Fallout: New Vegas Guide

How to Have Fallout: New Vegas Run Consistently Well for Fallout: New Vegas

How to Have Fallout: New Vegas Run Consistently Well

Overview

A quick mod download from NexusMods (link provided) and a changing of one line in order to get the best experience for your time in New Vegas

DISCLAIMER

You need to create/have a NexusMods account in order to download mods. Feel free to background check the website, it’s good
Additionally, Fallout New Vegas’ framerate is capped at 60 FPS. You can change the framerate to be higher though this will likely cause glitches/bugs to occur (especially at higher framerates)

“New Vegas Stutter Remover” Mod Download

Search for and download “New Vegas Stutter Remover” from the website NexusMods (should be the first result in your search) or click here to open the NexusMods webpage for the mod[www.nexusmods.com].
After downloading, extract the downloaded .zip file directly into your Fallout: New Vegas folder directory.
If you do not know what your folder directory is, you can easily find it by right clicking Fallout: New Vegas in your Steam library, “Local Files” tab then “Browse Local Files” button. Alternatively, you can just copy and paste the “Data” and “src” folders from the extracted .zip file into your Fallout: New Vegas folder.
DO NOT EXIT OUT OF YOUR DIRECTORY FOLDER AFTER IMPORTING THE MOD. Consult the next section as follows

Configuring Mod’s .ini File

From the Fallout: New Vegas directory folder click the “Data” folder -> ” NVSE” folder -> “Plugins” folder.
Double click “sr_New_Vegas_Stutter_Remover.ini“, then find the line (close to the start) that says “bHookLightCriticalSections = 1” and change the 1 to a 0 so that the final line says “bHookLightCriticalSections = 0“. Control+S or save the file and exit out of the .ini file. Enjoy your time in New Vegas.

Credit Where Credit’s Due

Original mod created by “SkyRanger-1”, available here (click to open ModNexus’ page for the New Vegas Stutter Remover mod)[www.nexusmods.com]

Configuration of .ini file discovered by “PaulFletcher” in the YouTube comment section of

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