Game opens multiplayer when I select singleplayer

[Dan the Man]

When the game starts up, I choose singleplayer. The game loads into multiplayer. I was able to fix it temporarily but it went back to doing this the next day. I want to fix the root problem so I don't have to keep doing this. I suspect it might be because I have GTA installed on an external drive.

I was able to fix temporarily it by following this guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/discussions/0/152391920351708083/#c152391920351727453

Step 2, reinstalling Social Club, is what fixed it. I played the game yesterday without any issues, but when I opened it up today it was back to opening multiplayer.

This started on day 3 of owning and playing the game.

Specs:
PC: HP ZBook 15 G2
OS: Windows 10 Pro (x64)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (x64)
RAM: 16GB
External Drive (E:) : Crucial X8, SSD, 1TB


EDIT: The problem was "pc_settings.bin". Not sure how to get into the file to figure out the exact cause, but if I delete the file before running GTA singeplayer opens just fine.

[psykoteky]

Do you still get the pop up from steam asking you which one you want at launch? You can rightclick gtav in steam, properties, and its in launch options - you can make it do either, or ask each time.

Then - there are launch options to force story or single, as well as the ingame landing page (settings, saving and startup) stuff to determine how you log in/where you go. I haven't tested if they clash/what takes precedence if the landing it set to 'online' and you pick 'story' at startup. Nuking the my docs / rockstar games / gtav folder or settings files in there would also undo/affect that. Onedrive itself could also mucking this up as well. If you use that - I'd at bare minimum set it to not bother with the R* games folder.

And of course... R*/social club launcher itself - has been wonky on/off since its creation.

I don't know how external drive would affect this in a sense of always causing you to start in multiplayer - if anything, it should be slow/laggy/problematic and cause problems logging in at all, or keeping you stuck in storymode. Imo anyway.
edit - though a non-default my docs to external/another location could possibly cause some issue there's '2' locations and its bouncing around.

[Dan the Man]

Originally posted by psykoteky:

Then - there are launch options to force story or single, as well as the ingame landing page stuff to determine how you log in/where you go.

Thank you dude, setting launch to -scOfflineOnly finally opened it in story mode. I hope that solves the issue permanently. If not, you've given me plenty of troubleshooting options. Thank you again.

[psykoteky]

Yea, using that will.. certainly keep you in storymode. Won't allow you to go online at all.
And, eventually it will complain you aren't authorized to play - due to the intermittent drm, you'll have to pull it and sign in 'properly' again.

For giggles I did mess around with landing page 'off' and force into online -- then choosing storymode from steam - it undid the landing page info, went to main menu. Though, it could be an issue of the launcher, or my ghub/etc preventing something from properly saving (though my graphic settings save fine). Could be an issue in general - as over the weekend people were unable to log in but one of the reported workaround was to force landing page on / go into online and.. that worked (but could alos be picking online from steam prompt - or R*/egs versions -- or it didn't work at all and coincidentally.. logged in - access was 'random').

Also tried it from the R* launcher without the steam 'choose' prompt - did same thing.

Others will have to chime in if they can get the settings to save/stick, onedrive use, not -read only - files, setting landing off - go online - but using 'storymode' from steam prompt. Can only test so much on my end.

edit -after going into story or online, and setting landing off and picking 'my choice' it appears to have saved properly. I have also set steam to 'just launch' gta5, and not let me choose story mode or online. Seems multiple places to 'pick' - going forward, I'm going to have steam just 'launch it' and chose from landing page section (not that it matters I personally always load to menu/story first for anything else).

Definitely some things to tinker with if you don't want to deal with -scofflineonly shenangians.

[Dan the Man]

Okay. Not a permanent solution. Damn.

A little more info:
-I still get the popup for singleplayer vs. multiplayer
-In the game's settings I told Steam to automatically load singleplayer on startup, and it still went to multiplayer.
-I don't use Onedrive.
-Documents/Rockstar Games/GTA V + Program Files/Rockstar Games/Social Club + Program Files (x86)/Rockstar Games/Social Club -- all on my PC, not the external drive.
-Problem started with restart.