Hi there, im sorry if this has been asked / answered a million times and i know there could be hundreds of possible causes but i thought it was worth a mention here..

My setup
windows 7 64bit
6GB ram
HD6950 2GB ram
AMD Phenom II x4 3.2 processor

Im having major issues with my saved games, when i exit the game and then load it up again, my current save will not work, it loads up fine but once in game, if i save, fast travel, wait, enter a new area, the game crashes (fallout has stopped responding) and i have to close the game... since i always have had that problem, my brother decided i was incredibly stupid for using just the 2 save games (my quick save and the games auto save) which of course overwrite themselves. so he installed a mod that auto saves every 5 mins or so (CASM) i think its called, so now if it happens again i could revert back to an earlier save.... in theory it sounds great but i still have the problem again wen i load up a game, it will crash when i fast travel, wait, save etc... BUT if i load up a previous save (usually 2 previous saves behind my current one) it works fine, i can then either continue the game again (sort of 2 steps forward, 1 step back kind of thing) or recently ive just found that when ive found a previous save that works, i can then load up my latest save (the one tht originally was crashing) and it will work fine =S i think its very strange... ive read there are some issues with saving, and that one reason is your save game folder shouldn't be set to read only, every time i untick that, it just goes back to read only again... but yeah i do use mods, my brother set them all up working correctly with BOSS and something else... there mainly texture mods nothing big... i just thought i would ask here to see if anyone would go "oh yeah you do this to sort it" would be nice but i arnt holding my breath... anyway hope that makes sense. Thank you. :sadvaultboy:

The read-only mark on a folder DOES NOT mean that the folder is read-only. That flag on a folder is used internally by Windows for other purposes.

Windows folders will always be marked read-only, the user CANNOT change that nor does it make any difference. Read-only status is only applied to files not to folders. Marking a folder read-only will change the status of all the files in that folder to read-only, marking a folder not read-only will change the status of all the files in that folder to not read-only. In both cases the read-only status of the folder WILL NOT change.

right okay. so i dont have to keep checking that....

Uncheck every mod & start loading up your mods one by one. If it is mod related, you should find the culprit by doing this. If you still have problems after all the mods are disabled, then it would be a bug or a glitch.

tried that... only thing i can think of that could be causing it is this 3gb enabler patch that combines with the fallout script extender, i have to launch through fomm all the time, i cant launch through steam...

Definitely the use of both of those exe modifying programs could cause issues. I wasn't even aware the switch had been made compatible with NVSE... in any case turn off the switch and see if your crashes go away.

okay i will have to get my brother to do it, im not sure what he did... or what to remove, so i will let him do it, that way if the game completely screws up i can blame him ^_^