When game crashes is there a way to get out of the loading screen WITHOUT having to do a hard restart of the PC?

[Fall0utNewVegasBoy]

Ctrl Alt Del (Task Manager), Sticky Shift keys, Windows key, ESC and Alt Tab does not do anything to help. Anything that happens to pop up in an attempt to circumvent it, once the mouse is clicked reverts back to the loading screen, locking up the mouse cursor. Is there another way to just shut down Fallout New Vegas without resorting to a hard reset, as that takes a considerable amount of time to get back to the game, with the possibility of it happening again?

Since everything that can fix the crashing seems to rely on many outside factors, that in itself is a problem to me. NVSE apparently cannot be downloaded from Nexus, but from a third party website. Once downloaded it and Fallout New Vegas must be installed in anything BUT Program Files, otherwise it will NOT work, or so I gathered. The catch is ALL my games from Steam are in the Program Files. Am I suppose to move just Fallout New Vegas out, or worse all Steam games or worst of all delete everything and start anew? Are there any #F or FN keys or any other button combinations that would work to boot me out of the New Vegas loading screen? Thank you.

[DoctorKaizeld]

Do you have the task manger set to force to top?

[HadToRegister]

This is how I ended up using two monitors.
Because of Bethesda games 'locking' the Main screen when they crashed.

IIRC There was some utility on NExusmods that let you shut down the locked screen with a three key combination, but I can't remember the name of it.
Try browsing the TOOLS or UTILITIES section of Fallout New Vegas.

One Monitor to keep the Task Manager open at all times, so I can stop the frozen process on my main screen.

FVSE will work in Program FIles (x86), but Program Files (x86) is the WORST place to install your games, because WIndows by Default over protects that folder and makes things more difficult.

How to move Steam games to another drive?

How to move specific Steam Games to Other Drive:

1. Copy the game folder from Steam\Steamapps\common to another drive.
2. Open Steam Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders.
3. Click Add Directory folder and then select game folder that you moved to other drive in Step #1.
4. It will automatically detect and add games present in the copied Steam library folder.

[JimboUK]

Play in borderless window mode https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/57843 alt tabbing and shutting it with down with the task manager both work with this.

[dubiousintent]

The key to successfully using <Alt+Tab> is to have some other program running at the same time that the system can switch to, away from the game. The "Windows Explorer/File" program works well for this, as does a plaintext editor like Notepad. (Anything which has uses little system resources, really.) Without that second program running, there is nothing else for the system to switch focus to in order to get away from the game. It is essential that you have the game running in "windowed mode" (which "borderless window mode" or "Fake Full Screen" is). "Full Screen mode" locks the system focus (i.e. "the cursor") to the game display.

 

-Dubious-