Help! Trouble running FallOut NV on my new laptop!!

I recently purchased new vegas to run on my laptop, and im having difficulties. I have a lenovo y560 with an i7 740qm processor,8 gigs of ram, and ati radeon 5730 1 gig gpu. when I first got the game, it ran perfectly on my machine. When i saved and quit, then tried to reload the game to play, it wouldn't make it past the loading screen. The game would CTD, give me an error, and i would have to reload. I tried reinstalling the game, and trying various changes to certain files (which would not save after unchecking read only) and then try again, to no avail.

I contacted bethesda and they told me twice that my processor was not fast enough, which doesn't sound right to me. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this issue, any feedback will be greatly appreciated!

Regards
-Daniel

 

The Bethesda reps you talked to need to be replaced as your i7 is not only good enough, it's overkill for NV.

Your GPU should be fine also. Hardware specs are not the issue here.

But I would write down whatever error or crash report you get and post them on a NV forum, like maybe Fallout Nexus forum and see if Fallout experts can help you. NewVegasNexus should be a great place to get any help for any issue with NV.

 

Have you tweaked the .inf/.cfg file for the game? I know the game is as buggy as the FO3 was, I was running it on an extremely overkill m15x the day it came out and it took a few days of tweaking just to get it to run decent with a 5850 that killed every other game out there.

 

You may want to look up tweak guides for the ini for FO3/FNV. You're using a quad-core processor, and I recall that FO3 for me was unplayable (i.e. crashes after a few minutes into the game, if that) until I used the bUseThreadedAI=1 switch in the ini file.

Also, the fact that you were able to run it once and then had problems subsequently may point to an issue with the steam connection; does the game launch, or do you get dropped out at the steam stage?

If you're trying to change files, you need to make sure you're doing it in the correct directory. Steam games have a folder in the steamapps directory, and for FONV the default ini is stored here. If you make changes to the 'my games' ini file, they will get overwritten every time you start up. Try changing whatever needs to be changed in the steamapps versions, and see if that helps. You can also delete the file in the steamapps folder and run an integrity check which should re-download the default file from the steam servers.

Finally, the Beth support guy sounds like a cretin. Whilst its true that for some gaming apps its better to have a high speed single core capability, theres no way that that the 740qm can be considered slow - performance wise for games like this, I would guess it sits between a i540m and an i620m (the i620m is actually faster in the real world than the i740m for games and single threaded apps). Fwiw, I have an i540m with a 330m GPU and it runs FONV fine.

 

If I can run this fine without any tweaks on m11x which has a ULV i5 and also a weaker GPU than yours, you should have no problems. I also run this fine on my desktop, so you shouldn't be having any problems due to using an ATI card.

Instead of reinstalling try having steam verify the game files.