Help !! Fallout NV infinite startup menu

[ashley.mmx]

So i installed Fallout New Vegas earlier today.. at first the game wouldn't even launch, instead it would pop up with an error reading "Application load error 5:0000065434" before quitting

Through many visits to a myriad of forums, however, i managed to get past THAT problem, only to be further accosted by the startup screen which seems to be stuck in some sort of infinite loop..

The startup screen starts up seemingly completely normally, until a box pops up with the message:

"Detecting Video Hardware: Fallout New Vegas will now detect your video hardware and set video options accordingly."

This box is almost immediately followed by another stating that video settings have been set accordingly.. Nothing really threw me off at first, I thought it was just all standard procedure, until i hit play and the screen went black..

Expecting the game to load up normally, eager to immerse myself in the fallout world (or lack thereof), imagine my surprise when instead of seeing opening credits or loading screens, etc.. I was looking back at the same startup menu that i had just clicked through. And, like clockwork, the video hardware detection box popped up once again. After clicking through the startup menu and it's popups 5-10+ times (on several occasions) its clear to me that this startup loop is no random glitch (which i had, obviously, hoped it to be. many times. obviously to no avail.)

Now, i'm definitely no tech guru (as you can probably tell) so please excuse my ignorance towards these matters. While my options are as limited as my knowledge, I have nonetheless found myself desperately restarting my computer, uninstalling & reinstalling the game, browsing back through many of the same forums that I had visited just a few hours ago, and even searching through every options/settings menu available from the games startup screen and even from inside wine itself, but i still haven't the slightest idea what could be causing this infinite startup loop from hell..

If anybody smarter than me has any idea what could possibly be causing this and/or what i could possibly do to resolve it, i would be forever grateful. I've already spent the past few hours gruelingly resolving the first application error I encountered, at this point i just want to play the game and forget about all this.. my limited knowledge of technology such as this makes these stressful obstacles damn near unbearable so i have humbly come to request any possible aid from the people who know much more about all this than I do. i don't expect any miracles, but any tips, advice, or general words of wisdom that you might be able to impart unto me would, at the very least, be something more than the nothing i'm facing right now..

I've definitely been at this too long, the stress is building up, I'm going to go buy the homeless man down the street a meal and hope that good karma fixes all this by the time i get back...

thanks in advance for anything you might have to say or might be able to suggest,

Ashley xoxo

[hrik2001]

I will suggest to go to winecfg.exe and take a look there and set all the options according to the game requirements. like you know, setting up the video hardware settings and other stuffs. You can google the system requirements and set it up as required.