Vanilla Fallout ctd's on start up

[Crosstieger]

After downloading the latest update (survival update) the game ctd's on start up. First I could not load a save because of ctd. I then decided to delete every mod and start over again. But now, even a full clean installation of FO doesn't boot up. The game starts up with a black screen for 2 seconds and then ctd's. Currently I have 0 mods installed and made absolutely no chances to the config files. All drivers are up to date.

 

Any ideas what to do if even a full clean installation does not want to boot up?

 

My System
i7-2600

GTX780TI

16GB DDR3 RAM

Fallout is installed on my 256GB SSD (~30GB free space)

GeForce Game Ready Driver 364.72

[Stuzy44]

I'm no expert but it sounds like maybe a program running from outside the game.If you have done a reinstall and not put ant mods in did you check to make sure all the files uninstalled the first time before reinstalling it again.some files that were not a part of the normal game get left behind when uninstalling.

[Crosstieger]

I'm no expert but it sounds like maybe a program running from outside the game.If you have done a reinstall and not put ant mods in did you check to make sure all the files uninstalled the first time before reinstalling it again.some files that were not a part of the normal game get left behind when uninstalling.

 

After uninstalling, the Data folder was left behind and had some sort of permission error (I could not delete it). A system restart solved this. I also had to manually delete C:\Users\Frederic\Documents\my games\Fallout4 and C:\Users\Frederic\AppData\Local\Fallout4

[Crosstieger]

I don’t know if this is any helpful, but I just copied the game files and the Steam-ACF file over to my notebook. On my notebook I can run the game. So the game files must be all valid, right?!

[Sertith]

This is the problem I'm having, too. This has been going on for...4 days?

[Sertith]

Ok, I JUST got it to get to the Start Screen. All I did so far was this:

 

In the Fallout4.ini I added , TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\, VIDEO\

 

to this:

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\

So that it becomes:

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\, VIDEO\

 

 

I still can't get it to load any saves, or start a new file, but at least something has changed.

[Crosstieger]

Ok, I JUST got it to get to the Start Screen. All I did so far was this:

 

In the Fallout4.ini I added , TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\, VIDEO\

 

to this:

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\

So that it becomes:

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\, VIDEO\

 

 

I still can't get it to load any saves, or start a new file, but at least something has changed.

 

Makes no different to me.. :(

[Sertith]

 

Ok, I JUST got it to get to the Start Screen. All I did so far was this:

 

In the Fallout4.ini I added , TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\, VIDEO\

 

to this:

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\

So that it becomes:

sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\, VIDEO\

 

 

I still can't get it to load any saves, or start a new file, but at least something has changed.

 

Makes no different to me.. :sad:

 

Sorry, man. If it makes you feel better at all, it took me 5 days for that to do anything. And I still can't load saves or start new games.

[Crosstieger]

Soo... it still doesn't work... Yesterday I downloaded the game fresh via steam, uninstalled nexus and everything else related to FO previously. Once the download was finished (over 13 hours :( ) the game booted up finally ^-^

 

ONLY TO CRASH ON THE SECOND BOOT AGAIN >.<

 

Yeah.... Same problem... again...

[EvilMatt666]

I'm getting a similar problem, I load it up and the screen starts to load the introduction videos and then CTD. What happened? I haven't played it in over a week and I know I updated my NMM but now it won't start from the Fallout.exe (or from within Steam) either.

I've also tried disabling/shutting down background programs in case something was interfering but no luck, still CTD. I did update my Nvidia graphics the other day though, could that have affected it?

Edited May 13, 2016 by EvilMatt666