Steam in home streaming - what do to when game brings up UAC on host?

BlizzardX · 30 Jan 2016 at 21:49

Hello,

I've got a game (Star Citizen) added to my steam library and was trying to get it to play over steam streaming. So far, every native steam game works fine but SC brings up the UAC menu on the host, which I cannot click through on the client pc as steam in home streaming hasn't actually connected yet.

What I'm looking for is for some advice how others have got around this issue, not necessarily with SC but I'm sure other games that are not native steam powered do the same.

Any thoughts or guidance (that does not include turning it off) would be grand.

Cheers,

Chris

Psymonkee · 30 Jan 2016 at 22:23

Go back and click OK? Or turn UAC down a level for the purposes of running the game? (Not off!)

There's probably some settings you can tweak somewhere but I don't know of them off the top of my head

This link seems like it might contain the answer: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5357-unblock-file-windows-10-a.html

Not actually tried any of the solutions and I did only skim read the article. Worth a shot though

LostCorpse · 31 Jan 2016 at 10:33

what about running steam "as administrator" then the uac action shouldnt be a problem..

Antony101 · 31 Jan 2016 at 11:10

Turn UAC off because it's nothing but a pain.

Spuddy · 31 Jan 2016 at 12:31

Am I the only one that has no idea what UAC means?

Gimpymoo · 31 Jan 2016 at 12:35

User Account Control

The windows function which nags you...

"You chose to run this program, are you sure you want to run this program..."

Solved.

Unless you regularly browse google for pornography?

BlizzardX · 31 Jan 2016 at 19:09

Emo_hug said:
what about running steam "as administrator" then the uac action shouldnt be a problem..

I'll try that, as that might be the most realistic option... the user account is already set to in active directory to be an administrator so I don't need a password for UAC, but I'll give it a go.

BlizzardX · 31 Jan 2016 at 19:10

Spuddy said:
Am I the only one that has no idea what UAC means?

UAC stops other programs from making changes to your system without you knowing, how effective it is I don't actually know but given the amount of hi-jacked flash websites that are around I'd rather have it on and solve it then turn it off and leave the pc potentially compromised.