As much as I like the idea of the Steam service.... there are problems with it... sometimes when a game played though the steam crashes, steam does as well.... now when that happens.... you will be unable to run steam in offline mode, until you have connected to the internet!!

Now for most people that won't be a big problem, because of course EVERY home in the world has an internet connection right? Thats what the big companies want to think anyway....

I live on a yacht, relying on public wifi signals, or ones provided by the marina we happen to be staying in (if they even provide one at all), so if Steam crashes during one of my periods away from an availible wifi connection... I'm STUCK, no Steam games (can understand HL2 since thats 90% intergrated into the client as it is), and no Fallout NV....

So I was wondering if there would be a way of running New Vegas without having to run it though steam?

The NVSE, and mod managers acivate the steam client as part of activating the game exe.... so its not as easy to bypass as the GFWL on Fallout 3.

Hope this can be done... although I assume there'd be alot of "piracy" contraversy in my request..... but I do have a legit Activation code tied to my Steam account!

As far as I am aware, the best you can hope for is to run it in offline mode. Bypassing steam altogether would not be recommended, nor would discussing it. Sorry but along with the rest of us you are stuck with Steam.

Shame, I have it in Offline mode most of the time.... but if the game crashes.... which is gonna happen often, steam won't let me access my stuff till I'm online again....

Hello,

read this topic : http://www.fallout-3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4627

See https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3160-agcb-2555

Dan's post above just tells you how to install from the DVD rather than from the online download, it doesn't tell you how to play offline.

The Steam link above describes a method that did used to work, you could play offline WITHOUT ever connecting to Steam even though you MUST still run the Steam client. Note that you MUST first set up the game to run offline while connected online to Steam.

You must setup the offline method BEFORE you loose your online connection. In the case where you know that you might loose your online connection it would be advisable to ALWAYS run Steam in offline mode then when you know you have a good online connection you would configure Steam to online, do your Steam updates and switch back to offline mode. This may seem inconvenient but it's you who has the sometimes unavailable online connection, that's not Steam's problem.

I haven't tried that method but some people have reported that offline mode doesn't work but have failed to give enough specific details to determine if their claims are valid. Of course an ordinarily online game won't work properly offline but FalloutNV should run just fine.

Well basicly thats what I already use to play in offline mode anyway when I have an internet connection, and when starting up steam when I don't have a connection at all, it gives you a prompt to try and re-establish the connection, or start in offline mode!

So really... its not going to help the problem of steam not allowing you to use offline mode after it crashing though....

Yeah i hate steam, offline mode is pointless if you need to be online to be able to play if you get disconnected, i have so many games now that are steam related and if i loose my connection and get a power surge or a crash no gaming, if my isp's down for repairs, and i cant use the internet i cant play a steam game, if it was only to log on once and register your password that would be fine but to keep having to connect to validate the game is rubbish.

*groans* Happened again last night..... had to shut my laptop down since the screen wouldn't come on again after shutting the lid.... didn't have internet access till this morning, so didn't have access to New Vegas or any of my steam games since offline mode wanted me to connect to the internet to validate my account again.....