resolved Sinai Map installation problems (information about updating DCS)

[Valium]

I have some issues with installation of Sinai Map.
I updated DCS yesterday when there were some problems with server.

 

I use Open Beta - mt and Open Beta.

Today, I bought Sinai and I wanted to install it but I can't. DCS works normally but when I try to install Sinai Map, there're information like these:

 

As you can see, I have the latest version:

 

No mods at this moment. 

Updated, repaired and updated but this problem's still appearing.

[draconus]

[Valium]

Lol, it seems it was enought to not to open dcs.exe as administrator (just ensure that it's not clicked).

[Flappie]

Thanks for your feedback.

Could you please tell us where you've heard it's better to run DCS as Admin ? I really want to know because a lot of users coming here with problems do this, and I have no idea why.

[Valium]

19 hours ago, Flappie said:

Thanks for your feedback.

Could you please tell us where you've heard it's better to run DCS as Admin ? I really want to know because a lot of users coming here with problems do this, and I have no idea why.

To be honest, I don't know. Years ago when I had Windows Vista, sometimes some games could work only if you open them as Admin.

[Thx1137]

19 hours ago, Flappie said:

Thanks for your feedback.

Could you please tell us where you've heard it's better to run DCS as Admin ? I really want to know because a lot of users coming here with problems do this, and I have no idea why.

A lot of games wanted permission to the Program Files folders so they often needed admin to work properly. DCS writes to Saved Games so it shouldn't be an issue.

I try not to run anything as admin anymore because it can cause issues. Modern games don't need to.

Basically it is because secondary apps can have trouble interacting with a primary app if the primary app is running with elevated privileges. The secondary app doesn't have those privileges. Whether there is an issue or not depends on how they interact.

The above can occur at seeming random after say, an app update. I've had instances where I had an app set to run as admin but then did an update and found that the run as admin setting was cleared. So I wouldn't find out until I tried playing the game.

tl;dr; Simplistically, if one app is running as admin then all apps that might interact with it also have to.

That is the only time I've had issues and that has been a problem since forever.

Edited June 10, 2023 by Thx1137