Greetings. 1st, thanks to all for previous helpful responses. Also, thank you to the person who advised me about posting my problem as a new topic (and to the moderator for giving me guidance on same); as an inexperienced person (new to forums) I appreciate the constructive feedback.

Now to the new problem.

Background: I am new to Steam (1st time user).

I installed my NVidia 950M card and assume that the game will recognize it automatically.

I installed Steam, then installed FO4.

I then went Off-Line on Steam and opened the game (FO4) for the 1st time.

It opened preApocalypse in the home with spouse, babe and a robot housekeeper. Had less than scintillating conversations with same. Then had a Vault-tec salesman give me a pitch and I "bought" his policy. After almost 90 minutes locked up in the house when the game did not progress to the vault and to gaining experience killing radroaches and exploring, I saved and quit. I then exited Steam.

Sometime later, I tried to enter Steam (my account worked, I successfully logged-in) without success;

I did notice that the Install Steam button was active! I checked and my computer shows both Steam and FO4 installed (but unavailable). FO4 will not execute either (expected since no Steam available, but I tried anyway).

Tech (or GamePlay) Question Q1. was I supposed to do something in the house to activate the Bomb? or did I have some sort of "bad" install when I first ran FO4 (semi-successful run)? I am postulating that I may have to uninstall both FO4 and Steam & then reinstall them...

Q1 b1 should I uninstall Steam and this automatically uninstalls FO4 or should I uninstall FO4 1st, before Steam?

b2 when I installed FO4, it took almost 6 hours to download and install, yet I usually download and install megafiles in minutes --- is it normal for it to take this long?

Q2 Any other suggestions referring to Steam and FO4?

Tech Issue(s) cont: I ran into Nexus while on Steam.

Q3 Do you who have experimented with them suggest I wait for official Bethesda patches? Or

do you find that the patches from Nexus are "good/worthwhile"/

if answer to Q3 is to use the Nexus patches,

Q4 then when there is an official patch from Bethesda, does one end up with a different version of the program that needs to be checked out to see which if any of the Nexus patches are applicable and usable? or does one just patch-in on top of it all?

I believe this pretty much details my situation and questions.

I would also like to point out that neither Steam nor Bethesda provided any help nor did they give a very satisfactory answer to my suggestion that they provide greater depth to the instructions on how to use Steam and install a program for first time users. I was pointed to the user forums and (to-date) I am only on the FO4 ones here at Bethesda. (Q5?: Does anyone suggest I do so at Steam too? Since I just plan to have FO4 for the forseeable future, I would think it would be, at best, a duplication of effort.)

In advance, thanks to any and all who provide me with some helpful answers. The feedback is sincerely appreciated.

Regards, RGCB

I wouldn't touch modding (Nexus) until you are satisfied that your game is stable. Since you played for 90 minutes, it doesn't sound like you have a problem with the game itself, so don't bother with uninstalling and reinstalling it.

(BTW, when they tell you to go check on the baby, you have to go and do that to trigger the start of the bombs dropping and the run to the vault.)

It sounds like your problem is just running Steam. I'm not sure why that's not working for you, but that's where to focus your efforts. Antivirus getting in the way maybe? I'm not sure what you mean about the Install Steam button being active. Are you trying to run the Steam installer again rather than launching Steam?

I can't follow you...

Do you get any error like: ''Steam - Error. This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time.''

If you get that, it could be steam related.!