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So I am trying to get the Essential Visual Enhancements mod to work (which has worked for me before), yet when I try to install it using the Nexus Mod Manager it will only give me the "No DLC" option saying that if I am missing any one of the main DLC packs (i.e. Dead Money, Honest Hearts, etc.) that I will therefore be unable to install the "EVE - All DLC" version. I think I have determined that the DLC pack that is not being detected by EVE is Dead Money, but I have yet to find any sort of solution to get it to recognize it including deleting and reinstalling the Dead Money files and reinstalling the whole game. This determination is just a best guess as I made this assumption based on what occurred within steam as I "turned off" each individual DLC pack and then reinstalled them. Dead Money was the only one that did not behave like the others in that it never downloaded anything after being uninstalled and reinstalled. The strange thing is that within New Vegas itself, both in the launcher and in game, Dead Money is among the list of installed DLC content... I am completely at a loss at this point and I would certainly prefer being able to use the EVE mod with all of the DLC. One last thing is that whenever I have tried to verify the game cache, I always get 1 file not validating to which it will be reacquired. Upon verifying the cache again it will still say that there is 1 file that did not validate.

Lately, I verified the integrity of game cache via Steam, and it notified me that 5 files failed to be validated. After installing these remaining files, my game's performance seemed to have.. improved? For example: Whenever I switch my magic skills via the Favorites menu from SkyUI, it doesn't stutter as much as before. In other words, there were fewer delays between switching. The CTDs I have had lately is not a memory block issue, but rather perhaps reaching the 3.1GB crash limit. To confirm this, I installed Skyrim Performance Monitor (available on Nexus) and launched my Skyrim game from the program. Unfortunately, I'm using an ENB, so an in-game counter was not available. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the graphs displayed after closing the game, but for right now, I'm not sure which options has been providing my gameplay with more stability: -Verify integrity of game cache via Steam OR -Skyrim Performance Monitor It's most likely verifying integrity of game cache files, but I find it hard to believe that merely 5 files have helped with stability and reducing CTDs after spending countless hours following guides for memory patches. Going back to the main question: Can verifying integrity of game cache via Steam help fix CTDs?