Can't load SimCity
Can't load SimCity. I've been at it for over an hour and contacting support is, well not help full. Here's the screen shots of the error and a screen shot of the main screen while trying to log in. ...
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Update. I just tried to launch the game and now get this message on the EA app.
This game requires permissions.
This game requires administrative privileges. Do you want to grant access and launch the game?
OK CLOSE
OK so I hit the OK button and sure enough the game opens up. But when I close the game and restart it I get the same thing as above. This maybe acceptable to some, but to me, having to do this every time is unacceptable. This is a half way fix.
Hi, I also am getting the error when I try to load the game. I may have found a workaround, but it is not ideal...
I played the game in the past while logged into a standard user account on my PC. I tried to play the game again recently, and learned of the error. I tested logging out of my standard user account on the PC and into the administrator account (kept distinct from all other regular users for security reasons) and I was able to play the game (but none of the old city saves yet; I'm guessing that should be possible to copy around in explorer). This setup is not ideal however because playing in the admin account kind of defeats that security measure.
So from what I experienced this seems to be more of a Windows security issue rather than an issue with the game? I know we have seen suggestions to "right click and run as admin", and those types of things, but I guess maybe there is some other layer of authentication occurring while the game is loading to check if the user is an admin or not? Hopefully the results of my testing give someone smarter than me a clue of how we may be able to fix this issue in a good way.
Hello, I am having this problem too today! Can't believe this thread is still alive!
