Upon starting up the game I get half a second of of one of the SPECIAL clips or the please stand by screen, then the screen goes black and it crashes to desktop without error.

same problem here, updated my drivers and it didnt fix it

Same.

Same cpu and specs as others and the same 78, 79 hundred series card, I found i could get to game start screen buy moving the intro video. but after a few secounds would still silent crash out.

For a work around, have you tried Windowed Mode?

Same here, I7 4770k, Radeon 7950, 8 GB Ram, Win 7 Ultimate

I have the same issue and I've tried it in windowed mode, windowless mode and everything from low quality to the ultra it automatically set me on. It still crashes 2 seconds into the "Please Wait" loading screen when I boot up the game.

Edit: Update

Alright just after I posted I had just finished running the AMD auto update detector to see if everything was up to date it detected one update needed and after it installed I can now play the game. So if anyone else is having this issue try this... (even if you've recently updated as mine had and I assumed I didn't need an update)

Seems like same problems - crashes after laucher closing by start game.

Same here. AMD GPU as well.

If you have AMD, run the auto updater and make sure everything is up to date driver wise.

Still not working here

tried windowed mode, different resolutions and settings, multiple reboots, driver updates, graphics card update removal and fresh install and it still crashes after 3 secs of "loading please wait"

TY - at least for me that worked -

Everything updated, and still getting the crash. So somewhere there is still a "hickup". I downloaded it Via Steam. Could there be a dissonance there?

Needed to update to latest AMD drivers and reboot, then everything went fine for me.

works since beta GPU driver found on amd driver page

Same problems as above. Tried it all...

Bordered, borderless, windowed. Updated drivers. Reinstalled the game. With and without the beta patch.

Game is OFFICIALLY released! we NEED a fix for the problem! I took the day off from work to play the game and right now I am sitting on my chair wasting time and money on NOTHING.

Atleast tell us your working on a solution for the issue?! Be it in steam or Bethesda. Really hard for a child to wait til christmas morning only to be told there arnt any pressents >.>

THIS SHOULD FIX YOUR ISSUE


?Okay so if you game crashes on Launching the game;

Here might be a fix, if your using AMD, update the drivers to the latest BETA driver, then goto AMD control Panel (you may be using 1 or more Screen's) After going to the AMD control center, click Desktop Management > Creating and Arranging Desktops > 1 by 1 make each f them Primary.

Example make one primary, test game, doesn't work move on to next one.

Hope this help's, this has helped me and 2 others since i found this out!

AMD Beta Driver: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows%207%20-%2064

I have 64 bit windows 7 intel i7 zotac gtx 970 16gb RAM etc... It detects my video hardware but as soon as i click play the game crashes with a message saying "Fallout 4 has stopped working" it seems like ive tried just about everything that applies to me with no luck..

Win8 and AMD. Worked for me with the beta driver. But Bethesda should not tell people to use the autodetectutility from AMD as it dosnt install the beta but the last finished version (and that dosnt work)

Also with the newest driver the game told me it would run on medium. With the beta driver I can enter the game and run it on Ultra high with no lag.

I am not using the Beta driver and the game works for me. Different systems, different driver needs.

I had this issue, uninstalled Catalyst Control Center, not the driver, just the control center and it now works like a charm.