Would love to play this b/c I loved FO3, but the list of bugs I read about has me thinking it's better to wait until at least 3 or 4 patches have been released? Just curious if many folks feel it's better to wait on game fixes, or if the bugs are minor enough not to tarnish your enjoyment.


Also, I will be builinding a new computer this holiday, and will be installing FO3NV on my new system. Is it possible to copy my save game file from my old computer into the save game folder on my FO3NV install on my new computer and continue where I left off?

Thanks.

I highly doubt that there are going to be patches to fix all of the bugs, but some of them will be patched within a month or so I would assume. I think it's nearly there, so wait a few more patches.

If they get steam cloud working properly, then yes, you will be able to just login steam and start playing.

What about with the non-Steam version- would copying the save game file from the install on my old computer and saving into the save game folder on my new comptuer work?

Unless you are willing to spend countless hours tiptoeing through the game with possible settings like 1080x640 and 1280x740 While your system sits idle

or run the game @ default and play with somthing that looks like this.... http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinber?feature=mhw4

By all means tear it up!

For me i wasted 50$ and 6 days of paied vacation to stare @ this forum and play the game on ultra low settings with my 3.4ghz sli monster.

This was beyond a depressing event for me. I dident think this would happen with a game that is basically a mod of fallout 3. Which i can run @ 1980x1024 ultra!

That's the kind of horror story that's got me thinking I should wait a month or three...I have a fully FCOM'd out Oblivion to play, anyway, but Fallout 3 is just so much better. Assuming it ain't broken!
I game at 2560x1600 on a 30" monitor, so I shudder to think how poorly a buggy F3NV might run at that setting. F3 ran reallly, really well.

yes. wait for patches and mods.

I'd say get the game. If you get bugs, learn more about your system, the game, etc, find the solution and squash em. When you do go to start adding mods in, then all the problems you get aren't going to be as bad. Mods on a well tuned setup will run alright, mods on a badly tuned setup only make that many more variables for you to hunt through later. As modders definately know. :wink_smile:

But seriously, spend some time now, getting the game as perfect as you can and your playing experience and mods will be a breeze.

It is possible.

agreed

It's a trade-off, and true of any game of this ilk - the earlier you buy it, the more time you get to spend with it and enjoy it at the same time as all your friends. That means you have to inevitably bear with it while a few initial problems are ironed out. Sure, it's true that not every bug will be fixed, simply because sometimes trying to fix one thing will break something else - and they have to draw a line under it when all the game-breaking bugs are taken care of it in order that their staff can work on e.g. TES V: Fargoth Vs Jason.

So if you want to get it at a stage where most of the bugs are fixed and you probably won't notice the ones that are left, it's good to wait a few months. The price will probably come down in that time anyway. I actually wait a few months before buying most games - so got Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 after they'd been out a while and patched up a bit.

Even so, if you wait a while, you can't guarantee that there won't be incompatability issues with your individual, unique-as-a-fingerprint PC setup. It's literally impossible to test for every single hardware/software configuration, so you might still have to update a couple of drivers, or install/uninstall something along the way.

If it helps, I've only encountered maybe 3 bugs in 7 hours of playing and none of them were gamebreaking. I had one crashing issue which went away if I turned right instead of left (and it did only crash at that one point in over 7 hours of play); I had a strange visual glitch in VATS at one point that didn't recur when I tried VATS later; and there's a funny looping sound if you hover the mouse over the menu when you're at a workbench, but it goes away the minute you click anywhere else on the screen. I wouldn't even call those serious bugs. Based on my own experience, I'd say the game is fine to buy now if that's not the sort of thing that would put you off buying a game. I think seven updates in all were released for Fallout 3, and a similar number for Oblivion and Morrowind, so it's a fair assumption that the ones I've mentioned here will be fixed at some point anyway.

This is crazy.... guess that guy doesnt know how to use his computer. Im playing on High graphics/details settings 1440x900. This is on a two year+ old model laptop with a 1/2 of the specs of his.
2ghz dual centrino processor / 4 gb mem / 1 TB HD / 500mhz Nvidia 9600GT Gpu . With the .dll pasting im getting near 60 fps w/little stuttering and am able to play for 3-4 hours untill it finally locks up.
To me it highly playable. I could speed it up by turning off some of the features.

Dont count on more than one major patch I've never seen it with these guys. They'll fix the main bugs that hurt the progression of the game and thats it.

Or his system may just be one of those setups that have an incompatibility with some small part of the game, causing glitches and other mayhem?

As for the patch, if they could fix the main bugs, that'll be fine. The mod community should (Hopefully) pick up the slack, even though they shouldn't have to. Besides, glitches add 'Character'.