@meimeiriver said in R$ Launcher Issues:

See, I don't mind an occasional online check; but I reserve the right to play my game, offline, at any version that works for me. Of course, we have no real rights; but what about just stopping this hopelessly passive-agressive BS, Rockstar!?

Yep. My sentiments exactly. I hear/agree with every sentence in your last post @meimeiriver. Sure it's "solved" but again I am going to hold out as much as possible and not succumb to the insidious business practices that RS, Bethesda, Bungie and the ever popular EA seem to all act like their forced to enact. Although I have no interest in RDR2 I've heard plenty of complaints about the launcher. Just cuz it's "in the game" doesn't mean I have to buy it and it sure as hell doesn't mean that those are the only options I have to support a Developer that continues to sabatoge it's own gaming community and potential future customers....

Thanks for the help.....and the discussion all

Alright!

THIS it the type of robust discussion that I had hoped would originally attempted to spark. Better late than never....

As far as your concerned @IreBurn in the interest of prevent a flame up I apologize to you as well. I'm no 12 y/o so my intent was not to trigger anyone but I still respectfully disagree with the passe' statement that we don't own the games we play. There is some truth to that with some newer titles but there is purchasing power there that we do not have to relinquish as I own as many GOG games as I can as well as many of the newer games aren't THAT groundbreaking. Games like DOTA, OW, LOL that are strictly online are different from games that promote and are strictly a SP experience(God of War; Witcher 3 etc). @InfiniteQuestion is def hitting this out of the park IMHO since the Launcher IS def bloatware and again as I posted originally I have NEVER played GTA Online on my PC nor do I care to. And again this a game from 2013 for christ sakes so what are they protecting? There are THOUSANDS of mods on this damn website that R$ has to know about that has been very active still. I mean I haven't even bought GTA until this year so this has been eye opening if you will. I own a heavily modded Skyrim, a fairly modded WarHammer 2 and planning on getting Sekiro and have not seen anything close to having to do an online check to play SP.... But I digress.....

@meimeiriver the bypass of Social Club is what I would be clamoring for and as you have said cannot be bypassed. Most games still just allow you to boot up and go. IF this was required for GTA Online then I could understand but if I want to play Story Mode only then I should be able to play it and disconnect my internet entirely and again to even get into story mode that is impossible and thus the crux of my issue....

I hope that the Moderators forgive the people trying to help me and accept my apologies as I was hardly trying to get anyone in trouble here.

Considering my post was very tongue-in-cheek I was trying to be as humorous as possible during my frustration. @InfiniteQuestion & @TheMurderousCricket were only trying to help so again I apologize to them and for them for any trouble

As for my issue @IreBurn IDK what ur on but there isn't a game that I own that requires a effin Launcher to sign in to an online server to play a single player campaign Other GTA forums & Reddit are crowded with people that despise the Launcher and I'm proud to be one of them.

So.

As these things go and for @#$^ sake because it's R$ for the first time EVER (and I mean it)
I was able to get into the game through Steam. I'm sorry what did you say? You didn't even log into your Social Club acct? How is that humanly possible you ask?

I don't effin know. I have had this game for 6 mos. and not ONCE have I been able to go through Steam. The usual procedure for me has been:
-Login through R$ Launcher
-Go through the stupid effin captcha screens.
-Press play through Steam
-Wait for 30-45 secs for Steam and R$ to circle jerk around each other.
-Finally get to the R$ Splash screens

I mean it's a miracle from Christ that I'm able to get into the game a bit faster than the P$4 loading process so there's that. But the "update" apparently now allows me to just go through Steam but no where is this stated or mentioned or able to be deducted from R$ support. So quite by trial and error I was able to find out that I now can just go through Steam. Press play GTA V, watch it launch R$ Launcher then have the R$ Launcher processing screen (black screen with the glowing R pulse) go through it's matters for ~25 secs then go right into the in-game R$ splash screen.

Maybe this is a regular Tues for most of you but again I have never been able to do this for my game and Setup. So I guess this is my intro to gaming in 2020
In any case I suppose the one thing I learned is NEVER update the R$ Launcher and another thing is be very very cautious about buying a R$ game.

Thx @TheMurderousCricket for at least trying to help. (Still could've at least sneak put a old Launcher on Mega anonymously or Google drive that bih)

So

I guess the issue is I don't have an older Launcher (I would have never thought to keep one....until now) and IDK if there is a place to get one.

