Hi,

Have seen many VATS related bug posts but not this specific one. Apologies if it has come up already.

Everytime I try to enter VATS, the game starts to stutter, framerate drops to near nothing, then freezes, then crashes. No matter how many times I have reloaded, restarted etc this happens.

Does anyone else have this problem? Everything else seems to run perfectly fine. Loading times are short, frame rate is pretty good. Just VATs

Anyone?

I get this problem, exactly. It's not all the time, it's only ocassionally, and it depends on where I'm facing and how many enemies there are present.

I also get a full-on blue screen of death every time I use VATS. This means I can't win the more difficult fights, making the game basically unplayable.

If you have a C-Media chipset based sound card update the drivers @ http://www.cmedia.com.tw/EN/DownloadCenter_Detail2.aspx?pserno=0&dtype=ALL
This solved my VATS crashes (thankyou to the person who discovered this)

edit: On WinXP you can check if it's a problem with the sound drivers by lowering the hardware acceleration to basic from the control panel - this worked as a temporary solution for me until i found the updated drivers.

Hmm this may help with my crashes too.
I shall try it.

-Zeb