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Hi,
I recently bought the game "Blood" from yourselves and it runs beautifully and I was thrilled to get it, as I'd tried for a long time to find it from a reputable dealer. I just bought Caesar 3 from you and it too runs beautifully, but every time I launch it, I get a User Account Control warning box that I have to click through as the program is an .exe type that it "making changes to the hard drive on this computer". I don't mind clicking through the UAC warning so long as I know what changes is Caesar 3 making to my hard drive.

So, in short, what changes is Caesar 3 making to my hard drive?

Many thanks in advance,
Michael

(p.s. Sorry for posting this here but I don't understand what file the online help form is asking me for - I've clicked on the Caesar 3 files in my GOG folder but none of them seem to be the right one.)
This question / problem has been solved by crazy_daveimage
I'm guessing you have Caesar 3 installed in the default program files folder? All that is happening is Caesar 3 is probably trying to save files and changes inside its own folder (saved games, settings, etc ...). And remember Caesar 3 was programmed long before UAC protections came into Windows. UAC doesn't like that kind of behavior from a program (altering files inside the Program Files folder). It's a bit overprotective, so it throws an error/warning. Depending on your security settings it can even just block that behavior - I remember one user was complaining none of their settings were getting saved from one game to the next and it was UAC essentially blocking the game from changing its own settings file because it was in the Program Files folder.

There are two solutions:

install/move the game outside of the Program Files folder

or

run the game as administrator and UAC prompts/warnings will go away

Don't worry Caesar 3 isn't doing anything nefarious to your computer, the warnings are just the result of the new and old meeting incongruously.
Another solution is to just turn UAC off, I never found it remotely helpful and more a hindrance.
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crazy_dave: I'm guessing you have Caesar 3 installed in the default program files folder? All that is happening is Caesar 3 is probably trying to save files and changes inside its own folder (saved games, settings, etc ...). And remember Caesar 3 was programmed long before UAC protections came into Windows. UAC doesn't like that kind of behavior from a program (altering files inside the Program Files folder). It's a bit overprotective, so it throws an error/warning. Depending on your security settings it can even just block that behavior - I remember one user was complaining none of their settings were getting saved from one game to the next and it was UAC essentially blocking the game from changing its own settings file because it was in the Program Files folder.

There are two solutions:

install/move the game outside of the Program Files folder

or

run the game as administrator and UAC prompts/warnings will go away

Don't worry Caesar 3 isn't doing anything nefarious to your computer, the warnings are just the result of the new and old meeting incongruously.
Thank you so much for this reply - I thought that it might be something like that but I wanted to check because I'm not much use with anything advanced on computers. I don't mind clicking through the UAC warning when I want to play the game - just a very minor inconvenience :D
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Shukaku: Another solution is to just turn UAC off, I never found it remotely helpful and more a hindrance.
Thanks for your reply! :) I did think of that but I reckon I should leave it switched on as the wife isn't the best when it comes to not filling the pc with rubbish so anything that asks her if she's sure can't hurt!
Post edited September 23, 2013 by lethalwombat
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lethalwombat: Thank you so much for this reply - I thought that it might be something like that but I wanted to check because I'm not much use with anything advanced on computers. I don't mind clicking through the UAC warning when I want to play the game - just a very minor inconvenience :D
Have fun!