I should've thought about the possibility of having to white-listing those files first. Hope this helps you or anyone else who has encountered this problem. As I say, the symptoms were exactly as you described, forming an endless loop, but making a simple alteration in my antivirus fixed it for me. Now, I'm not saying this will resolve your particular issue, because it may be due to a number of factors, but it certainly resolved mine.
ini files were not write-protected, ticking the 'Windowed Mode' box, changing to various resolutions, and even contemplated downloading some mods as suggested on various forums. StormHammer: I had exactly this same issue, and I tried everything from 'Running as Administrator', to compatibility settings, checking that the. Ive tried starting setting both FalloutNV.exe and FalloutNVLauncher.exe to run as a. I started it again and tried running, it still didnt work. As I say, the symptoms were exactly as you described, forming an endless loop, but making a simple alteration in my antivirus fixed it for me. So I just bought new vegas today, and when I started it up and hit play it showed the loading blue circle next to the mouse and then didnt do anything.
I white-listed both of these files in BitDefender and, ran the launcher again, let it detect settings, clicked Play and I was straight into the game.
My antivirus program was blocking both FalloutNV.exe and FalloutNVLauncher.exe from accessing the game folder under my User settings. I did, finally, find a solution, and I slapped myself for overlooking it. In order to be able to run Fallout: New Vegas at a minimum standard for the game, you will need a CPU ranked better than Dual Core 2.
Which made no sense to me, because I had these games running under Steam without issue on this same PC with Windows 10. Further on, we will explain what are the minimum and recommended PC gaming system requirements ( otherwise known as sys req ) for Fallout: New Vegas. I had exactly this same issue, and I tried everything from 'Running as Administrator', to compatibility settings, checking that the. Not even 'Run as Administrator' will work. If you keep clicking play it with reload the launcher another 3-5 times until even clicking the FalloutNVLauncher.exe or FalloutNV.exe doesn't do anything. Specsavers: Clicking play in the launcher just reloads the launcher.