In the Error-checking category, click Check now….

Right-click this drive and select Properties.

Locate the hard drive Steam is installed on.

If you’re facing a disk write error, meanwhile, Gamunation recommend the following workaround: Gamunation suggest selecting either the Vista SP2 or XP SP3 compatibility option under the Fallout 4 executable’s properties. Sat staring at an unwelcome message that reads ‘Fallout 4 has stopped working’? You’ll want to try launching the game in compatibility mode. If you use Ds3Service’s emulation drivers to get a PlayStation pad working, however, that might be your problem – in which case you’ll need to dive into Task Manager and stop the Ds3 process. Steam forumites have reported success in editing fallout4prefs.ini – found under Documents/My Games/Fallout 4 – so that it reads bGamepadEnable=0 rather than bGamepadEnable=1. That doesn’t help those without gamepads, of course. Some have fixed the problem simply by removing any gamepads they might have plugged in others have navigated to Options using a controller and switched back mouse control manually. In those cases, it seems the game is detecting a controller by default. If you’re still suffering general stuttering issues, it might be worth disabling V-sync and running in full screen, rather than windowed mode.Ī portion of Fallout 4’s playerbase hasn’t made it past the main menu, thanks to a lack of mouse input.

You can turn it off by following the instructions over on the Bethesda forums. Nvidia users in particular are advised to download the latest GeForce driver, 358.91 WHQL (there’s another version for Windows 10 users).īeyond that, some have reported that Nvidia’s ‘Streamer Service’ for the SHIELD, which comes as part of their GeForce Experience software, has been behind a certain amount of poor performance and crashing. The most common culprit seems to be a GPU driver conflict – solved by making a clean install of the latest drivers. Original Story 10th Nov, 2015:Crashes to desktop are frequent offenders so far, but with a bit of luck we won’t have to explain them away as wasteland anomalies this time. It’s a bit tricky to pin point the issue, and it doesn’t seem to be related to quests sending you to the area, either.Ī bug of this scale will hopefully be a priority for Bethesda. Apparently the Event Viewer doesn’t show the error, either. Players are reporting CTDs absent error messages when entering the area. If you’re planning a trip to the area around Monsignor Plaza – and you probably will at some point, since it’s an area relevant to several quests – then you might be in for a bit of bother.

Fallout 4 crashes on startup