Can't even GET in-game.

[CalTheSpy]

So my game has decided to literally break itself.

So recently, my game keeps crashing at random for seemingly no reason, and if I leave a mission when the game crashes like that, the game registers me as a "bad sport."

So to fix these problems, I change a lot of the texture quality settings to "Low" and the game asks me to restart. I do so, and now the game won't even start up or get past the opening Rockstar screen, the legal disclaimer and the "don't turn off your game when you see this circle" messages. It just freezes up before promptly crashing without another word.

And the worst part is: It won't let me alt-tab out when the game freezes either.

So I can't resort to Task Manager to help me when the game breaks, even with Ctrl-Alt-Delete. The game is just stuck on screen for good. So my only escape is to either wait until the game crashes itself, or alt-tab and spam the red X square above GTA until it dies.

I HAVE TRIED VERIFYING THE GAME CACHE. IT DID NOTHING. I have also tried reinstalling the game, which took all freaking day to do, and it still didn't work.

Can anyone possibly help me? Or is this a issue on Rockstar's end?

[Neverwhere]

Originally posted by CalTheSpy:

So my game has decided to literally break itself.

So recently, my game keeps crashing at random for seemingly no reason, and if I leave a mission when the game crashes like that, the game registers me as a "bad sport."

So to fix these problems, I change a lot of the texture quality settings to "Low" and the game asks me to restart. I do so, and now the game won't even start up or get past the opening Rockstar screen, the legal disclaimer and the "don't turn off your game when you see this circle" messages. It just freezes up before promptly crashing without another word.

And the worst part is: It won't let me alt-tab out when the game freezes either.

So I can't resort to Task Manager to help me when the game breaks, even with Ctrl-Alt-Delete. The game is just stuck on screen for good. So my only escape is to either wait until the game crashes itself, or alt-tab and spam the red X square above GTA until it dies.

I HAVE TRIED VERIFYING THE GAME CACHE. IT DID NOTHING. I have also tried reinstalling the game, which took all freaking day to do, and it still didn't work.

Can anyone possibly help me? Or is this a issue on Rockstar's end?

Have you tried using the Social Club "HOME" button or the Steam overlay "shift+alt" and then navigating to "Force Quit" at the upper right corner to exit the game? In any case, have you tried running the game as "Administrator" or verify integrity of game files on Steam?

[CalTheSpy]

The Social Club and Steam Overlay both don't work. I can't even use Ctrl-Alt-Delete and open the Task Manager, because the game stays locked to my desktop, meaning the Task Manager is hidden behind it. My only options are to either wait for it to crash, or Alt-Tab out and spam the red X button to close the GTA window.

I HAVE TRIED VERIFYING THE GAME CACHE. I HAVE DONE IT LIKE FIVE TIMES. DIDN'T WORK.

And I can't run the game as a Admin, it only allows me to launch it through the Rockstar launcher. I haven't done a full reinstall yet A: Because I don't want to wait ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ forever for it to reinstall only to find it doesn't work. And B: Because I don't want to risk losing all my progress I've made in Story Mode or Online.

[CalTheSpy]

Rockstar Launcher doesn't work either.

[Neverwhere]

Originally posted by CalTheSpy:

The Social Club and Steam Overlay both don't work. I can't even use Ctrl-Alt-Delete and open the Task Manager, because the game stays locked to my desktop, meaning the Task Manager is hidden behind it. My only options are to either wait for it to crash, or Alt-Tab out and spam the red X button to close the GTA window.

I HAVE TRIED VERIFYING THE GAME CACHE. I HAVE DONE IT LIKE FIVE TIMES. DIDN'T WORK.

And I can't run the game as a Admin, it only allows me to launch it through the Rockstar launcher. I haven't done a full reinstall yet A: Because I don't want to wait ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ forever for it to reinstall only to find it doesn't work. And B: Because I don't want to risk losing all my progress I've made in Story Mode or Online.

A problem such as a lack of hard disk space or driver issues can frequently cause the game to freeze.

