No "Online" Option

[XxTTHREExX]

I know that people have posted this issue a few times so I'm going to tell you what worked for me.

First and Foremost: Make sure you've completed a portion, the prologue at least, of Story Mode.

Assuming that you've done that, and I know that many people have and had played online before, this is how I corrected the splash screen options...

1) Navigate to Documents/Rockstar Games/GTA V/Profiles and make a copy of the folder in that directory (for backup) and paste it somewhere else (ie: desktop folder).

2) Open the original folder and delete the "pc_settings.bin" file.

3) Launch the game again and go into Story Mode.

4) From Story Mode press escape, scroll to the Online tab, choose to play GTA Online and choose an "Invite Session".

Once you are in the invite session log off of the game through the escape menu. After it closes start the game again and verify that the splash screen now has the correct options.

Hopefully this will work for you as it did for me.

[XxTTHREExX]

This issue happened to me due to a power outage so I assumed that it caused a corruption in the pc_settings.bin file which is why forcing the game to recreate it fixed it. If this solution does not work for you it may be possible of further corruption in either the whole folder, or in the user profile itself. There are ways to fix those corruptions too.

[stuntrock]

This worked for me. Thank you very much!

[Mighty Chonker]

Why do people want that garbage option anyway?