Admin Rights - Games not Starting

[Mastrun]

Having readt through all the forum and tried many of what
was there I still am not able to get some of my games
working. It only happens to a few of them, maybe they
share somthing in common.

The three that I just cannot get to work are:
Populous: The Beginning,
Uru: Ages beyond Myst
and
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.

Starwars is the most interesting of the 3, the others
simply refuse to start but in this case I only have the
problem in Single player mode. on the Initialisation
screen for the game you can choose Single or Multiplayer.
It stops me if I choose single.

I have tried to create seperate accounts, I have tried to
use Run As: but I'm not getting anywhere.

Any clues?
Thanks,
Mastrun
mud.rod.org port 3000

 

[HentaiPockyStick]

Having readt through all the forum and tried many of what
was there I still am not able to get some of my games
working. It only happens to a few of them, maybe they
share somthing in common.

The three that I just cannot get to work are:
Populous: The Beginning,
Uru: Ages beyond Myst
and
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.

Starwars is the most interesting of the 3, the others
simply refuse to start but in this case I only have the
problem in Single player mode. on the Initialisation
screen for the game you can choose Single or Multiplayer.
It stops me if I choose single.

I have tried to create seperate accounts, I have tried to
use Run As: but I'm not getting anywhere.

Any clues?
Thanks,
Mastrun
mud.rod.org port 3000

I am assuming that you did install the game in an admin account first...
then played it through the admin account as well?

That in turn should enable you to play single player mode... however, the
shortcut to the game located in the start menu should be change to allow
limited users access, by right clicking on the shortcut> select properties>
click on advance button> select run w/credentials. Everytime the game is
launch on a limited user a pop-up screen shows asking for admin password and
login info in order it to gain full admin rights.

I do hope this helps.

-HentaiPockyStick

 

[Mastrun]

The game was installed in the only account I have which is
by default the Admin account. I tried to install it in
extra accounts aswell but they didn't work. I don't use
limited accounts as I am the only user of the computer.

I just assume that Starwars does somthing differently when
playing single player to when it playes multiplayer. I
don't see why it requires different access rights to the
PC to play one but not the other. I hope that this could
lead to some sort of 'cure' to the problem on my other
games if it can be identified as to what the games asks my
computer when starting up in single player mode that it
doesn't ask when trying to start in multiplayer mode. I
assume that it is not somthing to do with graphics as they
would both use the same engine during play. could there be
somthing to do with saving the game? if you are going to
play a story mode you will have to have access to save
your game to the hard drive. this would not be somthing
you would do in scenario/multyplayer games as there would
be no game saving involved.
perhaps when the game asks windows about these rights to
save games it is asking a question to which windows is
unable to give an answer to for some reason and thus
defaults to some generic refusal answer pertaining to
read/write permissions, which would be that you do not
have sufficient privilages to perform that action?

this might lead to either a patch for windows to allow it
to be able to answer the question it is being asked or
there will have to be patches made to the games to make
them stop asking the said question and not getting the
answer it was looking for.

Views anyone?

Thanks.
Mastrun
mud.rod.org port 3000