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The "Why can't I play GTA V like everyone else" thread
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Cizeta-Moroder
Banned
It is amusingly typical that it's the DRM component that fails.
I'm doing the disable gpu driver method, but I have to download all again.
cleveridea
Member
Add me to the list
Titan X
i7 4790K
32 GB RAM
Worked up until end of prolog, crashes. due to unsaved progress have to restart game.
am disappoint
Titan X
i7 4790K
32 GB RAM
Worked up until end of prolog, crashes. due to unsaved progress have to restart game.
am disappoint
Fixed it! Unplugged my N64 and GameCube USB adapters, now boots flawlessly. Such a weird fix.
SlinkyFriend
Neo Member
I am having the BEx64 issue as well, I game on a laptop. I tried this fix this morning, from the looks of it, the launcher has an issue trying to launch on the gpu.
cleveridea
Member
Hmm saw that shadow play was enabled when the game first crashed (at end of prologue mission - so had to redo entire thing)
Turned shadow play off and it worked without crashing
So not sure if coincidence but perhaps shadow play has an issue...
Turned shadow play off and it worked without crashing
So not sure if coincidence but perhaps shadow play has an issue...
SlinkyFriend
Neo Member
Will try this later
Starfish_Oxide
Member
Same shit here my Steam account is bounded tighter then matter in a black hole to a ancient unused Social Club account but now my GTA 5 is activated on a new Social Club account and I can do shit.
20 hours and I'm still waiting for a response from R* support.
Windom Earle
Member
predictable
BibiMaghoo
Member
Damn people, I hope you get these issues fixed soon. I would rage so much.
Distresssss
Member
Oh you should see my Twitter/Facebook crusade.
I'm going to try a few different things when I get home again but if they don't work I'm 100% giving up.
Distresssss
Member
Posting again (don't know if double posting is allowed, whatever) and I think I have a fix for GTAVLauncher issues.
It involves Devices and Printers. If there are conflicting items, the launcher will crash trying to load multiple devices. Depending on the device, simply unplugging it won't alleviate the issue, you have to right click and remove it manually.
It involves Devices and Printers. If there are conflicting items, the launcher will crash trying to load multiple devices. Depending on the device, simply unplugging it won't alleviate the issue, you have to right click and remove it manually.
demosthenes
Member
What do you mean?
I have nothing hooked up to my PC besides: keyboard, mouse, speakers, headset.
Add me to the list of those that can't get it to start.
demosthenes
Member
Mine says "Disk Write Error".
I don't see that as an issue?
I don't see that as an issue?
Even better, they made UTF-8 to supplant Unicode specifically so they wouldn't have to bother about accentuated characters at all (because it behaves just like ASCII as far as americans are concerned).
Stealthcobra
Member
Yet pc enthusiasts swear pc gaming is no fuss... Shiiit I'd be throwing shit if i couldn't just pop my game in and play it...error that.. Driver this.. Fuck that.
IAmRandom31
Banned
I don't see much dancing in the OT thread to be honest. I see a bunch of performance issue posts all over the place.
Really, if anyone thinks PC gaming is the end all be all, just go to ANY new game OT thread and witness the torrent of performance issue posts to see its as much a hassle now ( ok maybe not AS MUCH ) as it always has been.
And god help you if you are a framerate anal PC gamer. Where everything has to be silky smooth at all times.
Really, if anyone thinks PC gaming is the end all be all, just go to ANY new game OT thread and witness the torrent of performance issue posts to see its as much a hassle now ( ok maybe not AS MUCH ) as it always has been.
And god help you if you are a framerate anal PC gamer. Where everything has to be silky smooth at all times.
derExperte
Member
It's funny how easy it is to derail a thread with well aimed shitpost
SonyGAF getting fed up with GTA PC stealing Bb's frontpage space I guess. :O
Mechanical Snowman
Member
read the tone of the thread, cmon. this is the last thing people want to read when they've just spent money on a product that doesn't work
you magnificent bastard, for fuck sake. this worked, i'd ruled out Comodo almost immediately because I'd disabled it, funnily enough Windows firewall had a fit when I got GTAV to run, i guess firewalls don't like this game.
thanks a lot mate
I only have the windows firewall installed. I've tried disabling it, but nothing, it still won't download a byte. Do you have any suggestion?
BeatnikGunsoo
Member
I had to download the game 3 times and restart my desktop twice for the game to work.
This is the very same thing that happened to me, as i told in an earlier post i found a workaround that works wonders, have you tried the list of steps in my OP?
Basically, I'm stupid. I didn't even noticed that my windows username contains one of the forbidden characters :/. Anyway, I found a way to fix it without the need to create a new user:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEscArLVKf0
Have we even had any acknowledgement from Rockstar about running the launcher with the dedicated GPU issue? Nvidia at least acknowledged it, but I'm not sure whose fault it is exactly, I saw somewhere someone posted a script to disable and re-enable the GPU when loading the launcher, which sounds pretty handy in this situation.
