Run PoE as a limited user

[Philss]

Just did this and created a new account , will play few hours with hud see if i get banned

[Sychotix]

Just did this and created a new account , will play few hours with hud see if i get banned

A lot of people have played multiple weeks (or more) during Incursion and the race event and nothing happened. As far as we are aware, the anti-cheat isn't even turned on at the moment. As we approach delve, it is more likely to be re-enabled.

[Bashor7030]

Doesnt work with 3.4 anymore it seems. I get the Error: "Unable to open Content.ggpk. You might have another Copy of the Game already running." Ive checked but there isnt another Copy running.

[Norby93]

Doesnt work with 3.4 anymore it seems. I get the Error: "Unable to open Content.ggpk. You might have another Copy of the Game already running." Ive checked but there isnt another Copy running.

same hare! is sandboxie has some solution if this method willn't work?

[RatMonkey]

I setup both steam and path of exile to run on my limited user. It seems the steam version won't run under the limited user if you shortcut the Poe .exe properly, but seems to run under the user when Steam itself is ran under the limited user. When I run PoE via steam in task manager it is running under the new "user" and creates Path of Exile stuff in the user/limiteduser/my documents/ folder. Dunno if you guys are trying to run it via steam or standalone, but it seems to work fine in steam. In queue now no issues.

[roska]

seems they prevented hiding cheats, which only means limited user thing works in doing it. now we just need a solution to get it working again

[kisapl]

game run for me without any errors as a limited user

[Eroder1]

I think the update broke this... no longer able to run it as a "limited user" :content.ggpk is already open or some bs

[TehCheat]

If you are having issues with this method, instead of running the shortcut, go to the poe folder and shift-right-click on the poe exe and click on "run as different user". Put in the limited user's credentials. This seems to work for others.

GGPK modifications might also break updates/launching, so it'd be nice to hear from anyone with a modified GGPK file if they can update and/or launch poe.

[Norby93]

If you are having issues with this method, instead of running the shortcut, go to the poe folder and shift-right-click on the poe exe and click on "run as different user". Put in the limited user's credentials. This seems to work for others.

GGPK modifications might also break updates/launching, so it'd be nice to hear from anyone with a modified GGPK file if they can update and/or launch poe.

shift+rightclick is ok. but i cant launch the hud... is it just for me?

[nimb777]

shift-right-click on the poe exe and click on "run as different user".

Thanks.

[bcz]

Ok so the problem is that the "runas.exe" program changes the current directory to System32 before starting the exe. You can see this by placing a batch file in poe directory and then try runas on it instead of poe.

in the batch file put...

echo %cd%
pause

When you then runas on the batch file it will output "C:\Windows\System32" regardless of the directory you ran runas from.

So that said, if you want to be able to run poe from a shortcut on your desktop or wherever, the solution is to create a batch file which changes directories and launches poe (using 'start.exe' so that the new cmd window doesnt stay open afterwards)...

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile"
start PathOfExile_x64.exe

Now create a shortcut to the batch file and follow the same steps of editing the "target" field to include runas.exe and its parameters. You can then put that shortcut anywhere you want.

runas.exe /user:computer\user /savecred "C:\Program Files (x86)\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile\asdf.bat"

[OwnedForumUser]

will say using run as diff user does not affect it at all with errors when you modify the ggpk. runs perfectly fine

[stfufag]

do i have to be and play in windows under this new user account? or is it just for the poehud to run while i'm logged in with my main windows account?

[luminair]

So I made a new account, and banned the new account all access to the PoE folder, when I run the link and entered the password, I will get this following message:
RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run - D:\PoE\PathOfExile_x64.exe
5: Access is denied.
What am I doing wrong?