Installing GTA 5 on Rockstar Launcher while already having it installed in Steam

[lendrur]

Hello, Ive played GTA 5 for about 2 years now on this account and Ive almost played the whole online through so I decided to make another social club account and purchase GTA 5 onto that account from G2A. I redeemed the code and when I wanted to play, it said that I need to install GTA 5. I have installed GTA 5 on my pc already but now it wants me to install gta 5 again.
How can I tell it to use that already installed GTA 5 on my pc or what should I do?

[SqueakyTweaky]

Social club and steam are different versions means 2 separate copies needed to play.

[BlazeD]

Its harder than you thought to bypass your ban.

As BoatSwain has mentioned, you will need a new, SC version, of GTA to go along with your brand new SC account.

[S.A.Y.D.L]

Originally posted by lendur:

Installing GTA 5 on Rockstar Launcher while already having it installed in Steam

The Steam version of GTA5 is a little different to the Rockstar Games Launcher version, you will need to download that version too.There is a way around it but I'm not here to explain how its done.

[lendrur]

Originally posted by BlazeD:

Its harder than you thought to bypass your ban.

As BoatSwain has mentioned, you will need a new, SC version, of GTA to go along with your brand new SC account.

I dont have a ban. But can I uninstall the steam version of the game and download the SC version of the game and use it on the 2 accounts?

[SqueakyTweaky]

Originally posted by lendur:

Originally posted by BlazeD:

Its harder than you thought to bypass your ban.

As BoatSwain has mentioned, you will need a new, SC version, of GTA to go along with your brand new SC account.

I dont have a ban. But can I uninstall the steam version of the game and download the SC version of the game and use it on the 2 accounts?

No, you can only use the social club version then and not steam.

[lendrur]

Thats not what i meant. I wanted to ask that I can use that GTA 5 thats downloaded from the Rockstar Launcher to start up GTA 5 in both SC accounts without losing any progress or anything?

[in]

if you want to use both steam version and another social club version, you need both installations. it is possible to save bunch of space by using mklink, but you'll have to play around with it.

[Ancient]

Originally posted by lendur:

Thats not what i meant. I wanted to ask that I can use that GTA 5 thats downloaded from the Rockstar Launcher to start up GTA 5 in both SC accounts without losing any progress or anything?

No you can't. The Steam account and the SC account you have linked to it will require the Steam version installed. The new SC account you have through RGL will require the retail/RGL version installed.

Either way you won't lose GTAO progress. Your online characters are bound to the SC account they were created with and stored on R*'s servers, not on your PC, so they'll be there regardless.

But you will have to have both the Steam version and the RGL version installed in order to access each account.

[lendrur]

Originally posted by Ancient:

Originally posted by lendur:

Thats not what i meant. I wanted to ask that I can use that GTA 5 thats downloaded from the Rockstar Launcher to start up GTA 5 in both SC accounts without losing any progress or anything?

No you can't. The Steam account and the SC account you have linked to it will require the Steam version installed. The new SC account you have through RGL will require the retail/RGL version installed.

Either way you won't lose GTAO progress. Your online characters are bound to the SC account they were created with and stored on R*'s servers, not on your PC, so they'll be there regardless.

But you will have to have both the Steam version and the RGL version installed in order to access each account.

Thats ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bs, why did they make it like that if they made themselves their OWN fking launcher. Like what was the point of making their own launcher then?

[Ancient]

Originally posted by lendur:

Originally posted by Ancient:

No you can't. The Steam account and the SC account you have linked to it will require the Steam version installed. The new SC account you have through RGL will require the retail/RGL version installed.

Either way you won't lose GTAO progress. Your online characters are bound to the SC account they were created with and stored on R*'s servers, not on your PC, so they'll be there regardless.

But you will have to have both the Steam version and the RGL version installed in order to access each account.

Thats ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bs, why did they make it like that if they made themselves their OWN fking launcher. Like what was the point of making their own launcher then?

It's just how they've done it. It's always been two different versions of the game.

If you look at RDR2, there are now three different versions: RGL, EGS and Steam and none of the three installs are cross-platform compatible there either. If you buy the game at all three storefronts, you need to install the 115GB game three times and juggle three SC logins in the launcher to play them all. You can of course play with other people on any PC platform, I just mean that the licenses to play the game are tied to those specific versions of the game, same as in GTAV's two versions.

TBH, the launcher was never about making things more convenient for users, not at all. The launcher only serves two purposes: it's an additional storefront where they get 100% profit from the sales rather than 88% on EGS or 70% on Steam and it's a strong anti-piracy/DRM system that works no matter what storefront the game is purchased from (RDR2 is still uncracked 63 days and counting).