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Icewind Dale seriesIs there a way to force IWD2 not to require admin prvileges?(8 posts)solved(8 posts)solved
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Posted October 29, 2018
I don't really like when games do this. Additionally, I can only run it through DxWnd, and I don't want to also run it as admin...
This question / problem has been solved by advowsonimage
Posted October 30, 2018
You don't have to run it as admin if you have admin privileges and is not installed to Program Files.
Posted November 01, 2018
It's not installed in program files, it's on a competely different partition, but it still requests admin privileges when I start it, unfortunately.
And it's insecure to use an admin as a regular user, IMHO (users which are members of the administrators are basically the same).
These two points are the source of my troubles with this game.
Post edited November 01, 2018 by exander
Posted November 01, 2018
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exander: And it's insecure to use an admin as a regular user, IMHO (users which are members of the administrators are basically the same).
If your computer is used by numerous different people, then yes, that's true. IWD & IWD2 need administrative functions because they have online components -- they're basically multiplayer games. It's something you have to live with.
Posted November 01, 2018
Plenty of multiplayer-capable games run fine without administrative rights. Administrative rights are only required if the game wants to write to its install directory and Windows' shadow redirection does not handle that correctly. The first Google hit for "windows force no admin" is https://superuser.com/questions/171917/force-a-program-to-run-without-administrator-privileges-or-uac and looks promising. I can't test it though.
Posted November 01, 2018
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advowson: Administrative rights are only required if the game wants to write to its install directory
Which is exactly what IWD games need to do.
Posted November 02, 2018
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advowson: Plenty of multiplayer-capable games run fine without administrative rights. Administrative rights are only required if the game wants to write to its install directory and Windows' shadow redirection does not handle that correctly. The first Google hit for "windows force no admin" is https://superuser.com/questions/171917/force-a-program-to-run-without-administrator-privileges-or-uac and looks promising. I can't test it though.
This works. Thanks for the link. Why it didn't occur to me to search Stackexchange, I myself have no idea ;).
I basically created the following windows script (I named it "run.bat"):
set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER
IWD2.exe

After that you just invoke the script from the game installation directory. That's all!
Posted November 03, 2018
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advowson: Plenty of multiplayer-capable games run fine without administrative rights. Administrative rights are only required if the game wants to write to its install directory and Windows' shadow redirection does not handle that correctly. The first Google hit for "windows force no admin" is https://superuser.com/questions/171917/force-a-program-to-run-without-administrator-privileges-or-uac and looks promising. I can't test it though.
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exander: This works. Thanks for the link. Why it didn't occur to me to search Stackexchange, I myself have no idea ;).
I basically created the following windows script (I named it "run.bat"):
set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER
IWD2.exe

After that you just invoke the script from the game installation directory. That's all!
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