CTD at startup even with all mods turned off

[Deleted631007User]

Just as it says. Yes I checked Cache integrity.

 

I had the same problem several months ago, finally reinstalled the game and restored all my mods yesterday, played it for about a half an hour before it crashed. Really nothing out of the ordinary, at least the game was running. Went to bed after that.

 

Today I try to start it up again and it's back to this. The only thing I did different is install MMUE+ and MAIBATSU's AK-12.

 

Then I tried starting it up without any mods enabled. Crashing every time.

 

Edit:

Started getting application load errors. Tried deleting every part of new vegas exept for the giant .bsa files, then retrieving them via verifying the cache. That didn't work.

Edited October 23, 2013 by Guest

[dangman4ever]

Just delete and redownload everything? Sometimes verifying the cache doesn't work.

[Deleted631007User]

Okay, first off. Verifying the cache is about the same as running a reinstaller. If I delete all the games files, excluding those that simply contain sounds/meshes/textures that should fix any problems with the game itself, and I did that. However that seems to be what caused the application load error, which I fixed by deleting my "My Documents/My Games/FalloutNV" folder.

 

Ultimately I did find a culprit file, I believe. Though I have absolutely no idea how it ended up that way.

 

By removing my "menus" folder it stopped crashing. The only difference I found between the folders after I reinstalled all my hud and menu mods was that the file "tutorial_menu" had been missing from the bad file. That file being a part of uHud. I'm not sure how it was missing or why it was causing the crash.

[luthienanarion]

Steam's "verify game cache" function does not remove files extraneous to the game install, such as the modified XML files in your "menus" folder or the INI files that were modified in your Documents folder. To delete the folders entirely is sound advice.