I went to vault 3 to find the missing ncr ranger, took all the stuff i could find, and went back to my room in novac to put some of it in my safe. As soon as i do this and leave my room, the screen stays black and the game freezes, starting the dlc loading issues,...

Hi - I also have this glitch - level 10 with 20 hrs of game time. I have recently completed come fly with me and haven't been to any vaults at all yet so vault 3 is not the issue for me. I also have Boon and the robot ED-E as followers. Does anyone know if a fix is in the pipeline?

Edit: The earliest save I can load is the manual save I did just before pressing the button at the end of CFWM. I tried loading that save and carrying on as normal - the next 2 autosaves, when reloaded, worked fine. The 3rd autosave reload gave me the same glitch, so it is possible to recreate this issue.

I may try continuing but without pressing that button just to see if its the level completion that triggers it...

I've also been stalled out by this issue. I rolled all the way through and just finished turning in Motor Runner's helmet to Col. Hsu. I saved the game right after heading out towards my next objective, got up to take a break and turned off my xbox. When I got back, the game kept stalling out during loads then I started to see the DLC issue. I save the game so often that my earliest save was right after I had entered vault 3 so I was screwed. I certainly hope they release a patch soon because I was loving this game, but I agree with some other people in that we need Obsidian/Bethesda to at least tell us when to expect it. They are leaving us hanging in the breeze and most people bought this game because we enjoyed fallout 3, we are repeat customers and deserve to be treated a bit better.

Just went to load my save up for some action and was greeted by the DLC message. My save is around 20 hours in and i was close to level 18. Vault 3 isnt the issue for me as its not even on my map let alone me going to it. I cant load any of my previous saves either so am screwed.

no f*****g way!!!!!!!!!!!

i have now got it

i just finished the quest were you help the ghouls launch the rockets,saved it outside the rocket factory and now i cant load it up :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

killed a s**t load of nightskin's and glowing ones ,about 5 hours worth of saves gone.......

is there any fix

I did Come Fly With Me but not before I read about 500 other posts all over the internet about the bugs in NV in general. Some people are saying that the Alien Spacesuit thats lies on the shelf in the room where Chris is standing is creating the save game glitch after they take it before completing the quest. I tried taking the Spacesuit and I froze up when I tried to leave the area luckily not encountering the corrupted save game glitch. I reloaded a save game from before the i started the quest and ran through it again..this time leaving the spacesuit alone and everything worked fine. Also Motor Runners helmet has the same issue it seems. Im not sure if those items could be corrupting the files but who really knows. Im not saying that these items are the sole reason for the error...Im just saying that they both may be (along with probably many other items) contributing to the error. And companions seem to be super glitchy when in any vault. I was in vault 34 and I always make my companions wait wherever i recruit them because Im playing hardcoe mode and this game is not refined enough in my opinion to even have companions at all (worst companion AI ive ever encountered). I then ran through the vault and was about halfway into the deal when boon and EDE materialized right beside me and then proceeded to try and clear the dungeon themselves...rediculous. Ill be playing Fable 3 until a few more patches come out that DONT break as much as they fix.

I actually got my auto save corrupted in vault 3 but i deleted it instead of trying to load it and none of my save files got corrupted. i went back into vault 3, got the helmet and pulse cleaner and didnt have the problem again.

I am so mad at this issue right now this has happened to me 4 different times in four different spots. I do not believe that any missions have anything to do with it. I have lost over 175+ hours gone because of this. I have started over 4 different times and it keeps happening. I even tried deleting the exclusive DLC and started a brand new game thinking that was it. NO it was not it just happened to me again with no DLC on my Xbox for fallout. Please hurry up and fix this. And also does anyone know if when they fix it will i be able to access the saves that are currently messed up? As a hardcoe fallout player i am severely disappointed that this issue even exists in the first place. please fix this!
EDIT: i also want to add that when this happens to me my autosave and hard save becomes unplayable forcing me to start over all over again.

Blowing up the Brotherhood of Steel bunker for Caesar with the self destruct computer corrupted my saves.

For those who have not suffered.Reload every time after you save.To make sure your latest save has not picked the save corruption bug up.A pain,but it is worth it.

Initially, the Come Fly With Me quest caused it, upon completion. Luckily, I had a save just before I went into the building to turn it in that worked just fine. So I just loaded that and coped with the fact that my save (4 hours of gameplay after completing the quest) was lost. I avoided completing the quest and figured that I'd be fine and wouldn't encounter the save bug again. I saved frequently, but some time between grabbing a bunch of loot from Vault 34, going up 4 levels, and starting the quest from the settlement near it (where you have to go to the Freeside brothel) my most current save file got corrupted. I have a save on the strip somewhere around 3 hours before this that loads fine and I honestly wouldn't mind using this after they fix the save game bug and my more recent save is unsalvagable. I just hope they fix it soon...

Also, this was the only bug I encountered in the game other than occasional frame rate issues and even more occasional system freezes. I figure those two kind of correlate though, so if stuff starts getting choppy, I save just for precautionary measures.

Anyways. Fix this [censored], whoever's responsible for fixing it. I've been patiently awaiting the fix (or even updates on how soon to expect it) for two weeks now. <_<

I started having this problem after entering vault 34. I haven't even come close to vault 3 yet. I have done the come fly with me mission, but all of my save games work after that until around the vault 34.

