Nicholai194 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) For some reason, every time I click play in the Fallout 4 launcher, my computer shuts down in a matter of seconds. It's as if a breaker is thrown somehow. I have 174 hours playing it, so we can rule out a number of causes from that. It appears to have happened both after installing the beta update and one of the mods that gained a .dll file during the data breach. That said, I think I got it well before that was announced, so with any luck, it isn't that. my computer: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Nicholai194/saved/#view=Tk9mP6 Edited December 10, 2015 by Nicholai194 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberJ Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Don't launch with the default launcher. Steam will launch it if you rename the game.exe to gamelauncher.exe, but add the words BAK to the default launcher indicating it's now a backup, Fallout4.exe to FalloutLauncher.exe an FalloutLauncher.exe to FalloutLauncherBAK.exe This way in the many ways we can launch if via steam, it's launching the direct application. Further the script extender is a launcher that patches the game as it loads the fallout.exe, an would bypass the launcher, the NMM was updated in the last 36 hours to update for the problems incured durring the last patch as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholai194 Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) Unfortunately, that didn't work. I'm thinking I will try completely removing the game and NMM from my pc and then reinstalling them. I also noticed freezing just now while watching netflix, going to update my graphics card's drivers first and see if that has any effect. Edited December 10, 2015 by Nicholai194 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberJ Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 you don't do that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberJ Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 check to see if you got a library of Visual C++ installed on your computer, if it's 64 bit you need both 32 an 64 bit versions, these span the years, 5 2005 ones 5 2008 ones 5 2010 ones 2 2012 ones an 2 2013 ones, these come from microsoft an it's hard to get a library for all of them worse when it's a 64 bit machine, cause there's two of em for all. It doesn't have to be complete an all of these are redistribution versions so everyone can give them to others, like games for example often give us some of them, it's the computer language that all of this crap uses, if your computer doesn't know what is being said to it, yah, not going to work... .NET Framework 4.5.2 is good, because there are many versions of .Net which is used often in our community from applications, java, flash an all that other stuff, but not so important for games. In this at least there's no reason for me to write out every possible cause, so working thru it post by post eventually it would be fixed, but I'm guessing you gave up on that out of stupidity, not an insult, just a fact that gamers won't wait for anything, in your case like many others thinking they know what to do when the fact of the matter is they don't know what the F*** they are doing, hell even in my case I don't know what the F*** I'm doing, but I worked in diagnosis an computers so I at least understand the process which annoys you gamer types so so much that you often just disappear, hence why most of the time the people that can actually help you are not here by choice, but you knew there was official support for the game from Bethesda an a little more from Steam, so if you are still here I guess since you don't like the process you could opt out of it there. Best of Luck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholai194 Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) Hey, take it easy. I'm just throwing ideas around. If I have a few extra visual c++ redistributables, is that a bad thing?. It seems I have six from 2005, six from 2008, two each from 2010 and 2013, and four from 2014. Also, I am a CNC Machinist, I do processes that would likely be considered slow and irritating by most, for a living. You are of course right though, I have no idea what I am doing in this case. I've never seen a failure like this, and the way my computer hard stops is, to be honest, kind of frightening. as you can understand, this might make me prone to making rash decisions. It's not that I'm impatient, I am more than willing to wait as I don't really have any choice. A full reinstall of a ~24gb game isn't going to be fast either. Edited December 10, 2015 by Nicholai194 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberJ Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 full set is 18 of C++ not the best language, the one that everyone, an I mean everyone uses... You didn't bother me at all, I just figured that's what happend, an ended it as quick as possible an went into the game to finish out making a mod. that's all. An you have tried launching by changing the FalloutLauncher to FalloutLauncherBACK (meaning backup) then change the name of Fallout4.exe to FalloutLauncher.exe an then launch with steam bypassing the launcher. With the updated 38 hours ago NMM which is the gold standard to use, you could also try Mod Organizer if you wanted to learn something new. Then the script extender is out an what that is, is a .exe that will launch the game an patch it as it launches in order to let us, the modders do anything we damn well please, mostly it's for stuff to streamline an speed up the scripting process with better commands cause we do stuff Bethesda wouldn't have time to, an the script extender has a launcher of it's own that will launch the game, can even change the icon to a fallout one, an put it in the start menu, on the task bar, or as a shortcut on the desktop if you prefer as well as all the other 3rd party software launchers detecting if you have it or not an launching the game via the script extenders launcher. Launch with all of them an maybe it will work. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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