Steam not running error

[zakblood]

i'd like to say i've not heard of this before, but i'm sorry to say i have and tbh what has worked for you for many years, is old practices and now may work for some older and newer games and apps / programs etc but not for all, this is just one of them which you will have issues with, like almost all MMOG or more than a high % of games and apps which now need higher permissions for access and permissions types for area's than a none admin account can give.

as you already have shown, you can get it to work, and then it works well, but that's your call if you wish to use it like that or not, but there's no way that i know of altering it back, it's just how steam and O/S are going atm, not even sure if there's a way of manually getting round it, as can't see how you could safely as already mentioned i wouldn't recommend diabling the UAC either, as it's an elevated permisisons related issue, so apart from running as admin on both, it will or should always fail without it and not run,...

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[RevReese]

I'm sure i am still sticking to old ways lol [:D]

You are probably right, it is just how things are now but it would be nice to know for sure if it is a requirement now or not as it seems to have hit a few people recently and almost everyone has had it fixed by one of the methods i have already tried.

For now i am just running steam as admin on the occasion i want to play one of the elevation required games and closing it off when i am finished though it has been bugging me since december for Command and the fact that others have fixed it without needing to run steam as admin means it must be possible so it is for sure a problem at my end though i have tried everything.

[zakblood]

years and years ago, from what i can now remember from my past, nobody wanted anything installed and run with admin permissions, as way back in the old days, that was the same as giving someone your front door keys, as admin mode was then the key to the door for everything so was uncommon for anything to need it, now days it's not like this, which many seems to forget, admin mode now is a protected part of the o/s and not the whole area access platform it used to be.

same as browsers, some work in windowns default mode, while others like chrome etc run in protected mode, so if it crashes, it shuts part of a page down, it has to be a bad crash to close the whole browser down as that would be many parts, so multiple crashes, but it does still happen, but then that crashing doesn't still causes windows itself to crash, so yes protected admin mode or what ever they call it, but either way, it's part and parcel of windows now days and makes each and every program run as admin work seperatly.

sorry for the delay, was posting this reply and someone came to the door[;)]

[RevReese]

That's okay don't worry.

Yeah i still think of the admin thing as handing over the house keys lol [:D]

I only log in as admin for certain specific things like troubleshooting or updating drivers, usually when i install apps and games on my user account it is fine, sometimes it will prompt for admin password then it is good to go.

99.9% of the time, i don't even know i'm not using admin account!

It has now become a matter of principle i think, a quest to discover a way i can play Command without running as admin! it started as a small annoyance and now has become all consuming, now i have a purpose! [:D]

[zakblood]

i was like this with the 32bit version of xp, and stated i'll be dead before i use the 64bit version, which tbh i never used, but did with win 7/8 and 10

but skipped Windows Vista almost all together any version, didn't like it, couldn't use it amd stayed put while most moved on,...

windows 98SE was a dream, followed by 2k and ME, lets be honest, nobody enjoyed or liked either, so enough said of both, and same as Vista, not a follow on or update / upgrade but a step backwards in time and space,...

windows xp, the gaming platform that launched a 1000 games and a million more to follow as it progressed though services packs like a kid in a sweet shop window,...

then came what was known as the backwards move forward with Vista, something that no words can describe correctly, as plain cr@p doesn't do it justice either,...

windows 7 / 8 and now 10 for me have all been 64bit, but still many don't see or think they need it, maybe right or wrong, but i'm the same with 4k screens, don't need, won't buy or see me having one any time soon, so stick with what you like, and only change if you need to, or it dont work, happy gaming[:D]

[RevReese]

[:D] I said i was never going 64bit either and XP was as good as it got.

Then I moved onto Vista (strangely i had no trouble with it at all!) then 7 on my main PC and 10 on a recent laptop which i am slowly getting used to.

Oh well, i guess i will have to learn to love Windows 10! [;)]

Thanks for your help and happy gaming to you too! [:D]

[Stonedog]

Hey Zak, Hey Rev , I forgot to introduce you gentleman, but thought you might want to know that you both have a Steam Group chat you share if that might make your communication a bot easier. I am not sure , but probably a bit faster for sure . I would warn against the Spam Police, but in this instance Zak just so happens to be the Po Po in these here parts [:D]



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[RoryAndersonCDT]

Hey, thanks for bringing this to our attention, will bring it up with the steam guys.

[AKar]

This issue appears to be resolved at my end since.

Thank you for your support. [:)]

[Dimitris]

Is this still an issue ?

[RevReese]

ORIGINAL: Dimitris

Is this still an issue ?

My apologies Dimitris, and thank you for your reply.
I have not checked here in some time and i was not notified that i had a reply on this thread.

To answer your question: yes it is still an issue, and the only workaround is to restart Steam as Administrator before running Command.