When I start Fallout New Vegas, my firewall tells me that the game wants to connect to the internet. When I deny that, the launcher crashes. When I allow access, the game starts.

Is it supposed to work like this? I don't really like my single player games to access the internet. How can I run the game without giving it access to the internet?

PS: When I'm playing offline, the launcher also wants to connect to the internet (although there's no internet to connect to) and when I comply, the game starts fine. So it doesn't really look like it's requiring some kind of external input to run the game.

Apparently it did.

Thanks! That did the trick.

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