Access Denied 0x5????

[Tidgem]

Please help :/ I am trying to launch no mans sky for the first time in about a month but am geting this error. http://prntscr.com/glm0xk Its a bit annoying since it doesnt even attempt to launch the game. Read something about no access to the folder but none of my other games fail to launch and theyre all installed in the same external harddrive no issue. Please offer helpful advice :/

[Omega]

Try running Steam as administrator.

Shutdown Steam > Right click Steam icon > Run as administrator

[Tidgem]

Originally posted by Omega:

Try running Steam as administrator.

Shutdown Steam > Right click Steam icon > Run as administrator

Sure, will try. Back with an update in a sec.
Update. Sadly this hasnt worked Omega :( I ran it in admin and I get the identical error message.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Modify the Security Privileges; do that from with Safe Mode.

[Tidgem]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Modify the Security Privileges; do that from with Safe Mode.

ugh I hate safe mode. can you give me a list of like, 1. 2. 3. on how to do it please :D I have no idea what to do haha.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Easy way is run the DDU App and select Safe Mode > Restart.
Yea IDK why they had to make it such a pain to get through in Win8 & 10; so many unnessacary hoops they added to get to that mode

[Tidgem]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Easy way is run the DDU App and select Safe Mode > Restart.
Yea IDK why they had to make it such a pain to get through in Win8 & 10; so many unnessacary hoops they added to get to that mode

Ok yep, then how do I modify the security privileges and to what?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-take-ownership-and-get-full-access-to-files-and-folders-in-windows-10/

[Tidgem]

Thanks, do you know what kind of thing would suddenly cause this issue? Since I didnt do anything/change anything it just happened :/

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well for one, data copied over from another machine, and also you say you got rid of the local account, which is basically how the system started and how all the data was created; yes?

Folks who do this, must change the security for folders and take ownership. Nothing new about any of this, Windows has always been this way.

To prevent this, always use Local Accounts for Windows OS; why use any other type.
And use the same exact user name from one Windows device to another that you deem to be yours as well; no spaces or special characters either. This helps when transferring data from one device to another.

You can always use Local Account for Win8/10; however this IS a hidden option when you create an OS user account. You want to actually avoid using your Live Account for OS logout, as it's much easier to get locked out of every Windows OS devices you use that on should the password get reset or you have issues logging into that account. You can always use Local Account and then for something you wish to have Live Account logged into, you can do so still, such as Microsoft App Store for example.

[Master0fBlunt]

Start up "Event Viewer" after No Man's Sky Crashes.
Look at the entries that have occured within "Last Hour".
Should be under categories "Error", Critical", "Warning", etc.
Look carefully at the time stamps for the incidents, and find the one/s relating to No Man's Sky attempt to start.
No Man's Sky should be named explicitly either by the executable's file name (X.exe), or by it's process or parent process ID.
In the appropriate error log, you will see what the application attempted to do, and why it failed to complete it's request. An example would be:

https://i.imgur.com/8tyvGly.png

Here, you can see that my Farcry game crashed earlier today, and why. Post this information here and I'm sure Bad_Motha will be able to further assist you, if nobody else.

Originally posted by Tidgem:

Thanks, do you know what kind of thing would suddenly cause this issue? Since I didnt do anything/change anything it just happened :/

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Well for one, data copied over from another machine, and also you say you got rid of the local account, which is basically how the system started and how all the data was created; yes?

Folks who do this, must change the security for folders and take ownership. Nothing new about any of this, Windows has always been this way.

So it was indeed an audit failure? Well I hope Bad_Motha got you sorted out. Either way, Event Viewer is a handy tool for troubleshooting and viewing Windows System Errors, such as a game failing to load properly.

[Tidgem]

Originally posted by Master0fBlunt:

Start up "Event Viewer" after No Man's Sky Crashes.
Look at the entries that have occured within "Last Hour".
Should be under categories "Error", Critical", "Warning", etc.
Look carefully at the time stamps for the incidents, and find the one/s relating to No Man's Sky attempt to start.
No Man's Sky should be named explicitly either by the executable's file name (X.exe), or by it's process or parent process ID.
In the appropriate error log, you will see what the application attempted to do, and why it failed to complete it's request. An example would be:

https://i.imgur.com/8tyvGly.png

Here, you can see that my Farcry game crashed earlier today, and why. Post this information here and I'm sure Bad_Motha will be able to further assist you, if nobody else.

I did this and nothing showed up after failing to launch no mans sky a few times and refreshing event viewer. I guess I get to do the whole safe mode bollocks.

[Marko]

I just got this issue. Have you fixed it yet? I've tried so many things and none of them worked for me.

[Tidgem]

Originally posted by Freeze:

I just got this issue. Have you fixed it yet? I've tried so many things and none of them worked for me.

Cant remember pretty sure I gave up. Let me try now

[Marko]

I fixed it by deleting everything I could in the temp folder and restarting the PC.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes, always take the time to manually dump everything from the following...

OS Temp Files; using Disk Cleanup and CCleaner.

Junk Steam files from:
C:\... \Steam\dumps
C:\... \Steam\steamapps\downloading
C:\... \Steam\steamapps\temp
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Steam\htmlcache