I know this is old, But I bought all my PC games physical up till they quit, So I have GTAV/Fallout 4 GOTY/FO76 as probably my last in store bought PC games, but they are Steam key inside. I have Skyrim Legendary Edition and would like to run on my old machine as Steam no longer supports 8 and below and is sad as I like to play my games on original hardware and OS like Half-Life 2 on XP. I fully moved to GOG and quit investing in steam as I like to own my games and downloading the install exe files is the best it is going to get.

Anyway, is there a way to install Skyrim Legendary Edition I have on disc without steam? I think all the data is on the disc but not sure. It was a steam key inside, but you can still install game but later says sign into steam to play the game. I also have a mod downloaded " I think Beth should have this patched in but it was made a mod " Redmountainerups. It is the volcano smoke that can be seen from skyrim itself and same animation was taken from solstheim. But I like the mod as it sould of been in the game it self to make sense to still see it.

Even though you bought the game, discussing methods of running it without Steam is probably against their rules - I don't think it's allowed to discuss this on GOG or Steam forums.

Companies that made some games have, rarely, actually released public updates to customers that will remove DRM, so that's a hope I have in some cases for old games - but that's probably never going to happen with Bethesda and Steam. The disc is maybe worthless because of how Steam does things (as do others, really). EA is maybe worse. Too bad GOG doesn't offer Skyrim LE... I have a similar old gaming PC as well, and I'd buy a DRM-free Skyrim LE if they offered it.