New Vegas stopped working

[An Epic Person]

I just bought new vegas and went to start a new game. It opened fine and played the opening cutscene but then crashes after the cutscene is over.

Im using windows 8, 64-bit, on a custom built PC with 8gb of ram

What Ive tried:
-Verify integrity of game cache -> Came up with "1 file must be reacquired" but then did not proceed to download anything
-change .ini files
-start in compatibility mode as admin
-installed the d3d9.dll file
-updated drivers

There may be some more I havent mentioned, but really any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Id rather not download any mods, but if I have to then I will.

[talgaby]

Is it crashing if you hit New game and press Esc like a maniac?

[An Epic Person]

No its after it gets to the loading screen it crashes a second later. Ive watched the whole cutscene multiple times and it stilll doesnt work.

[F3LiXius]

Same problem here. Played for 5 minutes. next time it crashes in Bethesda Logo. I have no mods installed. Tried to check the files 2x. Downloaded the whole game 2 times. WTF?

[Doktor MeeM Dank]

we should tell steam and valve to fix this or this is sparta not u peeps valve and steam

[talgaby]

Most of the times it's an external error, meaning programs like Raptr, game-experience boosting third-party apps (including anything that came with your GPU that is not the basic driver and control panel) and multi-monitor managing applications are known to interfere with the game engine, preventing it from loading. Only a manual service stop of uninstall fixes it.
Rarely it's the antivirus, a simple whitelist is good for that.
Also a few recent versions of nVidia drivers have been reported to cause instant crashes, and sometimes the same goes for the 14.9 Catalyst on a bunch of AMD families.

[Doktor MeeM Dank]

i am having the same probs

[Doktor MeeM Dank]

i paid 20$ for this game and i can barely use it

[baddude1337]

Originally posted by timduane:

i paid 20$ for this game and i can barely use it

Welcome to PC gaming.

Also, little silly spending that much on it. It was just on sale a few days ago, and will be again in a few weeks.

[An Epic Person]

Originally posted by talgaby:

Most of the times it's an external error, meaning programs like Raptr, game-experience boosting third-party apps (including anything that came with your GPU that is not the basic driver and control panel) and multi-monitor managing applications are known to interfere with the game engine, preventing it from loading. Only a manual service stop of uninstall fixes it.
Rarely it's the antivirus, a simple whitelist is good for that.
Also a few recent versions of nVidia drivers have been reported to cause instant crashes, and sometimes the same goes for the 14.9 Catalyst on a bunch of AMD families.

Is there anywhere with a list of incompatibilities? I tried to stop most of the apps running.

[baddude1337]

It could be other things, including your drivers. Problem with a game just straight up crashing is it can take awhile to troubleshoot and see what the problem is.

[talgaby]

No list, it would be hard to keep up to date anyway, since they are not breaking the game for everyone.

[An Epic Person]

Here are crash logs btw



Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 12/2/2014 6:53:36 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: ToddsPC
Description:
Faulting application name: FalloutNV.exe, version: 1.4.0.525, time stamp: 0x4e0d50ed
Faulting module name: FalloutNV.exe, version: 1.4.0.525, time stamp: 0x4e0d50ed
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00757aa9
Faulting process id: 0x3f8
Faulting application start time: 0x01d00e8a736a2346
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout New Vegas\FalloutNV.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout New Vegas\FalloutNV.exe
Report Id: 6e085d35-7a7e-11e4-82a3-448a5b29872c
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-12-02T23:53:36.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>37622</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>ToddsPC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>FalloutNV.exe</Data>
<Data>1.4.0.525</Data>
<Data>4e0d50ed</Data>
<Data>FalloutNV.exe</Data>
<Data>1.4.0.525</Data>
<Data>4e0d50ed</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>00757aa9</Data>
<Data>3f8</Data>
<Data>01d00e8a736a2346</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout New Vegas\FalloutNV.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Fallout New Vegas\FalloutNV.exe</Data>
<Data>6e085d35-7a7e-11e4-82a3-448a5b29872c</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

[talgaby]

0xc0000005 is a common memory-handling error, and mostly confirms what I said above. In most cases it's a driver, and with New Vegas it's mostly the GPU driver, but even a custom fancy mouse driver like Steelseries' dashboard thingie can cause it.
Just comb through your program files or programs folder for anything that is gaming-related, or look around the drivers of they installed a software that is not actually a driver but some performance enhancer (which, by the way, are totally useless…).

[F3LiXius]

Ok, one silly question. I had the game from a rent shop. Played ok. Format the pc, new video cards, bought on sale now, installed again via steam. A million crashes... Even if i have paid 4.99 on sale its my money and i could have spent it to another game. And instead of trying to fix it i could playing. My rig is nvidia 770 x2 16GB ram Windows 7 x64. Tried every mod that is anticrash or... and no luck. The 4GB mod the same. We are just sheeps... And any ideas?

[cheshirm]

heres a list of programs that interfere with steam - maybe that will help:
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289