Gadjo7

Thank you all for your input to my question. I appreciate it. It seems that, as I feared, I will not be able to play FALLOUT 4 outside of S.T.E.A.M... Most disappointing. Thanks, DaddyDirection for the links to help make FALLOUT 3 New Vegas more tolerable. Rabbit, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "offline mode" from within S.T.E.A.M. Can you please help me out with this one? Thanks again everybody! (smile)

Hi, I'm new to this, but I thought I would try this method of finding some answers. I have been playing FALLOUT 3 "Game of the Year" edition for quite a while now, and it has been really great. When FALLOUT 3 "New Vegas" came out, I bought it immediately because of my great experiences with FALLOUT 3. This release required a S.T.E.A.M. account to be able to play it, so I opened an account there. S.T.E.A.M. basically ruined my experience with this game. I experienced random crashes, huge slow-downs in performance, and many times the game just locked up. I contacted all the relevant support sources, and got no help at all. Consequently, my "New Vegas" version just sits on the shelf. Incidentally, my GAME PC is set up as follows: CPU: Intel 4770K i7 3.5 Ghz. MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Z87-A MEMORY: 8 GB VIDEO Cards: Two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 cards in SLI configuration. O.S.: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition NETWORK: Fiber Optic Cable, 18 MB/s up and down While this is not the fastest machine out there, it does its own share of screaming through FALLOUT, CRYSIS, Call of Duty, etc. No crashes, no lock-ups, no performance degradation no matter how hard I push the games. BUT.....these are all played off line. My "GOTY" version allows me to play off line and does not require a S.T.E.A.M. account, so I am getting a lot of enjoyment out of it. I noticed FALLOUT 4 is on the near horizon, and it looks like S.T.E.A.M. is involved with that release as well. Does anoyone know if there is hope for a version of FALLOUT 4 that does NOT require a S.T.E.A.M. account, so that a person at least has the option of playing it off line? Any information you can provide will be most appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gadjo7