So I've had this game since launch and had to deal with it's fair share of problems, but this most recent one takes the cake. For almost a week now I have been crashing the split second the game application opens after I hit play on the launcher. I have disabled mods, tried to update DX, lowered audio settings, reinstalled the game, verified local files, updated gpu drivers, and even fiddled with registries. Google has lead me to believe that it is a DX problem, but as much as I try I cannot get it to work. When I try to update DX it just tells me that everything is up to date and there is nothing to do, and I cannot find a way to repair.

I've played this game for 550 hours and I still haven't finished half the storylines. Right as I finally decided which character I wanted to do everything with this problem started happening.

It may be worth mentioning that I get the exact same problem in FO3 now. I'd try New Vegas as well, but it isn't installed atm.

Please help!

For the time being, go back to square one with the readers in here, as if it never ran, and give us the complete rundown of everything.

The launcher opens just fine, but if it has to detect video settings it will crash after it does. When I hit play on the launcher the exe opens up for a split second and dies immediately with no error report. Would a dxdiag report help?

Once it gets past the audio drivers, I can't make any more from it, myself, but it seems to be extremely popular here, anyway. If you can't summarize the system yourself, I suppose that will be your only recourse.