Secondly, I can disable my Internet connection but the Launcher/Game detects that there is no connection and won't start anyway. I have never been able to "play offline" in GTA V, unlike ALL the other games on Steam I have in my library. Naturally R$ and their shit Launcher won't allow it

So @TheMurderousCricket if you can upload your old Launcher then great and I can try your hack otherwise I'm open for other recs.

IDK if folks use any of the Launchers on the site (my guess is not many?) and looking at this one (https://www.gta5-mods.com/tools/gta-v-launcher#comments_tab) it seems that there is an issue with using mods (the whole reason why I would play....why anyone would play SP)

So again if there is anyone out there....I am open to recs.....

(Sigh) For the life of me can someone….anyone please tell me if there is a better way to fix the age old problem with R$ shitty Launcher. As of two days ago (of which there may have been a R$ Launcher update?) I can’t even start the game……

Just for clarity I have tried
-making R$ Launcher Administrative priveledges
-Re-installed the Launcher
-Renamed the Social Club folder
-delete the SC folder
-Start GTA V from Steam (has never worked since I’ve installed the game)
-re-install the game

What USED to happen was I start the R$L “Play from Steam” it would pop up that Steam is doing some shit (essentially thinking) take some ~15 secs then start it’s boot process (R$ splash screens etc.)

Then after the last re-install (#4 ~ 2 mos ago) the R$L would launch then Steam then go to the ReDirector Launcher (to which I would then End Task on the active GTA V in Task Manager) and then re-press “Play from Steam” again and it would start

NOW I get no Steam pop up despite there being the usual collection of steam parts running in TM, it says GTA is one of the active tasks in TM but nothing else happens. I could spend all night ending the GTA V task then pressing “Play from Steam” again and still nothing.
I am sick of this BS. I have NEVER played GTA online. NEVER. This #*)#% Launcher is the curse that we must all bear but it’s soooo stupid how a game from 2013 has all this just to start the goddamn process. I have reached out before to R$ bs “tech support” about the start process 2 mos ago to which they spent a WEEK asking me about computer specs and various unrelated questions to which my specific directed question at the time to them was WHAT DOES THE GTA V re-director launcher REALLY DO (at that time it was a continual loop of R$L then RDL then error and no start). The never answered that……

In any case can someone, anyone please let me know if there is some current hack or trick in 2020 just to play the #*#)@Q% game…..
Thanks in advance

I seem to be having the same issues with the .Net framework. I really really wish there was something I could say or find that would help with this.
I've had GTA V for several months now and had a heavily modded but STABLE GTA. Then my Comp boot sector got corrupted and had to re-install Windows.

I can predictably and consistently create a crash by going to the Lacey Jones Mission area and starting to either drive by are sometimes I'll actually get to talk to her before the crash occurs.

I have a fresh Win 10 install now and decided to re-install GTA V as well but the last week it seems I have been getting more crashes/freezes than I ever have. EVER.

Check Event Viewer and:
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clr.dll

Win 10 automatically has .NET Framework 4.8 (latest)
The .NET repair tool apparently re-registers but has not helped with this issue.
i don't have a huge amount of mods but I had them all installed as they were before the boot sector corruption and never had a problem.
IF I take out the SHV.Net files then things work but many of the mods are inactivated since they rely on the SHV.Net files.

I don't understand as much about the memory issue (if I have one?) since I had all the same mods installed before and didn't have to affect the VRAM one iota.
I have the Packlimit adjuster and Heapfile adjuster already installed
I have tried dif gameconfig.xml (5) and all seem to not matter in regards to the crashing.

I have 32GB of RAM so then if I do adjust the Pagefile VR then what amount is best? @iammistahwolf is there ANY thing else that you can point to that may be a fix.

I am desperate.

K.

Appreciate the advice. I will continue to troubleshoot.

I did actually (started there first). @Slash_Alex asked me to send my Script Hook log and did so but told me it may be a problem with Scrip Hook itself. Rec'd to go over to the GTA Forums but it has very little activity over there tbh so I am trying hoping to at least get some help here. Unfortunately for me it doesn't seem like a common problem x(

Any ideas then what the issue may be?

I don't think it's the gameconfig.xml file but I do have the original if need be. Also patch 22 (eng) is what I have edited if it makes a difference
Kind of shooting in the dark.....