It's the kind of town where you dig your own grave before Steam and Bethesda team up to shoot you in the head and leave you for dead, but not before desecrating and mutilating your remains, and that's before things get really ugly. Or so you'll feel. It's a town of dreamers and desperados being town apart by cooperating companies vying for complete insanity of their customers. It's a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of electronics won't make any difference at all, except an enemy or two along the way.

As my other posts have explained, I had the original trouble of the game not launching because it would repeatedly "Detect My Video Hardware" and set my settings to those that seemed optimal. Funny side note, it would constantly change what was apparently optimal. After painstaking hours of searching and tweaking, reinstalling (Currently on my fourth time, by the way.) and all that fun stuff, I came across several "User Fixes" that seemed to have no effect in my situation. Finally after playing around myself in the files, somehow (Magically I might add) the game stopped detecting the hardware but started requiring verification. Not too bad, you may assume, but it had the same result. Click the okay button, then select play. Launcher disappears, music starts, music stops, launcher reappears. Sounds like a Chris Angel trick. Either way, I did some more navigating and altering on my own and finally got the verification window to stop appearing. I was in!

I couldn't have been more excited. Almost 48 hours exactly after purchasing a brand new game, I was able to restore it to a playable status. Either way, it ran fine, a little laggy when exiting the store window but I got about two total hours of play in before and after work in three different sittings, between each the computer was shut down. I thought I was home free, so I spent all day doing work that didn't really need to be done and throughout at several intervals I had to convince myself to not try and get on Fallout and finish the task at hand. Despite my desires, I finally completed what it was I set out to do and here I am, I select the play button and the music starts, launcher closes. I rub my hands together in excitement, ready to continue on my adventure in the desert wasteland. Right on time, the music stops, launcher does not reappear this time, neither does the game. Okay, I figure, I'll give it a few. That I do and no luck. I try again. No luck. No problem, I think, I restart the computer and give it another go. I got lucky, it didn't happen again. Instead this time, before the launcher... Launches, it gives me the notice "Fallout New Vegas cannot launch. Error Code 51." Oh, amazing. But at least it gives me a code so I google it, to no avail. Seems this happened on Fallout 3, only information I could find at all. (Aside from a random download that didn't tell me anything and wasn't even from the publisher) was "Reinstall it." So... Yay. Here I am and doing it again. I apologize for the long and rather unusual story but I had time to kill while I wait for the game to finish installing and updating for the fourth time.

Here is what the Event Viewer had to say. At least it's honest.
General:
Faulting application name: FalloutNV.exe, version: 1.1.1.271, time stamp: 0x4cc0aa87
Faulting module name: FalloutNV.exe, version: 1.1.1.271, time stamp: 0x4cc0aa87
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x008ca300
Faulting process id: 0x14ec
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb717a91cc3b1f
Faulting application path: d:\new folder\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\FalloutNV.exe
Faulting module path: d:\new folder\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\FalloutNV.exe
Report Id: cfad148f-dd6d-11df-924f-001fbc018f05
Details:
FalloutNV.exe
1.1.1.271
4cc0aa87
FalloutNV.exe
1.1.1.271
4cc0aa87
c0000005
008ca300
14ec
01cb717a91cc3b1f
d:\new folder\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\FalloutNV.exe
d:\new folder\steamapps\common\fallout new vegas\FalloutNV.exe
cfad148f-dd6d-11df-924f-001fbc018f05