Fallout Games Crashing When Loading Saves After Updating Graphics Card Update

[NazWeed]

Awhile ago I swapped my old AMD card for a GTX 760. Now all the 3D Fallout games crash when loading a save. This is really strange.

[zippy57]

The current nVidia drivers are broken for FNV/FO3. You have to roll back to something in the 36x range to run them, I think.

[prinyo]

There are two ways to fix this at the moment.

 

Rollback the driver to version 368.81

 

Or

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/34778/

Check the mod and the comment section. 

[NazWeed]

Damn shame this is, I can't play with mods?

[Slammer64]

With the newest drivers you can't play any Bethesda game under Windows 10, however I'm currently running Win 7 with the newest drivers just fine. It's a Windows 10 problem and we have to wait till Microsoft gets off their dead asses and issues a patch.

[prinyo]

I haven't tried the solution from the mod myself as I can't have the dll in the game directory (because Tridef and vorpx).

But I see no reason why mods should not work. 

The only thing I can think about is that if you want to use ENB you will need the injector and not the wrapper version. But I might me missing something.

[LukeDuke]

''NVAC'' fixes it for all older Bethesda's games (including Oblivion!), and you can still use ENB/SFX/ReShade or whatever, and no, I don't think M$ will ever fix it, but Bethesda should update their old games to support latest OS anyway..

[prinyo]

Trying the NVAC fix now.

 

Also, unrelated to the FONV problem, here is a link to the last usable Nvidia experience before they decided to turn it into a spyware : http://us.download.nvidia.com/GFE/GFEClient/2.11.4.0/GeForce_Experience_v2.11.4.0.exe

 

Link via Reddit.

 

And as suggested there the setup.exe in C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\GeForce Experience\Update needs to be renamed to something else in order to prevent the mandatory update.

[LukeDuke]

Thanks, but I never use any app to config my games for me, as it's messing with my custom settings too much, but maybe others will find it useful.

[prinyo]

Wow, the new NVAC did actually work and without all the complications of having that dll in the game directory. Thanks! 

 

Just a note - you need to download the beta from the optional files and install it by hand - putting the dll of the mod in the plugins dir. 

[7KeysCurtain]

While others have had luck with that beta copy of NVAC fixing it - for me it just introduces other problems like bald NPCs, looks like I'll be on 368.81 for who knows how long.