

in this case, you can either whitelist the problematic executable or you can uninstall the 3rd party AV suite entirely. They are torturing us, making every effort not to make people get taste from the game by making the game inaccessible eventhough we paid for it. However, if you’re using AVG, ESET, or another overprotective AV suite, the issue can also occur because the main Social Club executable is preventing from communicating with the Rockstar server. It doesnt work if I go directly go to social club for some reason. (Maybe launching Steam client in offline mode would protect previous configuration without requiring new Social Club activation system?) Only way to get GTA 4 to work is to click on the game, log into social club, exit steam, and start the game from social club. I was launching the game fine only with an offline GFWL profile without Rockstar Social Club.Ĭan you please explain what should we do?Īre existing owners of GTA 4 COMPLETE EDITION who purchased directly from STEAM, still and again required to sign up and install Rockstar Social Game client? Until March 2020, we were able to pass/skip RSGC thingy and start the game straight forward using any online or offline GFWL profile right away. 2021 Players of Rockstar games like Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR) and GTA 5. Why am I obliged to struggle with second DRM layer of Rockstar's Social Club garbage eventhough I legally and already have purchased GTA 4 Complete Edition directly from Steam? Rockstar Games Launcher - Rockstar Games Social Club Download and play the. Seriously, what the ♥♥♥♥ is the point of Social Club if you're not going to socially interact with anyone on a singleplayer game. The guys in the black suits in the video game industry think these extra launchers actually prevent their game from being pirated but I'm sure in the long run, it has caused more people to actually pirate their games.Īnyways yeah, ♥♥♥♥ the Rockstar Launcher especially since they killed off the online mode in the game. Here I will show you how to apply the Update Bypass allowing you to be able to launch Ragepluginhook and Scripts with the reverted game version you applied using RagePluginHook or backup of your choiceġ) Revert your game version using RagepluginHook or restore the backup of your choice that does not have the new update applied to it.Ģ) Once you are on the previous version of your game you will need to download and drag the GTAVLauncherBypass.asi and GTAVLauncherBypass.ini file that I will provide a link too in my video that you can find on youtube not sure if I can post here but you can look me up.ģ)Next Take those two files and copy to the root folder where your gta5, ragepluginhook and scripthookv is located.Originally posted by Big Sheep:It's just extra DRM to interfere with the consumer to stop pirates who end up getting the better experience because they already found out how to crack the DRM.

This method of bypassing the update worked for me so I thought I would share this info with the community
