Game only works if steam is ran as administrator

[the-red-dragon]

says it fails to validate my profile otherwise lol

[SimranZenov]

It sounds like Steam or the game is being blocked by your firewall. Giving it admin allows it to get around that. Make sure the checkbox is checked for public in the allowed apps -
Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Defender Firewall\Allowed apps

[Axe]

Have you got your Steam install/folder on your operating system drive? Usually C:\ of course.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You have to run game clients via Run As Admin; thats how they've been since Win7.
Never put things like Game Clients into Program Files folder structure; as system folder structures like this are bound by the UAC feature.

Never put game clients in OS Startup as this doesn't allow "Run As Admin"

[JACKSin]

Out of a hundred monkeys in a barrel 99 of them turn user access controls off by accident while looking for bananas. It's been this way since the feature was introduced in Vista and monkeys were first allowed to use computers. Monkeys are smarter than Bill Gates thinks. The last monkey doesn't like UAC and turns it off.

[Axe]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

You have to run game clients via Run As Admin; thats how they've been since Win7...

You actually don't 'have to' My steam install is on my E drive and I don't run it as admin.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Axe:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

You have to run game clients via Run As Admin; thats how they've been since Win7...

You actually don't 'have to' My steam install is on my E drive and I don't run it as admin.

Then you're games don't run as admin either if you don't launch the game client that way; via a shortcut. This is why so many people have issues because if the client is not ran via Run As Admin, the game won't run that way either, which means the game won't be allowed to then run any redist packages it might need to install.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Patriot:

Out of a hundred monkeys in a barrel 99 of them turn user access controls off by accident while looking for bananas. It's been this way since the feature was introduced in Vista and monkeys were first allowed to use computers. Monkeys are smarter than Bill Gates thinks. The last monkey doesn't like UAC and turns it off.

You do not want UAC fully turned off in Win10; as its require to use Microsoft Store.
However you want to turn the UAC down one notch, so it never pops up using the graphical overlay it uses by default. Install Steam to some place else (along with all game clients); such as "c:\games" or "c:\steam" for example. UAC only affects apps present within the OS system folder structures; such as Windows folder or Programs Files folder.

[Axe]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by Axe:

You actually don't 'have to' My steam install is on my E drive and I don't run it as admin.

Then you're games don't run as admin either if you don't launch the game client that way; via a shortcut. This is why so many people have issues because if the client is not ran via Run As Admin, the game won't run that way either, which means the game won't be allowed to then run any redist packages it might need to install.

Yes - my point is that I don't need to run my games admin as I don't have any problems and never ever have.

[the-red-dragon]

It's not that the game doesn't launch. Rockstar just fails to validate my profile if I don't run it while steam runs as administrator.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by the-red-dragon:

It's not that the game doesn't launch. Rockstar just fails to validate my profile if I don't run it while steam runs as administrator.

Again, because if the game client is not run via the Run As Admin option; then nothing launched from the game client will run with the proper admin privileges either. Why is this so hard for folks to understand?

Users who say that game clients do not need to be ran with admin privileges must not be using Win10. Because on Win10 this IS A MUST. It's one reason people get Disk Write Error because the client must be ran with admin privileges to have such rights.

[the-red-dragon]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Originally posted by the-red-dragon:

It's not that the game doesn't launch. Rockstar just fails to validate my profile if I don't run it while steam runs as administrator.

Again, because if the game client is not run via the Run As Admin option; then nothing launched from the game client will run with the proper admin privileges either. Why is this so hard for folks to understand?

Users who say that game clients do not need to be ran with admin privileges must not be using Win10. Because on Win10 this IS A MUST. It's one reason people get Disk Write Error because the client must be ran with admin privileges to have such rights.

Well, it's funny when this is the only game I've ever played that does this.