Playing without Admin

[AdamvsMaximvs]

Hey Everyone,

I've been playing around with this for a while, but haven't been having much luck, so I thought I'd see if anyone else has looked into this.

I'm trying to get Civ V to run on a PC that hasn't gotten a 'proper' Steam install because I'm not an admin user. Steam is on the computer through my playing with the command prompt and 7zip, but I can't install the Steam service. I can get Civ V to load the selection where you choose your DX version, but after that I get the "Steam Service must be installed".

Basically I'm working on a remote jobsite where my only real duty to to wait for construction projects to complete and then do final weld inspections, which means I have a lot of time to kill. I have a company laptop there that I'm free to use as I see fit, but tech didn't give me admin rights. Rather than drag my laptop in everyday, I thought I'd see if I could get it working on the work computer. With tech support being hundred of miles away and phone service nearly non-existant, I thought I'd try to go around the admin requirements.

If anyone has figured a way to get it to work that would be great if they could share. It's certainly not the end of the world, but I thought I'd give it a try.

Thanks much

 

[timtofly]

Steam has to be set up properly.

you can try this: Put steam (properly loaded) along with the dowloaded Civ5 (local content) on a thumb drive. Make sure that it is properly working on you laptop.

Just plug in the thumb drive into the work laptop. Click on the steam.exe, it may get you were you need to go, but not sure.

 

[AdamvsMaximvs]

I tried that once, with little success, but I'll tweak around the reg and give it another go. The work laptop was USB 2 so I didn't try too hard as I figured loads would be brutal, but I should give it another try.