Vortex Mod Manager won't run new vegas

[Metal Arms]

Hey I been trying to play the new california mod, but i been told by the mod developers to download the 4gb patch. Okay i get that part i have it on vortex as a listed mod with one other vortex mod invalidation(no idea what it is).

When i try to run New vegas through vortex i get application error code 5:0000065434. I assume it's the .exe for running fallout new vegas, It's not listed anywhere so i assume its falloutNVlauncher. But still no clear idea why i cannot launch it if it's all there? I disable all mods for NV, still no change with error.

I have uninstalled both vortex and new vegas and have change NV from different drives too see any changes. All it does is move where the NV folder is located. I have search the internet but all i get are posts about this issue some time back without a clear answer. I know vortex is working for my other games, like witcher 3, although with witcher 3 i just downloaded the mods directly into my mod folder for the game.

Any help is appreciated.

[ryugin93060]

Go to your fallout new vegas in the file after steam and common do not open the new vegas game file as there are usaually two new vegas files go to the one that has the game and mods in it but do not open instead right click on it and open properties and go to a section that says hidden and read only as read only will be checked check also on hiddem files then say ok and it will go thru and open all your hidden files which includes fallout new vegas exe you can put that in or if you have nvse you will also be able to go thru vortex and put that in as a tool when you do it play the game with nvse as the tool of choice and your game should work if your nvse or fallout nvse exe is not chooseable that is I hope this helps...its how I got rid of any problems.

[ryugin93060]

try my way also it worked for me I just got vortex too my game freezes at the vita scene with the doc when the game begins...but I got the game to play that far at least.

[Ez Duzit]

Just forget any confusing things people will say on the forum as it can be hard to explain, but easy if you just watch Gopher's tutorial on using Vortex. I think there's 4 of em and they're only 8 or 9 minutes long and cover everything clearly enough to get you up and running on Vortex with a much better understanding of how to properly use it as your mod mgr.

Here's the link for the 1st video. You can skip to about 2 minutes in which is right after you installed vortex on your C: drive and opened it for the first time, and how to properly set it up so it works even if your games are on another drive. The tutorial videos are well done and will most likely solve your problem.

https://youtu.be/sD9xKao_u30?t=125

[Metal Arms]

Originally posted by ryugin93060:

Go to your fallout new vegas in the file after steam and common do not open the new vegas game file as there are usaually two new vegas files go to the one that has the game and mods in it but do not open instead right click on it and open properties and go to a section that says hidden and read only as read only will be checked check also on hiddem files then say ok and it will go thru and open all your hidden files which includes fallout new vegas exe you can put that in or if you have nvse you will also be able to go thru vortex and put that in as a tool when you do it play the game with nvse as the tool of choice and your game should work if your nvse or fallout nvse exe is not chooseable that is I hope this helps...its how I got rid of any problems.

I check hidden and it hides everything actually not entirely sure whats going on but it doesn't really matter. I can't get NV to even run through vortex.

I don't have NVSE do i need it to run NV through vortex? I know i will probably need it to run some mods, but i haven't even reach that point if i can't even launch the game through vortex.

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Just forget any confusing things people will say on the forum as it can be hard to explain, but easy if you just watch Gopher's tutorial on using Vortex. I think there's 4 of em and they're only 8 or 9 minutes long and cover everything clearly enough to get you up and running on Vortex with a much better understanding of how to properly use it as your mod mgr.

Here's the link for the 1st video. You can skip to about 2 minutes in which is right after you installed vortex on your C: drive and opened it for the first time, and how to properly set it up so it works even if your games are on another drive. The tutorial videos are well done and will most likely solve your problem.

https://youtu.be/sD9xKao_u30?t=125

That honestly didn't help me as I believe i don't even need the tutorial as I'm way passed that part. i have witcher 3 afterall installed and can heavily modded it without any problems.

New vegas on the other hand won't even launch. That is my problem, not learning how install mods or use vortex. Getting vortex to even run New vegas while every other game is perfectly runnable.

