[2020] Cannot open R6 Siege with "play" button in Uplay

Originally Posted by Acecard2001
Hi there,

Starting About 1.5-2 weeks ago on a Sunday my Rainbow Six Siege was failing to open up game. I would hit play and the game would try starting up but eventually crash, prompting me to send a crash report. I had managed to resolve the crashing by reinstalling both Siege and Uplay, but I then started to encounter another issue.

I would click play in the Uplay app, then I would get a Pop-up asking if I should give Rainbow Six Siege permission "to make changes to device", and once I confirmed this pop up I would be left with the Siege cover title infinitely loading and thus not actually opening the game.

Currently, the only thing that I've found I can do to open the game like normal is to enter the windows directory for Siege and run the RainbowSixSiege.exe file in Admin mode.

My hope would be that I can start to launch Siege from Uplay like I normally would (and used to be able too). Any help/support that could be provided would be appreciated please.

I will attach a screenshot of what happens after I click confirm on the aforementioned pop-up. If you need more information/clarification from me regarding my issue feel free to ask.

Thank you for your time,

Kind Regards, Acecard


P.S. I copied and pasted this text from trying to contact support yet the chat button was blanked out, so there are no attachments in this email. Still any help that could be provided would be appreciated please.

Originally Posted by Acecard2001
Hi there Raziel,

Thank you for your reply. I tried the command prompt solution and nothing appears to have happened.

In actuality, once I unchecked the "run as administrator box" for rainbow six siege it appears to be working like normal right now. So, for now it's fixed. Uplay runs as an administrator, but Siege doesn't though it seems all good.

Thanks again for your reply and ideas.

Cheers Acecard