Steam Crashing Windows 10

[Melanie Wendelberger]

Justbought and downloaded the game on release, launching it instantly gives me an error message explaining there has been a crash and a crash report has been saved. I tried the usual steps, restarting PC, running as admin, verifying game files.

Your PC spec seems like there should be no issue, I would have to concur with the driver updates, failing that, any supporting software or technology that your card or operating system (windows 8) might require (windows updates or game ready technology).

I hate to sound like a sales-person as well! But you can get your hands on a free upgrade to windows 10, if you were interested in doing such a thing (expires at the end of this month) - -gb/accessibility/windows10upgrade

Messing around with Compatibility Option earlier prompted Windows to ask wether the program was run correctly, upon saying "no" it just offered other compatibility settings - Tried all of those, no change.

Also, I noticed something special about the Ylands installation that's different from the usual Steam installation process:

After downloading, upon first launching the application, normally I would get a Steam window popup, saying its installing VCRedist and I believe DirectX too, before launching the game itself. This hasn't happened on any of the installs I tried to run for Ylands. Is this normal behaviour?

I hope these drivers will help, please let us know when you know something! If it still doesn't run, post us another dxdiag along with another rar file that you sent in your first post and we'll try to figure it out.

So from what you recommended... This apparently is a driver problem. Now, we've established that these new drivers don't really seem to fix this particular problem. There's a new one out today, I'll try that later... but not getting my hopes up.

I have the same problem with crashing on game launch, it just does not respond and exits everytime. A temporary fix that I found was creating a brand new user account on my Windows 10 and launching Ylands from there. I do not know why this is the case. I have looked at my main user account and new user account files, and I cannot find out what the problem is.

Anyways, hopefully this works as a temporary fix for you as well. I still want to find out what the problem is so I don't have to keep switching user accounts every time I want to switch from any game to Ylands and vice versa.

I had similar issues... so looked through my program files, found the older trial version was still there and deleted it.. I now only access the game through steam to ensure i am using the latest updated version

First of all, thanks for suggesting a solution. I might try that later today. That's a really, really weird solution though. Maybe some problem with different authorization states? I mean I'm sure you have admin rights but... huh. Did you get the error message though?

can I still get a trial version somewhere? I'd like to try it out in one way or another. Also wonder if a crack might work. Is it still illegal to crack a game if I paid the creators for it? I mean, that's a base question I have, would other versions of the game work.

I had been laying low, waiting for a patch to fix it or for a response on my support ticket. I got one today. I doubt they read it. I was told to report the problem here and attach both output_log and dxdiag, both of which I detailed having already done in the sent report.

I'm unable to play Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I can't even load a save or start a new game. Instant crash to desktop and removing all the mods, tweaks, INI settings or having the game in its vanilla state doesn't seem to have any effect. Rolling back to previous version solves the problem but I don't plan to stick with older drivers just to play a 13 years old game. Any solution to this problem in the next release would be appreciated. I have a 6750 XT. I'm enjoying to overall experience but these minor things adds up.

Pretty much carried out the same steps as yourself, full reinstall of the game. Starts up fine, the moment you try to load or start a new game, intro will play, then when you get the the loading screen it lasts for about 2 seconds then crashes.

Worst thing about this whole ordeal is I had a pretty crowded mod base for my Tale of Two Wastelands installation. You know, the thing that merges Fallout 3 and New Vegas together. I basically nuked the whole thing in order to identify the problem. Well, I did, and I still can't play it. Let's hope for a swift and smooth solution. I'd make a joke about 7900 XTX not being enough to handle a game like New Vegas but I'd imagine it wouldn't be a very original one. Cheers!

Well, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one having this happen. At least now I don't feel so cursed. Vanilla games wouldn't work so I went the TTW route thinking that would fix. It didn't. I tried so many different things for hours on end to figure out what was going on to no avail. I can load up into the main menu but as soon as I try to load in or start a new game it crashes to desktop after about 2 seconds of loading. On a 6950 XT.

You need to roll back your drivers to a 23.x.x pre 24.x.x. It looks like just general driver degradation which is very sad to see because I don't want to have to roll back my drivers every time I want to play one of my favorite games ever (New Vegas). Please fix this AMD!

Update:

Hey guys, I found a fix.

The fix is easy. Just grab DXVK and run the game in Windowed mode. If you do not run it Windowed, the game will be extremely extremely laggy

However, some might find that Windowed mode does not provide full resolution. To fix this, just run bethINI and set your settings there. Make sure to tick "windowed mode".

Done! Let me know if you guys have any questions

Purchased a new RX 6650 XT a few weeks ago that runs all my other games just fine. EXCEPT for FO3 & NV! Same issue as those above. Get to the loading screen and Crash To Desktop when continuing, loading a save, or starting a new one. I just switched from the green team(1060 3gb). I really hope the next driver release fixes this issue.

Basicaly AMD version of dx9 Drivers is broken so we need to inject an old one with special info (Gpu info) to fake the Detection of the GPU by the game. Like that Fallout 3 / Fallout NV engine will setup the rendering mode correctly and configure FaceGen (it's the thrid party tool used for the faces of the PNJ ) properly.

If you go to steam forum for FO:NV, there is a sticky post for stability and anti-crashing. I installed "New Vegas Script Extender" and the "anti crash" mods. I ran it from steam, and it worked, which I think ironically does not actually use the mods. So I ran it from the NV script launcher for steam and it continued to work.

nah modding is not a solution. I don't have an account for that woke infested website and I want my achievements. Its a problem with the drivers because it works fine with versions from the year 2023. AMD needs to fix this. New games are not the only reason why people build gaming pc's. Everything from the past should always be supported.

It took me and hour or so of trying to figure out the problem thinking it might be related to the mods, but doesn't work without any mods either, the game crashes on both 'load' and 'new game' after the intro video before you get into the game.

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