Is there a way to prevent the game from updating?

[УберСтас]

I couldn't care less about online, I only want to replay story-mode again. But this time I want to get into modding of this game. And I've read that each multiplayer update breaks the essential mods for singleplayer... Is there a way to bypass these updates and just play the modded singleplayer without worrying that the next update will break your mods?
Because if the only way to disable these unnecessary updates is to get a "free" version - that's f*сking stupid...

[psykoteky]

Short of those.. versions - there is not much you can do but work around the updates.

Turn off auto updates - see an update pending? Put steam in offline mode. Granted there may be some way to forcibly start steam with a shortcut into offline mode/launch the game. Just talking - not looked info/confirmed it.

You backup your various .exe's/game files, and update/update2.rpf's - update game - put them back. 'Usually' this is enough to downgrade back to the modded version but updates may not play nice with files like that. Or, R* launcher won;t with older versions.

You create a 'second' copy of the game/folder - modded/unmodded. using a .bat you can quick swap the folders to the default 'grand theft auto v' folder - update the 'vanilla' copy - then swap it back to modded and the modded folder basically remains untouched. Still possible to have problems with R* launcher/old updates there. Though, there's been a couple mods put out to sidestep that.

Similarly as above, you can just replace the appmanifest_271590 with an updated one and it shouldn't ask for updating (til the next). Again, likely have issues as the 2 above with R* launcher/old versions. There used to be some other R* launcher bypass tools for storymode modding - haven't checked into if they still work, or, what versions they 'did' work on.


I likely missed some stuff.
Yes, it is a pain.

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Thanks for the info! I already knew about disabling auto-updates (thanks to needless Skyrim updates), but not the rest. And from how tedious it looks like - I think I really just better use the alternative... God, Rockstar are unbearable.

[Thel]

Modern Rockstar : You WILL play online and buy shark cards. Just wait till GTA6. Once you beat the campaign you'll auto load into online only after that.

[УберСтас]

Isn't GTA6 gonna release on consoles only at first? And anyway, I'd need to upgrade my pc to play it, which I ain't planning to do for GTA6. Maybe for Witcher 4 tho...

[Soloplayer904]

If you uninstall that will stop it updating

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Originally posted by Soloplayer904:

If you uninstall that will stop it updating

Definitely the best advice that I've seen so far

[ctpatown]

Originally posted by Soloplayer904:

If you uninstall that will stop it updating

I dont believe you