Discord: eatshisyoung: I am guessing there was a bigger discussion about FSO prior to it getting removed but I haven’t come across it. I have an issue when Steam games are full screen, and I think it’s related to the FSO tweak that I did about a year ago. The game will open full screen, and then at some point during heavy on-screen action, the game will be minimized, and an error pops up that says, ‘This action is not allowed; consult your administrator,’ or something similar. I noticed the error only after using the FSO tweak and at some point undid the tweak but it did not fix it. Any help would be much appreciated. I am about ready to reinstall Windows.
Discord: eatshisyoung: Yes I have lived with this issue for almost a year.
Discord: eatshisyoung: Nvidia gpu with up to date drivers. Windows 11 Pro.
Discord: reverieviee: <@565360020418723840>
Good news first: it’s almost certainly not the FSO tweak, so hold off on reinstalling Windows.
That tweak only ever changed one per-user setting under GameConfigStore. It’s a preference, not a permission or a policy, so there’s no path from it to an “ask your administrator” message. Undoing it also put the value back to the Windows default correctly, which lines up with undoing it not helping. We removed that tweak from WinUtil recently for unrelated reasons, so it’s a dead end either way.
What you’re describing sounds like two separate problems that happen to show up together.
The game dropping out of fullscreen during heavy action looks a lot like Desktop Window Manager crashing. We’ve had two reports shaped exactly like that tied to the Multiplane Overlay tweak, so if you ever touched that one, it’s the first thing I’d check.
Run these in a Terminal and paste back what you get:
reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm" /v OverlayTestMode
reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers" /v DisableOverlays
Discord: reverieviee: Also, the administrator error is the part I can’t place yet, and the exact wording matters a lot here. There are at least three different Windows messages that sound like what you described and they have three completely different causes. Could you please take a screenshot next time it happens? That’d help narrow it down
Discord: eatshisyoung:
Discord: eatshisyoung: Claud thinks its related to a registry change for Explorer/Edge
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
HideSCAMeetNow REG_DWORD 0x1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
DisableEdge REG_SZ msedge.exe
Discord: eatshisyoung: Update: So far my testing has not triggered the error. I still don’t understand why Edge would be trying to open mid-gameplay, but it appears to have worked.
Discord: reverieviee: That’s odd, glad it worked though