Installing Fallout New Vegas from a DVD gifted to me

[The TX]

Hi all,
My brother in law doesn't play his old Fallout games any more, so he's given them to me. I've got Fallout New Vegas for Windows on DVD here out of the collector's edition. I don't know why Steam is involved but when I run the setup from the DVD and click 'install Fallout New Vegas' it immediately throws up a Steam error: "An error occurred while installing (invalid install disk): Disk not found"
- any ideas how to fix this? Does the game still require Steam to work despite being a DVD?

[Cathulhu]

Yes, it does. It also requires a product key which can only be used once. So the New Vegas copy your brother in law gave you is useless to you.

[The TX]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, it does. It also requires a product key which can only be used once. So the New Vegas copy your brother in law gave you is useless to you.

Oh, lovely. So it's a single-use product that can't be passed on to someone else? Seems like a terrible waste of resources and a bit of a money grab. No second-hand games market any more, is that the direction of travel? Sorry, rant over - thanks for your reply!

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, it does. It also requires a product key which can only be used once. So the New Vegas copy your brother in law gave you is useless to you.

^This.

Fallout new Vegas has never been a standalone game on hardcopy it's DRM. So check if key been redeem, if it has been redeem then copy is useless to you, and you have to buy your own copy.

Can use isthereanydeal.com to see if can get a copy for cheap.

[eram]

It regularly goes on sale for £1.99

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by The TX:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, it does. It also requires a product key which can only be used once. So the New Vegas copy your brother in law gave you is useless to you.

Oh, lovely. So it's a single-use product that can't be passed on to someone else? Seems like a terrible waste of resources and a bit of a money grab. No second-hand games market any more, is that the direction of travel? Sorry, rant over - thanks for your reply!

The thing is 2010+ less games are standalone, and most moved to DRM with game keys, some of the hardcopies, don't even come with all the game files at all only portion of it, so yes we been going that way for the past 13 years.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by The TX:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, it does. It also requires a product key which can only be used once. So the New Vegas copy your brother in law gave you is useless to you.

Oh, lovely. So it's a single-use product that can't be passed on to someone else? Seems like a terrible waste of resources and a bit of a money grab. No second-hand games market any more, is that the direction of travel? Sorry, rant over - thanks for your reply!

Um its been this way for like 20 years now so yeah, PC gaming tends to be tied to your account so you can't trade or re-sell games. The flip side is we tend to get games for cheaper and get more sales then on console to make up for it.

it also eliminates the issues of losing a disc, having it break, etc.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Originally posted by The TX:

Oh, lovely. So it's a single-use product that can't be passed on to someone else? Seems like a terrible waste of resources and a bit of a money grab. No second-hand games market any more, is that the direction of travel? Sorry, rant over - thanks for your reply!

Um its been this way for like 20 years now so yeah, PC gaming tends to be tied to your account so you can't trade or re-sell games. The flip side is we tend to get games for cheaper and get more sales then on console to make up for it.

it also eliminates the issues of losing a disc, having it break, etc.

How often did you ever break a disc that it was an issue? I played on consoles for over a decade before moving to PC and never once broken a disc

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Reaper:

Originally posted by brian9824:

Um its been this way for like 20 years now so yeah, PC gaming tends to be tied to your account so you can't trade or re-sell games. The flip side is we tend to get games for cheaper and get more sales then on console to make up for it.

it also eliminates the issues of losing a disc, having it break, etc.

How often did you ever break a disc that it was an issue? I played on consoles for over a decade before moving to PC and never once broken a disc

I've had discs break, lost cd keys, etc. It's not common, but it does happen. Its definitely far easier not having to track thousands of license keys for all my games, making sure I have them all on hand and finding them anytime I want to install a game.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Reaper:

How often did you ever break a disc that it was an issue? I played on consoles for over a decade before moving to PC and never once broken a disc

CD/DVD has wear and tear that can happen, blu ray are more resilient. If happen to have drop a disk that slide across rough surface, or even drop something on it by accident this can cause damage, now can go buy a disk buffer to remove thin layer, but that only going to work so many times, until no more. On console people wanted to abackup to prevent their original from wear & tear so wouldn't have to worry about damaging original they own, keeping it stored in safe location. Now for digital content well you can always redownload it, I mean there no damage as it digital, only thing need is internet access, or back up game files local.

Do they break often, depends on the person that handing them, for me no, but for few people I know that not really responsible with their disks leaving on tables, and stuff outside their cases, I can say sort of yes.

[Hammer Of Evil]

Originally posted by Reaper:

Originally posted by brian9824:

Um its been this way for like 20 years now so yeah, PC gaming tends to be tied to your account so you can't trade or re-sell games. The flip side is we tend to get games for cheaper and get more sales then on console to make up for it.

it also eliminates the issues of losing a disc, having it break, etc.

How often did you ever break a disc that it was an issue? I played on consoles for over a decade before moving to PC and never once broken a disc

i see you've never had younger siblings.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Hammer Of Evil:

Originally posted by Reaper:

How often did you ever break a disc that it was an issue? I played on consoles for over a decade before moving to PC and never once broken a disc

i see you've never had younger siblings.

Or kids, one of the few reasons I like digital games for Switch and will actually prefer getting them titles digitally instead of physical copies. I'm amazed we haven't lost my physical copy of minecraft yet....

[Hammer Of Evil]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Originally posted by Hammer Of Evil:

i see you've never had younger siblings.

Or kids, one of the few reasons I like digital games for Switch and will actually prefer getting them titles digitally instead of physical copies. I'm amazed we haven't lost my physical copy of minecraft yet....

yup, you could spend years taking grubby fingerprints off your disks, and they'll be there again tomorrow.

i used turtle wax to polish the underside with a bit of paper towel. if the scratches were deep, mr clean magic eraser would take a layer off and maybe make it readable again.

the classic was friends kids coming over, got into some cd's then when told to give it back, the tantrum cd-snap. nothing can be done lol.

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Hammer Of Evil:

Originally posted by Reaper:

How often did you ever break a disc that it was an issue? I played on consoles for over a decade before moving to PC and never once broken a disc

i see you've never had younger siblings.

Or, been me.

"Ok I'm gonna play this now. Oh there's a disk in the drive. Where did the case go? That's ok, I'll just put it over there for now. Along with that stack of other disks that I was too lazy to put in their case. Oops looks like some fell off the desk. Thats ok I'm sure they're fine,I'ill pick them up after I put this current disk I'm playing away."