Has anyone experienced such a severe crash of Fallout New Vegas that when it crashes say your resolution of your monitor is 1680x1050 it makes everything look absolutely MASSIVE as in 640x480 style massive as if it's managed to completely unload the NVIDIA driver when it crashes! Then a few seconds later it turns your monitor off!! Leaving no option but to hit the reset button on the PC........

No other game I've ever played has ever done that! This is an absolute waste of time!! I (and everyone) should NOT/NEVER have to play a game [censored]ting themselves wondering when it will crash.........

This is pathetic!!!!!!!!!

If your resolution is being reset then it is a driver crash, not a game crash. Unless you are running the game in a low resolution, in which case your driver is not resetting itself after the crash.

It would be worth trying to reinstall your video drivers. And maybe look into how to check windows crash log information.

Yeah that does sound like more than just a game crash but a driver crash as mentioned above. Could you post your dxdiag output so we could take a look at your driver versions?

Easy there, Tiger! As the others have said, this sounds like driver or video card issues. Hate to tell you this, but I was having issues like this a couple of years back, right before my video card died of old age.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THE OTHERS!
There is a ferret in your computer, to lure it out, put a slice of cheese in your dvd drive. Worked for me !

You aren't alone. FNV has crashed my video drivers (NVIDIA) on several occasions (and I've seen a couple of other posts from people reporting the same thing). It usually happens when accessing a container. ED-E's inventory is particularly prone to causing a video driver crash. I was using the latest drivers, but I've reverted to an older version to see if that helps. Still testing.

What a wholly inappropriate, unacceptable comment.

You have no way of knowing whether or not it is a ferret. It could simply be mice, possibly a rat, or even a nutria. You need to positively identify the invading rodent before attempting computer repair. For example, if it's a nutria and you put cheese in the DVD drive they will most likely attack the boot sector of your hard drive. You must repaint the front of your computer green to drive out the nutria, since they find the color green to be garish and distasteful. Rats and mice, on the other hand may install an older distribution of Ubuntu upon finding cheese as some sort of misguided thank you.

It could also be a fungal infection and not a ferret or rodent, but that is easily researched on the internet.

Been there done that, reinstalled the drivers still the same problem but only with FV New Vegas NO OTHER GAME...



No point me posting a DXDIAG as it's not relevant, the fact is that it's the game at fault not my hardware or my settings, every other game I play apart from FV New Vegas works flawlessly, the NVIDIA drivers I'm using are 260.99.



Well well, do you work for the makers of FV New Vegas? Sounds like it trying to blame my hardware for a fatally flawed game! I can categorically tell you this,

1) It's not my videocard

2) It IS the game

3) My videocard isn't dying of old age just yet as it's a GTX 275 which I've only had for just over a year (but the age/how long I've had the card is irrelavent, because no other game but New Vegas crashes) and that includes Fallout 3... Believe it or not which works flawlessly.....

4) ALL other games I play work flawlessly, they don't crash the NVIDIA drivers and nor have they ever crashed to the desktop

5) Don't try to blame my videocard for the errors caused by the game

6) Because it isn't that what's the problem, it's the bloody bugged game that should have been tested far more extensively before being released

7) It's been nearly a month since the release of the game and still NO COMPREHENSIVE PATCH........



THANK YOU, finally someone else who has posted saying they've experienced the same thing, you sure your graphics card isn't dying gloops lol, only thing I can see dying is the frigging game!

Let me/us know if the older driver version helps at all, but I doubt it as it's a game problem not a driver problem, the game problem in question being FV New Vegas should NEVER have been released with the ability to cause all manner of problems for people who simply want to play the game..., I mean come on sat here playing happily away (whilst [censored]ting oneself) wondering when the next crash will be, that's not enjoyable is it...

Bethesda/whoever should be ashamed of themselves, money grabbing beeps.........