GTA stuck on Black screen after launch

[Bacon]

So here is my situation,

I load up gta story mode, the game starts opens rockstar launcher and connects to social club and launches gta. does the normal start up stuff like the 5 star police lights, then loads the logo and the infomation on when not to leave the game when saving,

after this my game just goes black with a gta 5 logo on the bottom left and the infomation above it is showing like press home to open social club. like that. i am not able to open my social club or the black screen stops it from showing.

ive tried basiclly everything i can from other posts

Changing dx from 2 to 1
disabling my gpu driver
updating my gpu driver
reinstalling
verifiying cache
stopping the proccess

i really want to play the new update and im just looking for some help on what to do

[psykoteky]

You've renamed my documents / rockstar games to -old?
(don't use cloudsync when it asks on restart - use local)
Tested R* launcher set as admin? Possibly steam, social club, and gta5 as well?

No onedrive interfering? Is it on/off or do you even use it? Most users find if they 'do use it' they tend to need it on. If they aren't using it - off. You'll likely have to test.

Windows defender not blocking anything?
Possibly adding R* launcher, social club, and gta5 folders to exclusions?

Used msconfig to clean boot windows and rule out any non-MS background apps/services?

Tried going to c / program files / rockstar games / social club and running the uninstaller? Then to c / program files / rockstar games / launcher - and running the uninstaller? Then reinstalling the launcher from steam/steamapps/common/gtav/installers by using rightlcick - run as admin?

Just listing a few of the more common/previous reasons to have issues at that point. There's a whole slew of other things that have caused all kinds of launcher/game issues including problems with vcedists. connecitivty to R*, potential/supposed issues with poorly configured pagefile/virtual memory, etc, But, because a new update hit and some people are having some issues, some were having some before, some haven't played in weeks/months- who knows. Have fixed multiples since the update having the 'same' issue and ended up needing different solutions ranging from uninstalling/reinstalling gpu drivers (not just updating), removing mods, renaming the my docs / rockstar games, and even updating audio drivers.

Some other related threads to the hanging/crashing/issues others are complaining about since (and some before) the newest update. Entirely possible to have multiple issues making this even more annoying to sort out -
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/3419936604894725535/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/3463849349646368622/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/3463849349654817671/

[FatBaldBoomer]

clean install everything

have a nice week