r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC

Here’s a cleaner Reddit post you can use. I made it angry enough to show the frustration, but not so aggressive that people ignore the actual issue.

Title: GTA V on Steam won’t activate / Rockstar Launcher says disconnected — tried everything for 2 months

I’m desperate at this point and looking for help.

I bought GTA V on Steam around 10 years ago. It used to work fine, but for the past 2 months I haven’t been able to launch it at all.

When I try to open GTA V / GTA V Legacy from Steam, it asks me to activate Grand Theft Auto for my Rockstar account. After I sign in, the Rockstar Launcher says I’m disconnected from Rockstar’s platform / Social Club and the game refuses to launch.

I already contacted Rockstar Support and opened a ticket. Their support mostly gave me the usual copy-paste troubleshooting steps, but nothing fixed it. They escalated it to Tier 2, gave me GTA$1,500,000 as compensation, but the actual problem is still not solved and I still can’t play the game.

Things I have already tried:

• Clean reinstall of Rockstar Games Launcher
• Deleted Rockstar Launcher / Social Club folders from Documents and Program Files
• Reinstalled the launcher through Steam
• Reinstalled GTA V
• Verified Steam game files
• Logged out and back into Rockstar / Steam
• Restarted PC multiple times
• Restarted router
• Flushed DNS
• Checked firewall settings
• Added Rockstar Launcher as an antivirus / firewall exception
• Checked if antivirus was blocking anything
• Cleared launcher files and logs
• Renamed / deleted Rockstar folders
• Tried uploading logs and screenshots to Rockstar Support, but even their support chat was bugging out with “missing or unexpected input”
• Tried basically every public fix I could find online
• Cleared launcher files and logs
• Blocked and unblocked inbound firewall rules
• Tried random community fixes people claimed worked
• NOTHING WORKS!!??

Rockstar keeps telling me it may be an internet / firewall / antivirus issue, but the game worked fine before, and nothing on my end seems to fix it.

The main error flow is:

1. Launch GTA V from Steam
2. Rockstar Launcher opens
3. It asks me to activate the game for my Rockstar account
4. I sign in
5. It says I’m disconnected from Rockstar Launcher / Social Club
6. GTA V doesn’t launch

At this point I’ve wasted days trying to fix a game I already paid for and legally own on Steam. I’m not looking for generic advice like “reinstall the launcher” because I’ve done that multiple times.

Has anyone fixed this specific issue where GTA V on Steam asks for activation and then Rockstar Launcher says disconnected? Could this be an account-linking issue between Steam and Rockstar, a Social Club token problem, or something broken on Rockstar’s side?

Any real help would be appreciated. I honestly just want to play the game again.

Honestly at this point I'm just gonna sue Rockstar.

Rockstar Support has honestly been a joke through this whole thing. They keep ignoring my submissions and marking my requests as “resolved” when they literally have not resolved anything. In most cases, they haven’t even properly replied before closing the ticket. The issue is still exactly the same: GTA V asks me to activate my account, then says I’m disconnected from Rockstar Launcher / Social Club, and I still can’t play the game I paid for. I’m sick of getting copy-paste replies, being told to repeat the same basic troubleshooting steps, and then having the ticket treated like the problem is fixed when nothing has changed.

Hey guys I have GTA v on my laptop and don't have a mouse so I usually just shoot with my touchpad,is there any particular settings I can put to make shooting more easier?

Ps: I realized mouse is very important cause I sometimes have to skip the missions that require me to take out some enemies cause it's hard aiming with the touchpad and shooting at the same time

for some weird reason on pc during the casino heist my character won't fucking run, I don't know the issue but I give up, can't play this shit anymore. I'm done.

gonna get a ps5 and wait for gta6

can't do this shit anymore.

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I know there's a lot of posts about this issue but I have tried a lot of the solutions given in these post and still have no succes, please help me.

I use to have an acer nitro with I5 11400 and gtx 1650 with 16gb of ram, the game run excelent and now I have an acer nitro an515-58, Intel Core I5 12450H, 24gb of ram (1x16gb and 1x8gb 3200mhz), rtx 3050 4gb, 512 nvme and this game suffers from stuttering, every 2-3 seconds the game frezzes for half a second, I have:

- clean windows 11 install
- 596.36 nvidia drivers, i have also tried older versions from 511 to the last one I have
- fps cap at 60, in system and in game
- connected to a monitor via hdmi and usb-c (with 60 fps and 144fps caps)
- bios update
- high performance in energy
- set everything to lowest in game
- directx 10.0, 10.1 and 11
- gsyng and vsync enable and disable
- disable audio, wifi and bluetooth drivers

my laptop has excelent temperatures (I consider, no overheating at all, even playing resident evil requiem it hits a maxium of 70 degrees)

I want to add that it suffers from the same stutter with Read dead redemtion but I think this game is already too much for my laptop, on the other hand GTA V should run perfectly since my older laptop was able to handle it with great graphics

even turned vsync off

recently I joined some sessions with mostly player around lvl 2 to 100 . I thought maybe I could help someone, but got " kicked by other players" after some time". all I did in that sessions was flying the mansion copter and watching them move. was strange experience for me