How to fix endless loading screen - PC ONLY

[SirCreature]

Earlier today I found myself in a bit of a predicament. I had started a character and progressed somewhat far into the game. Now, of course I had autosaves and even a couple of quick saves to keep me from having to go back too far in the event the game crashed. . .but just having it crash, or having to force close the game for that matter, sucks.

 

Long story short, I got hit with the endless loading screen. After doing some research, I found that quite a few people have experienced this but some of the solutions out there just haven't worked. Here is what worked for me:

 

[1] Make sure to disconnect any and all Playstation / Xbox / third party USB controller you may have plugged in

[2] ALT-TAB out to your desktop and run Command Prompt

[3] Type the following exactly and then press enter: TASKKILL /F /IM explorer.exe

[4] Once the command has been executed, restart explorer using this command: explorer.exe

[5] Press enter once again and you'll see your desktop refresh

 

At this point, if you ALT+TAB back into the game, the loading screen should go away within 30 seconds. If this doesn't work for you, ensure UAC isn't causing some ridiculous issue and that your user account is in fact the owner of the folder Fallout4 is installed to. As always, ensure you have all your mods up to date and that you aren't using incompatible mods.

 

This worked for me, maybe it'll work for you to.

 

Have fun.

[f4marcin]

i did that and all my screen when blue and i could not procced whit puting explorer.exe cuz there was nothing on the creen.. Good job scherlock !

[Crosstieger]

Killing explorer.exe is never a good idea on a windows system. There is so much based on that process that it can cause more issues than just an endless loading screen. As long as there isn't clear proof if the explorer.exe task causes endless loading screens I would strictly recommend against this!