Who expects customer service from video game companies? This isn't 1998. You're moaning is serving only yourself and dos not make a company work faster or change.

Your argument would have weight if they refused to patch the game.

No games release without bugs or issues. Even on consoles. The more complicated they get, the more bugs. Simple.

Continue moaning mate, if it helps you feel better as a consumer. But you'd be better of putting that effort into something else. Like life man.

Dont worry, I fully intend to keep moaning, might not change a thing, you never know it might, if you dont like my attitude no one is forcing you to reply

...and that takes time...not a snap of the fingers.

Generally, but this is Bethesda. Nothing new here. Accept it or not, it is how it is.

Trust me, it's not accomplishing anything, short of maybe amusing those reading it.

It won't...

Welcome to Bethesda's world. We just live in it.

jawarrior2001:

By any chance, have you tried starting the game with full screen option off and running Windowed?

When I bought the game, I started it up and after I left the launcher and the game started running, I just got a black screen and nothing happened. My hardware is basically an i7 and a GTX 950M. Black screens on startup seem to be common with laptops anyways.

So after playing with the options, I tried Windowed mode and it worked for me.

Yeah I've tried windowed/fullscreen, the problem is I dont get a black screen, I just get the launcher reopening, the game itself doesnt open, even when I try bypass the launcher in the folder where the game is stored

Edit : nm, found it.

Isee they didnt include any sli support in the update. HOORAY, I wasted 59 Euro on a game that doesnt support something that is incredibly common now a days!

Your not the only one to waste money, on a supposedly very "stable" game that judging from the topics in here, over a thousand people are having problems, sure its not loads considering how many have bought the game, but its still awesome we have no support from bethesda, as always the little man gets ignored

Most of those are the same issue repeated in new threads and the majority of crashes I've seen report are due to lack of hardware capability.

I havent had a single crash with my system, the only problem I have is the fact that I have a gtx 690 which is more than capable of playing this game, but only half of my card is getting used because bethesda cant get off their rear and make this game dual core and sli capable just like EVERY other fallout and elderscrolls game since oblivion.

What about those of us who have the specs, and more, and still can't play it? you can't tell me its my hardware when I can play every other single game I have on my pc, from old to new, and the only one I have problems with is Fallout4

A different conversation to what I specified.

But few in number compared to the nonsense I've seen.

While I have't had any issues running the game itself, I'm curious about this issue "everyone else" is having with the launcher? So if you wish to list the things you've tried on your end, maybe someone can figure something out you haven't done yet. While I sympathize with anyone dealing with a game that resues to work, most times it is something on the users end they may not be aware of.

So after a 45 second search, someone realized that a windows 7 security patch caused his issue, after uninstalling said patch, the game worked. https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/496881136916565933/

While he does not mention the specific patch, could this be other people's issues?

There are several posts over the past week with that info, but people here rarely read anything. Look how many people posting have Intel graphics.

Well for one I don't have Intel graphics, not 100% sure how a windows 7 issue could cause me problems since I went to 10 from 8.1 but as for list here we go

Uninstall reinstall
Fresh install f Windows
Verify cache
Run as admin
Steam admin
Offline steam
One monitor
Low settings
Max settings
Windows 8
Updated drivers
Beta drivers
Old drivers
Beta patch
Deleted fallout folder in documents
Posted here
Support emails
Feedback site
Bypass launcher


All that happens in launcher opens as it should I click play launcher closes then reopens no sign of game starting at all. If I've missed something that's mug fault I'll own up to that, given what I've tried and without luck or a reply from anyone in Bethesda do I not have a right to be pissed off?

Do you try the Windows update that caused crashes for a few people fix?

That one I can't sure my PC updates itself overnight whilst I sleep but even with the updates overnight still had no luck playing since the game was released, however since I keep Windows up to date I'd guess I have done the update but at the same time I can't see how an update would cause me to crash when I can't actually get the game to boot up for it to crash

Whether you see it or not doesn't matter. Several people on here have confirmed a particular update caused the game to not start or crash.

Search the forum for it. So much junk here it's probably a few pages back.

Others might have the problem with an update sure. But I can't see how one update would make the play unplayable or playable for me when regardless of updates I still can't get past launcher

Good luck with your problem.

Most probably it's the engines limitations.

Skyrim doesn't run either with an SLI configuration (always) without problems. !!!

This game runs on the same engine as skyrim, and skyrim has sli, and my gtx 690 had 0 problems in that game.

Have you tried forcing alternate frame rendering in NVidia properties? I have the same card and both GPUs work in that mode, confirmed with MSI Afterburner On Screen Display.

The problem with doing that is, instead of sharing the load, like it normally does, it just causes max load on both chips, so instead of one running at 80° (which is what it runs at with only one chip working), both run at 87 ° ( which is too high for extended periods of play ) , when they both should be running at max 71°. The advantage of the 690 was that the chips always shared load, that solution will only cause massive problems over time.

In short, it is not a viable solution. With skyrim, fo3, fo nv, oblivion AND eso there is a multi gpu option, or a custom option that has multi gpu enabled, in this game there is neither. There is single, and then that force alternate framerate nonsense.

Skyrim's Creation Engine ran in DX9... Fallout 4 is DX11 (maybe DX12 if we're really lucky later on) because the next-gen Xbox consoles run their games with the DX11 library. There's a huge difference in mutli-gpu compatibility between DX9 and DX10/11.

Wow, 87C sounds excessive, in room temp and both gpu's working mine won't go over 72C with GPU fan @70%, not overclocked nor voltage mods. I noticed it does run a bit hotter, @74C with single GPU though. Might have something to do with air circulation, CPU, etc, lots of factors really. Can you expand on your "massive problems overtime" statement? Do you mean with the game or graphics card? Also, have you seen that "NVIDIA Maxwell SLI Config That Actually Works" thing at Nexusmods? Many who've tried report good results, some say they noticed no difference, might be worth a shot... Specifically, the Method #3 for pre-Maxwell GPU's like the 600 series...