Hi, I just bought Fallout New Vegas yesterday and it just finished downloading and installing via Steam. When I try to start a new game I get the "endless loading screen". I've googled the problem and searched the forums. Unfortunately every response to "fix" this problem is to load a previous saved game. As I mentioned, I just bought the game yesterday and this is my first time playing it so I don't have any previous saved games to load.

Any way to fix this aside from a complete re-install of FNV? My campus internet is a joke and I get anywhere from 20 kb/s to 100 kb/s download speed so I'd really like to avoid having to do that...

Update: Restarted my laptop and I'm currently installing an update for FNV via Steam. Odd that it didn't prompt me for the update before playing the game... I'll report back if I'm still getting the perma-loading screen.

DO you have asus gamer osd installed? If you do uninstall.

Have you tried simply verifying the game cache?

Anything show up in your event viewer?

I don't have Asus Gamer OSD installed however I do have MSI Afterburner installed.

Verified the game cache.

Event viewer gave me:

Log Name: Application
Source: Windows Error Reporting
Date: 10/27/2011 6:55:04 PM
Event ID: 1001
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: TJsixton-VAIO
Description:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: FalloutNVLauncher.exe
P2: 1.2.14.0
P3: 4d5f0be3
P4: GameOverlayRenderer.dll
P5: 1.21.53.85
P6: 4e949c42
P7: c0000005
P8: 0002dbf7
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\TJsixton\AppData\Local\Temp\WER105E.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\TJsixton\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_FalloutNVLaunche_55537efdb87eaee6f5bf5cfb02b8e7340bae3a2_08231cbd

anolysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: b2a4f149-00ee-11e1-abea-c0cb38febfa0
Report Status: 1
Event Xml:



1001
4
0
0x80000000000000

5014
Application
TJsixton-VAIO





0
APPCRASH
Not available
0
FalloutNVLauncher.exe
1.2.14.0
4d5f0be3
GameOverlayRenderer.dll
1.21.53.85
4e949c42
c0000005
0002dbf7





C:\Users\TJsixton\AppData\Local\Temp\WER105E.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
C:\Users\TJsixton\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_FalloutNVLaunche_55537efdb87eaee6f5bf5cfb02b8e7340bae3a2_08231cbd


0
b2a4f149-00ee-11e1-abea-c0cb38febfa0
1



And:

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 10/27/2011 6:55:00 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: TJsixton-VAIO
Description:
Faulting application name: FalloutNVLauncher.exe, version: 1.2.14.0, time stamp: 0x4d5f0be3
Faulting module name: GameOverlayRenderer.dll, version: 1.21.53.85, time stamp: 0x4e949c42
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0002dbf7
Faulting process id: 0x14dc
Faulting application start time: 0x01cc94fb7471bfa7
Faulting application path: c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\FalloutNVLauncher.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\GameOverlayRenderer.dll
Report Id: b2a4f149-00ee-11e1-abea-c0cb38febfa0
Event Xml:



1000
2
100
0x80000000000000

5013
Application
TJsixton-VAIO



FalloutNVLauncher.exe
1.2.14.0
4d5f0be3
GameOverlayRenderer.dll
1.21.53.85
4e949c42
c0000005
0002dbf7
14dc
01cc94fb7471bfa7
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\FalloutNVLauncher.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\GameOverlayRenderer.dll
b2a4f149-00ee-11e1-abea-c0cb38febfa0

Have you tried a clean boot?
clean boot link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Not sure about msi afterburner. Could try removing it if it isnt too much of a hassle.

The update finished and I'm finally playing!

Thanks for your time. I'll definitely be back here if I run in to any more issues.