[Ez Duzit]

So Vortex actually has nothing to do with it. It's just that New Vegas won't run. Is that correct? Because your first post is kind of confusing. Not sure why you mentioned vortex at all.

For the record. Will New Vegas run with NO mods installed? That means no New California or nvse, or any other mods. Don't even activate it in Vortex. Just a fresh install of Nev Vegas, will it run when launching it via Steam?

Also the 4GB patch MUST be installed manually, not with a mod manager, or it will not properly install.

[Metal Arms]

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

So Vortex actually has nothing to do with it. It's just that New Vegas won't run. Is that correct? Because your first post is kind of confusing. Not sure why you mentioned vortex at all.

For the record. Will New Vegas run with NO mods installed? That means no New California or nvse, or any other mods. Don't even activate it in Vortex. Just a fresh install of Nev Vegas, will it run when launching it via Steam?

Also the 4GB patch MUST be installed manually, not with a mod manager, or it will not properly install.

New Vegas runs perfectly find within steam and through the FalloutNVlauncher, it refuses to launch within vortex as i keep getting that error code. I don't have a single mod installed, i don't have any mods on this computer installed. I had at one point the 4gb patch installed on vortex but i have since deleted it as i found out i don't need it on Vortex.

There is no point in me for installing any mods through vortex if the game itself refuses to even launch in vortex without ANY mods installed at all.

I actually said this in my OP already that it is vortex. "When i try to run New vegas THROUGH vortex i get application error code 5:0000065434" so I don't see whats not to understand. I also said that I unistalled all mods and that i moved the fallout NV install from :C to :D drive and nothing changes.

I've had tried the solution on the wiki.

Solution-1a: The "Steam Client" may be in "Offline" mode and minimized, but must remain running while launching the game, even with "nvse_launcher" or "fnv4gb".
Note that the "Steam Client" is what displays the "Library", "Store", etc. It is a separate piece of software from "the game" and performs the authentication that your copy of the game is legitimate.
Solution-1b: Sometimes all that is needed is to open the "Task Manager" (<Ctrl+Alt+Del> or right-click on the "Task Bar" | "Start Task Manager"), switch to the "Processes" tab, and right-click the "image name" Steam.exe task and select "End Process Tree". Then restart the game again.
Solution-1c: When this occurs with the "FalloutNVLauncher.exe" file after installing NVSE, some people have found that COPYing the "Steam.EXE" file (usually located in the "<install path>\Steam\" folder), into the game root folder (i.e. along with the NVSE.EXE file in "<install path>\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Fallout New Vegas"), resolves the problem.

Solution 1c is my concern so far but I don't actually have steam.EXE, i have steam.EXE OLD. So idk, I;m thinking about unistalling and reinstalling it back onto drive :C where the programX86 is located.

[Metal Arms]

Okay i fixed it. Turns out it didn't like the fact it wasn't located on the programx86 drive :C for REASONS. so i unistalled it from my bigger drive onto my smaller but where steamapps is located and it now took it. I have done this already before but now it seems to launch through vortex no problem.

So all in all, IDK WTF IS GOING ON.

[Ez Duzit]

Originally posted by GameLeap:

Okay i fixed it. Turns out it didn't like the fact it wasn't located on the programx86 drive :C for REASONS. so i unistalled it from my bigger drive onto my smaller but where steamapps is located and it now took it. I have done this already before but now it seems to launch through vortex no problem.

So all in all, IDK WTF IS GOING ON.

If you had bothered to watch just the first 2 tutorial videos they would have explained all that. They also explain how to properly set up hard link deployment, which you need when vortex is on your C drive and your games are on another drive. It's great that you have modding experience but if Vortex is new to you than watch the dam tutorials, since you don't know as much as you think you know. I'm trying to help you. Vortex is new (and different), with different features than you're used to and a different type of set up.