[CalTheSpy]

I have 83.8 GB still on my main drive, and the hard drive my game is installed on has 1.36 TB left.

As for the drivers, I dunno if there's any problems with them? I haven't checked, but if the game has been able to function up to this point, then surely they're okay?

[psykoteky]

There was an issue a few months ago where people would immediately start crashing after adjusting settings. You can -try- deleting (or renaming) my documents / rockstar games / gtav / settings.xml . Some users just manually edit'd that to return their settings, others had luck with updating, downgrading, or removing/reinstalling their gpu drivers or the extra software with it - geforce exp/radeon - or using those to configure settings. This was just getting the game to 'work' again. Doesn't cover possible issues with vcredists, directx, potentially onedrive, or anything else you've done/not mentioned.

This doesn't address the random crashing - there are far too many reasons for it to just randomly crash, many being system dependent. (including N/KN windows missing media feature pack(or roughly 'fixed'), under/overclocks, OS updates, mods/leftover mods or other trash in game folder), corrupt files, background programs, av/security, and on and on).

/goodluck

edit - further examples/info/steps/checks/test -
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/3490879839968282087/#c3490879839968290951
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/3428949623345723372/#c3428949623345742221

[CalTheSpy]

A very interesting fix! But sadly it didn't work.

[CalTheSpy]

I appreciate all the help you guys have given me, but I think at this point my best option is to wait for a game update and see if that does anything. And if it doesn't, then guess my heisting days are over until I find a fix.

[Soosmokie]

Originally posted by CalTheSpy:

A very interesting fix! But sadly it didn't work.

what part didn't work? specify

[CalTheSpy]

Originally posted by Soosmokie:

Originally posted by CalTheSpy:

A very interesting fix! But sadly it didn't work.

what part didn't work? specify

It just didn't. I start up the game, it opens and starts playing the Rockstar Logo with the window smashing, the police sirens and such. Then at some point during that opening, the game freezes up and stops responding. Completely. It doesn't even load up into Story Mode or Online mode.

Then it either stays like that before crashing, or I end up closing it myself.

The fix that psykoteky suggested would reset my settings to their default, but it didn't fix the problem.

[Soosmokie]

Originally posted by CalTheSpy:

Originally posted by Soosmokie:

what part didn't work? specify

It just didn't. I start up the game, it opens and starts playing the Rockstar Logo with the window smashing, the police sirens and such. Then at some point during that opening, the game freezes up and stops responding. Completely. It doesn't even load up into Story Mode or Online mode.

Then it either stays like that before crashing, or I end up closing it myself.

The fix that psykoteky suggested would reset my settings to their default, but it didn't fix the problem.

He mentioned multiple things, which is why I asked.
And you just confirmed you maybe tried one thing he mentioned. Why i asked, because as usual most people ignore half the advice given. Good luck

[CalTheSpy]

Originally posted by Soosmokie:

Originally posted by CalTheSpy:

It just didn't. I start up the game, it opens and starts playing the Rockstar Logo with the window smashing, the police sirens and such. Then at some point during that opening, the game freezes up and stops responding. Completely. It doesn't even load up into Story Mode or Online mode.

Then it either stays like that before crashing, or I end up closing it myself.

The fix that psykoteky suggested would reset my settings to their default, but it didn't fix the problem.

He mentioned multiple things, which is why I asked.
And you just confirmed you maybe tried one thing he mentioned. Why i asked, because as usual most people ignore half the advice given. Good luck

No need to be rude. I did try them, and they didn't work.

Besides, I've been able to run the game for like eight years on these drivers and they've never given me any problems before. I don't want to go messing and downgrading them and such just to find that the game still doesn't work.

I already spent all day uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

[Levianne]

Originally posted by CalTheSpy:

No need to be rude. I did try them, and they didn't work.

Besides, I've been able to run the game for like eight years on these drivers and they've never given me any problems before. I don't want to go messing and downgrading them and such just to find that the game still doesn't work.

