As soon as the intro movie finishes I will immediately be given the message "Fallout New Vegas has stopped working." At one point it decided it would start working a good few hours after the download was complete but now it's just giving me the same error whenever I load a save. The game will crash and tell me it's stopped working.

None of these have helped at all-

Compatibility mode in both XP and Vista
Running in administrator mode
Verifying the integrity of the cache through Steam
The dx9d9 mod
Uninstalling and reinstalling

Please help. I really want to enjoy this game but by the looks of it currently I've just wasted my money on a product that won't work.

Yes my PC is powerful enough to play this game before somebody says it. When the game did work I was running it on ultra high at 60fps fine.

Just like so many others, you have decided that all of the members here have ESP? Specifically Clairvoyance?

Wrong.

Without the missing information you haven't offered, the current status is this:

"No data in = no data out".

The outline below is incomplete; there's almost nothing in it about the software.

Basic Hardware Specification Chart (Empty so far)

Processor Manufacturer: AMD / Intel
Processor Name / Type: Athlon X2 / Pentium D / C2D / dual core / quad, etc.
Processor Speed: ?.? Ghz
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP with SP #?, Win7, Vista ?
System RAM: ? ? GBs (MBs, if less than 1024 ? )
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: ATI / Nvidia (only those two are supported, PERIOD, so please answer which of them you have)
Video Card Model: (examples) Radeon HD 6670 / Geforce GTS 450
Video Card Driver Version: Catalyst ?.? / Nforce ??.??
. . (please use the numbers, and dates, *not* the word "latest")
Video display's default screen resolution
Video Card onboard RAM: ? ? ? MBs
Sound Card Manufacturer:
Sound Card Driver IDs:
Sound Card Model:

(And this is only for the raw hardware & driver variations. Potential software conflicts are far more likely to be game play problems, and developers cannot test for all possible program loads.)

I don't see why my hardware should matter so much. I've never had this with any other game when it came to troubleshooting. It was always a problem with the game, not the person's PC (assuming the person was trying to run the game on something decent and not a toaster). And since this game is so buggy even two years after its release I'd say it's the game.


MS Windows 7 64-bit SP1

Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz

8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 RAM

Gigabyte Technology Co. Motherboard

AMD Radeon HD 6770
Catalyst 12.6

AMD High Definition Audio Device
Realtek High Definition Audio