[Metal Arms]

Originally posted by Ez Duzit:

Originally posted by GameLeap:

Okay i fixed it. Turns out it didn't like the fact it wasn't located on the programx86 drive :C for REASONS. so i unistalled it from my bigger drive onto my smaller but where steamapps is located and it now took it. I have done this already before but now it seems to launch through vortex no problem.

So all in all, IDK WTF IS GOING ON.

If you had bothered to watch just the first 2 tutorial videos they would have explained all that. They also explain how to properly set up hard link deployment, which you need when vortex is on your C drive and your games are on another drive. It's great that you have modding experience but if Vortex is new to you than watch the dam tutorials, since you don't know as much as you think you know. I'm trying to help you. Vortex is new (and different), with different features than you're used to and a different type of set up.

Dude the video didn't help one bit, as i already properly install vortex the exact way he explain it. I had vortex on my D drive with my NV game on my D drive. I then tried putting vortex on my C drive and putting NV on m C drive many times already. I also had vortex on C or D with NV on a different drive entirely which can't enable hardlink deplotment since they need to be on the same partition. Which would bring a different problem which is easy to solve, but the error code is unrelated to where stuff is located issue.

it's hardly comlicated dude, I said already i have witcher 3 on it. Witcher 3 has like 10 mods running through vortex.

His video wouldn't have helped me as my issue was resolve through continued reinstall and unistalled until steam actually fixed the problem for me and I still don't know what it was. Plus he never talked about the error code, he only discussed installation for people who never installed mods before. Even when i went back and perform the installation of vortex to the letter as I explain that i already did, it didn't solve any problem.

[Metal Arms]

All in all the problem was my own fault, as I believe i have changed something in the launching of NV prior to me even trying any of this. At one point NV had like 20+ something mods on it and i used FOMM i believe, that was like five years ago since i lasted played. As my Fallout.exe was labeled as OLD which means i have changed something or i enable something to change that vortex required in order to launch NV.

This guy helped me.

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/7146366-cant-run-new-vegas-through-vortex/

and this is the say all be all for NV mod and game help.

https://wiki.nexusmods.com/index.php/Fallout_NV_Mod_Conflict_Troubleshooting#Issue:_Application_load_Windows_error.28s.29

[Ez Duzit]

Originally posted by GameLeap:

Dude the video didn't help one bit, as i already properly install vortex the exact way he explain it. I had vortex on my D drive with my NV game on my D drive. I then tried putting vortex on my C drive and putting NV on m C drive many times already. I also had vortex on C or D with NV on a different drive entirely which can't enable hardlink deplotment since they need to be on the same partition. Which would bring a different problem which is easy to solve, but the error code is unrelated to where stuff is located issue.

it's hardly comlicated dude, I said already i have witcher 3 on it. Witcher 3 has like 10 mods running through vortex.

His video wouldn't have helped me as my issue was resolve through continued reinstall and unistalled until steam actually fixed the problem for me and I still don't know what it was. Plus he never talked about the error code, he only discussed installation for people who never installed mods before. Even when i went back and perform the installation of vortex to the letter as I explain that i already did, it didn't solve any problem.

Dude you make it hard to help you. But I'm glad you finally got it up and running. Even if you are completely wrong about Vortex.
So just to clarify for the future.
Vortex SHOULD ALWAYS BE INSTALLED ON YOUR C DRIVE WITH YOUR OS.
Vortex ABSOLUTELY HAS THE ABILITY TO LINK TO ALL YOUR GAMES ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DRIVE OR PARTITION THEREBY ENABLING HARD LINK DEPLOYMENT TO WORK PERFECTLY.

Regardless of other games, you caused your own problems and after reading the other thread and your final solution, you probably would have solved your problem had you just watched the videos and installed everything the way it is explained, instead of assuming they are for complete beginners ands disregarding it.
And you can say you watched the videos, but you obviously didn't pay attention since he explains that you should install it on your C drive (even if games are on another drive)), yet you installed it on your D drive. He also explains and shows you how to hard link to your games on other drives.
You're not quite as advanced as you like to think and don't know nearly as much as you say.

But at least you finally got it working so there's that.

[Feargan]

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