Fallout 2 with megamod randomly crashes

Ashaira

First time out of the vault
Hello everyone. i am new here but am a long time fan of fallout 2 which is in fact the absolute best RPG i ever played. i recently started playing again and looked up some mods to spice things up a bit. after searching a bit i found the megamod which looks very interesting, so i did a fresh install of fallout 2 (which i have never had problems running even after staying alt-tabed for hours) and installed the mod downloaded directly from the official website (taken from the wiki).

Everything seems fine except that at random times the game crashes with random memory access error(which from my limited programming know how translates to a variable from memory xxxxxx tried to access a variable from yyyyyy but no longer exists). This happens at complete random and fairly often and sometimes happens after i load a quicksave (rendering that save unusable since the game crashes instantly after loading)

I tried looking this up on the forums and have found people with similar crashes except theirs happen in certain exact spots while mine are random.

Does anyone have any idea what might caus this because its making the game completly unejoyable. Thank you in advance for any help. :crazy:
 
All I can tell you is that the Fallout engine is pretty quirky and that it sometimes causes random crashes. The more you mod, the more intricate the scripting, the more you change stuff, the more random crashes you get, no matter how hard you try to prevent them from happening.

Megamod is an amalgamate of many different mods and extra content, there's hardly a way you can make sure things go smoothly. Believe me when I say MIB88 knows what he's doing. Some details are always missed, but more often than not, it's the Fallout engine that fucks up, despite the code being OK.

Conclusion, save as often as you can, make several different savegames and alternate between them to avoid losing progress. I know it's not really what you might have expected, but so far, nobody found a remedy for the random crashes. :?

Megamod is still work in progress, so any bugs you can reproduce should be reported in the appropriate thread.
 
Ty for the reply. I realize this but as i said fallout 2 with the unoficial patch even worked perfectly and even when i tried out the Restoration mod that never crashed either and i doubt such a big BUG would have gone unnoticed as it happens as often as every 5-10 min so im guessing there might be something wrong on my part but i can't tell what.
 
Somewhere here on NMA, someone uploaded 'patch' files for version 2.44 of the megamod--I had the same problem, and the patches fixed it. Try digging in the megamod thread for them. I didn't even have to start a new game, I just put the files in the proper place, and now version 2.44 of the megamod doesn't crash for me anymore.
 
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