Black Screen on Launch, Please Help

[Brucebender]

Hello. This game has run perfectly for me since release and I've got 160ish hours on it. I've downloaded a few mods, and the game still worked perfectly. However, I had maybe 20 mods, and my game was taking quite a while to load up, so I decided that the next day I would disable some and go on with my game. However, the next morning before I did anything, I tried opening the game and it didn't load up. Three seconds after opening, it would black screen and then say its not responding. Looking up solutions, I did everything that the guides would tell me. I uninstalled all mods, set the game to borderless, updated my drivers, reinstalled the game, making fallout.exe run as admin, running fallout.exe from the folder and not steam, renamed the intro files, deleted the intro files, reinstalled the intro files, but nothings seemed to work. I'm really upset, as this game is one of my favorites to play, so if anyone could shed some light on the situation or some kind of fix I haven't found yet, it would be very appreciative. Thank you!

System Specs:
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Alienware
Model: Alienware 15 R2
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x5e
CPU Stepping: 0x3
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2592 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 22.21.13.8165
DirectX Driver Version: 22.21.13.8165
Driver Date: 31 Mar 2017
OpenGL Version: 4.5
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x13d8
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 13.54" x 7.64" (15.51" diag)
34.4cm x 19.4cm (39.4cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 8x
Primary VRAM: 3071 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Sound Blaster Recon3D

Memory:
RAM: 12159 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Microphone: Not set
Steam Controller Cable and Base: Not set
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1894350 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 721843 Mb
OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969
Game Controller: None detected
VR Headset: None detected

[sdack]

Delete the three .ini files, then start the game launcher and let it detect the graphics card again. This will create new .ini files. Then use Nvidia GeForce Experience to optimize the game settings.

Also put your laptop's power management into Performance Mode and run it from AC power.

[ronr42]

When you uninstall some mods not all of their files get removed from the game folders. If nothing else works for you you may need to uninstall the game again.

After uninstalling the game[normally you uninstall mods first] go to the game folder in SteamApps/common/Fallout 4 and delete anything remaining in it and the game folder. Next go to Documents/My Games/Fallout 4 and delete anything remaining in it. Now re-install the game. Last, verify the integrity of the game files. Then start the game.

[Brucebender]

Ursprungligen skrivet av sdack:

Delete the three .ini files, then start the game launcher and let it detect the graphics card again. This will create new .ini files. Then use Nvidia GeForce Experience to optimize the game settings.

Also put your laptop's power management into Performance Mode and run it from AC power.

Ursprungligen skrivet av ronr42:

When you uninstall some mods not all of their files get removed from the game folders. If nothing else works for you you may need to uninstall the game again.

After uninstalling the game[normally you uninstall mods first] go to the game folder in SteamApps/common and delete anything remaining in it and the game folder. Next go to Documents/My Games/Fallout 4 and delete anything remaining in it. Now re-install the game. Last, verify the integrity of the game files. Then start the game.

Thanks you guys, I'll try this and get back to you both!

[ronr42]

You're welcome. I hope you figure it out without having to uninstall the game again. Good luck.

[Brucebender]

Ursprungligen skrivet av ronr42:

When you uninstall some mods not all of their files get removed from the game folders. If nothing else works for you you may need to uninstall the game again.

After uninstalling the game[normally you uninstall mods first] go to the game folder in SteamApps/common and delete anything remaining in it and the game folder. Next go to Documents/My Games/Fallout 4 and delete anything remaining in it. Now re-install the game. Last, verify the integrity of the game files. Then start the game.

Quick question, I should probably back up my saves folder form the documents\my games fallout folder right?

[ronr42]

Yeah, you can move your saves to a new Documents folder then move them back later. When you use a save that had mods on it and the mods are gone, you'll get a popup telling you that content is no longer available. You can go ahead and click ok/yes.

[ronr42]

OP, I just edited my post telling you the path to the game folder. I forgot to add Fallout 4. Do Not delete the SteamApps/common contents or folder!

[Brucebender]

Ursprungligen skrivet av ronr42:

OP, I just edited my post telling you the path to the game folder. I forgot to add Fallout 4. Do Not delete the SteamApps/common contents or folder!

Cook, thanks. I know not to delete all my games in my common folder, lol :3 Going through the reinstallation process right now, I'll get back to you when its all completed :D

[ronr42]

Wheew! I never know what a player knows or not. You have no idea how bad I would feel If my forgetfulness caused you to do that.

[Brucebender]

Hey. So I really dont know why, but even after the reinstalation I get an immediate CTD. I'm starting to panic that I wont be able to play my game again, is there anything else you can think of to fix it? I appreciate all of your help!

[ronr42]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Reaper the Creeper:

Hey. So I really dont know why, but even after the reinstalation I get an immediate CTD. I'm starting to panic that I wont be able to play my game again, is there anything else you can think of to fix it? I appreciate all of your help!

If you have done a clean install of the game by deleting the remaining files and it still crashes, then all I can think of is a couple of basic things to do.

Make sure you're running the game as the Administrator of your pc.

Try turning off your anti-virus incase it updated and is now blocking FO4.

You did verify the game files after re-installing, right?

[Chro]

It might be your antivirus, make sure fallout 4 is white listed on ur anti virus software

[MageThis]

Ursprungligen skrivet av ronr42:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Reaper the Creeper:

Hey. So I really dont know why, but even after the reinstalation I get an immediate CTD. I'm starting to panic that I wont be able to play my game again, is there anything else you can think of to fix it? I appreciate all of your help!

If you have done a clean install of the game by deleting the remaining files and it still crashes, then all I can think of is a couple of basic things to do.

Make sure you're running the game as the Administrator of your pc.

Try turning off your anti-virus incase it updated and is now blocking FO4.

You did verify the game files after re-installing, right?

Remember that to effectively "verify your game install", game cache, that you do have to delete your game cache folder. It is standard. The "app cache" folder could be corrupted which instills wonderful mayhem. Google it.

[★REM★]

1. Be sure you have all the mods installed as you had on last savegame because removing mods with a .esp midgame is usually bad and end up on not being able to load tha save.
If you removed some .esp that had scripts you end up having black screen / istant CDT.

2. Update your Video Card Drivers to latest version
3. Update your Directx (even if you think you have the last)
4. Whitelist the game executable on your Antivir/Firewall
5. If you know what you doing, try to kill some non vital background processes.
6. If you are using an ENB/Reshade, remove it.

hope it helps

[MageThis]

NO. Just No. I will randomly mod my game, ignoring LOOT/MO/NMM, OS updates and just b lame BETHESDA because they did not send someone to break into my home and correct MY nonsense.