Ok So I ran the installer on the disk, hum took 12 hours to download, busy servers and overtasked ATT provider. Oh well went to bed.

1. Installed the game.

2. Game did all the detecting etc. no problems, so far.

3. Game banner came up and I hit the play.

4. Splash video played fine, good graphics and sound, no issues.

5. This is where the real problems started. The screen started flashing and blinking. The whole screen, not vertical or horizontal.

6. Set all the graphics to low to ensure it wasn't being over tasked. No help.

7. Surfed the net found a site called Horo Game. Tried their Fallout 4 Blinks fix. It didn't work, it made things worse. Now I have a solid black screen and a constant blue load circle. Yes I did a virus scan on the download with Bit Defender and it passed.

8. So since I don't know what the patch did I can't reverse it, Yep I forgot to copy it all into a new folder first, Darn I'm such a stupid Nube! Really screwed the Pooch on this one!

LAPTOP

SCREEN: LCD 17.3" FHD 1920X1080

My System: MSI GE70 2PE Appache Pro

CPU: Intel i7-4710HQ 2.5GHz

HDD: 1TB 7200 RPM

ODD: DVD Super Multi

Ram: 12GB

Sys Type: 64 Bit x64 Based

Graphics: NVIDIA GTX860M 2GB GDDR5

OP SYS: WIN 8.1

Thanks All if you figure it out please drop me a post.

Post a dxdiag report, in spoiler tags. It could related the graphics device driver.

It could be the "not starting (or flashing) in fullscreen mode bug" me and many others (mainly laptop users) are experiencing.

Try to launch the game in "windowed mode" and see if it starts.

you're in luck, i had pretty much the same problem and just now managed to figure out what the hell the problem was. go to your "device manager" then click "display adapters" and then disable the intel graphics card so only the big one is working. that should solve the issue.

i did that and it kills my fps

Windows 8.1

Ok got it to work on my MSI Laptop By:

1. Go to Control Panel

2. Under Appearance and Personalization click on "Adjust screen resolution.

3. Find the max resolution of your machine and set it there. Mine was 1920x1080.

***** REMEMBER THIS VALUE ******

4. Go to Documents and open up the My Games folder.

5. Open up the Fallout4 folder.

6. Open up the Fallout4Prefs.ini in notepad. Usually you just double click it.

7. Save it as Fallout4Prefs Orig This makes a back up of your Original in case you screw it up!

**** Any time you mess with a game file always make a backup of the original so you can start over if you corrupt it real bad.

8. Go back to the Fallout4 folder in My games.

9. Open up the Fallout4Prefs.ini again in notepad.

10. Scroll down to the lines:

iSize H=720

iSize W=1280 or what ever yours is set at.

11. Set the iSize H=1080 and the iSize W=1920

( NOTE These are MY max settings you need to set the iSize H & W's to your max settings that you remembered in step 3 above).

12. Click save, just plain save!

13. Click on the game icon: On the start up screen click on OPTIONS:

14. In the Graphic Adapter and Resolution area. Go to the Resolutions drop down arrow and set it the setting what you set it at in step 11.

NOTE: if you don't see the resolution you put in on step 11. Look at the available settings and change steps 3, 10 & 11 to match those available in the game "Options" Resolution drop down box. Then repeat step 14. (Edited)

15. Click Windowed Mode

16. Click Borderless

17. Click OK button on bottom.

18. Press Play.

19 If it works you can Say; "OH YEAAAHHHH!" like Rocket did in Guardians of the Galaxy! Then you can "Cry Happy Tears"!

This is just one solution and many others may work, but this is what worked for me on my MSI Windows 8.1 Laptop.

PS it fixed the mouse problem too! (Added)

Best Wishes, Blessings, uh and of course killing the bad guys too! Keith