Question abou UAC and gaming

Just a brief question about turning off UAC. I've never done it before but I am going to reinstall some time this week and I'm thinking about disabling UAC. Never done it before - so many places recommend it - I'm enough of a computer geek to know my system and how I use it so I'm not worried about it - except when it comes to gaming.

I'm having a vague memory about UAC and something to the effect of it switching around where things are stored with regards to program settings, saved games, etc.

Is my memory correct\marginally correct?

Fallout 3 Game of the Year is out today so I'm going to grab it on my way home and this is my main thought behind reinstalling to have the cleanest system I can. I just want to make sure I know where my saved games are, program settings are going to be, etc.

 

Be careful on asking this UAC on/off question.
Later, "war" will arise again. LOL.

Well, I would say turn it off. Because all my machines doesn't have it at all.
All of them don't have any problem. In addition, some of my friends did turn UAC off as well. So far, no problems at all. Majority claims that UAC is annoying and useless, so, turn it off to stop being annoyed or nagged.

In fact, UAC is important and act as an barrier to protect your System.
It is not an Antivirus or Firewall. It will keep prompting you when you going to change something in your System. So, you will get to know what you're doing and what is the changes.

I can't say 100% safe with UAC turned off.
But it is not 100% safe with UAC turned on too.
In my case and which I experienced(with plenty of machines UAC turned off), none of them give me any problems.
I used SpywareBlaster(passive protection, free), Avira Antivir Personal 9(free av) and MBAM(spyware scanner, free), SAS(spyware scanner, free), Windows Firewall and Windows Defender on each machine.

If you think it is unsafe, then, turn UAC on.

 

XP went as long as it has without UAC and how many people hacked your machine? Probably none. If any, then maybe best to keep UAC on.

I'm not saying there's no benefit, but for the most part the annoyances outweigh any benefit. In Windows 7 it is ten times better though.

 

UAC was the first thing I turned off when I got Vista.
KIS (Kaspersky Internet Securty) FTW !

 

I'm glad I read this post, very excited about the GOTY edition with all the expansion packs.

 

UAC doesn't switch file locations around. that switching thing is 64bit Windows with is RAM randomizing thing. You can leave UAC enabled.

 

In a nutshell...

There is no point in disabling UAC.

There is no performance difference and it shouldn't bother you at all for games.
(If it does, its time to recheck where you got that game from)

Disabling UAC is like refusing to use protection because you have never been diagnosed with an STD or gotten anyone pregnant before. Not using UAC because "its not perfectly safe" is pretty much the same arguement.
Locked doors, dogs, and firearms don't make you perfectly safe from intruders either.

UAC is one effective and simple-to-use layer of protection for the average user that should almost NEVER bother you.

Please do everyone else on the internet a favor and don't turn it off.
Networks everywhere have WAY to many "too sM3Rt" people unknowingly helping zombie botnets.

Just an FYI, I wouldn't put a "please don't break in" sign on your unlocked house and get rid of your dog and firearms either.