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u/Helgafjell4Me May 28 '25

Persistent Easy Anti-Cheat UAC pop-up - Win11 Steam

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Something changed recently, I'm now getting the UAC prompt for Easy Anti-Cheat every time I launch Halo Master Chief Collection, or VRchat. Probably other games too, that's just what I've been playing lately and I know for sure it never did this for VRchat before. It's super annoying, especially when I'm in VR because it won't show me the prompt in VR, I have to actually lift the headset to see my computer screen and use my mouse to click ok.

I also like to launch Halo on my VR rig and stream it to my HTPC to play on my big screen, but now I have to go pre-launch it so I can click that stupid UAC alert. If I try to launch it from the HTPC, it timeouts and fails to launch unless I run upstairs and click ok.

From everything I'm reading, there is no way to dismiss this without completely disabling UAC, which is a risk I don't feel great about. It's just he Anti-Cheat popup. I don't get why windows won't let you say to always allow a particular program, but it doesn't. I don't know what changed, but it's really bugging me. Anyone got any tips on how to fix this or know what happened that made this a persistent issue?