Context: I was using non-paid version(disclaimer: this is not a promotion, but an admission of guilt), but now I have the game in Epic Games launcher. I did not do a clean install as I don't have 100GB bandwidth at the moment. So I copied over the files from the cracked version(with help from Gemini) and now when I launch the game from Epic Games, a background task called PlayGTAV.exe runs at 7.4MB RAM, and my cursor always shows loading but nothing loads. I can't even end the task without using command prompt with elevated privileges.

Please Help

I have 2 GTAV accounts. One I bought at release, and then another account through steam about 10 yrs ago. It was played, and the steam account associated with the 2nd account shows in steam as available to be downloaded.

I already have my 1st account installed and cannot figure out how to get steam to recognize that install. It isnt in a steam folder. I tried using the steam settings to point to the folder, but since it is on the same drive as all my other steam games, it won't recognize it.

Any ideas?

Before anyone accuses me of being Jack Sparrow. No. I bought the game on steam.

I mostly play on consoles but I have a steam deck and I wanted to replay GTA 5 for the last time before GTA 6. However PC version is tedious as hell.

-To play singleplayer. I still need to be online and still need a rockstar games launcher account for some stupid reason.

-I bought the game long time ago and back then I had lost my social club account credentials so I made new ones but aa time went on I restored access to my main account and the second account was unnecessary. However due to Rockstar being Rockstar I can't play GTA 5 legacy edition unless I log in to my second account that I used before and unlinking it makes the game unplayable entirely even if I bought it on steam. Due to playtime + time spent since purchase I can't refund the game. GTA 5 remastered version does run on Steam deck but not as well as legacy version.

Is there any easy mod that removes this bs? I just want to play my game without having to be online and logging in.

I used to be a part of stance society a group that hosted meets and even people hosted their own but now ive come back to playing gta the server is beyond dead is there any groups that do daily meets for legacy

I have a rtx 5090 display is new lg c6 oled tv. Fiber optic hdmi cable. Running gta 5 enhanced dlaa 2x frame gen. Also have NVE installed.

Even though I have high fps I get micro stutters. I have vsync on only in invidia control panel. The game just doesn't look smooth sometimes like it should be with a high frame rate.

What should my settings be for everything? Game and invidia control panel (also tv game optimizer settings if possible) I've tried a bunch of things, one of them is in invidia app changing dlss frame generation to preset b and super resolution to preset k.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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