



In case that doesn’t work either try the following fix as suggested by reddit user: Are you on laptops? My friend and I both had this problem and this fixed it: Open device manager, go to display adapters, and disable your nvidia device so only the intel card is enabled. If you have a mobile nVidia GPU you should first update nVidia drivers to the latest version because nVidia released today a compatibility driver for this game. When they start the game absolutely nothing happens (social club doesn’t open and clicking play accomplishes nothing). Click “OK” and wait for Windows Media Player to install GTA 5 for PC not launching with Steam on laptops Some users have been reporting that they can’t launch GTA V on their laptops with nVidia graphics cards.In the resulting popup, make sure “Windows Media Player” is checked under the “Media Features” folder.Click “Turn Windows Features On or Off”.Your Windows does not have Windows Media Player installed. Unable to detect Windows Media Player on your system GTA 5 error This error shows up during GTA 5 PC installation. To see how to create a new user account in Windows please check out Microsoft’s articles here: Windows 8/8.1: Windows 7: Windows Vista: You can’t just rename your existing account, unfortunately, because this will not fix the issue. When you log into this new user you should be able to play the game without the error appearing. Make sure the new Windows user you create is named only including letters A to Z, a to z or numbers 0-9 from the basic roman alphabet. You need to create a new user account with administrative privileges in your Windows. You can wait for the fix to be released, but you can also do a manual fix. This happens because your Windows username might contain characters in it that are not in the English language alphabet (not your fault – Rockstar is working on a fix). The Rockstar update service is unavailable (code 1) This message appears when you try to install, launch or update the game (through steam or other). We’ve compiled a list of things that have been troubling players and here’s some of the ways you can fix them. Select the Local files tab and click the Verify integrity of game cache. From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu. To fix go to the steam website and download the steam thing agian (dont delete steam!!!!)then the problem should fix. Rockstar, Steam and various users have located the most common GTA 5 PC errors and there are several solutions available to people that have been affected.

Some people haven’t even been able to install and launch the game.
