WHY is there no "run as Admin" launch option??? That is the ONE launch option there should be over any other.

[Grand Admiral Brador]

I mean what the ♥♥♥♥ is the purpose of having "launch options" if you leave out the single most important one? Sheesh.
EDIT: MAYBE I missed something and it IS there, but all my searching has indicated there is not, and yes I know you can just run the game's individual exe as admin, but again, it seems super amateurish that this would be left out.

And yes, I know that a pack of rabid Steam Fanboys are going to hop all over this because they just cant stand any possibility at all that anyone at Steam might be the least bit incompetent at something.

[Gwarsbane]

Because that is something you have to do at the windows level.

Imagine what could happen if any program could tell windows to run another program as admin. That would open up a huge load of security issues.

[Start_Running]

Gwar got it in one.
It would indeed be a major security issue, especially where there's no password on the admin account,

[Spawn of Totoro]

Aside from what was said:

Running Steam as an admin is a bad idea as the permission is given to all other sub-executables that are ran. That means if malware added it's self to your games list and you clicked on it, you would be giving it assess on an admin level with no warning.

I am also now aware of any service that has a launch option for such a command, only through windows permissions.

[Eldin]

Just go to properties of game's exe file and check Run as Administrator.
When you click play from Steam it'll run the game as Administrator.

[Washell]

Steam client -> Library -> Right Click game -> properties -> local files -> Browse local files
In newly opened explorer window -> Right click game's executable -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Run as Admin.

While it's technically possible for the Steam Client to launch something as admin, it's not neccesarily a bad thing to keep this out of the hands of nitwits.

[Crashed]

Most of the time a Steam game should run as limited user as the Steam Client will provide the necessary file permissions for the game to run.

There are some utilities on Steam that require administrative privileges, however these automatically request the privileges as required on launch.

If you have errors with a game on Steam when running as a limited user, you should check the file permissions where it needs to save as you may have a filesystem permissions error.

[Grand Admiral Brador]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Just go to properties of game's exe file and check Run as Administrator.
When you click play from Steam it'll run the game as Administrator.

THIS sounds like what I have been looking for. Thank you!

[Crashed]

Originally posted by RavagerOfDreams:

Originally posted by Eldin:

Just go to properties of game's exe file and check Run as Administrator.
When you click play from Steam it'll run the game as Administrator.

THIS sounds like what I have been looking for. Thank you!

This is actually a feature built into Windows, specifically in the Compatibility tab. I do believe running as administrator this way does limit Steam features in the target game/application, due to Windows privilege separation.

Most times, you shouldn't need to run a game as administrator unless you have file permissions issues.

[BadMonkey]

I believe the COD.EXE is the correct executable. When I changed that to Run As Administrator the game refused to launch.

[John]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.