GTA V installation onto (D:) drive, but social club on (C:) problem

[LaGunaDeGatorade]

Hello, I have recently purchased GTA V through steam and directed it to be downloaded to my (D:) drive. Upon completion, I try to play the game. As soon as I do so, I get a message saying, "The Social Club failed to load due to an incomplete installation (code 9). Please exit the game and re-install the latest version of the Social Club: https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/204075496" as my Social Club is for some reason downloaded to my (C:) drive.

I have attempted to uninstall and re-install social club, but Social Club does not appear on my list of programs to uninstall. I have tried to simply delete the folder Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club on my (C:) drive. When I do this and boot up the game, it simply re-downloads and installs onto my (C:) drive. I am unable to fit this large game onto my (C:) drive, so this is not an option. Is there a way to specifically download and install Social Club onto my (D:) drive? Or how else can I make this game playable?

Thank you for your time.

[[-iD-]]

social club is installed on c drive no matter what.

[LaGunaDeGatorade]

Originally posted by -iD-:

social club is installed on c drive no matter what.

Okay. So how can I make this game playable?

[Samsusboy]

Greetings All Players - I appear to be somehwat in the same baot as "Riversquat". It appears that I dont have enough space to download , but yetr Iam under the imression iam, I was advised to clear my cache to see if that works,, i did and still not.. I have not used the option to just download to D:/ out of fear that Imight end up in the same mess that Riversquat might be in right now. Someone, any pone please advise. - Oldguy..

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by riversquat:

Originally posted by -iD-:

social club is installed on c drive no matter what.

Okay. So how can I make this game playable?

couldn't say for sure but the guide says to use this version of social club launcher installer.
http://patches.rockstargames.com/prod/socialclub/Social%20Club%20Latest%20Setup.exe
you could try that even if you can't uninstall it.

[LaGunaDeGatorade]

Originally posted by -iD-:

Originally posted by riversquat:

Okay. So how can I make this game playable?

couldn't say for sure but the guide says to use this version of social club launcher installer.
http://patches.rockstargames.com/prod/socialclub/Social%20Club%20Latest%20Setup.exe
you could try that even if you can't uninstall it.

This seems to update my Social Club, but when I attempt to play the game I get the same error message.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by riversquat:

Originally posted by -iD-:

social club is installed on c drive no matter what.

Okay. So how can I make this game playable?

The game isn't unplayable just because Social Club and GTA V are on different drives.


Uninstall Social Club and Grand Theft Auto V. Make space for Grand Theft Auto V. You will need about 70GiB-80GiB. Install Grand Theft Auto V on the drive which you have enough space.

[Samsusboy]

Thanks downloading it right now,, lest see what happens, after all I have chaos to create and banks to rob.

[[-iD-]]

Originally posted by riversquat:

Originally posted by -iD-:

couldn't say for sure but the guide says to use this version of social club launcher installer.
http://patches.rockstargames.com/prod/socialclub/Social%20Club%20Latest%20Setup.exe
you could try that even if you can't uninstall it.

This seems to update my Social Club, but when I attempt to play the game I get the same error message.

there is some fixes in this thread.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/611703709831761120/

also other users are reporting making sure your Documents folder is in its default location,

[LaGunaDeGatorade]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/611703709831761120/

Originally posted by Big Tasty Duke!:

Hi guys, Not sure if this has been mentioned already.... I have a copy of GTA5 via steam and i had problems with a Code 9 Error with the social club. I tried to go to the .exe folder in gta 5 folder and run the game as administrator but a message came up saying to launch the game through steam....

To run any game installed on steam as an administrator follow these steps...
1) exit steam
2) right click on the steam shortcut and 'run as administrator'
3) then open GTA 5 through steam game library as normal, this will automatically run the game as administrator

This fixed the code 9 error I was getting.

Basic knowledge I know, but I didn't actually know how to do this at the time. I hope this helps anyone with the same problem i had. ( Note: my OS is Windows 10)

THIS FIXED IT FOR ME :D

[Samsusboy]

Thanks, great stuff good to know. my issue I guess was not enough space so I deletd all my games and now it seems to be loading, well we will see.. thaks again.. - now to to nodd out.

[Bobalazs]

https://www.gta5-mods.com/tools/gta-v-installpath-tool this helped me a lot!