Ok so all over the net there are your usual list of issues, and people spouting the fix that worked for them....but wait, it didn't work for you, so you keep searching. I was thinking maybe users could post what worked for them here.

Please read the thread, to avoid repeating what has already been mentioned. Here is what worked for me, I have a GTX 680 Graphics card.

My Issue: Failure to launch.

List of what was tried:

Running steam, launcher and application exe as administrator.

Running in windows mode

Running in windowed mode - with borderless option.

Running in windows mode - lowest graphic setting

Running in windowed mode with borderless option - lowest graphic setting.

Latest video drivers from Nvidia: 358.91

Navigating to where the game stores preferences, and ini settings (same directory as saves), deleting both ini files.

Since I run steam,

Verified game cache - Again steam running as administrative user

What finally worked for me, and seems to be an issue with some of the new drivers with a couple other games as well.

Backdating to Nvidia Graphics Driver 353.06 - set the installer to clear profiles, 355 does not work either, i had to go back to 353 series drivers.

Before I did this, I used the GURU3D graphics uninstaller, while NVidia does a good job going up in version (way better than it used too) it still seams to not always like going backwards.

Keep in mind if you have a bunch of custom graphical profiles for different games...you will lose them. If you however are a normal user and don't mess with changing Nvidia game profiles, you should be fine.

The above is what worked for me, I also emailed Bethesda and created a support ticket so they have something new to try with people who are having issues. Mainly because conventional wisdom is "UPDATE ZEE DRIVERS!!!!!" but in this case, it didn't work.

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@quantum_dragon. Great article listing in one place things to try, many thanks for the effort!

I'll try these out this evening after work. Will you update this thread with any feedback from Bethesda?

I will try this as I have tried everything else "outside of the ini thing?"

is the ini where you manullay change the sittings for windowed/ and size of the game? if so then yes that I tried as well.

can you give me a run down of how to get to the 353.06 easily ? ty

No Feedback from Bethesda, but I imagine they have plenty of tickets and issues to go through

fo4crashbot,

Go here for GURU3D graphics uninstaller:

CANT POST LINKs, google "GURU3D Graphics Uninstaller" should be in first few results.

Scroll down towards bottom, will list series of versions, download the latest one. I think its version 15 now, remember where you save it.

Grab the Nvidia Driver:

www.nvidia.com, upper left, drivers section drop down, select GeForce Drivers

-Manual Driver Search

select your card, though anything above 600 I know uses the same set of drivers,

pick your OS, language, blah blah...

Click "Start Search"

A list will appear when you scroll down of different versions...scroll down till you find 353.06, download it, remember where you save it.

Uninstall the Graphics Drivers

Now, run the guru3d, it will ask where to extract, I would specifiy a location on you computer you know to extract to. - The default is some obscure location in your temp files, and you will not likely remember where.

From there you will run "Display Driver Uninstaller", set the application to restart after uninstall. Then click uninstall. Make sure you have everything closed, as it will restart you PC even as it tries to re-detect your video hardware.

After your computer is restarted, everything may look super huge, symptom of low resolution after uninstalling graphics drivers - depends on your OS.

Install The older drivers:

Now using the download from Nvidia, install your graphics drivers, when it says which drivers to install, there will be a checkbox next to an exclamation point saying something about a clean install, check it.

Complete graphics installation, restart your PC, and you should be good to go.

Good Luck!

ty I d/l the older one without deleting my latest update the "fo4 compatible" one heh.

before it would crash within 3-4sec of starting the launcher.

now it lasts about 8seconds but crashes at the "bethesda" logo, almost mocking me for what I bought .

any idea how this helped? it made it alst longer but still crashes at same thing.

as well do you think clear uninstall and reinstalling would make it work better even? thank you.