Neocron on Windows Vista, 7 & 8

[Zefrian]

For old games, this is right: They tend to write into their installation directory.
Thus this games need to be installed outside the official "installation paths";
and this path needs full r/w access for all users. This is the only reasonable
solution. Doing it this way enables running it without admin rights.

Running something with administrative rights means, giving that "something"
full access to the whole system(!). This is a "no go!". Example: If the launcher
of "something" loads malicious code, because of the server being hacked,
you are screwed. Have a look into the IT-News. This happenes more often,
than you suppose it to happen. (and forget about "total protection" by your
antivirus-products, it can't). And think about bugs. As long as an application
has restricted rights, the possible damage being done is also restricted.

Unfortunatelly a few game developers or resellers of modern games obiously
don't give a shit on such security considerations. Their support also doesn't
care, because their Questian&Answer-List says "run as admin", and then your
ticket is "solved".


Please don't run non-system-applications as admin.
Solve the problem, don't cure the symptoms by lowering security.

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Back to topic:

Neocron 2 has been proven to be running without admin rights within W7
64bit with UAC & DEP enabled, separate instalation folder, windowed mode.

While the problem still seems ongoing, i *suppose* the following:
- The separate installation folder does not have full w/r access for the user who launches NC
- A thirs party software interferes with the neocron processes