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Win 7 UAC problem - 5/18/2012 2:21:40 PM

Headshock

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When running COH under Win7 the UAC pops-up asking for permission to let the application "make changes to the sysmtem". (This is also the issue for other Matrix games).

The reason the UAC pops-up is because the user, running the app(game), does not have write permission to the "Program Files" folder. I allways install my apps in "Program Files (x86)"/"Program Files" folder under Win 7. I have noticed that when installing games from Matrix by default the suggested install path is c:\Matrix..\... the reason could be to avoid the UAC issue?

But it would be nice if the developers would take this problem into account and design the code so writing to "program files" isn't needed and thereby avoiding the UAC?

To solve this UAC pop-up issue, I changed permission on the folder in which COH is installed in "Program files" allowing the user to have write/modify permissions.

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RE: Win 7 UAC problem - 5/18/2012 4:29:33 PM

PipFromSlitherine

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Hmmm - I didn't think we were writing to the install folder in CoH. I'll check it out.

Cheers

Pip

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RE: Win 7 UAC problem - 5/21/2012 3:07:39 PM

ericbabe

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I don't believe COH writes to any folder apart from those in (My)Documents/Western Civilization Software/Conflict of Heroes - Awakening the Bear/. The request for elevated permission is probably independent of this.

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