running as administrator?

[Lance Corrimal]

why on earth is BDO running with admin permissions?

[The Grin]

Can YOU run it only with admin permission ? Because it should run normally without admin permission.

[Smaxx]

It won't run without administrator permissions to verify and install XignCode – it's (somewhat questionable) anti-cheating tool – every launch. This is implemented as a kernel mode driver and as such can't be installed by a regular user (and therefore requires admin access).

[Hegom]

I was planning to play this game with the steam link and found that it requires admin permissions, so I will not return to the "windows xp" era when we had to run everything as admin to get it working, come on!!! its 2017 why in the heck a modern game ask for admin permissions to work????

I've requested a refund.

[Shinigami]

Hello there [-=DSW=-]Andromeda,

BDO has to be ran as administrator (like many other more diverse & robust programs or games) because it needs to perform functions that Windows requires "run as administrator" to do. I would not recommend trying to find any odd/confusing methods to turn the Admin pop-up off, as they usually result in users killing the whole program by accident. All in all, it's simply just a pop-up message where you only have to click yes in order to play the game happily - the game just needs those perms to make sure that you're playing fairly, and are not hiding cheats within your game files. Hope this answer helped you!

[Lance Corrimal]

how about YOU GUYS find a way to be able to run without administrator. Running any kind of game with elevated permissions just CALLS for trouble. Especially seeing that not everybody who runs games has the background knowledge to understand what that popup does... and we really do not want to "train" normal end users into thinking that anything is ok to run under elevated permissions.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Heliosk:

Hello there [-=DSW=-]Andromeda,

BDO has to be ran as administrator (like many other more diverse & robust programs or games) because it needs to perform functions that Windows requires "run as administrator" to do. I would not recommend trying to find any odd/confusing methods to turn the Admin pop-up off, as they usually result in users killing the whole program by accident. All in all, it's simply just a pop-up message where you only have to click yes in order to play the game happily - the game just needs those perms to make sure that you're playing fairly, and are not hiding cheats within your game files. Hope this answer helped you! :happybs:

whenever i do run it as administrator it still says error code 10

[Hegom]

Originally posted by Heliosk:

Hello there [-=DSW=-]Andromeda,

BDO has to be ran as administrator (like many other more diverse & robust programs or games) because it needs to perform functions that Windows requires "run as administrator" to do. I would not recommend trying to find any odd/confusing methods to turn the Admin pop-up off, as they usually result in users killing the whole program by accident. All in all, it's simply just a pop-up message where you only have to click yes in order to play the game happily - the game just needs those perms to make sure that you're playing fairly, and are not hiding cheats within your game files. Hope this answer helped you! :happybs:

Very old post, but seriously, are you trying to justify the requirement of admin permissions?

(facepalm)

[Lance Corrimal]

seriously, how about you use an anticheat that does not need administrator access? if valve can do it, why can't you?

[GrimLordKi]

Originally posted by -=DSW=-Andromeda:

seriously, how about you use an anticheat that does not need administrator access? if valve can do it, why can't you?

Because VAC is built into the game itself, its not a third party program. For example when you have Battle Eye you need to grant access to it.