Any way to play the game without needing admin privelledges?

[broken head!]

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[broken head!]

Originally posted by The Soldier_engie-demo:

Originally posted by Ubercheeze:

Guess what?
I need to enter a password before even doing that and like I said before, I don't know it

Just exit out of the dialog, and it will open.

I tried that, and all that happened was this:

Steam told me the game was running, then after a few seconds, it went back to the normal blue online status.

[Mordant Seer]

Probably just easier for the future to do a fresh install of Windows (Or whatever it is you are running), that way you dont have to run into this problem for other games and updates.

[broken head!]

I know this thread is old, but I'm just giving you all a heads up that this also happens in other games too.

Also, I'm too lazy to do a fresh install of Windows, so I'm pretty much screwed unless I find out what's causing the issue. I think it has to do with runasadmin.vdf.

[broken head!]

Actually, I think it's installscript.vdf's fault, not runasadmin.

[broken head!]

Originally posted by Ubercheeze:

Actually, I think it's installscript.vdf's fault, not runasadmin.

I think I found the fix after days of searching. I deleted installscript.vdf and I think that will do the trick.

[Butterspewn]

if it was a preowned computer and they set a password for some ♥♥♥♥ then your best bet is to either get someone to get the password for you or just reset the computer to take all of the settings back to thier defaults while aslo making sure your files are backed up. if you do some specific sort of reset it will keep your files and will just change your settings (at least as i remember) and you will know when you come across it or otherwise just do a full/ factory reset which is when you will have to backup your files.

another thought is they added the pass word with some sort of software they downlaoded that could add things like that to programs and files, i cant name one off the top of my head but maybe it is a good idea to go looking for and deleteing programs that you are sure you dont want. this is unlikley or maybe youve already tought of this but its worth a shot ven though it does sound like its to do with windows itself.

[dive000000]

Originally posted by Somebody2008:

Originally posted by Ubercheeze:

Actually, I think it's installscript.vdf's fault, not runasadmin.

I think I found the fix after days of searching. I deleted installscript.vdf and I think that will do the trick.

I know I'm about 2 years too late but im having the same problem. Everywhere i go i get told to delete installscrips.vdf but tf2 doesnt have that file in it..

Edit: I've been having the same problem with terraria, whenever I delete installscrip.vdf it just reappears, is there a fix to this as well?

[Joe Exotic S> 1 spells]

Its either a school laptop or a rental of some kind.

[Frostt]

Originally posted by Somebody2008:

Originally posted by Ubercheeze:

Actually, I think it's installscript.vdf's fault, not runasadmin.

I think I found the fix after days of searching. I deleted installscript.vdf and I think that will do the trick.

hey, i know this is old and all, but if anyone happens to see this can you tell me where "installscript.vdf" is located, i cant seem to find and i have a similar problem to you

[!no!]

Im assuming it was by using the run as invoker command? yeah, steam has some problems with that. I use the same hack (or at least used to, on my old school laptop) and it worked for a lot of games. the problem comes when it wants to install files in the program files directory. this directory is almost always admin locked, a lot of games wont work because of it.

there are ways, try finding the files that it needs to download/change and fix them separately. since its the user doing this, and not an untrusted program doing it, sometimes it will let you do it (to an extent).

for example, i wanted to get a game called satisfactory working. it would download fine, but then it would want to update (its an early access game, so updates are frequent). this game, however, uses direct x graphics (not sure which one lol). this means that it wasn't already installed on my computer, so steam would try and install it for me, and then it obviously wouldn't work

i fixed it by installing the files it needed before it tried to update, so that steam would recognize that i already had the files, and didn't need to install them. i went into the directory (the steam>steamapps>common>[game directory name]) and found the executable. after trying to launch that, it told me that it was missing a few files ("ERROR: missing xxxxxx.dll" etc. etc.). all i did was search up the names of these .dll files and installed them, then dragged them all into the same directory as the executable. and it worked, although you had to open up the executable, and not the steam library version for it to work.

let me know if you get it working, i couldn't even find the executable in the game directory.

[Smartn't]

Originally posted by Frostt :3:

Originally posted by Somebody2008:

I think I found the fix after days of searching. I deleted installscript.vdf and I think that will do the trick.

hey, i know this is old and all, but if anyone happens to see this can you tell me where "installscript.vdf" is located, i cant seem to find and i have a similar problem to you

Do a search in C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam and you will find where "installscript.vbf"s are located, which are in various folders under C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist

I can't tell if the answer to the original question was solved, so I will say my bit here: I don't think there is a way to run the game without admin privileges (initially) since it requires DirectX 9, which does not come natively/is not normally downloaded on the computer, so you need admin privileges to download it (I know that, but I don't know if the game uses the admin privileges to do other things as well, which makes me, and certain other people, a bit nervous). You also probably wouldn't want to do a fresh install like Mordant Seer was saying since you would just have to reinstall DirectX 9 again, which doesn't change your situation.