Yiasemi

Disabling Diagnostic Policy Services using services.msc worked for me. No more stutter and one crash in 24 hours of play. So far disabling it seems to cause no other issues, setting it to manual may be safer.

Thank you to kelmych and all who contributed for a great guide. I had to reduce my plugins to 201 from 247 before I got stability (graphics glitches and my escape button stopped working as I got to the last patching sections of the guide). Your guide made me learn xedit and merge plugins like never before. Haven't completely solved my stutter problem yet (Windows 10) but messing with the DPI settings of my mouse have reduced the effects after all the ini settings failed (although New Vegas Fear & Loathing which I installed a week ago is fine), I think I am simulating the wheel mouse I originally started the game with back when. Not completely sorted yet though, as Bash Patching causes a hang before the main menu shows. While I can play without, I cannot accept failure lol. As someone who has used all the STEP guides at different times, yours has been the most challenging. Thanks again. Oh and NOT ONE CRASH once I got the plugins problem sorted.