Please Login With Administrator Privileges and Try Again

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1. I have Windows 8 here.

   Civilization 4 (Complete CD ROM) was working well.

   I installed latest MS Updates.

   And at present I get:

   "Please login with ambassador privileges and try once again"

   However I am already logged in every bit an administrator.

   Any clues?

2. Just a estimate, but make sure that the game' exe is set to have administrator privileges (in the right click menu). The game makes changes to itself during bootup and needs admin privileges to do so.

   That'south the exe itself not the shortcut.

3. I have been playing this game for years and of a sudden (after making no changes to PC) I become please log in as adminstrator and try once more. Why is information technology suddenly telling me that and how practice I fix it

4. Same trouble after today'due south updates. Tried compatibility changes, administrator log on. No luck. Windows at present declares Civ4 to exist incompatible afterward troubleshooting. Had the same prob when I tried Windows 10, so rolled dorsum to 7. Was fine until today's updates. Help????? Have not tried activating hidden administrator account.

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   Calibar Chieftain

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   Tried a bunch of different configuration changes via compatibility mode and aught is working. The game ran fine for years until the latest Windows update installed today.

   Please post the solution if anyone discovers it.

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   Calibar Chieftain

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   Finally found the issue, which is to say I constitute which update (KB3086255) from the latest Windows update has caused the result. The issue is that the secdrv service had been disabled, which incidentally is the same reason Civ4 doesn't piece of work on Windows x (I am using Windows 8).

   I found the information here (I hope information technology's okay for me to post this link - information technology wasn't easy to observe via Google):
   http://myonlinesecurity.co.uk/september-2015-windows-updates-kb3086255-breaks-many-games/

   I ran the two commands listed from a control prompt with admin privs and was and then able to run Civ4:

   sc config secdrv get-go= demand
   sc start secdrv

   I assume that to exist safe it should exist stopped and and then once again disabled afterwards running the game. Probably a good candidate for a couple of batch files.

7. I am running Civ iv on Windows 10 without whatsoever issues.

   I installed exactly as per my thread. Note: I accept iii disks - Vanilla, Warlords and Beyond the Sword, and not Complete or Steam editions.

8. 
   This has resolved my trouble and I am Civ4ing again.

   Well done.

   Many thanks!

9. Anyone endeavour just uninstalling the update KB3086255?

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    Calibar Chieftain

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    I didn't uninstall the update because it appears that secdrv is a existent security concern and so it's not necessarily a bad idea to accept it disabled when you're not in need of it.

    To reduce the pain of having to enable and offset the service to run Civ and then stop and disable it so that the service isn't left running (it only needs to exist running to launch Civ), I created 2 batch files. Each must be ran as an administrator.

    start-secdrv.bat:
    beginning cmd.exe /k "sc config secdrv start=demand"
    start cmd.exe /k "sc offset secdrv"

    finish-secdrv.bat
    start cmd.exe /g "sc stop secdrv"
    get-go cmd.exe /k "sc config secdrv start=disabled"

    The /chiliad is to keep the windows open, so that yous can initially encounter the results. Eventually, you'll probably desire to alter it to /c, to close the windows automatically for a cleaner process.

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    kimshady Chieftain

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    Oct 25, 2012

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    I tried to enter this and I got this answer:
    [SC] OpenService FAILED five:
    Access is denied.

    Any ideas?

12. Y'all volition demand to to practise this as administrator.

13. I tried the secdrv thing with the control prompt, but it didn't piece of work. I was logged on as administrator. The commands didn't work. Anyhow I then tried googling the KB3086255 update and found this:

    https://forums.techguy.org/threads/...-updates-kb3086255-breaks-many-games.1155534/

    Patently this update has effected a lot of other games too. I tried uninstalling it in windows update. After it rebooted I tried the game. I still had it in windows xp compatibility mode from trying other fixes from before. The game finally went to the starting window, just didn't recognize the disc. I turned off compatability mode and the game ran fine.
    Now widows has reinstalled the update. Damn it.

14. Yous demand to start the control prompt as Administrator.

15. Are you kidding me? Equally all of usa, I've been playing this game for years, and at present information technology doesn't piece of work? I figured it was that update!The instructions above and talk of "batch files" I think is beyond me a more than a chip. I'd detest to start messing with things on a regular footing and and so the whole reckoner is messed up. I guess I either evolve or I don't. This is TERRIBLE! I simply don;t understand why after and then many years the just game I actually play doesn't piece of work.

16. even the person who wrote the linked to article said its impractical and somewhat dangerous to be constantly changing the registry everytime yous want to play. Is this the kind of thing that the company who made the game can fix eventually, or does this mean that its more or less over for this game?

17. That worked. At present it says "Start Service FAILED 1056" "An case of the service is already running".
    So I guess it is on now. The game crashes after the loading screen.
    At present I am wondering if reinstalling that update twice has screwed something up.

18. I bought every Civ IV edition on disk (Vanilla, Warlords and BTS) every bit they came out years agone and installed every bit per my thread on to Windows 10 and all the mods run, including new mods I have downloaded.

    I have not got the Complete edition, nor the Steam edition.

19. Kiwitt, does Vanilla and Warlords piece of work or just BTS?

20. Only BTS is all I care nearly, as it incorporates all the features of the previous two in a cohesive one.

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