I sent the following to support but got an automated response with no indication that a human was actually going to look at, and a suggestion that I post here. Any advice/appreciated.

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I'm trying to run Fallout 4 on a Mac via Bootcamp and the game keeps crashing.

It was a totally fresh Bootcamp install, with a Windows 7 install from an ISO I downloaded yesterday from Microsoft (I have a Windows key from playing SWTOR the same way a couple years ago.)

First I tried (all day yesterday) to run it on Windows 7. The game would launch, but when I would try to start a New Game I'd get the little pulsing progress icon in the bottom right for 10 seconds or so, then the game would crash. I'd get the error "Display driver Intel HD Graphics Driers for Windows 8® stopped responding and successfully recovered."

I don't really know anything about Windows, but it looked like it was trying to use a driver for Windows 8, not 7. I read through all the forum threads I could find, especially on the Intel site, and tried repeatedly to update my drivers, but never with success.

Finally late last night I took the free upgrade to Windows 10. On my first try it got farther and I thought I solved it. After choosing New Game I got the progress icon for a while (breath held the whole time) then it played a cut scene, then crashed. Booooo.

So I tried a couple more times, but now it crashes as soon as I try to start the game from the launcher. I.e., I'm not even getting as far as I was under Windows 7. Also, no errors pop up now...the game just dies and goes away.

It's gotta be the video drivers, right? What can I do? Help!

I know performance is going to be terrible but I don't care about that; I just want it to run.

What specs does your mac have? It does sound like your problem is gpu related, but it could be either the drivers or your hardware just not being able to handle the game well enough. Other than that, making sure you have the latest drivers and reinstalling them is all I can think of.

Bootcamp isn't exactly the optimal way to be running games and on top of that Windows 10 isn't exactly known for it's stability right now. I would suggest trying to find a forum specifically for Bootcamp use and try posing your problem there.

You'll be lucky to get it running at all on that bad Intel GPU. This game isn't designed for laptop quality graphics hardware.

Well I realized I had never run the Apple Bootcamp Update program after doing all that installation so did that, and afterward I fired up Fallout AND IT WORKED! Yay! I got to the scene of the hero in the shower, thought "Cool...this works", and shut it down to play later.

So I came back later, fired it up...and it crashed repeatedly on startup again.

/sigh

Oh, and Bethesda tech support won't help me because it's Bootcamp. That's like saying they won't help me because of the brand of the hardware; it's still Windows running on an Intel processor.

What are your comp. specs?

Have you checked the Mac hardware specs against the game minimum requirements? Running Windows on an Intel processor is NOT the full game hardware requirements.

The main character is never in the shower, and I don't think bootcamp windows is a supported OS.

I run this game fine on my MBPr (model: 11,5 - May 2015).

But you can't run this game on a 3 year old MBP. If you didn't buy it in 2014 (at the earliest) - good luck.

No MBAir , or 13" MB. You probably could run it on a 13" MBPr since the 15" and 13" are the same specs except for the screen size. You need at least 8GB ram (mine has 16GB RAM), and the GeForce GT 650M video card (NOT THE INTEL VIDEO CARD). This was the card in the MBPr 2 years ago. This is the minimum. In other words, low-end. I will run, just not great.

This year, MBPr have the Radeon R9 M37 (it has 2GB) and you won't have issues with that chip. I'm sorry, but the Intel Iris chip is crap for gaming (or any serious graphic work). Oh and make sure you update drives after Bootcamp and Windows. Don't rely on Bootcamp update or Windows update. Go to AMD site.

Which model do you have?