Overview
This guide shows you, how to remove the administrator requirement of the game (which it doesn’t really need) to enable full support for the Steam Controller, including using the Steam Overlay by pressing the Home Button and using the analogpads for mouse-emulation.
Why you want to do this
1. To get rid of the elevation prompt
(no, deactivating uac is NOT a solution, it’s just dangerous)
2. To have one programm less unnecessarily running with administrator previleges
3. To get the Mouse-Emulation and the Overlay of the Steam Controller to work.
(elevated processes are kind of protected from emulated keypresses, that’s why this doesn’t work otherwise)
Requirements
Texteditor (like notepad++)
How to
- Navigate to <your Steam library path>steamappscommonTreeOfSaviorreleasepatch
- Open tos.exe in a text editor
- search for
requestedExecutionLevel
- there you change
level=”requireAdministrator”
to
level=”asInvoker”Beware of the 11 spaces after “asInvoker”.
It should look similar to this:
- save the file.
Try to start TOS. If you get an error message babbling about “side-by-side configuration” you misscounted the spaces.
This is it.
If you encounter errors when new patches are available, you will need to run it as administrator (via right click, run as administrator)