Posted August 19, 2023
The solution was to remove the Steam version of Fallout 4 from Steam (via Steam).
Post edited January 22, 2024 by ThomasJChoi
This question / problem has been solved by JClosed
ThomasJChoi
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JClosed
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Registered: Apr 2012
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Posted August 19, 2023
I'm having a few issues with the regular executable so I decided to try launching it through the Launcher to test some things but the Launcher seems to use the Steam version. Here's a couple of results:
1. Steam not started -> Clicking "Play" starts Steam, launches the Fallout4Launcher.exe from the Steam version.
2. Steam is started -> Clicking "Play" closes the GOG Fallout4Launcher.exe and opens up Steam's Fallout4Launcher.exe.
3. Temporary removal of steam_api64.dll -> Launcher fails to start because it says it can't find steam_api64.dll, so it appears to be a dependency.
I know as a DRM-free version of Fallout, many of you are probably just running the Fallout4.exe executable, so I was just curious if anyone else was using Fallout4Launcher.exe and it exhibited the behavior described above.
After all that I installed the off-line version (choose another drive for that), and run the installer. The result was a nice clean game and no Steam starting up.
ThomasJChoi
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Registered: Aug 2023
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Posted August 19, 2023
The solution was to remove the Steam version of Fallout 4 from Steam (via Steam).
Post edited January 22, 2024 by ThomasJChoi
Sync108
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Registered: Dec 2013
From United States
Posted August 20, 2023
I also had this issue when running.Fallout4Launcher. But if I just run Fallout4 it does not run Steam.