Found Fix for Fallout New Vegas crashing, not responding in task manager, not loading, on windows 8/10

[Sas]

Bear with me guys, its worth the longer post. This may also help for other games or Fallout 4 if there is going to be any intergration issues. When a problem arises, we tend to think either or. Mostly, the problem with FNV is both the game files and your computer. Follow these instructions and it will likely solve your problem.
First step- I deleted the mod in nexus, took FNV out of the nexus mod manager, verified that nexus would not recognize FNV. Then I went to steam FNV settings, deleted my local files of FNV, reinstalled FNV. Verified files integrity again, opened FNV, assessed the load files under FNV options. exit game........ Not done yet
Second step- , I updated the drivers to my Intel graphics card. restared computer, restarted steam. opened FNV. Verified files integrithy again, I tweaked my game graphics. I found the goldie locks zone. 1440x 810 letterbox. ran the game on the save before the crash. the game worked fine. If you have mods before, reload them because they are intergrated with the save.

[Sas]

THis is the why.
At first, I thought it was an either or problem. Either with steam, or the steam cloud intergration with auto saves, or FNV files. I had my graphics card at the bottom of the list because of how new my computer was. Truns out it was all of the above including game graphic settings and my graphics driver being outdated.
I am running windows 10. Windows 8 and 10 are two programs stacked on windows 7. I know that is a grossly crude analogy of the windows software, but its kind of like a software jenga game. One wrong stack or removal out of order, and bam, you have a problem.
Software intergration and settings detections have to answer to your local computer and its files.
I had to rethink what was going on. My computer is a brand new 7 core gamer computer. I knew the graphics card, processor, and most of the software could handle FNV with all the bells and whistles.
This is how I figured it out
Since I knew it wasnt the files. Since I knew it wasnt the one single mod (or any mod), since I knew it wasnt my hardware, I ruled the more common problems.
To further illustrate the previous problem, upon solving it, I can now see when it saves and reloads, graphics change and the load screen changes. It slightly streatches the wheel and words out, but bypasses it and loads fast now with no problem. when it comes to the gameplay again, the graphics are normal. I can live with that for now.
The clean install is necessary because the saves, mods, and settings overwrite files. This is why it is a good idea to back up your game files. I hope this helps.

[Sas]

sorry for the mispellings, noticed after posts

[talgaby]

Your double post is, in a nutshell: wipe game before re-download, update drivers.

[Sas]

LOL

[Sas]

more than that actually but i get your point

[talgaby]

I know, just wanted to point it out.
By the way, usually we advise the use of New Vegas Anti Crash for the not exiting normally trouble. It also fixes the infinite loading glitch, and a few other common problems, plus makes it easier to spot a missing master/load order issue.

Of course there are still other possible ways the game might die or refuse to work, but they have their own solutions (or half-solutions). Your post covers the post-intro, the forgot-to-set-up-hardware, the faulty ENB install, the bad load order, and the missing master types of crashes. :)