Fallout 4 crash on startup [FIXED]

[Owen908]

The first time I tried to play, it worked fine. I made a new game, but had to quit before I even finished the intro. After this it started to crash.
I managed to temporarily fix the problem by deleting the saves folder in
Documents->My Games->Fallout 4, but when I quit the problem came back as usual. I tried deleting the saves folder again, but it didn't work.
I fixed the problem again by deleting the entire Fallout 4 folder where the saves are kept. But again, now it just crashes on startup.
I'm currently reinstalling the game to see if that fixes the issue, but I was wondering if anyone else was having this issue, or if someone has a fix for it?

[Owen908]

I fixed the issue. I got the configuration mod in the news, messed with some settings, and now it works just fine.
I unchecked Enable Intro Video and Enable God Rays
Checked High CPU Priority and set the number of cores to use as 2, since that's how many my computer has. I really hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

[iFASx]

big Thanks it finally worked for me !!! again Thanks

[bunboy bread]

Anyway you can link me to the mod?

[Owen908]

Originally posted by Bread:

Anyway you can link me to the mod?

Here you go: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/102/?

I never expected the amount of stuff posted in the news.

[Kapper]

This would be useful if the website didnt require a subscription..

TAKE MY MONEY for hosting a website that hosts projects made by the users using the website....

Boy, they got a good thing goin there dont they? I'll edit my .ini files manually, or buy the mod directly from the creator before signing up for a website that basically charges for something thats not theirs to begin with...

Seriously, steam is free, and they offer a WAY better and universal service then 'nexus mods'

Even worse is that we have to mod a game to make it work. Any other game in my library i hit play it plays like right ♥♥♥♥♥♥ now, but not fallout 4, im constantly restarting, closing programs to make it start. After the game is running i have no issues, i could leave it up for over 24hrs (I have) and it wont crash, lag, nothing.

But the game just wont start the first time, im always spending half an hour tweaking settings to trick it into running.

If they dont patch this soon i will be very disappointed in my purchase.

Not to mention the infinite caps glitch at EVERY vendor..

Oops.. seems Fo4 was released a tad too early. I'd much rather have waited then dealt with these bugs. Afterall, what fun is playing a survival game, trying to get everything and spend caps wisely, progressing with friends that are at the same point in the game, then someone figures out caps are practically infinite at any given moment, any merchant, any where.

Hm, makes me care a lot less about picking up all that junk and scavenging when i could just go to a merchant and buy shipments of materials, all kinds of legionaries, AND end up having more caps then i did when i started the trade, leaving the merchant with no caps or items.

Kinda ruins the feel of scarce supplies, ammo, caps, salvaging, junk, materials... Kinda ruins the feel of Fo4

[Owen908]

Originally posted by VNDL kapper:

This would be useful if the website didnt require a subscription..

TAKE MY MONEY for hosting a website that hosts projects made by the users using the website....

Boy, they got a good thing goin there dont they? I'll edit my .ini files manually, or buy the mod directly from the creator before signing up for a website that basically charges for something thats not theirs to begin with...

Seriously, steam is free, and they offer a WAY better and universal service then 'nexus mods'

Even worse is that we have to mod a game to make it work. Any other game in my library i hit play it plays like right ♥♥♥♥♥♥ now, but not fallout 4, im constantly restarting, closing programs to make it start. After the game is running i have no issues, i could leave it up for over 24hrs (I have) and it wont crash, lag, nothing.

But the game just wont start the first time, im always spending half an hour tweaking settings to trick it into running.

If they dont patch this soon i will be very disappointed in my purchase.

Not to mention the infinite caps glitch at EVERY vendor..

Oops.. seems Fo4 was released a tad too early. I'd much rather have waited then dealt with these bugs. Afterall, what fun is playing a survival game, trying to get everything and spend caps wisely, progressing with friends that are at the same point in the game, then someone figures out caps are practically infinite at any given moment, any merchant, any where.

