Activation with non-administrator user account

[vgilsoler]

I've tried to run Blackshark (english CD) with non-administrator user accounts in Vista Home Premium 64. Every user in the same computer needs to get a new activation. It's supposed that one activation code could be used for one computer, and not for an user. At this moment I wasted/lost two activation trying to run BS as non-administrator.

 

Anyway I get Vista error "DCS.exe has an error and Windows needs to close it" when I tried to run it as non-administrator user.

 

At this moment is not a problem for me to lost two activations, but I don't understand why I am "forced" to run BS as administrator. And why the activations depends on user who runs BS.

[Tez]

1. Any user access policy dictates that regular user cannot change anything in global environment. So it's absolutely logical and correct when changes on one user account doesn't affect others.

 

2. Post the full error text with DCS.exe. It's abnormal.

[EtherealN]

vgilsoler, when you installed the game (nevermind when you run it), did you install it as admin and select the option to allow all users to access the program? If it's a negative on the second one it is possible that registry entries do not translate between the users, wherefore the second user account and all programs they run will be unable to access the registry entries of the first user account - and without registry entries it's hard for the copy protection to know that you already have it installed but for a different user, causing it to request another activation.

 

Is that about correct, Tez? It seems logical to me but I might have fatally misunderstood something.

[vgilsoler]

vgilsoler, when you installed the game (nevermind when you run it), did you install it as admin and select the option to allow all users to access the program? If it's a negative on the second one it is possible that registry entries do not translate between the users, wherefore the second user account and all programs they run will be unable to access the registry entries of the first user account - and without registry entries it's hard for the copy protection to know that you already have it installed but for a different user, causing it to request another activation.

 

Is that about correct, Tez? It seems logical to me but I might have fatally misunderstood something.

 

I've installed DCS with right-click run as administrator (as other games installed before lockon, il-2). When I run with user B (non-admin) for first time dcs it uses one activation. When I run with user A (admin) another activation used. With user C (non-admin) another activation. Of course, always same computer.

[vgilsoler]

1. Any user access policy dictates that regular user cannot change anything in global environment. So it's absolutely logical and correct when changes on one user account doesn't affect others.

 

The license agreement is per computer not per user. The protection software is not aware of this?

Edited April 28, 2009 by vgilsoler