Fallout: New Vegas not working on Windows 10

[TomahawkGaming33]

I began playing Fallout: New Vegas on my Windows 10 PC recently, I got off for the night, and a few days later, the game would crash religiously every time I hit "continue". My father and I have tried almost everything we can, but we may need a few more hands helping us with the problem.
I do believe FNV runs on DirectX 9, and I'm on DirectX 12, which may possibly be part of the problem. In between my two play sessions, Windows did some general updates, which gives a slim chance the updates screwed me over. I'm not sure if the GTX 970 supports DirectX 9. I've tried using mods in FOMM to see if those would help, but no luck. Would going back to 8.1 solve my problem? I've also tried reinstalling the game from Steam multiple times. It is definitely not a corrupted save file. Any help whatsoever is appreciated, I'd love to hear everything you guys have to say.

PC Specs:
-Intel i7-4790K Processor @ 4.00 GHz
-Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB DDR3 RAM
-GeForce GTX 970 4GB VRAM Graphics Card
-Windows 10 (originally 8.1)
-Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK Motherboard
-Corsair CX Series 750 Watt Power Supply

 

[Colif]

If a game is installed on win 10 that needs DX 9 it generally installs them at the time. Win 10 can have DX9 through to 12 on machine at same time
My 980 supports all these DX versions so I can't see yours not as well: 12.1,12.0,11.1,11.0,10.1,10.0,9.3,9.2,9.1

Going back to 8.1 wouldn't make your card suddenly support anything that it doesn't already on win 10.

Did you ask on here: http://forums.bethsoft.com/forum/112-fallout-new-vegas-pc-issues/