Sign up with GoogleI recently bought Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition from Makro for R199. I checked beforehand online to see whether the game uses steamworks or not, and it said it didn't. I've spent most of my years avoiding steamworks titles because I've heard how horrible it all really is. Of course many will disagree.
This was a lie because when I put the game disc in and launched the setup, after a few prompts it began to install steam and then wanted to update it so I had to connect to internet.
So I go through the process of updating Steam using about 50 MB of data. Then I go through the process of creating my new steam account. That's done, and it says "thank you for creating your steam account and for using steam", and I click next and it just hangs, then I keep clicking next and it's using up more and more data and nothing's happening that I can see. I can't click back or cancel, and I can minimize the thing but not exit.
I end up disconnecting and restarting my PC out of frustration and impatience. Now when I double click on the Steam icon on the desktop, it won't open and says that an instance of the program is all ready running. True enough in the task manager there it is: steam.exe. But I can't access the frontend.
If I buggered up the install, which I suspect I have, would an uninstall, reinstall or repair of steam work? There is an en entry in add/remove programs (using Windows XP SP3). I installed via the the autorun menu that came with the disc. I've heard that one should rather download the Steam client from the website and install it that way. Otherwise it may try and download the entire game, according the the Bethsoft forums! And I don't want that seeing as I have the disc.
How much data does the whole process use up in total (installing and updating steam and more)? And how do I actually get to play Fallout New Vegas? I see a CD key on the inside of the box, so I assume after installing steam correctly you can fire it up and then verify that you bought the game and then get the option to play it, and hopefully run it offline?
I've checked to see if I can indeed log in to my Steam account and I am able to. I would post this over at the Steam forums but they're taking forever to activate my forum or support account.
Thanks for any suggestions.
This was a lie because when I put the game disc in and launched the setup, after a few prompts it began to install steam and then wanted to update it so I had to connect to internet.
So I go through the process of updating Steam using about 50 MB of data. Then I go through the process of creating my new steam account. That's done, and it says "thank you for creating your steam account and for using steam", and I click next and it just hangs, then I keep clicking next and it's using up more and more data and nothing's happening that I can see. I can't click back or cancel, and I can minimize the thing but not exit.
I end up disconnecting and restarting my PC out of frustration and impatience. Now when I double click on the Steam icon on the desktop, it won't open and says that an instance of the program is all ready running. True enough in the task manager there it is: steam.exe. But I can't access the frontend.
If I buggered up the install, which I suspect I have, would an uninstall, reinstall or repair of steam work? There is an en entry in add/remove programs (using Windows XP SP3). I installed via the the autorun menu that came with the disc. I've heard that one should rather download the Steam client from the website and install it that way. Otherwise it may try and download the entire game, according the the Bethsoft forums! And I don't want that seeing as I have the disc.
How much data does the whole process use up in total (installing and updating steam and more)? And how do I actually get to play Fallout New Vegas? I see a CD key on the inside of the box, so I assume after installing steam correctly you can fire it up and then verify that you bought the game and then get the option to play it, and hopefully run it offline?
I've checked to see if I can indeed log in to my Steam account and I am able to. I would post this over at the Steam forums but they're taking forever to activate my forum or support account.
Thanks for any suggestions.
