March 2015
Hello, just purchased battlefield 3 premium, and when comes time to download it, it prepares to download, then an error window pops up stating "download has been paused, Origin needs to install files and in waiting for permission. Please choose ýes' when windows prompts you for permission'
Computer is windows 8. No windows prompt for permission pops up. it is rediculous how bought a game and cannot play it when it should just download. Done all the fire wall stuff. No dice. have no hassles downloading games elseware.
please advice. thankyou in advance.
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March 2015
finally fixed it, missing files from origin, my game disc kept installing origin everytime with different files missing. after uninstalling and reinstalling a lot it eventually worked, then downloads started. have paid for all of premium edition to download however and ended up using a disc for the initial game. at least it is working now. origin is extremely buggy.
March 2015 - last edited March 2015
You have only one option, you need to disable Administrator account in Windows.And in order to do the ,,job'',do exactly steps of this link.
http://www.wintips.org/enable-administrator-windows-8-windows-7/
You have all the data here for Windows 7 and 8.
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March 2015
howdy thanks, i will give that a try and report how it goes LOL
March 2015
that did not work still get the same error message.
if cannot solve this soon i will be asking for a refund
March 2015
@epicdragon85 Hi,
So you are alread yrunning the program as administrator as posted in this article here: http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-do-i-run-a-program-or-a-game-as-an-administrator/
If the prompt does not show up at all, I am wondering what your User Account Control settings are. You can check this by following the instructions posted by Microsoft over here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows/turn-user-account-control-on-off#1TC=windows-7
Let me know how you get on afterwards.
Cheers,
Nils
March 2015
finally fixed it, missing files from origin, my game disc kept installing origin everytime with different files missing. after uninstalling and reinstalling a lot it eventually worked, then downloads started. have paid for all of premium edition to download however and ended up using a disc for the initial game. at least it is working now. origin is extremely buggy.
April 2015
I am having this problem right now and i don't understand why. i am following everything that the pose said but it is not working and i don't understand why can you please help me before i ask for a refund thank you.