Lol, I guess my question was why are you enabling UAC?! It's literally the first thing that I do whenever I get Win7 (and did on Vista) was kill that thing completely! Never seen any value in it, and given your problems now... I mean, I find it hilarious that while you're an admin turning off UAC, UAC asks if you want to allow that! *roflmao* BINO
> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 14:51:15 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Portal2 crash on cinematic > > Hello Steve, > > Sweet, that did it. There was no run as admin option with the steam > supplied short cuts. It's a weird url looking link I have never seen > before. So, I dug into the steam directory on the drive and located > the portal2.exe and then I had the run as admin option. I have to > start Steam first otherwise it crashes the game exactly like it did > before but once I get Steam up and running I can run as admin the > portal2.exe and play. Not exactly how it should be but I now have UAC > back on and am now able to play Portal 2. Thanks for the help. > > > Saturday, May 14, 2011, 9:26:15 AM, you wrote: > > > Did you try 'Run as Administrator'? Even if you are in the admin group, > > you still have limits on what you can do outside of administrator. > > > -- > Regards, > joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... > > "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." >
