Fallout New Vegas Crash

[Beltom]

I've looked around several places, but can't find an answer to this problem. I just received Fallout New Vegas for Christmas, installed it, and then tried to run it. It reaches as far as the Bethesda splash screen before crashing, and this occurs every time I try to run it.
I have tried running it in windowed mode, low quality, and editing the .ini and fallout_default files. If anyone has a solution, or could direct me to a solution, I would be most grateful.

 

[Beltom]

Do you have the latest video drivers? Are you running it through steam? If so, do you have it set to always patch?

My drivers are indeed updated, it is running through Steam, and it is set to always update.

 

[lacktheknack]

Maybe you should update your CPU drivers?

This happened to me with Batman: AA. The only fix was to replace the motherboard.

 

[Atmos Duality]

It sounds like the video codec for the intro screen doesn't want to play nice with your computer. Either it loads up and crashes, or it plays as normal, fails to unload, causing a memory leak (it slowly takes up RAM space without doing anything, and it accumulates until you run out of page-swap memory or it crashes).

The same thing plagued me in Fallout 3, and as far as I know, there never was a fix for that other than updating your drivers and praying it works.

This is all speculation on my part, but I have little reason to believe either Bethesda or Obsidian fixed a damn thing in the game engine since Fallout 3.

 

[Beltom]

Maybe you should update your CPU drivers?

This happened to me with Batman: AA. The only fix was to replace the motherboard.

My Device Manager says that everything there is all up to date.

It sounds like the video codec for the intro screen doesn't want to play nice with your computer. Either it loads up and crashes, or it plays as normal, fails to unload, causing a memory leak (it slowly takes up RAM space without doing anything, and it accumulates until you run out of page-swap memory or it crashes).

The same thing plagued me in Fallout 3, and as far as I know, there never was a fix for that other than updating your drivers and praying it works.

This is all speculation on my part, but I have little reason to believe either Bethesda or Obsidian fixed a damn thing in the game engine since Fallout 3.

Damnit, that's a kick in the teeth. I've tried updating al my drivers and it's still not loading, so not sure what else I can do. :\

 

[Atmos Duality]

Damnit, that's a kick in the teeth.

Based on my experiences with Oblivion and Fallout 3, that is a tremendous understatement.

Bethesda doesn't know a fucking thing about creating a stable engine. They know how to make it pretty and cram new tech into it (when they added Havoc Physics into Oblivion, it created all sorts of new hilarious glitches) but their coding system is downright disgraceful on anything but the console they programmed the game for.

I've tried updating al my drivers and it's still not loading, so not sure what else I can do. :\

Given how much bad publicity Obsidian has received a patch might get made.
Then again, this is Obsidian Entertainment we're talking about.

In any event, keep digging, and be sure to have your computer specs on hand when you do find some better technical help. Sometimes the "Supported video card list" isn't as supported as it claims. Sometimes it's some other weird ass bug (like the infrared sensor drivers in Windows causing several players to be unable to use the command console).

Personally, I ran out of patience for their sloppy products years ago.
Good luck!

 

[ArseRocket]

Can I see your computer specs please? There might be issues with certains pieces of hardware with the game.

 

[Beltom]

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Thanks, I'll keep trying.

Can I see your computer specs please? There might be issues with certains pieces of hardware with the game.

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Windows 2.6.1.7600
CPU TYPE:
Intel® Core?2 Duo CPU P7450 @ 2.13GHz
CPU SPEED (GHZ):
2.15
SYSTEM MEMORY (GB):
3.97
VIDEO CARD MODEL:
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
VIDEO CARD DRIVER:
atiumdag.dll
DESKTOP RESOLUTION:
1366x768
HARD DISK SIZE (GB):
456.03
HARD DISK FREE SPACE (GB):
193.56

Is that all the info that's needed?

 

[ArseRocket]

Hmm, I can't see any immediate problems with the hardware all I can recommend at the moment is to reinstall, try every screen resolution and setting, i'll do a bit of research into what could cause this.

 

[Beltom]

Hmm, I can't see any immediate problems with the hardware all I can recommend at the moment is to reinstall, try every screen resolution and setting, i'll do a bit of research into what could cause this.

Thanks, will do.

 

[ArseRocket]

This is a long shot but trying playing without sound on or any sound enhancing programs and modes, I've read reports that this causes it to crash on startup.

 

[Beltom]

This is a long shot but trying playing without sound on or any sound enhancing programs and modes, I've read reports that this causes it to crash on startup.

Okay, I'll give that a try.

 

[Beltom]

This is a long shot but trying playing without sound on or any sound enhancing programs and modes, I've read reports that this causes it to crash on startup.

Just disabled my audio driver, and tried to run it and it worked! Will I be able to re-enable the driver while the game is running now, order would that crash the game again?

 

[ArseRocket]

If I am correct you should turn off a "GX mode" on your audio card or something similar like hardware acceleration, if not then you'll have to play with no sound until they solve this issue!

 

[Beltom]

If I am correct you should turn off a "GX mode" on your audio card or something similar like hardware acceleration, if not then you'll have to play with no sound until they solve this issue!

Rightio, I'll look into that. Thanks for all your help.