Trouble getting CoH to work with Windows 7
By
Back_Blast,
Posted on: 2010-06-09 10:24 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I believe you're going to need to set CoH and all it's shortcuts to run as Administrator. You can do this by opening the properties of the item and checking that option on the compatibility tab. Alternatively, you can download the intaller from the CoH site and install via the web. That will get you a fully patched version and it should set all permissions and whatnot as required for it to run.
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Originally Posted by Back_Blast
I believe you're going to need to set CoH and all it's shortcuts to run as Administrator. You can do this by opening the properties of the item and checking that option on the compatibility tab. Alternatively, you can download the intaller from the CoH site and install via the web. That will get you a fully patched version and it should set all permissions and whatnot as required for it to run.
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NT5 and NT6 do not share the same user permission's layout
- NT5 stores it's information in C:\documents and settings\(user name)
- NT6 stores it's information in C:\users
Unfortunately Earth Fury: what I suspect is happening is this. When you were on NT5 you installed the game as an Administrator account there.
Now that you are under NT6, your default account is not granted administrator rights. NT6 can read the install data and know that the original files you copied over came from an account with Admin rights: which is why it asked you for the administrator login.
Unfortantly: to solve this issue, it's going to be a bit complex.
You'll need to completely delete the existing
- C:\Program files\ location install
- C:/Documents and Settings/(Username)/Local Settings/Application Data/NCSoft folder
- C:/Users/(username)/AppData/Local/NCSoft
After getting rid of these traces you should be able to reinstall City of Heroes using the installer located within: https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/accountManagement.pl
I just replaced WinXP Pro with Win7Pro on my computer and can't get CoH to work anymore.
I installed it using my old City of Villians CDs and then copied the my previous "c:\program files\city of heroes" folder/files/subfolders (backup copy of winxp data) overtop the new "c:\program files\city of heroes" folder. This worked just fine and I was able to get into CoH fine. However I was always prompted to "Run As" the CoH icon as Administrator. The next day I started manipulating the permissions so that the standard user account had full permissions to the coh folder, well that didn't work and coh stopped working. So I did an uninstall of coh and did a reinstall using the same process... a couple times. Now Win7 keeps generating a message that the application isn't running properly and coh doesn't start up. I'm guessing there are registry remnants for coh the uninstall missed mucking up the re-install. Any suggestions?