@QBit07 Thank you for the info. I did find the latest update and it works great. Now I just need to find out why my older game versions no longer launch using No_GTAVLauncher. Something obviously changed somewhere for older versions to suddenly stop working when nothing's changed on my end. I guess I'm just wondering if RockStar made any recent changes that may have caused it.

Did something recently change because all of a sudden No_GTAVLauncher no longer launches older versions of my retail game version. This launcher has worked great on version 1493.1 for a long time now but two days ago it started crashing as soon as I launch it. Did some change occur I don't know about? Also, I went to check on an updated script hook for the latest game update and noticed the old script hook update webpage appears to be gone. Where does one acquire updated script hooks now?

@Xranovision THANK YOU!

@Capone12 When you reinstalled your game did the new game launcher also install? I reinstalled my game last week but after everything updated I noticed the new style game launcher wasn't there and I had to download and install it manually, after which the game launcher worked normally again. Unfortunately the reinstall didn't fix the problem I was having but the new launcher was now working again.

@TheMurderousCricket Just read the link you provided and it's very interesting. Never knew "cancelling" the download the way it suggests would suffice as a good RockStar "authentication". I have EVERYTHING backed up so I'll have to give that a try because there's nothing to lose. In the meantime, I got an older version up and running using the Bypass Launcher Reyser mentioned in his post. Thanks for the link though. I'm gonna try that method too.

@xJTxD0notPaN1C That was the first thing I tried but it didn't work. It's working now though since installing the Launcher Bypass that Reyser suggested. I don't know what benefit the new RockStar launcher provides, and I didn't even know it had been installed until I started up the game a couple days ago... or rather, tried to start it.

@Reyser Thank you. Yes, I do have numerous versions of the game backed up in-full and will download UM's Launcher Bypass and give it a go. I've seen Launcher Bypass on the site before but for some reason thought it was merely used to load the game more quickly and since mine already loads pretty fast I never bothered with it but I'll give it a try. Thank you again, Reyser.