Game will not load into gameplay.

[Mr McAyyy]

The game launches just fine but every time I try to load story or online it shows the first picture, fades to black and stays black while the bottom corner says, "Entering Online," or "Entering Story." It never stops "loading." The only fix that has worked so far is reinstalling the game. Then it will work a few times until it breaks again. I cannot reinstall the game every day I want to play. Anyone else have this problem?

[macatak]

Post yor PC specs. CPU RAM GPU SSD OS

[Mr McAyyy]

Edition Windows 11 Home
Version 24H2
Installed on ‎11/‎18/‎2024
OS build 26100.3194


Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor
Number of Cores 16
Speed 5.4 GHz

RAM 32.0 GB

Tried 2 Different SSDs

Video Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
Dedicated Memory 12 GB
Driver Version 32.0.15.7270

[Mr McAyyy]

I just got it to load. Last night I tried restarting my pc and it didn't work but tonight I did a full shut down and powered back up and it worked. I still have no idea what the problem was but I am able to play.

[macatak]

Originally posted by Mr McAyyy:

I just got it to load. Last night I tried restarting my pc and it didn't work but tonight I did a full shut down and powered back up and it worked. I still have no idea what the problem was but I am able to play.

Ha, the good old "reboot your PC" fix :D

[Wiesshund]

Originally posted by Mr McAyyy:

I just got it to load. Last night I tried restarting my pc and it didn't work but tonight I did a full shut down and powered back up and it worked. I still have no idea what the problem was but I am able to play.

Sometimes you have to do an actual full power off reboot for certain hardware things
to fully reset themselves.
Also if you have windows fastboot enabled it is like a hybrid hibernation
and it can reboot and hand you back an issue because it resumes some things out of the hibernation file.

But if you power off, it does a clean fresh load.

I usually disable both the fast boot and the hibernation

[Mr McAyyy]

Well, it's back to not working. I am beyond frustrated. There's no rhyme or reason to why this works sometimes and not others. I cannot figure it out.

[Mr McAyyy]

It's like the game isn't even trying to load. My CPU is at 18%, my GPU is at 35%, My memory usage is a solid line at 14GB/31.2GB and both of my disk are at 0% usage.

[Mr McAyyy]

I finally figured it out!

GTA Enhanced seems to have a problem either with Wave Link Software OR GTA Enhanced is having a problem being set to send it's audio (though Windows Volume Mixer) to a different device other than the default one. I have a Stream Deck setup to help manage my audio and when I have GTA set to send to "Wave Link Game" it decides not to load. If the audio device is set to "Default" it loads fine. Interestingly, if it is set to "Wave Link Game" and I notice before trying to load into Online or Story mode and I switch it to "Default" and then back to "Wave Link Game" everything works after that.

This is the strangest issue but I'm glad to know what is happening and that I can keep playing.

[Tohur]

Originally posted by Mr McAyyy:

I finally figured it out!

GTA Enhanced seems to have a problem either with Wave Link Software OR GTA Enhanced is having a problem being set to send it's audio (though Windows Volume Mixer) to a different device other than the default one. I have a Stream Deck setup to help manage my audio and when I have GTA set to send to "Wave Link Game" it decides not to load. If the audio device is set to "Default" it loads fine. Interestingly, if it is set to "Wave Link Game" and I notice before trying to load into Online or Story mode and I switch it to "Default" and then back to "Wave Link Game" everything works after that.

This is the strangest issue but I'm glad to know what is happening and that I can keep playing.

Weird I have the latest Wave Link with my Stream Deck+ and seems to work fine.. I see the audio playing through the Game Mix in Wave Link

[macatak]

Originally posted by Mr McAyyy:

I finally figured it out!

GTA Enhanced seems to have a problem either with Wave Link Software OR GTA Enhanced is having a problem being set to send it's audio (though Windows Volume Mixer) to a different device other than the default one. I have a Stream Deck setup to help manage my audio and when I have GTA set to send to "Wave Link Game" it decides not to load. If the audio device is set to "Default" it loads fine. Interestingly, if it is set to "Wave Link Game" and I notice before trying to load into Online or Story mode and I switch it to "Default" and then back to "Wave Link Game" everything works after that.

This is the strangest issue but I'm glad to know what is happening and that I can keep playing.

Glad you got it sorted 👍 😀

[vieuxozky]

Originally posted by Mr McAyyy:

I finally figured it out!

GTA Enhanced seems to have a problem either with Wave Link Software OR GTA Enhanced is having a problem being set to send it's audio (though Windows Volume Mixer) to a different device other than the default one. I have a Stream Deck setup to help manage my audio and when I have GTA set to send to "Wave Link Game" it decides not to load. If the audio device is set to "Default" it loads fine. Interestingly, if it is set to "Wave Link Game" and I notice before trying to load into Online or Story mode and I switch it to "Default" and then back to "Wave Link Game" everything works after that.

This is the strangest issue but I'm glad to know what is happening and that I can keep playing.

omg YOU SAVE my PC from getting destroyed, thank you so much

[Mr McAyyy]

Originally posted by vieuxozky:

Originally posted by Mr McAyyy:

I finally figured it out!

GTA Enhanced seems to have a problem either with Wave Link Software OR GTA Enhanced is having a problem being set to send it's audio (though Windows Volume Mixer) to a different device other than the default one. I have a Stream Deck setup to help manage my audio and when I have GTA set to send to "Wave Link Game" it decides not to load. If the audio device is set to "Default" it loads fine. Interestingly, if it is set to "Wave Link Game" and I notice before trying to load into Online or Story mode and I switch it to "Default" and then back to "Wave Link Game" everything works after that.

This is the strangest issue but I'm glad to know what is happening and that I can keep playing.

omg YOU SAVE my PC from getting destroyed, thank you so much

I'm glad I could help somebody. I was pulling my hair out this whole weekend.

[iPungentTV]

Originally posted by Mr McAyyy:

Originally posted by vieuxozky:

omg YOU SAVE my PC from getting destroyed, thank you so much

I'm glad I could help somebody. I was pulling my hair out this whole weekend.

Originally posted by Mr McAyyy:

I finally figured it out!

GTA Enhanced seems to have a problem either with Wave Link Software OR GTA Enhanced is having a problem being set to send it's audio (though Windows Volume Mixer) to a different device other than the default one. I have a Stream Deck setup to help manage my audio and when I have GTA set to send to "Wave Link Game" it decides not to load. If the audio device is set to "Default" it loads fine. Interestingly, if it is set to "Wave Link Game" and I notice before trying to load into Online or Story mode and I switch it to "Default" and then back to "Wave Link Game" everything works after that.

This is the strangest issue but I'm glad to know what is happening and that I can keep playing.

Bro, you're the man...thank you ive been stressing lol...