Please encourage developers to remove the admin rights requirements for their games.

There are several games on GoG which require Admin rights to run. Many of them I already owned on DVD earlier and those didn't require the rights, among them Syberia1+2, Jack Keane, Crysis.

Also - in the case of Alan Wake - both Steam and Humble version don't require Admin rights, but the GoG version does.
Crysis runs just fine on Origin and Steam without Admin rights, but the GoG version needs them anyway.

In the case of the Witcher 1+2 you have direct influence on the devs. Why do these games require Admin rights?


What's the problem?

They're probably just being lazy.
Making all the games use admin rights just in case they have problems that would be fixed by running as admin.

Because a lot of people still install games in Program Files (x86), that's why some of them need admin rights (save or change config files in Program Files)
Laziness etc.

Errm, likely because nobody seems to follow Windows installation key topic #1 - never install to the bloody windows folders, anything, ever, under any circumstances. Vista stopped all of that, installing to Windows folders will just cause issues. I don't know off hand how many topics this one simple thing has been the answer to on here.

Becuase when people DO install them there and the game need admin, it works, and there won't be a forum thread where people yell at gog and curse their slow slow support or whatever.

You can always right click on the executable and untick the run as admin checkbox you know.

I guess they work with the mindset of better safe than sorry

So basically Humble and Steam are able to make games work without admin rights and GoG isn't?

No, the checkbox option does not work, this option is only usable to run any executable as admin.
It is no good for executables which request elevated rights from the operating system.
The games have different executables on Steam, Humble and GoG.



"better safe than sorry". Both steam and humble versions of Alan Wake have no problem wih antivirus software, GoG's version crashes with a black screen (even protection disabled for the file).

Ah, i didn't know GOG's version of Alan Wake requires Admin rights while Humble Bundle's version dun. Thks 4 letting me know.

Does makes me wonder y GOG's version needs Admin rights also though...

For some reason games don't run with the same name as the folder it's in for me.
For example,
Cuphead is in a folder named Cuphead, so it needs admin permission.
But if I renamed the folder to something different, Cuphead doesn't need admin permissions.
Weird, huh?
(It probably wont fix the problem, its just the installer I use)