spencerh4 Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 I am trying to download a .dds plugin for GIMP to be able to open the game's texture format . And a normal map plugin for GIMP to be able to generate normal maps. When i try to download the .ddd plugin the readme says to extract it to C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins adn when i do that a diagnostic message pops up saying cannot open output file C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins. And nothing happens And when I try to download the normal map plugin i open up the readme and it says To install, extract normalmap.exe and glew32.dll to your GIMP pluginsdirectory. Place libgtkglext-win32-1.0-0.dll and libgdkglext-win32-1.0-0.dllin the C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\bin directory. And when i do that the same thing pops up can anny one help i am using the gimp plugin thing correct right ? cam annyone help thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkull Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 Sounds like a Vista problem copying files into the Program Files folder (a protected path). Make sure you're logged in using an Administrator user id, or try re-installing the GIMP into a folder other than the default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 This may be another UAC problem. From the WIKIUser Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. It aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase in privilege level. In this way, only applications that the user trusts receive higher privileges, and malware should be kept from receiving the privileges necessary to compromise the operating system. In other words, a user account may have administrator privileges assigned to it, but applications that the user runs do not also have those privileges unless they are approved beforehand or the user explicitly authorizes it to have higher privileges. To reduce the possibility of lower-privilege applications communicating with higher-privilege ones, another new technology, User Interface Privilege Isolation is used in conjunction with User Account Control to isolate these processes from each other.[1] One prominent use of this in Internet Explorer 7's "Protected Mode".[2] A possible fix Vista users may have to disable a security function known as UAC. Check to see if UAC is turned on. If so. Look here for instructions on how to turn it off. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vis...-windows-vista/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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