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Hi. I've been playing "Fallout: New Vegas" since earlier this month, and I've experienced many glitches. Sure the game has crashed on me many times (at least once every day), but I've never experienced something like this, and I'm at my wit's end.

The thing is, in my game, I have made it as far as "The House Always Wins II" in the main campaign. After I quick travel to New Vegas North Gate, I try to enter the city, but unfalteringly, the game goes into the load screen after which it Crashes.

I've tried (almost) everything I can think of to try to correct this, but I kept getting the Same Result. I tried flushing the System Cache: Nothing. I reloaded a (recent), but not most recent save: No dice. Has anyone else experienced such a problem, and if so, could anyone please help me (advice, etc.) Thank you.

Why don't you ask in gamefaqs or in a dedicated forum? It's more likely you'll find an answer there than here.

No idea. When I played my copy, I went straight to Fortification Hill (without turning in The House Always Wins 1), opened the SecuriTron Vault, talked to House THERE (where he essentially assigned me The House Always Wins 2), put in the Chip, and then turned it in.
Got both The House Always Wins I and II done in the same conversation with House. AND got Render Unto Caeser 1 done (He tells you to go into the SecuriTron vault and see What's What, and destroy it, but you can activate it without him being any wiser). Also completes one of the Wild Card missions.

Fallout NV has been been plagued by so many glitches since it's launch. I've seen people who put laser sights on their guns and then the whole screen turns red and doesn't go back, characters that are resurrected without faces and all kinds of shit.

Run into a game breaking glitch? Demand your fucking money back from the lazy developer/publisher and tell them no more business for you!

Like others said, New Vegas is full of glitches. The best thing you can do is make sure you're running the latest update and if the issue still persists, assuming you're playing it on computer, check newvegasnexus.com someone may have a fix that'll get you passed that point.

I had to use several fixes from there to beat the game because of issues with the games event triggers.

The one glitch that pissed me off was my game save got corrupted upon completion of Come Fly With Me. Other than that, a few game crashes and a mission I can't complete because of a dialogue issue, I haven't had too many other problems.

I've never gotten a single update patch and haven't had any gamebraking glitches, just the occasional random game freeze.

There are some useful glitches in the original release too. Like the Primm Casino glitch and the Helios One glitch.

Generally the quest-related stuff can be fixed with judicious use of the console; set the quest status to the proper step in the quest, resurrect/teleport inaccessible NPCs, etc. If the dialog doesn't work, you can skip the step.

I'm pissed, though, at the savegame corruption. After shifting around equipment on my followers, including giving Boone an extremely expensive full condition sniper rifle and suit of armor, the savegame reloaded with default equipment on the followers. Which was fixed by more console, but it's hard to resist the temptation to cheat...

It all comes down to Bethesda using the outdated, buggy Oblivion engine, and not redesigning it sufficiently for what's a completely different game. Don't get me wrong, it's an excellent game, but it would have been much better served by waiting an additional year (or more) to launch. They could even have jacked up the price. If I remember correctly, Metro 2033 and Singularity both launched at $50-60, and they were not nearly as deep or enjoyable as New Vegas.

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OP: Try entering from a different gate? Or failing that, teleport by console into New Vegas. It might fix it.

This post has been edited by Bracken: Feb 5 2011, 20:21

Ok. I found an unusual solution to my specific problem on the Fallout Forums. Apparently, If you enter the New Vegas Strip WHILE WEARING The "Old Cowboy Hat", the game will not crash. I found this to be true, even while inside (Not indoors), the game would crash if I didn't have it equipped. I wonder what's up with that? Old Cowboy Hat = no crash; Any other headgear = Hard Crash. Strange how things work sometimes.