New Vegas crashing on clean install of Windows 10

[SeraphimDreams]

I recently upgraded my PC and subsequently used it as an excuse to do a clean install of Windows 10 on a brand new SSD. It's been a while since I've had the new PC up and running now, but I just recently got the urge to play New Vegas again, so I downloaded it from Steam and fired it up from the vanilla launcher with no mods installed to make sure everything worked, and lo and behold, it didn't-..

For whatever reason now whenever I try and play New Vegas the game launches to the main menu fine, but whether I try to load a save (from a vanilla playthrough, no mods) or whether I try to start a new game, the game seems to crash instantly when it tries to initialize the game world. My reasoning behind this is that it goes through all the loading screens fine, plays the entire introduction cinematic when trying to start a new game, but when the game tries to load in to Doc Mitchell's after that, or wherever one of my vanilla saves is, I get Fallout NV has stopped responding. I've already tried verifying the game cache, making sure drivers are updated, installing the redistributables that come with the game, even tried doing a complete uninstall and reinstall, clearing out all files from my Steam directory, My Games folder, and AppData Local folder. Steam is also installed in my C:\Games\Steam folder, not under Program Files or Program Files (x86) as to avoid issues with Windows UAC.

I've had the game work fine with Windows 10 before albeit some OOM error crashes here and there, but when I did play it on Windows 10 previously it was played on a drive that had been upgraded from Windows 7, not a clean install. It seems kind of bass ackwards to me that it worked on an upgraded OS, but not a clean install, but I'm kind of getting quickly discouraged that I've hit a brick wall with one of my favorite games.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

 

 

 

Motherboard: ASUS Z170 S Sabertooth

CPU: i7 6700K @ 4.0 GHz

RAM: 32 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000 MHz

GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW 8GB

SSD (OS, Steam, Games): Intel 535 Series 480 GB

HDD (Mods, music, other stuff): 1TB Seagate HDD

OS: Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

 

 

Edited September 14, 2016 by SeraphimDreams

[RoyBatterian]

Known issues with Pascal drivers, NVIDIA has promised a fix in the next update.

[SeraphimDreams]

Thanks for the quick reply, that actually makes a lot of sense now that you mention it, and saves me some sanity hopefully when the next driver update comes out.

[RoyBatterian]

np, you can join the discussion here on the geforce forums to help accelerate them fixing it https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/960821/geforce-drivers/official-372-70-game-ready-whql-display-driver-feedback-thread-released-8-30-16-/post/4962625/#4962625