Hi, does the game demand admin rights to install (or an anti-cheat service that demands it). It kinda decides whether or not I gonna buy the game.
Thanks.

Do you know many games that don't require admin rights to install ? While it would be perfectly possible 99% of the time if not more, it's very rare in practice. That's not a problem imho, since it's better to have active content such as executable programs installed in write-protected places so that they cannot be modified inadvertently or by malware run by an unprivileged user.

Some programs however cannot even be run by unprivileged users by default because the developers don't master the very few simple rules for good system integration. 100% of the games, if not more, should be able to run without admin rights. While annoying, I said "by default" because I've always managed to get them to run as non-admin in a way that keep the programs safe, most often thanks to UAC virtualisation.

But... BUT... there's another category of games, the worst of all, which I would refer to as "the security bypassers". These games usually don't require admin rights to run for a reason : they short-circuit the security at install time, most often granting full control to everyone in the game install directory.

While it's highly problematic, this may be fixed simply by revoking these excessive rights, and sometimes it just runs fine, or only requires some UAC virtualisation and voilà... but it can be even worse too, since we now have games that are "security-aware" in the worst sense of the term : they check the security, try to set it back the wrong way, and refuse to run otherwise. Sometimes they even install services running as the system account to bypass any security on demand, without any authentication.

Belonging to this last category are for example : all Steam games, Blizzard games, and The Witcher Adventure Game. Generally, the game itself is not the culprit, it's some surrounding agent that performs the bad tasks, respectively the Steam client (with the Steam service), the Blizzard agent, and the Galaxy client (with the Galaxy service).

It's possible to run TWAG with a decent security setting however, if you run the game executable directly, but you will lose the online play functionality, since GOG authentication is done by the galaxy client.

Special mention to the galaxy client, even when I leave the bad security settings as set by the game installation process, it's unable to perform updates if I run it as an administrator. I have to run as a regular user for that. That's the cherry on the cake, as we say in France ! I don't know if the expression exists in english, but no doubt there's a similar one :)

Well, that's a fine wall of text I dropped here, you probably won't care, as well as 99% of the people, but seeing a thread adressing the problem of admin rights and games, I suddenly felt the need to put my rant here, sorry for any disturbance... and who knows, hope this helps !

Does this mean the witcher demands admin rights?
The reason I ask is because the PC I will play it on won't let me use anything that demands admin rights.

Ok, thanks.
Gonna give it a try

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