I used to play the game Freelancer, which originally was designed to work with win98/Me/2000/xp, with Windows Xp/Vista/7. Now I upgraded to Win 10 and it doesn't run anymore.
The problem is, that it asks for additional rights and tells me to log in again with admin rights, though I have admin rights. I heard, that this is a problem to be expected with older programs, but that you can fix it with compatibility-mode.
That's what I have tried so far:
- Different compatibility-modes(XP(different SPs)/Vista/7/98/Me)
- Run the shortcut with admin-rights
- run the .exe with admin-rights
- reinstall game
- disabling UAC
- create a task with the task-scheduler with highest priority
- set admin-rights in the shortcut compatibility settings
None of this works. I noticed that the game-process starts, when I try to open it without admin-rights, but then I get the "you need admin-rights" error and it shuts down. When I'm running it with admin-rights/compatibility-mode it doesn't start but therefore a lot of .dll processes start and close immediately.