That's the cherry on the cake, as we say in France ! I don't know if the expression exists in english, but no doubt there's a similar one :) I have to run as a regular user for that. Special mention to the galaxy client, even when I leave the bad security settings as set by the game installation process, it's unable to perform updates if I run it as an administrator. It's possible to run TWAG with a decent security setting however, if you run the game executable directly, but you will lose the online play functionality, since GOG authentication is done by the galaxy client. Generally, the game itself is not the culprit, it's some surrounding agent that performs the bad tasks, respectively the Steam client (with the Steam service), the Blizzard agent, and the Galaxy client (with the Galaxy service). Sometimes they even install services running as the system account to bypass any security on demand, without any authentication.īelonging to this last category are for example : all Steam games, Blizzard games, and The Witcher Adventure Game. but it can be even worse too, since we now have games that are "security-aware" in the worst sense of the term : they check the security, try to set it back the wrong way, and refuse to run otherwise.
While it's highly problematic, this may be fixed simply by revoking these excessive rights, and sometimes it just runs fine, or only requires some UAC virtualisation and voilà. These games usually don't require admin rights to run for a reason : they short-circuit the security at install time, most often granting full control to everyone in the game install directory. there's another category of games, the worst of all, which I would refer to as "the security bypassers". While annoying, I said "by default" because I've always managed to get them to run as non-admin in a way that keep the programs safe, most often thanks to UAC virtualisation.īut. 100% of the games, if not more, should be able to run without admin rights. Some programs however cannot even be run by unprivileged users by default because the developers don't master the very few simple rules for good system integration. That's not a problem imho, since it's better to have active content such as executable programs installed in write-protected places so that they cannot be modified inadvertently or by malware run by an unprivileged user. Do you know many games that don't require admin rights to install ? While it would be perfectly possible 99% of the time if not more, it's very rare in practice.
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