Fallout New Vegas

[x88x]

That's actually exactly the problems I was having. I was just talking to a friend at work about it and he also mentioned that there was a known bug that would do what I was seeing. I'll try that fix when I get home tonight, hopefully it'll work...I'm not particularly looking forward to shelling out a bunch of money on another GPU if I don't need to.

[NightrainSrt4]

I still get the random dips / stutter of about 30%, but that is when the engine is loading a new region, and has occurred with all gamebryo engine games that I have played. Did it with Oblivion, FO3, etc.

This though was entirely different and almost made the game unplayable. Just huge lags and stutters just by turning around, moving, vats, looking at npc's etc.

[TheGreatSatan]

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!!! I just installed the game and up comes Steam! I have to play via the internet? WTF!!

If I can't just play this on my system w/o the internet then to hell with this game!

[x88x]

This why we have offline mode.

[TheGreatSatan]

I can't figure Steam out. It says I can play without Steam once I've done the initial setup and verification, but when I open the game it launches a Steam window. How do I install it on my system? I want a dedicated icon, not a Steam launcher

[diluzio91]

i had the same thing happen when i installed l4d2, 3 days later a notification poped up and said that l4d2 had finished installing, then it magically worked.

[x88x]

I can't figure Steam out. It says I can play without Steam once I've done the initial setup and verification, but when I open the game it launches a Steam window. How do I install it on my system? I want a dedicated icon, not a Steam launcher

Steam acts as the DRM for the game, so during install it has to be running to verify..whatever it verifies..and when you want to run the game, it has to be running for the same reason. I'm guessing what happened is that Steam was not running when you tried to start the game after installation, so it opened a login prompt to start the Steam client? Personally, I just leave the client running on my computer all the time. It doesn't take up enough resources that it's bother bothering with. Also, if you want to play your Steam games without an internet connection, before you disconnect from the internet, open the Steam client, select the 'Steam' menu (top left corner), and select 'Go Offline'. Set like that it lets you do anything you would normally, but without connecting to the internet.

Think about it this way...would you rather have SecuROM or Steam?

[Liquid_Scope_99]

I still need to play the original. Probably will wait til I have some hardware to do it justice (course i could just go with the 360) but I really REALLY wanna play this game.

The Original ROCKS on PC Man

[x88x]

The Original ROCKS on PC Man

Are we talking about the original original (Fallout) or Fallout 3?

[blueonblack]

Are we talking about the original original (Fallout) or Fallout 3?

Yes.