Nov 10, 2015 Have the same problem, crash without warning or msg to desktop. After launch i played 6 hours straight and quit the game myself. No crashes, no bugs etc. Now after that update we got today, it crashes all randomly evrywhere from 1min play - 2 hour play. No specific thing i do, walking in wilds, only trees, crash. Feb 11, 2020 Update: If you are encountering issues in the new Far Harbor DLC check our tutorial here. Fallout 4 is one of the most anticipated games of this year, and it was finally released this week on Steam. Bethesda Studios manages to develop their most ambitious game ever, and the next generation of open-world gaming. As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war.
If you are experiencing issues with Fallout 4 crashing on PC, you should first ensure that your machine meets Fallout 4's system requirements here. Most issues related to game performance can be attributed to hardware.
Update Graphics Card Drivers
If your machine meets the game's requirements, we recommend you also ensure that you have the latest drivers for your graphics card installed. You can find drivers for supported video cards here:
- NVIDIA - http://www.geforce.com/drivers
- AMD - https://www.amd.com/en/support
Note: We recommend you manually download the latest drivers from the above sites and ensure your previous drivers are fully deleted before updating.
Run the Game and Steam as Administrator
To run the game as an Administrator:
- Right-click Fallout 4 in your Steam Library.
- Select Propertiesand then the Local Files tab.
- Click Browse Local Files.
- Locate the game executable (the application).
- Right-click it and go to Properties.
- Click the Compatibility tab.
- Check the Run this program as an administrator box and click Apply.
Once complete, restart Steam and try launching the game again.
To run Steam as an Administrator, find the Steam executable instead (here by default: C:Program Files (x86)Steam) and follow the same process as above.
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Remove Mods
Custom mods can in some cases cause in-game performance issues. We recommend disabling or removing any installed mods and trying again.
To disable a Mod, open Fallout 4 and select Mods from the main menu. From there, find the Mod you wish to uninstall in your Library, select it, and use the Disable option.
To delete a Mod, open Fallout 4 and select Mods from the main menu. From there, find the Mod you wish to delete in your Library, select it, and use the Delete option.
Remove Additional Launch Options
Some Steam launch options may cause the game to crash.
To turn off Fallout 4 launch options:
- Open Steam and navigate to your Library.
- Right-click on Fallout 4 and select Properties.
- Under the General tab, click Set launch options...
- Delete any options enabled here and click OK.
Verify Integrity of Game Cache on Steam
To ensure the game files are installed correctly, you should verify the files in Steam.
To verify Fallout 4's game cache:
- Load Steam.
- From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
- Select the Local files tab and click Verify integrity of game files...
- Steam will verify the game's files. This process may take several minutes.
- Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit.
Please Note: One or more files may fail to verify, in most cases this is normal. These are local configuration files and should not be altered in this process.
Get the Latest Version of DirectX
You should ensure you have the latest version of DirectX by downloading and installing it here.
You can visit the Fallout 4 PC support forum here.
Fallout 4 is dead good, to paraphrase our Matt in his rather more extensive and nuanced review. But some of its earliest players have found bugs besides radroaches – and others have seen more than Boston’s infrastructure crash.
Here’s where we’re collecting all of the major issues as they’re reported, as well as their potential fixes and workarounds.
Update 16th Nov, 2015:A game-breaking bug has been discovered that is causing crashes on every platform.
If you’re planning a trip to the area around Monsignor Plaza– and you probably will at some point, since it’s an area relevant to several quests – then you might be in for a bit of bother. Players are reporting CTDs absent error messages when entering the area. Apparently the Event Viewer doesn’t show the error, either. It’s a bit tricky to pin point the issue, and it doesn’t seem to be related to quests sending you to the area, either.
A bug of this scale will hopefully be a priority for Bethesda.
Original Story 10th Nov, 2015:Crashes to desktop are frequent offenders so far, but with a bit of luck we won’t have to explain them away as wasteland anomalies this time. The most common culprit seems to be a GPU driver conflict – solved by making a clean install of the latest drivers. Nvidia users in particular are advised to download the latest GeForce driver, 358.91 WHQL (there’s another version for Windows 10 users).
Beyond that, some have reported that Nvidia’s ‘Streamer Service’ for the SHIELD, which comes as part of their GeForce Experience software, has been behind a certain amount of poor performance and crashing. You can turn it off by following the instructions over on the Bethesda forums. If you’re still suffering general stuttering issues, it might be worth disabling V-sync and running in full screen, rather than windowed mode.
A portion of Fallout 4’s playerbase hasn’t made it past the main menu, thanks to a lack of mouse input. In those cases, it seems the game is detecting a controller by default. Some have fixed the problem simply by removing any gamepads they might have plugged in; others have navigated to Options using a controller and switched back mouse control manually.
That doesn’t help those without gamepads, of course. Steam forumites have reported success in editing fallout4prefs.ini – found under Documents/My Games/Fallout 4 – so that it reads bGamepadEnable=0 rather than bGamepadEnable=1. If you use Ds3Service’s emulation drivers to get a PlayStation pad working, however, that might be your problem – in which case you’ll need to dive into Task Manager and stop the Ds3 process.
Sat staring at an unwelcome message that reads ‘Fallout 4 has stopped working’? You’ll want to try launching the game in compatibility mode. Gamunation suggest selecting either the Vista SP2 or XP SP3 compatibility option under the Fallout 4 executable’s properties.
If you’re facing a disk write error, meanwhile, Gamunation recommend the following workaround:
- Click Start > (My) Computer
- Locate the hard drive Steam is installed on. By default, this is C:
- Right-click this drive and select Properties.
- Click the Tools tab.
- In the Error-checking category, click Check now…
- In the dialog that appears, check “Automatically fix file system errors” and “Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors.”
- Click Start.
- After completing the scan, restart your PC and run the game.
Finally, and possibly most importantly, Fallout 4 does not support 32-bit operating systems. It’s a cruel and unbending truth that you ought to be aware of.
Fallout 4 Crashes On Game Load
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