GTA V Won't Load On Steam

[Kaose]

Hi just got my new pc all finished and went to get onto gta v yesterday and couldn't get on as when i click play on steam it just tries to load for a few mins then comes up with the social club thing to exit or try safe mode, i thought it might be a problem with the files as i found and old hdd with gta v on and copied it off of that but i reinstalled the game this morning and still the same issue, Thanks

[GrockleTD]

GTA V has always been finicky for me, but I can still usually get it to load... try updating/re-installing video drivers

[Kaose]

1 minute ago, GrockleTD said:

GTA V has always been finicky for me, but I can still usually get it to load... try updating/re-installing video drivers

yeah only thing i haven't tried yet it just shows the cursor loading never seen an issue like this before

[GrockleTD]

1 minute ago, Kaose said:

yeah only thing i haven't tried yet it just shows the cursor loading never seen an issue like this before

Also try validating the integrity of the game files, steam version right?

[Kaose]

Just now, GrockleTD said:

Also try validating the integrity of the game files, steam version right?

yeah tried that last night kept saying they were fine and its the steam version yes

[Kaose]

5 minutes ago, GrockleTD said:

GTA V has always been finicky for me, but I can still usually get it to load... try updating/re-installing video drivers

reinstalling drivers didn't work can't think of anything else tbh

[GrockleTD]

Just now, Kaose said:

reinstalling drivers didn't work can't think of anything else tbh

Other games work fine, right?

[Kaose]

Just now, GrockleTD said:

Other games work fine, right?

only tried WoW until now and it runs fine no issues perfect framerates never seen in issue with it, i think this is purely a GTA V issue

[GrockleTD]

Check other high intensity games/stress tests, just to be sure

[xAcid9]

Try use Google/Cloudflare/Open DNS, probably banned/blocked by your country because of the Casino update. 

[Kaose]

2 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Try use Google/Cloudflare/Open DNS, probably banned/blocked by your country because of the Casino update. 

didn't think it was blocked in UK i'll have a check to see though

[Paul Rudd]

6 hours ago, Kaose said:

i thought it might be a problem with the files as i found and old hdd with gta v on and copied it off of that

This could be why this is happening to you. Reinstalling the game doesn't exactly wipe what you already copied over away. The same could be said with your drivers if you didn't use DDU to uninstall them before updating them to the latest drivers. There's also redistributables you may have not installed. There's updating Direct X in order to play the game. There's also other changes to your PC itself that could be to blame, like Windows Updates for example. There are fixes for this situation like downloading a certian .dll file and copying it into your installation folder but it's much better for you to completely wipe GTA 5 from your PC and reinstalling it completely fresh. In order to do that, you have to find everything to do with GTA 5 in other random folders that could be in multiple locations on your PC and get rid of them. Then as I said, reinstall the game completely fresh. Hopefully this will automatically enable you to install certain redistributables and the latest version of Direct X. If anyone would know how to fix something like this, it would be Rockstar. Maybe open a ticket with them and see what steps they take you through as they have most likely dealt with this issue many times before with other people. Go here and give it a shot Rockstar Support.

 

I did find that this may or may not work for you as it worked for someone else... "I followed a guide on youtube and all i had to do was delete "Settings.xml" in the C:\Users\MYournamehere\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V folder. This fixed the problem and reset my settings to standard."

 

This person had the same Safe Mode or Retry error and it fixed it.

5 hours ago, xAcid9 said:

probably banned/blocked by your country because of the Casino update. 

Story mode isn't banned in the UK. GTA 5 should load story mode right up.