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Posted September 21, 2015
Hi folks-

I hope somebody knows how to help me:

I haven't changed one single thing on my machine, but suddenly I can't play games. When I click to play a game, it says "Please login with administrator privileges and try again".

I am the administrator. It's my computer. There's nothing else. I haven't changed anything. Right-clicking and selecting "run as administrator" on a game's icon does literally nothing... I click on it and it just closes.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to help? Thank you!

[EDIT] Windows 8. Which doesn't seem to have a single support article in the Microsoft database anymore.
Post edited September 21, 2015 by yogsloth
This question / problem has been solved by Geralt_of_Riviaimage
Posted September 21, 2015
Ahhhh... it appears it might be the Microsoft security update from a few days ago.

Launching newer games does work, but "Flatout" won't work at all. Apparently there are some latent SecuRom dll files present in the GOG version, and Microsoft has killed everything with SecuRom.

Will GOG fix this, or am I permanently out of luck?
Posted September 21, 2015
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yogsloth: Ahhhh... it appears it might be the Microsoft security update from a few days ago.

Launching newer games does work, but "Flatout" won't work at all. Apparently there are some latent SecuRom dll files present in the GOG version, and Microsoft has killed everything with SecuRom.

Will GOG fix this, or am I permanently out of luck?
Try this video, I think it might work for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJo_Lp357M
Post edited September 21, 2015 by trentonlf
Posted September 21, 2015
kinda wish i had Flatout to test this and find a fix for you... do you know of any GOG games that used securom at one time?
Posted September 21, 2015
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yogsloth: Ahhhh... it appears it might be the Microsoft security update from a few days ago.
Won't uninstalling that one particular update work?
Posted September 21, 2015
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yogsloth: Hi folks-

I hope somebody knows how to help me:

I haven't changed one single thing on my machine, but suddenly I can't play games. When I click to play a game, it says "Please login with administrator privileges and try again".

I am the administrator. It's my computer. There's nothing else. I haven't changed anything. Right-clicking and selecting "run as administrator" on a game's icon does literally nothing... I click on it and it just closes.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to help? Thank you!

[EDIT] Windows 8. Which doesn't seem to have a single support article in the Microsoft database anymore.
I just checked because I was curious. You are right Flatout doesn't work anymore and it is indeed the fault of the Windows update KB3086255.

If you are on Windows 10 you should be out of luck since it never supported Securom in the first place but on earlier Windows versions the Securom service wasn't removed by the update mentioned above, it was merely disabled.

You can easily re-enable it using the Services control panel or by command line. Open a command line window with administrator privileges and type in the following two lines:

sc config secdrv start= demand

sc start secdrv

I just tested this and Flatout works after using this. If you want to undo the changes type in:

sc stop secdrv

sc config secdrv start= disabled
Posted September 21, 2015
From the game page Windows 10 isn't listed as one of the supported OS for FlatOut, so GOG must be aware of this issue.

www.gog.com/game/flatout
Posted September 21, 2015
he is running windows 8 according to the edit in his post
Posted September 21, 2015
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Geralt_of_Rivia: You can easily re-enable it using the Services control panel or by command line. Open a command line window with administrator privileges and type in the following two lines:
"access denied"

Hmmm, how do you open the command line with admin privileges?

Thanks, and thanks @ trent as well!!!

[EDIT] nevermind, I'm dumb. Got it.

Complete success - it's running again.

Really makes me pissed about Windows 10, though.
Post edited September 21, 2015 by yogsloth
Posted September 21, 2015
For People who have windows 10 use VMware Player Here and an old copy of a windows OS must be XP or above
and when asked to download the vmware tools click OK!

set up win XP or above get the Vmtools install the game and it works!
Post edited September 21, 2015 by fr33kSh0w2012
Posted September 21, 2015
Flatout apparently works in Wine.

Therefore, you could try installing Linux on another partition and use it to play Flatout and other games that fail on Windows 10.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2685
Posted September 24, 2015
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dtgreene: Flatout apparently works in Wine.
*cough* *cough* Flatout → "Works on: Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8) and Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17)"
"This is a Wine game."
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