Constant prompts for elevation

[Rattledagger]

For some strange reason to create (or delete) soft-links needs elevation in Windows while hard-links don't need elevation. Now I've never tried soft-links with Vortex, but if it works as you describes Vortex at the very least needs a "don't ask for elevation again, until re-start Vortex".

 

For even stranger reason The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and a few other games does not work correctly with soft-links. For the incompatible games Vortex should block soft-links, if Vortex did allow soft-links for incompatible game you should report this as a bug in Vortex, by clicking the 3 dots in upper right corner.

[HadToRegister]

For some strange reason to create (or delete) soft-links needs elevation in Windows while hard-links don't need elevation. Now I've never tried soft-links with Vortex, but if it works as you describes Vortex at the very least needs a "don't ask for elevation again, until re-start Vortex".

 

For even stranger reason The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and a few other games does not work correctly with soft-links. For the incompatible games Vortex should block soft-links, if Vortex did allow soft-links for incompatible game you should report this as a bug in Vortex, by clicking the 3 dots in upper right corner.

 

 

I used symlinks for Witcher 3, however, if you want to merge scripts for mods, the Witcher 3 script merger is tricked into thinking it's actually merging physical files, so it will produce errors.

So I eventually resorted to using the MOVE option

[Tannin42]

a) Vortex doesn't decide to require elevation and so it can't have a "don't ask again" option. The operating system decides that an operation requires elevation.

 

b) You don't have to deploy on every operation. You can disable automatic deployment and then deploy once before you start the game, thus giving you just one UAC dialog.

 

c) There are ways to work around this by having a service or task that always runs as admin but that would severely undermine system security.

 

d) On Windows 10 it seems like symlinks work just fine without admin rights and Vortex supports that automatically. I haven't seen this documented anywhere so I don't know if there are limitations but on the systems I've tested with I actually do not need elevation to create symlinks any more.

 

e) > For even stranger reason The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and a few other games does not work correctly with soft-links

The reason is simply that the gamebryo engine actively opts-out of supporting symlinks. Why they would do that is - in fact - a mystery but it probably involves a lot of booze or other drugs. I really doubt there is a rational reason behind it.

 

f) > For the incompatible games Vortex should block soft-links
It does. However, games have to be explicitly black listed, so you really have to report it if you find a game where Vortex allows symlinks and the game doesn't work with them but for all the gamebryo games it already blocks it.