I can handle the sever drop in graphics that the patch caused and I can even handle the massive freeze ups that happen now and then when in a conversation. My biggest issue though is I can't use V.A.T.S. anymore after the patch. Every time I try and activate it there is a 10-15 sec freeze up while it's activating. Then when it finally does register it shows 0% accuracy for every section. Is this a unique issue to my game? Preferably only replies from people who got screwed by the patch and no replies about how the patch was a godsend for you lol

God those people are INSANELY annoying... why not shut up if you don't have anything to say other than "svcks for you for me it works perfectly lol lol". Sadly (I guess?I don't have this particular problem, only thing the patch did for me was to give me crappy framerate and horrible stuttering. You could try doing what I did, going back to the previous patch. If you're on W7 you can right-click on the FalloutNV.exe, choose properties and find a tab called previous versions. There you probably find an old version of the .exe, pre-patch. Just replace the new one with the old one, turn off auto-update in Steam and you're golden!

The next problem is that as soon as the game crashes on you (and you know it will at some point) - Steam will reenable
auto-updating and you're back to square one. The 1.2 patch is fubared but its what we've come to expect from Obsidian
- the infamous developers of KOTOR 2 and Alpha Protocol.

Actually Alpha Protocol run surprisingly smooth..............except for graphic glitches, for me anyways

I also have this freezing problem with the 10-20 seconds of lag on my laptop. I don't get this problem on my desktop pc, since my graphics card is dead, I only have my laptop to play on. Before the most recent patch, the game worked fine except for that graphics shuttering problem. Now the graphics issue is fixed, I have been experiencing this new freezing problem. When I right click to use the iron sights, the game will freeze or paused until I release my finger. When I try to use the VATS, it doesn't instantly appear, but it takes more than 30 seconds to activate and sometimes it doesn't activate at all.


My laptop specs:
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
- Intel Core i5 2.4 Ghz, 2.9 Ghz on High Performance
- Nividia GeForce 330GT 1GB of DDR3 ram (With the lastest Nvidia Driver Update)
- 15.6" 1366x768 resolution
- 6 GB of DDR3 ram
- 320 GB 7200 RPM hard drive

I get 60 FPS on low and medium settings. I have tried switching from medium to low graphics setting, and the freezing problem still occurs.

Since the latest patch I've only had VATS lagging when trying to use the Cowboy Repeater. I have not had a zero for percentages but they have dropped considerably. Unless the target is literally right in front of me regardless of the weapon I'm using my percentages are all in the 20's which is pretty bad considering I've maxed out my guns and taken every perk I can related to guns. Before the patch the lowest percentage I was getting using VATS was in the 70's.

Odd Obsidian refuses to hotfix, or better yet rollback, this complete disaster of a patch.