deoren: If a customer doesn't have the game dependencies already installed, the installer will need admin rights to launch & successfully install the dependencies (.net, directx, etc). Windows Vista and newer have UAC prompts (unless they're disabled), but Windows XP doesn't have that fall-back option (afaik).
There is probably a way to get the same results, but it's easier to just require admin rights for installation.
For the other issue, you'll probably get better results by reporting this to GOG Support.
Installer can require admin privileges, but I'm not talking about it. I was talking about the game itself.
Though I never got a point in
requiring the privileges. Why not let the user run the software the way they like it and if the software really require those privileges - let them start it, without denying them from starting the software without those privileges, which are not required at all most of the time. Just implement a bloody error handling instead of using these ugly workarounds already. Take the installer: I have all the permissions I need to install the game and I already have dependencies installed.
Also reported both problems to support, thanks for the recommendation.
It would be much better though if these kind of subjects on forums were considered as problem reports too, so that the users of GOG.com wouldn't have to write the same stuff into additional forms.
FiniteField: Right now just renaming the game executable seems to fix it. At least on Windows 8. Weird.
Yeah, strange. I've just tried to make a copy and have successfully got myself a binary that does not require admin privileges. Hate the Windows' lack of transparency, honestly. =/
