I have a save file just prior to talking with the traveling merchant outside of Novac. Upon the completion of any transaction, the game crashes, requiring a hard reboot of my Xbox. I have opened the save file and triggered the exact crash multiple times.

This has also happened with a merchant just outside Mojave Outpost.

Has anyone else appearanced crashes such as these?

yes. my first playthrough (second playthrough im not taking any chances) after some patch, every traveling merchant i complete a transaction with freezes the system requiring hard boot. at times nothing happens until i go through a door and the autosave kicks in. now, i kill all traveling merchants and loot them.

Didn't have that did have a merchant stay inside Novac for 2 in game weeks, while his dopleganger went around selling. The one stuck in Novac didn't leave untill I played on a differant xbox, which also is the newer small xbox. though donnu if that changes things

Haha, kill the merchant. Now why didn't I think of that. All I needed was a Stimpak and some playing cards, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

I'm wanting to love this game, but the frequent crashes and freezes make it impossible to recommend to others. Sigh.

hi- see this thread for solutions to your problems!

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1131159-bug-report-game-crashes-on-buying-from-merchant/page__p__16573639__fromsearch__1&#entry16573639

Excellent, just the information I was looking for. Thanks fritoz!