Is anyone else having problems with Fallout 4 due to the new Steam game launcher?

[Broken War Horse]

I am having a problem with loading Fallout 4, though this is not a game problem. The problem is the new Steam game launcher and possibly Windows update. Yesterday when I was trying to fix my Fallout 4 launch, which launched the Game, just guessing based on past experience, in something 640*320, just a guess. It was in the left had corner of a 27 inch monitor, set at 1920*1080. In my last attempt the Steam launcher had to download the redistribute, why? I believe the launcher is part of the problem, any one know a work around or a why to stop the Steam launcher. By the way the Steam client is launching the library in the same size. :(

[Lavie]

HI!

Can you tell us what the issue exactly? The game don't start? or it's a resolution issue?

[Broken War Horse]

The game starts but defaults wide screen 16:10 and resolution of 800*500. I change the game setting to 16:9 1920* 1080 but that is not the size of the window that opens. Is there a way to attach screen shots outside of Steam? Seeing the problem would be easier.

[Lavie]

Try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE8L6KohDQQ&t=197s

[Iceira]

Is there a reason you dont know bethesda game launcher has own resolution option.

But why you have system resolution issue, is another matter make clean GPU driver install

Nvidia use custom mode in custom install AMD use DDU app,
and nvidia has own control nvidia panel, to set main GPU card and Native resolution.
you might want to check Monitor Brand page or might just use windows default Monitor Driver.

things can change with Monitor ini file or whatever they do software update its seen before in the past.

gl with it, and own fallout 4 forum grp. know this.

Bethseda game has always done this. you need a strong well optimized pc, or you will get trouble with game engine.

+ enable Multi CPU in what you have, require edit of game files.

[Broken War Horse]

Originally posted by Iceira W10:

Is there a reason you dont know bethesda game launcher has own resolution option.

But why you have system resolution issue, is another matter make clean GPU driver install

Nvidia use custom mode in custom install AMD use DDU app,
and nvidia has own control nvidia panel, to set main GPU card and Native resolution.
you might want to check Monitor Brand page or might just use windows default Monitor Driver.

things can change with Monitor ini file or whatever they do software update its seen before in the past.

gl with it, and own fallout 4 forum grp. know this.

Bethseda game has always done this. you need a strong well optimized pc, or you will get trouble with game engine.

+ enable Multi CPU in what you have, require edit of game files.

Yes I well aware of Bethesda has it's own launcher, but Steam now launches it's own launcher to launch Bethesda's launcher. This problem is new in that Steam has add a complexity to launching the game and Windows update just released. Which booted me back to the beginning where Bethesda's launcher looks for the screen resolution.

[Nx Machina]

I am on the Steam Client beta and have Fallout 4 with zero issues.

Secondly Steam has always being required to run Fallout 4 whether via the play button in Steam itself which will bring up the Fallout 4 launcher, or running the game via Mod Organiser 2 (for example) which will launch Steam in the background without the Fallout 4 launcher.

It is a check to see if you own the licence to Fallout 4 because that is part of Steam's drm service offered to their partners (developers) if they choose to use it.

Steamworks - https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

The Steam DRM wrapper is an important part of Steam platform because it verifies game ownership and ensures that Steamworks features work properly by launching Steam before launching the game.

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Broken War Horse:

Originally posted by Iceira W10:

Is there a reason you dont know bethesda game launcher has own resolution option.

But why you have system resolution issue, is another matter make clean GPU driver install

Nvidia use custom mode in custom install AMD use DDU app,
and nvidia has own control nvidia panel, to set main GPU card and Native resolution.
you might want to check Monitor Brand page or might just use windows default Monitor Driver.

things can change with Monitor ini file or whatever they do software update its seen before in the past.

gl with it, and own fallout 4 forum grp. know this.

Bethseda game has always done this. you need a strong well optimized pc, or you will get trouble with game engine.

+ enable Multi CPU in what you have, require edit of game files.

Yes I well aware of Bethesda has it's own launcher, but Steam now launches it's own launcher to launch Bethesda's launcher. This problem is new in that Steam has add a complexity to launching the game and Windows update just released. Which booted me back to the beginning where Bethesda's launcher looks for the screen resolution.

Dont know the problem you have , im on win10 and there is no steam or windows issue, there is no extra app that start Bethesda launcher, if you are talking about steam client startup, to my knowledge fallout 4 has always needed it,

Are you one of them from Bethesda online client that migrated here and dont know this.
i dont recall it , but i think steam client with fallout 4 was made way before Bethesda made own online client , maybe its this you mean, you bought game later on Bethesda own made client.

If thats the case, then its normal for all of us steam user, and not Bethesda own client users that is shutdown ( end of service. ) my Bethesda games is migrated to steam client.

[Broken War Horse]

Note, this is the instructions from Bethesda

If your game is not saving your settings for the resolution to be full screen for 1920 X 1080, you can follow these steps for getting the game to launch in fullscreen.

1. Go to C:\Users\( Your PC name) \Documents\My Games\Fallout4 From here, you should be able to find a folder named "Fallout4Prefs" Please ensure you back up any game saves before editing the .ini file.
2. Open the Fallout 4Prefs folder with notepad and make the following changes

bBorderless=1
bFull Screen=1
iSize H=1080
iSize W=1920

[Iceira]

All that edit is already in the launcher, its like you dont know Bethesda launcher option at all, and you made it way more complicate then it is.