potential FIX for npc slowdown : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:00 pm

GUYS!!!! I AM CONSIDERING DOING THIS FIX RIGHT NOW.....BUT HERE IS MY SIMPLE QUESTION. WHEN THEY ACTUALLY PATCH AND FIX THIS, WILL I WANT TO REVERT/GO BACK TO HOW THINGS WERE BEFORE I DO WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING HERE? BASICALLY....CAN I UN-DO WHAT THIS FIX DOES ONCE THE GAME IS PATCHED AND WORKING??????

Yeah you just delete that DLL file out of your fallout directory and I'm guessing you're right back to the original version.

Broken... or working as intended. One of the two

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:39 am

GUYS!!!! I AM CONSIDERING DOING THIS FIX RIGHT NOW.....BUT HERE IS MY SIMPLE QUESTION. WHEN THEY ACTUALLY PATCH AND FIX THIS, WILL I WANT TO REVERT/GO BACK TO HOW THINGS WERE BEFORE I DO WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING HERE? BASICALLY....CAN I UN-DO WHAT THIS FIX DOES ONCE THE GAME IS PATCHED AND WORKING??????

Caps much? and yes you can undo it once the patch arrives.

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:24 pm

Lay off the caps please - it's rude and considered shouting.

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:26 pm

Lay off the caps please - it's rude and considered shouting.

lol jesus. wasn't trying to be offensive my sensitive friends. just wanted mine to stand out a bit. I won't do it again, and understand your concerns about rudeness. lol, except i was probably more rude here not in caps.

ok an;yway, back on topic, how CAN i swap it back if i want to?

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:02 pm

lol jesus. wasn't trying to be offensive my sensitive friends. just wanted mine to stand out a bit. I won't do it again, and understand your concerns about rudeness. lol, except i was probably more rude here not in caps.

ok an;yway, back on topic, how CAN i swap it back if i want to?

Sensitive? Doesn't have anything to do with that, your question would get answered regardless. All caps is just annoying, to me its something kids do.. or older people who dont know squat about computers (like my aunt).

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:42 pm

Sensitive? Doesn't have anything to do with that, your question would get answered regardless. All caps is just annoying, to me its something kids do.. or older people who dont know squat about computers (like my aunt).

jesus, are we still on this. thanks for the police work.

how can i revert this fix in this thread. just deleat the file from my steam/common/falloutnewvegas folder? anyone?

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:22 am

ok an;yway, back on topic, how CAN i swap it back if i want to?

Delete the dll file you put into the directory. Easy peasy.

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:56 am

ok an;yway, back on topic, how CAN i swap it back if i want to?

Was already answered--just delete the file (d3d9.dll) that you placed into your NV folder.

Edit: a lot of ninjas around here...

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:37 am

Finally. After giving it some face time on Kotaku we get this from our buddy Pete Hines:

http://kotaku.com/5668552/fallout-new-vegas-has-bug-issues

Update: Patches are coming. Pete Hines, marketing man at Fallout studio Bethesda Softworks, tells Kotaku that "We are currently working on releasing patches/updates as quickly as possible for Fallout: New Vegas, for all platforms. Announcements regarding the patches are forthcoming." He advises anyone seeing this head-turning bug to re-verify their files on Steam, as the issue is due to a "corrupt mesh file." Also notable: The head-turning bug here was highlighted two days ago in a blog post by one of the game's producers, who identified it as a known bug that was "eradicated" prior to the game's official release.

They really need to post a sticky of this in here. Like now.

This article, nor does Pete Hines, makes no mention about the fps drop near npc's. I'm wondering if this is part of the patch he's talking about.

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:38 pm

Created an account just to say thanks, no more NPC lag issues at all
Running smooooooth as silk :celebration: 60FPS at all times on a GTX260 with settings @ max
:tops:
And the file is safe, check out the d3d9.dll VirusTotal results:
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=794dfbd1b0b0c9f0081166c4a58b07051fe426bac67dd51562306fd1e586dc79-1287592744

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:14 pm

completely fixed issue for me.

tnx!

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:59 pm

Can anyone out there try the file contained in the latest 32-bit Windows XP SP3 with up-to-date DirectX? If you need it I can email it to you. 1.6MEG. Just wondering if this is a better solution.

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:45 am

Release broken game
customers fix it for you
~~???????~~
profit

Fixed it for you.

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:48 pm

Easiest solution that SHOULD work (I am at work and can't est) is download the latest DX9 directly from MS and install. DX10/11 can coexist with DX 9. They don't overwrite one and other. This has always worked for me for other DX 9 games that have trouble with DX10/11.

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:21 am

Can anyone out there try the file contained in the latest 32-bit Windows XP SP3 with up-to-date DirectX? If you need it I can email it to you. 1.6MEG. Just wondering if this is a better solution.

up-to-date as in dx11? cus apperently its a dx9 fix...and the file to fix it is only 106kbs...but i'm not entirely sure.

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:36 am

up-to-date as in dx11? cus apperently its a dx9 fix...and the file to fix it is only 106kbs...but i'm not entirely sure.

worked for me, wow thanx smooth as silk thank you thank you thank you

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:49 pm

up-to-date as in dx11? cus apperently its a dx9 fix...and the file to fix it is only 106kbs...but i'm not entirely sure.

DirectX 9 is the max you can install on a 32-bit Windows XP SP3 install. That's why none of them are seeing this issue. I'm just wondering if it is more compatable or maybe just a more hardened version of the .dll file.

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:54 pm

ok slight prob here. now when i tried to run sc2 it freezes at the start screen. could this be related? jesus h

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:21 pm

worked for me!

I am using windows vista, GTX 280

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:48 pm

It works, baby!

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:08 am

just wanted to state that i turned the water stuff back on and on high and everything is working as it should!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:12 pm

I haven't had this problem with NPC's, but it sounds like it svcks. I do hwoever find that the animation for the NPC's when they move is pretty stiff.

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:56 pm

ok slight prob here. now when i tried to run sc2 it freezes at the start screen. could this be related? jesus h

Shouldn't be as far as my understanding of these things goes. That dll file should only effect the program in the same folder with the dll. Nothing else.

Maybe someone more in the know can confirm or deny this?

» Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:53 pm

Hey guys, glad to see this fix is working for so many people, but unfortunately when i click on play at the launchers, it just restarts the launcher. I placed the file in the new vegas folder , but it doesnt seem to be working for. the .dll that I got was from my own rig. anyone else having this problem or any other suggestions?

running win7
nvidia 310m
4 gigs fo ram

» Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:58 am

DirectX 9 is the max you can install on a 32-bit Windows XP SP3 install. That's why none of them are seeing this issue. I'm just wondering if it is more compatable or maybe just a more hardened version of the .dll file.

Oooh. I understand. Well from all the posts it seems like your email would come in handy with the few that are worried about downloading a random file off MU.