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May 10, 2008
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  • Hearts of Iron III
  • Europa Universalis: Rome
Under XP multimedia edition SP3, I found that only an administrator could run the game.

Details:
  • The game was installed by an administrator.
  • All administrators can start the game okay.
  • When starting the game as an ordinary user, there is no splash screen, only a dialogue box entitled Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library, with the text "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information."
  • This happens even if the user has the same privileges as the Administrators group.
  • Ordinary users cannot create or modify any files or folders in the Europa Universalis - Rome folder or its subfolders.
Workaround:
  1. From a user account, make a copy of the Europa Universalis - Rome folder and all its contents.
  2. From an administrator account, rename or delete the original folder.
  3. Rename the new folder to Europa Universalis - Rome.
  4. The chosen user (only) can now run Rome as usual.
If you want more than one user to be able to play the game, things will get messy. You could make multiple copies of the folder, but it would probably be better to make it a shared folder.