I have done the 'Come Fly With Me' Quest but didnt even know there was a space suit so never took it. My game glitched about 10 hours after completing that mission

I haven't even found vault 3 yet. So after playing the game for 25 to 30 hours and getting to a Level 15, my game is done. How can you sell something so buggy. I should have stuck to getting my game from gamefly, Could have saved 65 bucks.

i havent even gotten around vault 3. my game decided to crap out on me while i was in the REPCO basemant. i know im not very far into the game, but i dont want to have to keep restarting. i think bethesda should have put a bit more work into eliminating the many bugs in this game.

This glitch has happened to me three different times. The first time it happened during the Come Fly With me Quest, and I lost about an hour of gameplay. The second time I made it past Come Fly with Me and it glitched on my way to Boulder City, and finally it just happened to me again at the Come Fly with me Quest (i was an idiot and didnt think it would glitch again). i have about 5 or so corrupted saves that will not work at all. This is really frustrating because I have now lost about 4 hours of gameplay.

After reading about this issue a fair bit I think it's best that we take action, real action, and that means contacting Bethesda.

As stated in this thread: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1133493-answer-to-the-corrupt-save-issues/

We can contact bethesda with our complaints, as it seems that trying to elicit change through a forum isn't very productive.

Simply tell bethesda that after several hours of play, your save games are being corrupted. Maybe state where in the game this occurred.

I hope that people who surf to this forum with this problem will maintain a steady flow of complaints towards Bethesda, and we can if we all take the same steps.

I also suggest that if anybody on this forum is a prominent member of another games forum, that you copy Agent Elder's OP (from the link), and make a new thread on your forum, thereby ensuring more taffic reaches Bethesda.

Ranting on a forum is slacktivism (well it wouldn't be if we knew we were being heard), so we need to put that tiny bit of extra effort in to make sure we actually get heard.

I have been a fan since Morrowind, this is the first time I have encountered a problem like this. I will not stand for it. Tell bethesda in your complain that you will be refraining from purchasing more titles or DLC until this present problem is fixed... and mean it!

This happened to me in Vault 3 during my second visit. I went it the first time and wiped everyone out. I originally killed Motor Runner but reverted to a save outside his throne room door after seeing that killing him prematurely failed a the Great Kkan drug running quest. So I left himn alive, grabbed the Reverse Pulse Cleaner, and left. Later, still before CFWM but during the drug running quest, I went back and I couldn't give him the drug package, and then I quit the game. Upon starting the game again, I found that dlc error waiting for me in my two main game saves.

Don't whine too much if you lost 2 to 5 hours gameplay; it could be far worse. I lost 20.

Guys, keep in mind Obsidian Entertainment made this game, NOT Bethesda Game Studios. Bethesda Softworks published it so they helped out in some ways, so don't hate on Bethesda too much. But ya, this glitch happened to me after Come Fly With Me and NONE of my saves work now..

Bethesda owns the Fallout name, Bethesda runs the official forums. Bethesda can deal with full accountability when third parties fail to release adequate products bearing their name as far as I am concerned... so make sure you email them!

Does anyone know, that when the patch is released, will it actually allow us to use our saves again or are they just completely screwed? I dont fancy starting again if i can salavge my character but if theres no chance then it leaves me little choice.

i at least need to applaud an attempt to bring some sanity here since so many people are just flaming frustratedly.

but that being said, i very much disagree with you. as a publisher, you share accountability for the product. if bethesda was strictly a distributor of the game, then i would agree with what you are saying. however, we should make sure to hold publishers accountable for the games they sponsor. though the developers are the people in charge of the actual technical aspects of the game (which is where the flaws are manifesting themselves), they are not necessarily (and in fact most often are probably not) the ones who chose to release the game now. the publishers, as the ones with the money to fund the project, impose deadlines.

if i was to speculate on what happened here (and i'll point out that it is speculation, since i certainly don't have any inside info), i would guess that bethesda wanted the product out in time for the holiday season. despite the fact that the game had some crippling defects, i'm guessing the amount of money that they thought they would gain by releasing the game before the holiday outweighed their projected losses from the issues. so, they decided to push the game out.

maybe i'm just being sentimental here, but i feel like most developers don't want to rush out shoddy products. developers are engineers - we want the things we build to be great. not only to be functional, but to stand the test of time and still be great.

so i guess the TL;DR here would be: while development studios should certainly catch a lot of this stuff before release, we need to hold publishers accountable to not rush their products too.

Vault 3 Come fly with me was fine not a hitch. I had saved before the finish of the quest. Vault 3 got me with the corupt missing object error after completeing and looting it.
I could load the last manual save...for while then it refused to load but instead froze up made my Xbox 360's disk drive sound like it was going to blow apart and froze solid. Reboot same problem. Deleted that save file tryed to load anouther earlyer save that one froze solid.

Every single save like a casade of failers and freeze ups. None would function. At this point I have not restarted this game in fear it will ruin my Xbox from the lock ups and constant reboots. The CD drive always quiet running is now loud and makes a sorta odd clunky sound loading disks, hasnt worked the same after the number of lock ups and such.

On XboxI also began getting the error after cleaning out Vault 3 and whacking Motor-Runner and getting the laser mod. I have avoided Vault 3 on my PC playthrough, as it seems to be an issue for that platform as well.

Same thing happened to me.
Cleared out V3 and killed Motor Runner. I completed CFWM quest too with no problems but when i tried to enter the hotel owners house or the empty house in Novac, i got the black screen and my save corrupted.
Thing was though,it only corrupted my autosave file so i could still load a manual save, i only lost 3-4 hours. :rolleyes: