FO76 fails to launch/start

[Herbert_Prime]

I wanted to get back to FO76 so reinstalled it, but the game refuses to launch. The button in Steam turns from green (play) to blue (cancel) to blue (stop) and back to green (play). There is no error message, nothing.
I've checked file integrity, reinstalled FO76 on the same SSD and later another HDD, I have done a clean install of Windows 11, nothing makes any difference.

I am on Windows 11 build 26016, upgraded to 26020.

I have no clue what is going on.

[jmarsh07]

Yeah, the last 2 preview builds don't seem to play well with the launcher, and weird thing is all my other games launch just fine. So I believe it's something that Bethesda needs to look into and update.

[Commander GreyFox]

i'm having this issue too

[SuperFly]

Have y'all tried clearing your Steam cache (Steam>Settings>Downloads) and rebooting?

[Zaaset]

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Have y'all tried clearing your Steam cache (Steam>Settings>Downloads) and rebooting?

Rebooting the PC or Steam?
Because I just tried clearing the Steam cache and it did not fix this issue that started couple of days ago.

I also reinstalled and reset the default settings.
The game TRIES to run.. sometimes even gets as far as the season main menu background video while loading starts... and then just crashes.

As if the game is desperatly trying to start or load something and fails.
Before the game could sometimes lockup on trying to load the atomic shop on start (probably connection to server issues), but that would only cause the game to freeze and a game restart usualy fixed it.
Now the game just outright crashes way before then.
No error. No nothing. Just oop and off

[SuperFly]

Originally posted by Zaaset:

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Have y'all tried clearing your Steam cache (Steam>Settings>Downloads) and rebooting?

Rebooting the PC or Steam?
Because I just tried clearing the Steam cache and it did not fix this issue that started couple of days ago.
...

When in doubt, reboot.
I do mean the PC, because there are other factors that could be at large than just Steam.
It's not unhealthy to reboot. There's a definite kernel of truth in "turn it off/back on again".

If rebooting is somehow a problem because of a network, or something -- you probably shouldn't be playing videogames on the admin box in the first place.! ;)

With that said, this sounds like it's something on the Bethesda side from the varied & recent complaints. This could be exacerbated by Steam's latest action against Win7 users on Jan1, where they modified the client into orchestrated obsolescence for the OS.
FO76 still runs fine for them.
It would be good to know if users not also using Steam are being subjected to problems.
There are a lot of factors to consider.

[jay]

New W10 PC with a nice amount of studio grade hardware, F76 does not work. Watching thread!

[Zaaset]

Originally posted by SuperFly:

When in doubt, reboot.
I do mean the PC

Cleared steam cache and rebooted PC: Steam Fallout 76 still crashes on start

Changed download server from Helsinki to Berlin: Steam Fallout 76 still crashes on start

Played Mutant Year Zero online stalker trial, got 1 star in the Grog Den again, angry because I cant unlock any more maps: Steam Fallout 76 still crashes on start

[Mooman]

Two things to look up and try. Interception driver and Windows Defender folder exception.

[RMPyro]

Tried to start the game from the game folder instead? Also install Directx Redist for games with directx11. It should not overwrite directx12 only add some missing files.

Usually have to do that if I installed windows recently, because steam don't update directx for fallout 76.

Could also be other programs causing it to close down like riva tuner or msi afterburner.

[Commander GreyFox]

nawh, game is having a huge issue. got an error when trying to launch the gamepass version.

[lockwoodx]

Ok I've had this issue in the past and I seem to recall the problem was fallout can't find your ini file and the fix was giving steam full permission to look at your files so it can find where your fallout folder is. That or it was assigning the save file to the wrong folder. Either way it had to do with the system not being able to find the fallout file so it crashes.

[Zaaset]

Welp. today a random Windows 11 update and a restart FIXED the problem... Now the game is playing as normal (after I reinstalled it yesterday and reset all the settings by deleting the Fallout 76 in my documents folder)

[Commander GreyFox]

Originally posted by Zaaset:

Welp. today a random Windows 11 update and a restart FIXED the problem... Now the game is playing as normal (after I reinstalled it yesterday and reset all the settings by deleting the Fallout 76 in my documents folder)

Do you know what updated?

[Twisted Mind]

this problem affects 26016 and 26020 (the latest build).
Fallout76.exe kills itself after a few seconds.
There's a record in events viewer :
Nom de l'application défaillante : Fallout76.exe, version : 1.7.8.10, horodatage : 0x657241f6
Nom du module défaillant : Fallout76.exe, version : 1.7.8.10, horodatage : 0x657241f6
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000036b971a

There's already some feedbacks on insider hub.

We only have to wait for the next update. It's been said in the last 2 changelogs that theses build could potentially break some games.
That's the price to pay as insider user. If you want it to work it right now, there's one solution for now : use a windows public/stable build and not an alpha/beta one.

i'm not blaming any1, i'm also an insider build user ;)

[Big McLargeHuge]

Same, nothing i've tried can fix it