after four days of much help from Bethesda and none from steam...
Still unable to complete a reinstall of FNV ultimate.
But the old complete backup runs quite happily.
But still get the object blah blah message after NMM unpacks and installs the new 2.4 fomod...
Will try using FOMM see if there are differences.
I did make NMM large memory aware.
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am going to try the old 1.4 fomod just to check.
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thanks to all who replied.
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by the way, if you search steam for steam won't read FNV DVD you get a mere 41,000 search listings.. in an really expanded range of languages...
don't have a clue about the install problem
okay I do steam is not processing the files loaded from the dvd but choosing to attempt to download 7.7 gigs ie... the whole program.
When I installed the skyrim from the anthology it did the same thing, tried to start downloading from steam. But I had a new serial number as opposed to the one with basic skyrim installed back on 11/11/11. Once I forced it to see the new serial number -- the steam installer said okay and processed the data from the dvd.
But with FNV, the serial number matches what it already has -- so that work around doesn't work.
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If I had not copied the entire FNV folder to another drive, I would not be able to use the game... as steam keeps saying things like due to updates and changes the old game won't work...
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As bethesda has verified... the version on the ultimate disk is the ultimate.
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so copy those folders