Bought New Vegas in HMV today, and I was really excited to try the game out for myself.

I installed it, no problems there. Then I tried to play it.

I've been watching the launcher performing an auto-configuration loop where it tries to detect my system specs, and it hasn't actually launched the game. It's been half an hour, and I'm just amazed that my gaming machine (An Acer that cost me a fair amount, and it's only a year old) is apparently not good enough to play New Vegas. It runs Crysis on High, so what's going on here?

You could try stopping it, then relaunching it. Though if you're so set on giving up, I guess you could do that too.

I don't see any mention of reinstalling it. That should really be your first course of action in any situation like this. Giving up and returning it should be your last.

Acer is best known for laptops, and gaming is just not a strong point for today's laptops. Chances are that the OP is someone who may be better suited to gaming with consoles, not with computers.

If there is anything that the other gamers here might suggest, the OP is going to have to prepare a normal problem report.

If and when a complete problem report, including the standard PC Gaming Computer hardware component summary, and a routine software environmental description is provided, along with full symptom details, then perhaps someone here will be able to offer a suggestion. Sorry to have nothing else for you now.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1123068-what-that-dxdiag-thing-includes/

I had this same issue with Fallout 3 a while back, and I wound up reinstalling it, altering the .ini files, the whole lot. That damn autoconfiguration utility is the only thing stopping me from playing the game, and I don't know how to get rid of it.

This damn game will not work! That's it! I'm returning all the parts I used to build my computer, [censored] pieces of [censored]. And then I'm getting me a console. OH YEAH!

I'm not sure what you're trying to imply there, but I'm not switching to a console. I don't have a desktop because I need a laptop for college, and I'm not forking out for another gaming system when I have a perfectly good one already. I've only ever had issues with Fallout 3 (and now New Vegas), so it's not like my machine is "unsuited" to gaming.

Waffle has the gist of it. I was giving you a yank on the chain. Games and PCs are practically infinitely variable. There is always a tweak here or there, and there is always a minority who NEVER get it going. That's just a fact of life in the PC (platform) world, and desktops make it a lot easier to play than anyone's laptops do.

If you are determined to take the negative path, the entire thread belongs in the "Community" forum, which is as close to Off Topic as Bethesda has.

You are right Desktop is better of course for gaming, but there are plenty of Laptops that can play games just fine. I bought my laptop over a year and a half ago, and it came with a Geforce 9800, 1 gig GPU, 4 GIG ram, 2.6 GHZ pentium dual core, and it has played every game I put in it almost flawlessly. There are Laptops built for gaming, and although they are not as powerful as many desktop units, they can still be built to play games.

That, and the fact that a decently powerful laptop costs about 2x as much as a "play any game at maximum settings" desktop.

Mine's an Acer with a 1GB ATI graphics card, 2.2GHz AMD processor, 4 gigs of RAM, and I've had it overclocked. I can run Crysis on High at a halfway-decent framerate, so we're not talking about a netbook I'm foolishly using to play games.

o/c a laptop is never wise. Also please be more specific on your laptop specs espically the video card there are cards out there for 40$ that have 1gb of video ram and are slow as hell.

A dxdiag log would help greatly. Good luck.

Dxdiag log or post the model of you graphics card please. 1GB ATI graphics card is pretty meaningless, and it might be an integrated card that shares up to 1GB of system ram for all we know.

Also, to the other posters on here putting down laptops for gaming... It's true that the best desktop graphics cards are not available in laptops in any given year. Usually the best laptop card is about as powerful as the prior generation's desktop card (and sometimes better aka nvidia laptop cards are DX11 but performance-wise similar to non-sli 280s). But for mainstream gaming, that's enough to run on 'high' settings for virtually all modern games. My laptop is an asus g73jw with an nvidia gtx 460m. Performance-wise, it's around the same (and sometimes better, sometimes worse) as a desktop gts 450. Yes you can build a cheap desktop around a gts 450 no problem and yes this laptop is nearly $1800. But you can't take a desktop with you.. well not easily. If that means nothing you to, definitely stick with a desktop.. more bang for the buck. More bang period considering you can get more powerful hardware not available in mobile versions. But I like taking my gaming laptop wherever I go, hooking it up to my tv upstairs if my wife is watching downstairs, etc. It's conveniant, it's a relatively small HTPC if I want it to be too... Even though it's comparable to a gts 450, they don't make that in low profile for a HTPC. That's my story