Stuck in rivet city : Fallout 3

» Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:38 am

So er, I somehow managed to screw something up pretty badly.
I recently started a new game, so im only 3 or 4 hours into the save.. so somehow i doubt its save corruption :\

Right - I am in the rivet city marketplace running around collecting stuff running errands ....
I come around and attempt to leave, to outside, and I ctd. I try setting FWE down to 1h cell respawns, figure that might be the problem, but after waiting it still crashes.

So, I figure it must be something ive done semi-recently.. and well, the only thing I can figure that affects directly outside of rivet city is the weather mod i added.. Well, not sure really, and I figure by giving you the load order that might be more useful than trying to explain everything, so here I go:

Spoiler

Fallout3.esm
Anchorage.esm
ThePitt.esm
BrokenSteel.esm
PointLookout.esm
Zeta.esm
Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch.esm
Destruction.esm
CRAFT.esm
CALIBR.esm
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esm
Mart's Mutant Mod.esm
Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow.esm
Xepha's Dynamic Weather.esm
Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch - Operation Anchorage.esp
Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch - The Pitt.esp
Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch - Broken Steel.esp
Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch - Point Lookout.esp
Unofficial Fallout 3 Patch - Mothership Zeta.esp
CRAFT - Activation Perk.esp
Existence2.0.esp
Destruction - Main.esp
Destruction - Main - Statics.esp
Destruction - DLC.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Main File.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Anchorage.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC The Pitt.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Broken Steel.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Point Lookout.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - DLC Mothership Zeta.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - UFP Support.esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Followers Enhanced (BrokenSteel).esp
FO3 Wanderers Edition - Optional VATS Halftime.esp
WeaponModKits.esp
WeaponModKits - FWE Master Release.esp
WeaponModKits - OperationAnchorage.esp
WeaponModKits - ThePitt.esp
WeaponModKits - BrokenSteel.esp
WeaponModKits - PointLookout.esp
WeaponModKits - Zeta.esp
CALIBR Ammo Schematics - CRAFT.esp
EVE.esp
EVE Operation Anchorage.esp
EVE - FWE Master Release.esp
EVE - FWE Master Release (Follower Enhanced).esp
EVE Anchorage - FWE DLC Anchorage.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Broken Steel.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - DLC Point Lookout.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - No Corpse Flies.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - No DLC Increased Spawns.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Feral Ghoul Rampage.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased Spawns.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Zones Respawn.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - FWE with EVE.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - FWE Master Release.esp
1PipboyPDA.esp
Phalanx-MainFollowerModule.esp
Phalanx-BrokenSteel-Integration.esp
Enhanced Weather - Rain and Snow in Fallout.esp
Enhanced Weather - Radioactive Rain and Snow Plugin.esp
Enhanced Weather - Weather Sounds in Interiors.esp
Enhanced Weather - Sneak Bonus during Storms.esp
Powered Power Armor.esp
PPA - Broken Steel.esp
PPA - Operation Anchorage.esp
PPA - Readius.esp
PPA - FWE.esp
MZ-Strong-EasyShield.esp
merge7.esp
Xepha's Dynamic Weather - Main.esp
Enhanced Weather - REBOOT.esp

Total active plugins: 73

I think thats it..
Im not incredibly attached to this save, if its unrecoverable thats no problem, as long as I learn something from the loss

I should mention I get semi-random CTD on at least an hourly basis.. I blame my affliction to hit the quicksave button every minute or so >.> I hear thats fairly 'bad', but i cant help myself

Hopefully something can be learned from this, would be disappointing if not

» Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:07 pm

It would be the UF3P Broken Steel patch as it sounds familiar. http://www.mediafire.com/?z3qmlzyzomy. It's not on Nexus so I had to Google it. Overwrite the other one and that should fix it.

» Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:12 pm

It would be the UF3P Broken Steel patch as it sounds familiar. http://www.mediafire.com/?z3qmlzyzomy. It's not on Nexus so I had to Google it. Overwrite the other one and that should fix it.

and.......

That worked. Spectacularly. This is me attempting to express the gratitude for fixing my game.

Oh, and random tagalong question: What does a merged patch do? >.>
Somewhere i read that fwe/eve/wmk need to be merged to work properly together with fo3edit, so since then ive taken a liking to making a new merge patch for each mod i add..Surely this cant be that much worse than quicksaving now and again, and it doesnt particularly take up much time (maybe a another minute or so to do it), but is it required?
Will it even help most things at all?

» Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:44 am

Disable your auto-save until you get to the other side of the bridge. I've run into the same problem before and it turned out that saving the game at point was the cause.

» Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:18 am

"....Welcome to the hotel CALIFORNIA!"