Raytwol won't work? [SOLVED]

[screechy]

I've given it the Rayman 2 directory, and it says that clicking ok will start the first-time setup, after which raytwol will load. As expected, it doesn't open. No tasks in the task bar, no nothing. Is this an issues for others or is it just me, and if so, how do I fix it?

[screechy]

[FIXED] Ran as admin, guess that fixed it.

[Steo]

Yeah that's Microsoft for you. Ever since Windows Vista they started all that nonsense unfortunately.

[The Jonster]

My advice to you is to run everything as an admin first, considering that you're using a Win10 Machine.

[Steo]

Yep and when running as admin fails, use take ownership to tell Windows that you actually own your own files

[PluMGMK]

The nonsense here is not what Microsoft is doing now, but what they used to do in the Win9x days. They used to let software developers put their own configuration files and such in C:\Windows and C:\Program Files, and let the user modify them willy-nilly. The reason UAC is such a pain these days is that they're trying to clean up the mess that was created before they had an OS with decent security policies.

[Steo]

I know it's there for security reasons but that's the reason everyone said they hated Vista

I get that the system files are like that for a reason though I guess that's where the games install to. Then to be fair Linux is the same, where you have to run a file manager with root permissions to be able to edit system files. So rather than ease of use I guess your security makes more sense.

When I typed that out I was thinking more about Windows 10 and how it likes to break functions with every update, then the fact that almost nothing works compared to other versions without jumping through hoops

[PluMGMK]

I get that the system files are like that for a reason though I guess that's where the games install to. Then to be fair Linux is the same, where you have to run a file manager with root permissions to be able to edit system files. So rather than ease of use I guess your security makes more sense.

Exactly. It's like having a game install a GUI configurator that you need to run with sudo so it can edit something minor in /etc . Theoretically possible, but it makes more sense to do it in ~/.local . That way each user can customize it differently too. (Admittedly it doesn't make much sense to set things like resolutions on a per-user basis but it's only a minor hassle to do it for each user compared to running the configuration tool with sudo!)