How the hell do I launch this game as admin??

[SodaPop]

Ive been having some crashing issues, I've tried all the other fixes people list. Reinstalling and other methods don't work. The only one I haven't tried is launching the game as an administrator, because I literally can't. All the tutorials online say you have to do it via settings in the rockstar launcher but no such setting exists for me.

I've tried launching steam and rockstar's launcher as admin and then manually trying to launch the game as admin via the exe in the game files. All this does is prompt the rockstar launcher to tell me 'This account does not own Red Dead Online' and not allow me to launch the game.

I've tried putting a shortcut for the game onto the desktop, but it doesn't allow me to run it as admin from the shortcut either.

Please help me figure this out. I've put way too much effort into this to give up on it now.

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go to steam library
Select game right click on game and go to properties then open file location
navigate through the folder to find launch application Icons and exe file, right click to bring list tab up, then go to properties.
you can find compatibility settings and things of that nature and you can find the box and check it to run as admin you can do that to steam as well.

Example of below of why changing application launch executable property settings will be more useful to learn to run outdated apps.

When running old games that are no longer supported or updated to run on newer versions of windows like from windows 98 in part of this example or for even older games from the 1980's-1970's dosbox would be required, expect to do real computer programming to get old gems to work.

Old games= needed wrappers/old drivers, that require manual install and compatibility settings changed before install, and of course obsolete gpu config files,
and or DII files as
-that older drivers will recognize in their compiled list of accepted hardware.

a quick emulation of older hardware and may require pre-configuration files from an archive site to build and emulation of either multi-able systems or within a virtual system.

-that older drivers will recognize in their compiled list of accepted hardware.

The goal of emulation is going around the normal list of windows errors that will prevent an application from running due to newer hardware drivers are not updated with obsolete graphical reading assets.

it will be good to learn how to change compatibility settings as work around's for obsolete drivers and software, programs, applications to function on newer windows operating systems.

[SodaPop]

Originally posted by A҉2҉D҉3҉R҉S҉0҉N҉:

go to steam library
Select game right click on game and go to properties then open file location
navigate through the folder to find launch application Icons and exe file, right click to bring list tab up, then go to properties.
you can find compatibility settings and things of that nature and you can find the box and check it to run as admin you can do that to steam as well.

Example of below of why changing application launch executable property settings will be more useful to learn to run outdated apps.

When running old games that are no longer supported or updated to run on newer versions of windows like from windows 98 in part of this example or for even older games from the 1980's-1970's dosbox would be required, expect to do real computer programming to get old gems to work.

Old games= needed wrappers/old drivers, that require manual install and compatibility settings changed before install, and of course obsolete gpu config files, and or DII files as a quick emulation of older hardware that older drivers will recognize in their compiled list of accepted hardware.
The goal of emulation is going around the normal list of windows errors that will prevent an application from running due to newer hardware drivers are not updated with obsolete graphical reading assets.

it will be good to learn how to change compatibility settings as work around's for obsolete drivers and software, programs, applications to function on newer windows operating systems.

Hi, while I appreciate the explanation I've also tried to do this and it gives me the very same error that I posted earlier. The rockstar launcher gives me a popup saying ''This account does not own Red Dead Online' when I launch the rdr2.exe as admin. The playrdr2.exe just straight up does not launch at all.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You don't need to launch a game via Run As Admin, simply launch Steam and then launch the Rockstar Launcher; both via shortcuts by right clicking them and click Run As Admin.

Don't have game clients/launchers in OS Startup or they can't launch with Admin rights.

The game client or launcher, because it was launched via Run As Admin will now launch the game that way also.

If you do not have these admin options then you are a "Limited" user on that PC and it needs to be configured to "Run As Admin" from the Admin user.

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IF you can sign into rockstar app delete local profile settings reinstall the app but after when uninstalling it,
search for old files to delete them, the most common issue is windows exploit security settings that needs to be changed to (mandatory aslr off by default) for images, do not change any other setting in exploit protections.

The last thing to do is validate game files in steam library game properties-- launch Rockstar app first before trying to even open the game after validation and other trouble shooting based objectives.

I don't know your operating system so refer to security setting guides based on your version.

https://www.ghostarrow.com/red-dead-redemption-2-increase-performance-fps-on-pc

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3253899/the-best-new-windows-10-security-features.html?page=4

https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/rockstar-games-launcher

Windows feature pack,

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/

Vulkan SDK

https://vulkan.lunarg.com/

1.3.231.1
26-Oct-2022 works for me, idk about other people, we all have different hardware.

if you have any game launcher app on your startup I would disable them, or open task manager to end process then change settings before starting again.

in search type services then enter you can view application services
if failed go to system=services=health=recovery settings, you can change a setting to start again if service fails, guide in next link

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc753662(v=ws.10)

Note: before installing or updating SDK's always read compatibility or any thing computer related,
just because a gpu could be on a support list for a newer driver

does not mean it will work for an off topic example,
like an
old version of GPU Bio's that can cause a conflict with a newer driver made for re-manufactured cards, unless its flashed to a supported version under the required supported list for a newer driver or an unsupported PCB board architecture from the original model that would render flashing a GPU Bio's senseless if its not supported if a driver was made for manufactured cards with different architecture.

There's always a reason for something.

https://www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com/securitylog/encyclopedia/

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Do not install an updated version of Vulkan, it will make RDR2 never be able to run.

As a general user and gamer you should never need the an SDK like Vulkan API.
Vulkan comes bundled with your GPU Drivers.