your video hardware was not identified - fallout 4

[Cameron6399]

I have an MSI Geforce GTX 1070 Gaming X and I get this meesage when Fallout 4 tries to identify my GPU. Please help

Thanks

 

[WildCard999]

1070 Driver up-to-date?

Are you running FO4 via Steam? If so try this, right-click on the game, properties, verify integrity of game cache. This will verify you have the correct game files. Then launch the game and the FO4 launcher should pop up before you go into the game, from there change the resolution to your native res (if needed) and change the graphic settings (IE: If set to low change to med or high) and try playing the game.

 

[Cameron6399]

1070 Driver up-to-date?

Are you running FO4 via Steam? If so try this, right-click on the game, properties, verify integrity of game cache. This will verify you have the correct game files. Then launch the game and the FO4 launcher should pop up before you go into the game, from there change the resolution to your native res (if needed) and change the graphic settings (IE: If set to low change to med or high) and try playing the game.

Yes, I am running it from steam, I have all the necessary game files, the game still runs it's just that whenever I start the game it resets it back to low because it cannot identify my GPU. And yes the driver is up to date.

 

[WildCard999]

Hmm, try running it in Windowed? Tried running as Admin?

Reading through some of the forums it seems the fix was either reinstalling the game which was fairly easy but others had reported that reinstalling the OS which fixed it although I would only use that as a last option.

 

[Cameron6399]

Hmm, try running it in Windowed? Tried running as Admin?

Reading through some of the forums it seems the fix was either reinstalling the game which was fairly easy but others had reported that reinstalling the OS which fixed it although I would only use that as a last option.

I reinstalled fallout, got the same problem. Don't know why this is happening on fallout but not Skyrim, Skyrim manages it just fine.

 

[WildCard999]

Does the 1070 show up in Device Manager under Display Adapter?

 

[Cameron6399]

Does the 1070 show up in Device Manager under Display Adapter?

Yes it does. According to nexus mods it does no thave an ini file? steam said that it had all the necessary files to run... what is an ini file? could that be important

 

[WildCard999]

The ini file (I believe) is a text file used for values in software or games. I think they can be also used for desktop items. I have changed them before for game mods but always made a backup just in case something went wrong. So to answer your question I'm pretty sure its important and might be the cause of your issue. As far as getting the ini file back other then reinstalling/verifying game files I'm not sure what else you can do.

Side Note: I've used NMM for quite a few games such as Oblivion and Skyrim and had no issues but I've noticed using it with FO4 files were conflicting and causing crashes. That's why I just was getting basic ones through the game/Bethesda.