[FIX] Social Club Login Failed, Please Try Again

[Shia]

Hey everyone, I recently had an issue with the Gta IV launcher not logging in and giving the message "Social Club Login Failed, Please Try Again" After about 3 hours of looking online i found no fix and instead started snooping around in the game files.

[FIX]
How I fixed the issue is by going into my steam folder > steamapps > common > Grand Theft Auto IV > GTAIV > Activation and copying "SteamActivation.exe" to the GTAIV folder. I ran it and started the game. The launcher opened twice and I just logged in both times, I suspect this is because SteamActivation.exe opened the launcher then steam did.

If this doesnt work for you I would recommend trying these:
1: Rename "Paul.dll" to "Paul.dll.disabled" in Steam > steamapps > common > Grand Theft Auto IV > GTAIV (THIS WILL NOT WORK WITH MULTIPLAYER)

2: Try downloading the latest patch from rockstar
https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200145226--Updated-10-6-15-Problems-logging-into-Social-Club-to-launch-GTAIV-for-PC

[NOTE]
When I launched Gta IV the first time it crashed I just ran it again and it worked fine.

I hope this helped.

[Edit] 5/9/16
I still have issues logging in sometimes but I just close the launcher and wait a couple of minutes and it allows me to log in.

[Kiwi]

The game itself works fine for most but can't get passed the login screen. Also, you can change Paul.dll to anything else and it will skip it. The "disabled" is just a made up term to have some common sense in the name.

Paul.dll is the SC launcher itself that's executed by the exe's that steam preferably uses. It skis the launcher and makes the game go in offline mode, like op mentioned; multiplayer won't work. This is also a pointless method since you can press "play offline" anyway

[em_t_hed]

Originally posted by ♥Foxy♥:

[FIX]
How I fixed the issue is by going into my steam folder > steamapps > common > Grand Theft Auto IV > GTAIV > Activation and copying "SteamActivation.exe" to the GTAIV folder. I ran it and started the game. The launcher opened twice and I just logged in both times, I suspect this is because SteamActivation.exe opened the launcher then steam did.

[NOTE]
When I launched Gta IV the first time it crashed I just ran it again and it worked fine.

I hope this helped.

if i could give your post a thumbs up... this would be it... bump... right on

EDIT: it worked for me...

[RADiKAL]

Originally posted by ♥Foxy♥:

Hey everyone, I recently had an issue with the Gta IV launcher not logging in and giving the message "Social Club Login Failed, Please Try Again" After about 3 hours of looking online i found no fix and instead started snooping around in the game files.

[FIX]
How I fixed the issue is by going into my steam folder > steamapps > common > Grand Theft Auto IV > GTAIV > Activation and copying "SteamActivation.exe" to the GTAIV folder. I ran it and started the game. The launcher opened twice and I just logged in both times, I suspect this is because SteamActivation.exe opened the launcher then steam did.

If this doesnt work for you I would recommend trying these:
1: Rename "Paul.dll" to "Paul.dll.disabled" in Steam > steamapps > common > Grand Theft Auto IV > GTAIV (THIS WILL NOT WORK WITH MULTIPLAYER)

2: Try downloading the latest patch from rockstar
https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200145226--Updated-10-6-15-Problems-logging-into-Social-Club-to-launch-GTAIV-for-PC

[NOTE]
When I launched Gta IV the first time it crashed I just ran it again and it worked fine.

I hope this helped.

thank you! the update helped me sign into Social Club again!
I downloaded the update & ran the UpdateTitle.exe and it opened the Social Club login afterwards, where I then was able to sign in normal again. I'll make an edit to say if it still works or stops after sometime. Thanks!

[[ZeroG]SheppardSG1]

hi when i trying to launch game from steam im getting this steam account is already linked to difrent rockstars games account please log in with that account instead i type my info in from steam site same error message however i cant log ing with same infos from rockstars launcher just fine where the game is also on this is BS and if i wanted to play on steam launcher saying log out to contininue and its stuck tin that loop kekw