I already spent all day uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

The game is ever evolving, updating, what worked 8 years ago doesn't have to work anymore, because R* is constantly fidling with the executable (seen recently as it's shown in Task Manager not as GTAV.exe anymore but as "TODO: <file destription>", no kidding, you can inspect the executable yourself, in it's properties it reads the same thing). I've been playing for two years now without any issue whatsoever and after the Halloween update (the time they changed their executable into that "TODO" thing, maybe they prepare for GTA VI, if it works on the same engine, might as well use the same exe, who knows, they apparently have their reason for such nonsensical change) the game simply decided not to launch and telling me, that I'm in offline mode and should check my internet connection. 2 years of the very same connection and it suddenly doesn't work anymore? So yea. I had to instal a VPN to bypass this crap and enable the game to work again. I've never used, nor required a VPN before, but now I totally do. So if Soosmokie tells you that you should try things that Psykoteky advises you to do, then you should, no questions asked. Your drivers might have worked, but with the recent changes they may not work anymore with the game. This is definitely on R*'s end, but just waiting for them to fix it, might take unnecessary long for you. If you're fine with the time not playing the game, then that's your decision, but don't blame others, who try to help you. But you can also try to do things on your end to temporarily fix stuff for R*'s clearly broken game. At least you'll be able to play it for the time they figure it out and do something about it (if ever).
A side note, as my issue with logging into R*SC in game (claiming I'm in offline mode), I'm also unable to log into R*SC web page in the browser (with the VPN shut down that is), which is actually required in case I would like to send them a ticket with the issue. So the VPN enables both the game to be played and the R*SC page to be accessed and thus R* Support for tickets.

[CalTheSpy]

Originally posted by Levianne:

Originally posted by CalTheSpy:

No need to be rude. I did try them, and they didn't work.

Besides, I've been able to run the game for like eight years on these drivers and they've never given me any problems before. I don't want to go messing and downgrading them and such just to find that the game still doesn't work.

I already spent all day uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

The game is ever evolving, updating, what worked 8 years ago doesn't have to work anymore, because R* is constantly fidling with the executable (seen recently as it's shown in Task Manager not as GTAV.exe anymore but as "TODO: <file destription>", no kidding, you can inspect the executable yourself, in it's properties it reads the same thing). I've been playing for two years now without any issue whatsoever and after the Halloween update (the time they changed their executable into that "TODO" thing, maybe they prepare for GTA VI, if it works on the same engine, might as well use the same exe, who knows, they apparently have their reason for such nonsensical change) the game simply decided not to launch and telling me, that I'm in offline mode and should check my internet connection. 2 years of the very same connection and it suddenly doesn't work anymore? So yea. I had to instal a VPN to bypass this crap and enable the game to work again. I've never used, nor required a VPN before, but now I totally do. So if Soosmokie tells you that you should try things that Psykoteky advises you to do, then you should, no questions asked. Your drivers might have worked, but with the recent changes they may not work anymore with the game. This is definitely on R*'s end, but just waiting for them to fix it, might take unnecessary long for you. If you're fine with the time not playing the game, then that's your decision, but don't blame others, who try to help you. But you can also try to do things on your end to temporarily fix stuff for R*'s clearly broken game. At least you'll be able to play it for the time they figure it out and do something about it (if ever).
A side note, as my issue with logging into R*SC in game (claiming I'm in offline mode), I'm also unable to log into R*SC web page in the browser (with the VPN shut down that is), which is actually required in case I would like to send them a ticket with the issue. So the VPN enables both the game to be played and the R*SC page to be accessed and thus R* Support for tickets.

Jesus christ man-

I was just asking for help, I'm not blaming anyone here.

[Levianne]

Jesus Christ, man, chill out, you're just asking for help (and outright ignoring any advises given to you by Psykoteky, Soosmokie and me, I've shown you an example of R* messing up their game and that you can in some cases bypass that mess, but you decide to ignore that, instead of addressing it. And instead your defense is "I'm not blaming anyone"). Good luck with not playing the game. *insert a lot of sarcasm here*
If Soosmokie is rude for asking questions and confirming, what he thought (you ignoring most of Psykoteky's advises), then you have some weird idea of rudeness, my dear.