MrJustinius
Member
I had some peculiar issues with my game crashing continuously at the same point during the prologue. Turns out after a bit of research that over half of my RSC downloaded preload files were corrupt.
Follow this guide after downloading this program which runs a hash check on your GTAV files and compares them to a working games files, similar to how Steam does game cache integrity checks. The program is in German, but it's easy enough to understand for everyone.
After deleting my corrupt files most of the redownloaded files were OK, though even now I'm still redownloading some files that failed to verify even after 3 rechecks. Not ideal when I have a restrictive data cap for my internet.
Never downloading from RSC ever again. If you have a large amount of data to redownload after the check, go the safe option and just download the files from a working torrent. It's downright bizarre to resort to this as a safe measure but it's better than slowly redownloading the same few GBs that just won't ever download properly.
This may also solve the launcher issues, which I personally never encountered.
Follow this guide after downloading this program which runs a hash check on your GTAV files and compares them to a working games files, similar to how Steam does game cache integrity checks. The program is in German, but it's easy enough to understand for everyone.
After deleting my corrupt files most of the redownloaded files were OK, though even now I'm still redownloading some files that failed to verify even after 3 rechecks. Not ideal when I have a restrictive data cap for my internet.
Never downloading from RSC ever again. If you have a large amount of data to redownload after the check, go the safe option and just download the files from a working torrent. It's downright bizarre to resort to this as a safe measure but it's better than slowly redownloading the same few GBs that just won't ever download properly.
This may also solve the launcher issues, which I personally never encountered.
Gonna try this one out. Game keeps crashing during the same mission. -_-
This worked for me too! Thanks! I kept trying to play around with my antivirus but didn't think of completely uninstalling my firewall.
Side note, might help some people, not sure if it helped me or not. I think it might become a problem as soon as patching is done. GTA still keeps creating a Local<chinese-characters> file in AppData for me even though I have only allowed characters in my username. Creating a new user didn't help. What did, however, was setting my keyboard language from Finnish to English before creating the new user. No more strange files after that on the new user.
No problem, took me forever to figure it out. Enjoy the game, its awesome
.civilstrife
Member
Totally thought this thread was going to be about how you're compelled to stop at all red lights and obey all laws.
Candescence
Member
This might explain my problems with some areas not loading properly and outright crashing when trying to cross them - many of my files were corrupt, too. Looks like Rockstar's downloader really needs a proper file verification system. Thanks!
CambriaRising
Member
I was about to post this. It was something I was taught early on.
Jawmuncher
Member
Guess i'll have to just keep switching between things. Since reinstalling manually didn't do anything to fix it.
EDIT:Looks like that might not work for me either ugh
EDIT:Looks like that might not work for me either ugh
Shake Appeal
Member
I finally got the game to run last night after redownloading 60GB by using the disable/enable dedicated graphics trick. How in the world did they not test their launcher with an nVidia mobile card? That's even more mindboggling than the launcher not having a way to verify downloaded files.
The game then crashed out of nowhere after about 20 minutes because of, oh wow, a memory leak. I believe I've solved the latter, though: according to my Google search, the drive the game's installed to has to have virtual memory space allocated. Haven't actually tested this yet, but fingers crossed I will get to play this game soon.
If I'd known I wasn't getting a Steam key from GMG, I would have cancelled my purchase.
The game then crashed out of nowhere after about 20 minutes because of, oh wow, a memory leak. I believe I've solved the latter, though: according to my Google search, the drive the game's installed to has to have virtual memory space allocated. Haven't actually tested this yet, but fingers crossed I will get to play this game soon.
If I'd known I wasn't getting a Steam key from GMG, I would have cancelled my purchase.
FunkyLounge
Member
MY GOD the download speeds. I have a great connection, but it downloads only 80kbps.
I have started the download early in the morning for the whole day. Now it is 10 pm and it downloaded like 40%. How can anybody have this downloaded?
What gives?
I have started the download early in the morning for the whole day. Now it is 10 pm and it downloaded like 40%. How can anybody have this downloaded?
What gives?
Shake Appeal
Member
It'll be obvious: your computer will tell you. For other crashes, I'd follow the advice in MrJustinius's post above to see if any downloaded files are corrupt.
A lot of people don't have any special characters in their admin name and still have the problem.
Jeronimo Jones
Member
Yeah, that's why I'm here and would have been an interesting read. Not what I expected since I generally avoid performance threads.
Good luck to all, looks like you'll need it.
Black Pewter
Member
If anyone's having trouble with AMD cards, uninstalling the beta and going back to the last stable release worked for me.
Yup, I had to do this too because I'm playing on a laptop. Absolutely fucking ridiculous that we're forced to do this though. Really hoping this gets patched soon.
Cizeta-Moroder
Banned
Ok, can confirm another case of this doing the trick.
bobbychalkers
Member
Are you on Steam? If so, assuming you live in North America or Europe, your download server is is probably not having a good time. I was downloading for days at <100kpbs and I switched to the Japanese servers and my speed shot up.