Administrator Access?

[Sawnec]

I found the issue. It was a combination of Steam and FFXIV. I detailed it in the OP.

Except FFXIV doesn't need to run as admin, unless an update is being performed.....

its a steam side issue, probably caused by their annoying overlay injection.

It was sort of steam side.

This should have everything to do with fixing your problem. Or have you not been reading the replies in this thread? The very first hit to the HowTo Geeks article is describing a work around to making a game run with admin privileges when launched from within Steam....which, as noted earlier, is what one often needs to do.

Sorry for directing you to a google search result, but I don't use Steam...and the solution appeared to be extremely easy to find. There seems to be a growing trend lately where users either aren't even trying to search the web for solutions, or they have weak google-fu...so I put forth the exact search I used to find what seems like a plausible solution to your problem.

Sorry if you don't find that helpful...but you may want to try following that guide just in case it does indeed fix your issue before you write it off so quickly.

The problem was I did not want it running as an administrator. Relatively, I completely ignored your half-assed attempt at "help." There is no reason why the game needs admin permissions at all in the first place, but apparently it needs them when patching. It was an issue that I have outlined in the OP, and was completely unrelated to permissions settings or anything silly FFXIV was doing.

[Raist]

I found the issue. It was a combination of Steam and FFXIV. I detailed it in the OP.

It was sort of steam side.

The problem was I did not want it running as an administrator. Relatively, I completely ignored your half-assed attempt at "help." There is no reason why the game needs admin permissions at all in the first place, but apparently it needs them when patching. It was an issue that I have outlined in the OP, and was completely unrelated to permissions settings or anything silly FFXIV was doing.

Well.. if you still need to run it as Admin for updates, you may still get prompted for it periodically. If that still annoys you enough, you can opt to assign the permissions to the executable as outlined in that article. Not sure how that is a "half-assed attempt at help"... but to each his own if you don't want to accept a potential solution given to address issues put forth in your query.

Just a bit of friendly advice for future reference... you may want to tone things down a bit when asking for help on these forums. There is a report button that tends to get used aggressively at times... not everyone is as tolerant around here.