Fallout 4 Won't Launch

So I'm new to Heroic. I initially used Lutris and Fallout 4 from GOG ran fine, though I couldn't get the mods to work, so I switched to Heroic to try a tutorial I found. Unfortunately, every time I try to launch Fallout 4, it suffers from an error every time. I got the log file here, if it isn't the right one, let me know and I can try again. I tried launching with both Wine ge-8-26-x86_64 and GE-proton10-25.

heroic.log16.13KB

Solution

info:  Found device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (NVIDIA 535.18.2)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'maintenance5' (extension: VK_KHR_maintenance5)

info:  Found device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (NVIDIA 535.18.2)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'maintenance5' (extension: VK_KHR_maintenance5)

info:  Found device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (NVIDIA 535.18.2)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'maintenance5' (extension: VK_KHR_maintenance5)

info:  Found device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (NVIDIA 535.18.2)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'maintenance5' (extension: VK_KHR_maintenance5)

Update your Nvidia drivers to at least 550, ideally 580

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HeroicBotAPP•12/8/25, 12:01 AM

To help you, we need a game log. Please see the following images on how to get it.

HeroicBotAPP•12/8/25, 12:02 AM

Wine-GE is rather old now (last release is almost a year ago) and thus might not work correctly. Please follow these instructions on using GE-Proton:

Head to the Wine Manager in Heroic, click the "Proton-GE" tab, and install "Proton-GE-Latest"
Head to the settings for your game(s) (icon on game card in library). In the "Wine Version" dropdown, select "Proton - Proton-GE-latest"
Rename your Wineprefix (path is shown in game settings), e.g. from
```
current-name
```
```
current-name
```
to
```
current-name_bak
```
```
current-name_bak
```
. To clarify: Rename the actual folder on your hard drive, do not change the option in the game settings.
Note: This will make game-specific configuration data (e.g. in-game settings or save files) unavailable. If this is an issue, let us know & we'll help you restore them.

colossal-harlequinOP•12/8/25, 12:19 AM

I apologize for not doing it like the bot said, but it wouldn't work either.

launch.log27.89KB

dry-scarlet•12/8/25, 4:25 AM

it was to get proper logs, not to get it to work.

Solution

CommandMC•12/8/25, 8:27 AM

info:  Found device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (NVIDIA 535.18.2)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'maintenance5' (extension: VK_KHR_maintenance5)

info:  Found device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (NVIDIA 535.18.2)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'maintenance5' (extension: VK_KHR_maintenance5)

Update your Nvidia drivers to at least 550, ideally 580

dry-scarlet•12/8/25, 8:29 AM

(dont update to 590 though, as those drivers do not support this card

CommandMC•12/8/25, 8:30 AM

Does any distro ship 590 already? Even Arch still has 580

dry-scarlet•12/8/25, 8:30 AM

not sure, but its at least in beta now so its possible to potentially find

dry-scarlet•12/8/25, 8:32 AM

but yeah arch is still on 580

Ddry-scarlet it was to get proper logs, not to get it to work.

colossal-harlequinOP•12/8/25, 2:50 PM

I meant the thing to upload the logs didn't work, not the game

colossal-harlequinOP•12/8/25, 2:51 PM

I updated to Nvidia 580 and yep, it's working now. Thank you!

Fallout 4 Won't Launch

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