New Vegas Appcrash, help please,

[Death Raider]

I hope someone can give me some help please.

 

I have recently built a new PC and now can't play New Vegas. The game loads to the main menu, but whenever I try to start a game it crashes to desktop part way through the loading process and gives the following report:

 

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: FalloutNV.exe

Application Version: 1.4.0.525

Application Timestamp: 4e0d50ed

Fault Module Name: FalloutNV.exe

Fault Module Version: 1.4.0.525

Fault Module Timestamp: 4e0d50ed

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 00757aa9

OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3

Locale ID: 2057

Additional Information 1: 0a9e

Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Additional Information 3: 0a9e

Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

 

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This is on a fresh install that has been allowed to update through Steam. There are no mods installed. All the main DLC is installed (except Couriers Stash), as well as the classic pack. I have also tried with all the DLC disabled.

 

So far I have tried:

 

bUseThreadAI = 1

iNumHWThreads=2 This had no effect, nor did setting thread=1.

 

Adding d3d9.dll directly to the game directory and the my documents/my games directory

 

Defragmenting the cache files in steam.

 

Validating the cache files in steam, this alway says one file failed to validate and will be reaquired, even if I run it immediately after it has been done.

 

Launching via the Fallout Mod Manager.

 

Updating audio drivers

Graphics drivers are already up to date.

 

PC Spec:

 

Intel i72600k

Asus P8Z68 Delxue/GEN 3

16Gb Corsair RAM (4x4Gb)

Asus GTX 580 1.5Gb

2Tb Seagate Barracuda (2x in RAID 1 config)

850W PSU

Win 7 Home Premium 64bit

 

I have now run out of ideas and can't find anything else on the net as a suggestion.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Fonger]

did you make the mistake of installing steam to the default location -- inviting UAC to infest your game?

[DeathRaider666]

did you make the mistake of installing steam to the default location -- inviting UAC to infest your game?

 

Nope, Steam is installed to E:\Steam. I can't now remember where it wanted to install, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere on C:

 

Not quite sure how I managed to login in on that account earlier, I lost the details for it many many years ago.

 

Edit: Forgot to put in the first post I have also tried setting the Launcher and Main Exes to "Run as Admin" and Windows XP compatability mode.

Edited January 28, 2012 by DeathRaider666

[viennacalling]

Random thoughts:

 

You can get to the main menu, so the New Vegas .esm files are probably fine.

 

If you have any saves from your old PC, see if you can load any of them. If you can, the game is crashing somewhere between the start of the character generation quest (i.e. new game) and playing the New Vegas intro movie file.

 

Could also try playing the New Vegas intro movie to see if it's the problem. From the main menu, open the console and type:

 

playbink "FNVintro.bik" 1

 

These are complete shots in the dark, but maybe it'll give you some more data to work with.

[DeathRaider666]

Random thoughts:

 

You can get to the main menu, so the New Vegas .esm files are probably fine.

 

If you have any saves from your old PC, see if you can load any of them. If you can, the game is crashing somewhere between the start of the character generation quest (i.e. new game) and playing the New Vegas intro movie file.

 

Could also try playing the New Vegas intro movie to see if it's the problem. From the main menu, open the console and type:

 

playbink "FNVintro.bik" 1

 

These are complete shots in the dark, but maybe it'll give you some more data to work with.

 

Cheers for the reply, I don't think I made myself clear by the look of it.

 

The intro movie plays, it is after that, when the roulette wheel loading screen is on that it crashes. This happens both when trying to start a new game and if I try to load an old save.

 

I have tried both very old saves, think very first save, completely clean with only the classic pack on it, and much later saves calling for all the mods I had on the previous installation. I get the same behaivour in all three cases (Old clean save, new mod carrying save, and new game attempt)

 

The wheels spins for a little while, 10-20 seconds at a guess then I get the Appcrash

[Fonger]

you just installed vegas and it apcrashes

 

did you update vegas yet?

(steam gets lazy)

[DeathRaider666]

you just installed vegas and it apcrashes

 

did you update vegas yet?

(steam gets lazy)

 

Basically yes. Everything on the machine was a fresh install, from disks. With the graphics and sounds drivers updated, and far too many windows updates applied.

 

I think steam updated, the FalloutNV.exe properties lists the product version as 1.4.0.525 and the file version as 1.4.0.525 as well. The launcher exe reports as 1.2.14.0 in both places.

 

I wish steam were lazier; I'm forever having to tell it not to auto update, with it changing the settings back everytime I turn around (I'm on a very limited bandwidth during the day so have to be careful when things update.)

[Fonger]

you might want to log into your original deathraider account and ask an admin to ban your account (so they don't detect you have 2 accounts)

 

but back on track -- at a loss here

[viennacalling]

Stumped here too. Only thing I can think of is if you are willing to do it, uninstall everything and then reinstall Steam in the default location, turn off UAC, reinstall New Vegas and see if it works. For another data point, I do have a PC with older specs relative to yours running Windows 7 64-bit. On that PC I have Steam+New Vegas installed in the default location, UAC off and it plays fine.

[DeathRaider666]

you might want to log into your original deathraider account and ask an admin to ban your account (so they don't detect you have 2 accounts)

 

but back on track -- at a loss here

 

I have just done that, thanks.

 

Stumped here too. Only thing I can think of is if you are willing to do it, uninstall everything and then reinstall Steam in the default location, turn off UAC, reinstall New Vegas and see if it works. For another data point, I do have a PC with older specs relative to yours running Windows 7 64-bit. On that PC I have Steam+New Vegas installed in the default location, UAC off and it plays fine.

 

I've just re-installed Windows due to a different problem I created when sorting out my RAID problems, so I'll give it a go letting steam install where it wants to. The problems with New Vegas were occuring in the same fashion before I screwed up. UAC gets turned off as almost the first thing I do on a new installation. I'll try a simple copy tonight, and if that doesn't work I'll do a full re-install of New Vegas in the morning when I have some bandwidth. Whilst it'll be good if this does work, it'll royally screw over my partition system.

 

I've been giving it a go whilst writing this, a simple copy creates the same crash, so I'm deleting the local content, and I'll do a fresh install in the morning.