When the frame rate drops to a crawl
Save your game[to a new file] then restart the ps3

You probably don't even need to restart just quit the game, when you load back up the game will be running smooth again. It may be slow going to save that game but spending five minutes getting it to save is better then the alternative.

I few other tips, don't overwrite save files, always save to a new file and later delete the old ones manually, this makes the game more stable in the long term. If you have the classic pack, dump your canteen don't ask me why the game just runs better for me at least if I don't have it in my inventory.

Tru that can help sometimes. for the most part it dont.

And this will makes your save file list huge. And if you have to many save files then the frame rate will dropp to.
So no i cant see how this whould work rigth.

That about only saving to new files doesn't really make sense to me. I know that everyone gives that advice to make freezing and everything better, but here is what I find strange. If that really helps, it would mean that somehow there is bug in the saving system, but that system can't be that hard coding-wise, and they would probably be able to find and eliminate the bug without much effort (especially if the save to new file option doesn't have the bug).

AIso, I believe that overwriting a save file works like this:

1. The game is saved to a new file.
2. The old file, the one being "overwritten", is being deleted.

In other words, there is no real difference between overwriting and writing to a new file and then delete the old saves manually. Don't get too hung up on language, just because it's called "overwrite" doesn't mean that the new save will occupy the old space. That wouldn't even be possible, as the new saves are typically bigger.

I wish Bethesda would discuss these issues a little more, I'd be interested in knowing more about these bugs that have been such a big part of our lives. :liplick:

Try it for yourself, next time you start a new game. Turn off auto save and only save to a new file. I thought it was [censored] to but one day when starting a new game I thought hey might as well give it a shot. Long term performance improved, following game I ended up overwriting files again, nose dive of performance is was back to how it used to be. Having a dozen old saves to fall back on incase you find out you screwed up or missed out on something is a good idea anyway, all you lose is the two minutes deleting them manually.


Say you play for four hours and save every twenty minutes, you'd have only 12 saves, which isn't a lot then spend four minutes deleting the oldest eight. Compared to the size of the games saves are tiny, New Vegas is a few gigabites. Even with a couple hundred hours under your belt your save isn't going to break 20MB.