Literally unplayable on Windows Vista

[LoopKat]

4 hours of downloading, 2 hours of troubleshooting, and 20 potential solutions later...GTA V is still literally unplayable. The Rockstar Social Club Launcher stops responding IMMEDIATELY on startup and is impossible to bypass or fix.

I CAN'T EVEN POST A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ REVIEW BECAUSE I HAVEN'T PLAYED IT FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES. ♥♥♥♥ YOU ROCKSTAR. JUST ♥♥♥♥ YOU.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

I don't know why everyone's giving the TC crap, it literally says Vista as a 64-bit OS is supported. Ya'll need to up. Steam community sometimes, I swear...

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Escrito originalmente por Bad-Motha:

Vista isn't supported anymore; and never was for this game anyways.
Just go download and install clean Win10; you don't need no key or nothing to use that OS.

No one dropped support out the blue, Vista died pretty much before XP even did; or about same time. Vista users shoulda jumped to Win7 right away, Vista was just the worse Windows ever.

You need to take a few seconds to read before you post.

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1, Windows Vista 64 Bit Service Pack 2* (*NVIDIA video card recommended if running Vista OS)

[Tim Timsen]

Escrito originalmente por ☠ Asasin ☠:

I don't know why everyone's giving the TC crap, it literally says Vista as a 64-bit OS is supported. Ya'll need to up. Steam community sometimes, I swear...

And you should learn to read.

Escrito originalmente por RageMojo:

"Additional Notes: Over time downloadable content and programming changes will change the system requirements for this game. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer and www.rockstargames.com/support for current compatibility information. Some system components such as mobile chipsets, integrated, and AGP graphics cards may be incompatible. Unlisted specifications may not be supported by publisher."

[☠ Asasin ☠]

That's funny, because you go to that website and look up the system requirements for GTA V and it still lists Windows Vista as a supported OS.

At any rate this community is extremely toxic to a person asking a simple question.

[Tim Timsen]

Escrito originalmente por ☠ Asasin ☠:

That's funny, because you go to that website and look up the system requirements for GTA V and it still lists Windows Vista as a supported OS.

It still takes about 3 clicks to install WIndows 10.

Escrito originalmente por ☠ Asasin ☠:

At any rate this community is extremely toxic to a person asking a simple question.

You call this

Escrito originalmente por LoopKat:

I CAN'T EVEN POST A ♥♥♥♥ING REVIEW BECAUSE I HAVEN'T PLAYED IT FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES. ♥♥♥♥ YOU ROCKSTAR. JUST ♥♥♥♥ YOU.

"a simple question".
I don't know how to feel about this.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

1. Some people may be hesitant to upgrade to a brand new operating system that has several widely publicized and controversial issues.
2. It's a guy expressing his frustrating, I think he's allowed to do that. Posting dumb crap like "lol i can't get it to run on my snes" only exacerbates the issue and literally doesn't help anyone, especially when both the Steam website AND the support website that is in your excerpt show the same set of system requirements. In this case, the user is not in the wrong.

[Sean]

Escrito originalmente por ☠ Asasin ☠:

1. Some people may be hesitant to upgrade to a brand new operating system

Then maybe those people shouldn't be whining on the forums when their 800 year old OS doesn't support games anymore.

[Acevy]

Escrito originalmente por ☠ Asasin ☠:

1. Some people may be hesitant to upgrade to a brand new operating system that has several widely publicized and controversial issues.
2. It's a guy expressing his frustrating, I think he's allowed to do that. Posting dumb crap like "lol i can't get it to run on my snes" only exacerbates the issue and literally doesn't help anyone, especially when both the Steam website AND the support website that is in your excerpt show the same set of system requirements. In this case, the user is not in the wrong.

Nobody said he was wrong we were just having a laugh. Get over yourself. Even if its supported OP should upgrade to a newer OS

[Wookie]

Also worth pointing out, Vista cannot be freely upgraded to 7,8 or 10 you have to pay full ticket and do a complete reinstall. Either way, the community is now being astoundingly unhelpful, so I'll restate OP's question, does anybody know why Rockstar Social Club now crashes on launch. Thank you

[Tim Timsen]

Escrito originalmente por ☠ Asasin ☠:

1. Some people may be hesitant to upgrade to a brand new operating system that has several widely publicized and controversial issues.
2. It's a guy expressing his frustrating, I think he's allowed to do that. Posting dumb crap like "lol i can't get it to run on my snes" only exacerbates the issue and literally doesn't help anyone, especially when both the Steam website AND the support website that is in your excerpt show the same set of system requirements. In this case, the user is not in the wrong.

I don't have a fancy car, although I have the money and could buy it right now. I'm not in the mood for moving my butt and getting out, though, so let me blame YOU instead.

[Acevy]

Escrito originalmente por Wookdolf:

Also worth pointing out, Vista cannot be freely upgraded to 7,8 or 10 you have to pay full ticket and do a complete reinstall. Either way, the community is now being astoundingly unhelpful, so I'll restate OP's question, does anybody know why Rockstar Social Club now crashes on launch. Thank you

There can be a ton of things causing that issue. It ranges from missing a file to a registry error. The general troubleshooting steps that rockstar always gives me for social club is to
1. Verify game cache
2. Run as admin
3. Change the compatibility setting
4. Manually reinstall social club
None of these things worked for me. I fixed it by deleting the rockstar games registry and then launching the game. But again it depends on whats wrong.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Regardless of what Rockstar listed there, Vista is dead and there is nothing you can do about that. Updated Drivers even are generally not even supported on this OS anymore.

On top of this, or regardless of the OS debates, if your system is old enough to still have Vista on it, then it is way too old to run this game with good performance.

Win10 is free and you don't need any previous OS or Key to do this, just download & install from Microsoft.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

Escrito originalmente por Bad-Motha:

Win10 is free and you don't need any previous OS or Key to do this, just download & install from Microsoft.

No, you're wrong, it literally requires a 7 or 8/8.1 installation. Holy cow people.

[Wookie]

Not only that but you have to fully reinstall Windows too, alongside the cost.

Also here is my log from Rockstar Social Club failing to launch:
[2016-01-01 16:52:59.371] [DISPLAY] Using DPI 96
[2016-01-01 16:52:59.574] [DISPLAY] File version 10000:23d0001 (for D:\Zach Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto V\GTA5.exe)
[2016-01-01 16:53:00.058] [DISPLAY] File version 10001:60009 (for C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Social Club\socialclub.dll)
[2016-01-01 16:53:00.167] [DISPLAY] File version 10000:1f90002 (for D:\Zach Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto V\GTAVLauncher.exe)
[2016-01-01 16:53:00.182] [DISPLAY] Version: |1.0.573.1|1.1.6.9|1.0.505.2|FSP
[2016-01-01 16:53:00.697] [DISPLAY] OS version: Major: 6, Minor: 0, Build: 6002, Platform: 2
[2016-01-01 16:53:00.947] [DISPLAY] Social Club initializing...

Hope somebody recognises what the issue might be (and how to potentially fix it)

[Blazer]

Escrito originalmente por Wookdolf:

Hope somebody recognizes what the issue might be (and how to potentially fix it)

Get a newer version of Windows?