Since it annoyed me, I deactivated running FAF as Admin and started it to get the error message.
When reading on, have in mind that you could have a totally different error than me.
Confirm your error first before trying to apply patches that won't help.
The error message on running points towards the file in your FAF installation directory,
e.g.: C:\Program Files (x86)\Forged Alliance Forever\FAForever.exe.log
I opened up that file which told me about the actual error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 44, in <module>
File "util\__init__.pyc", line 169, in <module>
File "logging\__init__.pyc", line 1530, in basicConfig
File "logging\__init__.pyc", line 903, in __init__
File "logging\__init__.pyc", line 926, in _open
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\ProgramData\\FAForever\\logs\\forever.log'
As you can see, this error points to ProgramData, which is a totaly different Folder.
For me the solution from here was to edit the security settings of the file so Users could edit forever.log.
For doing so right click the file, choose Properties, go to the tab Security, click Edit, choose User ("Your Pc-Name"/Users)
and change it below so you can alter and write - which was off for me.
Confirm the changes and leave the dialog, the game should start without admin rights.
I might have messed up some translations since my Windows-Interface is not in English.
There might be other ways or other security settings that might work, however, this is just what I tried out.
Also, this link might provide helpful information on changing security settings:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windows/en-US/fd054677-9555-4e08-a179-4253acdc1709/how-to-change-security-settings-of-files-and-folders
The issue - at least for me - seems to be that running FAF as your "normal" User does inherit the user-rights to it and
since default users can't alter files in that ProgramData-Folder faf throws an error when starting.
Statistics: Posted by darkAco — 18 Aug 2015, 23:47
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