if you cannot delete the base "Rockstar Games" folder you need to load windows 10-11+ above into safe mode by fully restarting the computer going into safe mode by pressing "F8" onto the computer going back to the rockstar games folder and deleting it. the error occurs when ether.. A. you recently reset the computer, and one drive reinstalled it improperly forgeting files. B. you didn't properly uninstall by deciding go to the root files and uninstall manually by deleting the files. C you had modifications for a multiplayer server/single player, and it wasn't properly placed ont the direct folders/ "modification" area. F8 > Safe Mode. ThisPC/Documents/Rockstar Games/

Thank you man for taking the time to make this video to help other people! Following your exact steps along with the pinned comment ontop, fixed the problem!!

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Thank you so much, I spent 4 days trying to repair the game and with your help it was finished in 10 minutes. No one could help me except you

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Thanks man. Tried doing all the driver updates, deleting the launcher and game and reinstalling them and still didn’t work. Removing everything else you said to finally made it so I could play again. Much appreciated

i download game, play for 2 hours. turn off the pc and then wake up tommorow with game not working. after spending 5 hours trying to fix it i gave up and uninstalled only to see this video where so many people said it fixed it. i download the game again and after 5 minutes the game now works. you are a legend!

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Strange how I basically did this before, but now it actually worked doing it your way! So thanks a lot for putting this up:)

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a year later and it still works, i love you

This fixes the launcher freezing on startup for anyone else having that issue. Thanks man

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Watched so many other videos and u were the only one that made it clear and straight to the point and urs actually worked excellent work bro !

Bro, you are my hero! This totally fixed the problem. The actual game file was being listed as the launcher on the task manager this whole time. It took me a few days to figure that out, because I realized that the launcher was using up 30% of my CPU and that was very unusual. This fixed that, so now the game actually launches. However, because life is never fair, I've run into a new problem, which is that the game, when loading, tries to initialize the social club infinitely and it never does. I'm now stuck on the opening loading screen, unable to get inside the game. But thank you so much for getting me past that first problem!

Just wanted to say thanks man. This is the only tutorial that actually worked. Thanks again

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ive been trying to solve my problem for 2 months now and nothing worked until this video thank you very much

thanks my game would always be stuck on " Installing Prerequisites : social club" couldnt find ANY tutorial that would help me , but doing this and uninstalling every trace of the rockstar launcher (and gta cause it was installed on rockstar launcher) so yeah this was the only thing that helped me THank YOU SO MUCH

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Been wondering if the issue is in windiws 11. Turns out its not. You saved my gaming life! Thank you!

I couldn't play the game for months due to this problem, Thanks, it works perfectly fine now😆

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Tried everything else, but this helps. Thank you bro

Still works! thank you man

Oh my god, literally the only fix on the internet that works! My launcher wasn't even opening, it was running on task manager and unable to terminate there, but you couldn't open it anywhere because it was "running". I figured out by myself that I had to reinstall the whole deal, but I had the OneDrive issue and didn't uninstall the visual studio stuff, your video helped with both of those and got it working! Thank you so much man.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart man!

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when i say i literally tried everything i mean i tried every tutorial, i think what worked for me is the deletion of rockstar games from the documents part. I never did that before i just uninstalled it from control panel and removed the desktop icon. Anyways you’re a godsent and Thank you so much. p.s i couldn’t delete it from documents tab first but i opened one drive and it got deleted immediately. Definitely earned a subscriber

You saved me from ongoing massive headache!!!! THANKS!!!!

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Thanks, I've had this problem for countless days. Thanks for resolving it.

You are my savior!!! Thanks for this guide!! One thing tho, it's a little hard to hear you. But thanks!!

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You have done the job of rockstar technical support perfectly thank you so much

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Thank you, my dude, you are a hero! I did the exact same steps and It worked first time! THANK YOU, YOU'RE A HERO! ;)

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Awesome job, bro. Thank you. Liked.

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You are a life saver! Thank you

After following the tutorial and restarted my PC, I launch up GTA and play on my phone expecting the game to not launch. But holy smokes man, you should've seen the smile on my face. Thanks for the video man

Been on this for hours, this worked tysm. edit: was a red dead issue but still worked ;)

Thanks, man! You can't imagine how frustrated I've been for the last several months. I've re-installed Windows a few times trying to get the Rockstar games launcher to work and your method worked perfectly for me when I tried it.

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This still works today. Do everything he says and it should work. Thank you Anthony

Bro this video helped me so much thank you!!!

It didn't work right away after the tutorial. But with a small fix it did. Whenever I ran the Launcher Patcher, it would create a new Rockstar Games folder on my secondary hard drive, but only with the folder "Launcher" inside of it. The Rockstar Games folder needs to be complete with the folders "Social Club" and "Launcher". And apparently it needs this complete Rockstar Games folder on BOTH hard drives. Only then it worked for me, no idea why. I think the tutorial also helped, thanks man!

BROO THANKS A LOT THIS HELPS just download one drive from the description and then uninstall the folder for those guys

worked for me. only i needed to restart ssytem twice after installing Rockstar launcher again. Thx heaps bud ;) Merry Xmas

this worked for me thankyou bro! i didnt have to delete the Microsoft visual c stuff just the rockstar stuff

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Thank you man Ive been trying to play for 2 months

really surprise it is work I tried many times when I watched other videos, but it did not work. However, when I watch this video, it undoubtedly works. thx bro

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It worked! Thank you! 🎉

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Rockstar Games Social club has literally prevented me from ever being able to easily download and play any Rockstar game, first time, without it being an infuriating F*** about.

for a second it took forever to load, but it worked! you're the goat

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Thanks brother, it's really fixed the game loading