Can't play the game? Rockstar thing won't login?

[RabbitBreeder]

Is there a fix for this or should I refund? I just want to play singleplayer, just wanna play the game. And it forces me to close the game when it doesn't "login" to rockstar launcher.

[zombiethoughts]

Same, seems that this has been an issue forever about the Rockstar Social Club and Steam linking. I've spent about an hour so far trying to figure this out. Let me know if you learn anything that definitely works, I'll do the same.

If you haven't yet, get ready for some crazy answers on google, sometimes the answers work for a handful of people, but I've yet to come across anything yet. Steam say's I've played 25 minutes so far, lol, that's been spent troubleshooting the launcher.

And for those that chime in with, "It always works for me," please look it up. Error code 134 social club linking with steam. It's a known headache.

Come on Rockstar, it's been years and you still have this problem? Funny how I've not had issues with other companies and linking with steam.

[RabbitBreeder]

Originally posted by zombiethoughts:

Same, seems that this has been an issue forever about the Rockstar Social Club and Steam linking. I've spent about an hour so far trying to figure this out. Let me know if you learn anything that definitely works, I'll do the same.

If you haven't yet, get ready for some crazy answers on google, sometimes the answers work for a handful of people, but I've yet to come across anything yet. Steam say's I've played 25 minutes so far, lol, that's been spent troubleshooting the launcher.

And for those that chime in with, "It always works for me," please look it up. Error code 134 social club linking with steam. It's a known headache.

Come on Rockstar, it's been years and you still have this problem? Funny how I've not had issues with other companies and linking with steam.

I'm getting Error Code 1005 for mine.... Bout to just refund it if I can't get some answers by tomorrow night. :(

[NimbleSeaUrchin]

Haven't launched a game on steam in months, decided I want to play some red dead. Rockstar decided not to log me in through my linked steam account, and claims that my steam account is linked to a different email address that I don't have any access to, and the supposed linked account looks like it's from a foreign country, AKA hackers. This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥, and completely turns me off of ever purchasing from Rockstar again if support doesn't fix it.

[zombiethoughts]

Not sure if you checked these yet

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/3145133271985228357/

https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/19138585780499/Social-Club-Error-Code-1005


And also allowing the social club / launcher programs to bypass your firewall (windows defender by default.)

And good luck, I'm also giving it 24 hours before I refund. Wait for a sale on epic or something.

[zombiethoughts]

Originally posted by NimbleSeaUrchin:

Haven't launched a game on steam in months, decided I want to play some red dead. Rockstar decided not to log me in through my linked steam account, and claims that my steam account is linked to a different email address that I don't have any access to, and the supposed linked account looks like it's from a foreign country, AKA hackers. This is ♥♥♥♥♥♥, and completely turns me off of ever purchasing from Rockstar again if support doesn't fix it.

Yeah, this is my first purchase of a Rockstar game. This just annoys me. I know game companies that have done this in the past, and it's always annoying. It's also likely an issue of not enough people having the problem/purchasing through steam to warrant the time/money to fix it.

[RabbitBreeder]

I just went ahead and refunded it. I'm not going to go thru the hassle of all this. I tried doing the allow thru firewall thing, run as admin thing as well as reinstalling the game and the launcher. None of it worked then a different error would pop up for about .05 seconds and you couldn't read it. Just not gonna play it I suppose. I waited this long, I can wait longer.

[zombiethoughts]

Totally understandable, I play games to relax, not stress out from figuring out why they won't work. Have a great weekend, I'll probably give it another shot tomorrow. One last wasted hour before I refund.

[zombiethoughts]

If anyone had the issue I had with error 134 and The social club not linking to steam, here's what worked for me.

Disabling my VPN fixed it. (note that there was no issue when launching social club without steam. I tested this by downloading and installing the Rockstar Launcher to test the social club without steam.

Even though I could connect to the social club without steam, and my firewall was set for split-tunneling allowing steam/rdr2 to bypass, I'm guessing the way my vpn encrypts/routes traffic was causing an issue. Still makes no sense that before disabling my vpn, the Rockstar Social Club can launch and connect without issue. It's only a problem when the Rockstar Social Club launches through Steam.

Why would the social club only fail when launched through steam with the VPN running?

I also noticed that while the Social Club Launcher would launch and connect without issue (when not launching through Steam) when I disabled my VPN and saw the Social Club Launcher start, the first thing it did was update. Is this because the Social Club launcher packaged with the game doesn't get updates?

Who knows, but I'm wondering if anyone else had a similar issue.

[mhiggins1]

Error code 1 updating launcher for me.

[rudymodel]

Hey guys, I'm writing to tell you that I had the same problem.
I couldn't log in because apparently I had another account linked to Steam
What I did to solve it was write to rockstar support and they asked me for some information and they solved the problem
They gave me the opportunity to link you with a new email
now I can play