Hm, makes me care a lot less about picking up all that junk and scavenging when i could just go to a merchant and buy shipments of materials, all kinds of legionaries, AND end up having more caps then i did when i started the trade, leaving the merchant with no caps or items.

Kinda ruins the feel of scarce supplies, ammo, caps, salvaging, junk, materials... Kinda ruins the feel of Fo4

It doesn't require a subscription though. Maybe you could try downloading manually?

[Filloax]

Dude you just have to scroll to the bottom to register without paying

[Rev]

Nexus noobs these days, I swear. Dude, did you even PLAY fallout 3 or NV? Good god.

[tneelilsupaguy]

Originally posted by VNDL kapper:

TAKE MY MONEY for hosting a website that hosts projects made by the users using the website....

Boy, they got a good thing goin there dont they?

Quite a lot like Steam in many ways.

[Owen908]

Here are detailed instructions on how to download and use the Fallout 4 Configuration Tool
1. Click files
2. Go to the top file
3. Download manually
4. Once it's downloaded, open the .zip up
5. Take the file out and put it on your desktop
6. open it
And your done!

[skunch shart]

Originally posted by Owen908:

I fixed the issue. I got the configuration mod in the news, messed with some settings, and now it works just fine.
I unchecked Enable Intro Video and Enable God Rays
Checked High CPU Priority and set the number of cores to use as 2, since that's how many my computer has. I really hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

I did what you said here, but I'm still having issues. Could you help, please?
Edit: I also deleted my saves, but I restored them after I found out that didn't work.

[Owen908]

Originally posted by gmodexo:

Originally posted by Owen908:

I fixed the issue. I got the configuration mod in the news, messed with some settings, and now it works just fine.
I unchecked Enable Intro Video and Enable God Rays
Checked High CPU Priority and set the number of cores to use as 2, since that's how many my computer has. I really hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

I did what you said here, but I'm still having issues. Could you help, please?

I have an older version of the mod, but whether or not that's the problem I don't know. I'll download the newest version and try it out.

[Commander William Riker]

Originally posted by Owen908:

I fixed the issue. I got the configuration mod in the news, messed with some settings, and now it works just fine.
I unchecked Enable Intro Video and Enable God Rays
Checked High CPU Priority and set the number of cores to use as 2, since that's how many my computer has. I really hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

i unchecked intro thing but cant find the others

[Owen908]

Originally posted by Frederik Zarghetta:

Originally posted by Owen908:

I fixed the issue. I got the configuration mod in the news, messed with some settings, and now it works just fine.
I unchecked Enable Intro Video and Enable God Rays
Checked High CPU Priority and set the number of cores to use as 2, since that's how many my computer has. I really hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

i unchecked intro thing but cant find the others

They changed the layout of the mod recently. At the top there are a list of tabs. All of the settings except for the intro video are under the Performance tab.

The number of cores to set is the one named: iNumHWThreads
The setting to set the CPU to high priority is labeled as High Priority on the right
Enable GodRays is in the middle. You can just uncheck Volumetric lighting, as it also disables GodRays

[Owen908]

Originally posted by gmodexo:

Originally posted by Owen908:

I fixed the issue. I got the configuration mod in the news, messed with some settings, and now it works just fine.
I unchecked Enable Intro Video and Enable God Rays
Checked High CPU Priority and set the number of cores to use as 2, since that's how many my computer has. I really hope this helps anyone else having this problem.

I did what you said here, but I'm still having issues. Could you help, please?
Edit: I also deleted my saves, but I restored them after I found out that didn't work.

I think the problem is that our cpu's can't handle the game (or at least think they can't), so Windows crashes the game to stop our computer from crashing. The setting High Priority fixes this issue by making the cpu stop focusing on things it doesn't need to in order to run the game, and to focus entirely on the game.
If the things here don't work for you, try turning down all the game's settings to the absolute minimum. This'll make your computer not have to work quite as hard. If even that doesn't work, try messing with the settings in the Fallout4ConfigTool. If even that doesn't work, I'm sorry to give you this overused line, but, you need to buy a new computer :/