GTA V suddenly stopped working (won't start anymore)

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tongue_of_colicab

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For whatever reason that cancerous piece of shit called social club is suddenly trowing unable to initialize dx9 errors and won't start GTA5 anymore.

I've reinstalled the game, enable/disabled the videocard, removed/reinstalled drivers, installed the dx9 redistributables that come with the game etc but no luck. Haven't done anything to my system apart from the usual windows 7 updates but I don't see how that could have broken dx9.

All other games work fine but they are not made by Rockstar. No surprise there, rockstar has never ever released a pc game that wasn't an utter piece of shit and this again proves as much. That social club crap is the biggest piece of bullshit software even, even worse than ubishofts uNotPlay. How the asshats that created that pos aren't out of a job is beyond me.

Rockstars support pages are ever useless but again given the quality of pc code they produce there is no surprise there either.

Anybody have any ideas how I can fix rockstars shit? Was pretty close to the end of the game and even though I'm fed up with their crap and will never spend another penny on their shit again (shouldve done that after GTA4 already!) I would like to finish the game.
 
That isn't an option. I bought they game and I don't want to resort to cracks. By the way I don't think it's some kind of copy protection that is causing the issue. The internet is full of people having the same issue but Rockstar never fixed or got back to the people that opened support tickets.
 
You didn't mention uninstalling Social Club. IIRC I once had to uninstall it and by downloading the latest version I eventually got up and running again.

Huh. "Grand Theft Auto IV does not use this application, and no longer requires a separate Social Club app as of Patch 7."

"For GTAV, download the launcher below:

http://patches.rockstargames.com/prod/gtav/Launcher_EFIGS/GTA_V_Launcher_1_0_877_1.exe"

https://support.rockstargames.com/h...nual-Link-to-Social-Club-Application-Download


Question: Where can I find the manual link to the latest version of Social Club for GTAV, Max Payne 3, and L.A. Noire on PC?

Answer: Below is the manual link to the Social Club application for L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3:

http://patches.rockstargames.com/prod/socialclub/Social Club Latest Setup.exe

For GTAV, download the launcher below:

http://patches.rockstargames.com/prod/gtav/Launcher_EFIGS/GTA_V_Launcher_1_0_877_1.exe

Grand Theft Auto IV does not use this application, and no longer requires a separate Social Club app as of Patch 7.
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I haven't played GTAV in a while, it's now downloading a 1.79 GB update. Hopefully your firewall isn't blocking that.

Edit: In case this might help: https://support.rockstargames.com/h...267-GTA-V-PC-Title-Update-1-34-Download-Error

GTAV PC Title Update 1.34 Download Error
CreatedJune 8, 2016
UpdatedJune 8, 2016
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Question: The disk/standalone, Rockstar Warehouse version of Grand Theft Auto V downloads an update, but when I go into game, I appear to be on an older version of the game. How do I fix this?



Answer: If you appear to be on an older version of the game (678 or lower) follow these steps to update to the very latest version:

  1. Close Grand Theft Auto V
  2. Locate the installation directory of Grand Theft Auto V (Default location: "C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto V")
  3. Run the PlayGTAV.exe
The launcher should download all the data needed for the latest update.

If you're still having problems downloading the latest update after following the above steps, you can download and install the following file, then follow the above steps again.

http://patches.rockstargames.com/prod/gtav/Installer/Launcher/GTA_V_Launcher_Upgrade_1_0_757_4.exe

Please note: When running the PC version (Non-Steam version), you should always run the game from the PlayGTAV.exe, as critical updates may be missed and cause malformed data.
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Babel-17 said:
I haven't played GTAV in a while, it's now downloading a 1.79 GB update. Hopefully your firewall isn't blocking that.

Edit: In case this might help: https://support.rockstargames.com/h...267-GTA-V-PC-Title-Update-1-34-Download-Error
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I use the steam version though. Did a complete redownload last night but no change. I also uninstalled social garbage but it appears the steam version requires it as it got installed along with the download.

I'll try the suggestions from that link when I het home from work.

Thanks.
 
There is no download link to social crap on their website and the patches linked by Babel-17 are for the non-steam version.

Apparently rockshit released a patch on the 13th, might be what is causing this bullshit. Well what did I expect? Rockshits pc "programmers" time and time again prove themselves to be a bunch of useless dumbasses.

Another company I can put on my shit list.
 
By the way what a bunch of Nazis. Tried logging a support ticket with them and the amount of info they want from your system is ridiculous. Submitted the crap they wanted and then get redirected to a nice page telling me that if I want to see my support tickets I should first make one :')

What a shit company.

I hope that take2 mod banning thing fucks them up real bad. Probably won't happen but I'm done with this company.
 
tongue_of_colicab said:
There is no download link to social crap on their website and the patches linked by Babel-17 are for the non-steam version.

Apparently rockshit released a patch on the 13th, might be what is causing this bullshit. Well what did I expect? Rockshits pc "programmers" time and time again prove themselves to be a bunch of useless dumbasses.

Another company I can put on my shit list.
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https://support.rockstargames.com/h...nual-Link-to-Social-Club-Application-Download
http://patches.rockstargames.com/prod/socialclub/Social Club Latest Setup.exe
That doesn't work? I'm assuming that even with the steam version you can use that, I may be wrong. Even with my non-steam version the Social Club looks integrated. I have the option to uninstall Social Club, but that might just be because I have Max Payne 3, and L.A. Noire.
Edit: I put in the wrong link.
 
un fucking believable. Arkham knight, never played it before, downloaded and installed and can't even boot that crap either. Rocksteady, another fucking shitty dev.

Fuck em all. I'm done with all this fucking shit.
 
I remember having a lot of trouble trying to get LA Noire running a few years ago. I know it had something to do with the social club crap, but can't remember exactly what I did back then to get it to run. I know it wasn't installing a newer version of it, because it had the newest version at the time.

Not helpful, but I commiserate with your pain as I went through the same thing. Sad to see that social club thing still exists. If anything can possibly be worse than the UBIsoft launcher, this is it.

Regards,
SB
 
This almost sounds like your system has a virus or other malware that is modifying files.
 
Try the crack. If it works, then it's probably indeed the social crap that's borked

Btw some cracked steam games will still have achievements works correctly in steam, complete with all steam features (as long as it have valid license). Dunno what will happen with gta tho.
 
I don't want to do that.

I'll try installing Windows 10 maybe tonight or later this week. I wanted to hold off on that a little longer but as I got to make the switch sometime anyway I might as well do it now and see if it fixes the problem.

Still pretty pissed off about the whole thing though. I've got a lot of other crap to deal with and it would be nice if I didn't have to deal with this kind of extra bullcrap frustrations.
 
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