M

I'm not having issues with any of the patches so far.

it seems alot of these issues are fixed by asking steam to revalidate the archive, install newer drivers for gfx card (if you are ati at least the 10.10c drivers and what ever the newest nvidia ones are), reboot pc, restarting game as saves are corrupt. All sorts of small fixes like deleting the dx9 dll fix and then revalidating the install.

Short anwser from me is YES! install it. it fixed my performance issues with the game. I have a 5970 gfx card and a 6core amd cpu with 8gb ram.. so it's not my pc but the game.

Corrupted saves are fixed as well as optimizations for gfx and other stuff like fixing the npc bug.

I'd copy your steam apps/common/fallout nv directory to some where (other hdd or burn to dvd's for example) before you update because with steam it's a simple matter of deleteing the old files and just copying back the directory and playing the game again.

To patch

Patch.My game runs much much smoother with the latest patch.
-I have more than 5GB of mods(NMC's full texture pack included)
-I get steady 50-60fps in the wasteland
-It still stutters and freezes from time to time though