I have the following gamesas games....

• Morrowind
  
• Oblivion
  
• Fallout 3 (but removed since NV)
  
• Fallout NV

....which all play very well on my WinXP SP3 rig.

But ever since I made the BIG mistake of loading the Lonesome Road DLC, Fallout NV became unplayable. Numerous crashes to desktop on entering buildings, etc, even the store at Good Springs at the start :angry:

I did find a fix. I removed ALL DLCs by deselecting the data files then moved the esm, bsa, and NAM files to a backup folder. Essentially went back to the basic Fallout NV.

Now I can play Fallout NV with very few crashes.

My experience leads me to distrust gamesas DLCs, even though the ones for Morrowind & Oblivion have no problems. I can no longer trust gamesas to deliver trust-worthy DLCs. This is pertinent since I have already pre-ordered Skyrim. I will NOT load any Skyrim DLCs until months after release and I can see what other players experience is, IF at all.

I really regret that the QA at gamesas seems to have gone to hell.

they are from Obsidian, not gamesas...

Why do people constantly say Bethesda made New Vegas? I mean cant they read "An Obsidian Entertainment Production" every time the game starts up?

AFAIK Bethesda is still responsible for QA.

There was a patch released around the time of Lonesome Road. There was another one before that. So you should look into that and see if the patch loaded. I got LR and it didn't work, but then the patch loaded, and it did.

Also yeah Obsidian made New Vegas and the DLC, but Bethesda was in charge of quality control and fixing bugs and what not.

Bethesda Softworks is the PUBLISHER and they have their own QA team that is supposed to work on all titles they publish. This is on top of any individual developer's in house QA team.

Bethesda Games Studios is the DEVELOPER who made Fallout 3, but Bethesda Softworks was its PUBLISHER... just like New Vegas. With all of the bug bashing threads I am still dizzy by posts confused by this.