GTA IV for Steam not starting up? WTF?!

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#1 NewbAmoeba
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For no apparent reason, too. I have social club, GFWL, and Steam. It didn't even ask me for my key in activation. Double click Grand Theft Auto IV in the My Games tab and it sends me to social club. Press play and it begins to have the loading circle around my mouse (Vista). Nothing happens. Load circle disappears. In Task Manager nothing is shown in applications, but I can see GTAIV.exe in processes. No way I can see to get it to work.

I'm extremely pissed, as I'm sure many of you have been before. Please help a fellow brother in need.

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#2 Nick_Boylan
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Have you got XP service pack 3? I had the same problem but SP3 fixed it, either that or Vista and WIN 7 should sort it. GTA 4 is a pain in the ass, when you've got it running google GTA4 graphics tweaks to make it run better. its a very poor console port
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#3 the_mitch28
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He said he has Vista.

Have you got driver updates for your video card? Also this might sound silly but have you tried restarting your computer?

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#4 NewbAmoeba
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[QUOTE="Nick_Boylan"]Have you got XP service pack 3? I had the same problem but SP3 fixed it, either that or Vista and WIN 7 should sort it. GTA 4 is a pain in the ass, when you've got it running google GTA4 graphics tweaks to make it run better. its a very poor console port

Pretty sure my rig can run it just fine..

He said he has Vista.

Have you got driver updates for your video card? Also this might sound silly but have you tried restarting your computer?

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Right. Yes and yes.
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#5 Nick_Boylan
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Evidently your PC is not able to run the game, only trying to help
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#6 Tannerr33
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Evidently your PC is not able to run the game, only trying to helpNick_Boylan

Looking at his computer specs he should beable to run it quite well. TC did you try going to rockstar support forums?

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#7 NewbAmoeba
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Yeah, got it figured out. Thanks for the help guys, prompted me to do something I hadn't tried..
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#8 77jamjam
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How did you get it to work? i have the same problem, i have gfwl and social club and i installed gta iv on steam and when i open it it just loads then does nothing...
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[QUOTE="77jamjam"]How did you get it to work? i have the same problem, i have gfwl and social club and i installed gta iv on steam and when i open it it just loads then does nothing...

Do you really expect a reply from this guy? Look at the date of this topic.
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#10 patrickphan2
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[QUOTE="77jamjam"]How did you get it to work? i have the same problem, i have gfwl and social club and i installed gta iv on steam and when i open it it just loads then does nothing...Animatronic64
Do you really expect a reply from this guy? Look at the date of this topic.

i lol'd

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#11 Siamak8286
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[QUOTE="Animatronic64"][QUOTE="77jamjam"]How did you get it to work? i have the same problem, i have gfwl and social club and i installed gta iv on steam and when i open it it just loads then does nothing...patrickphan2

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i lol'd

wow....just wow

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#12 murekkep
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Did they disabled the Social Club with the latest patch?
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#13 Meat_Wad_Fan
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I was having issues with gtaIV, it was pissing me off and windows troubleshoot was even suggesting I had bad RAM. I just went to the steam website and downloaded the newest steam update. Tada;)

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#14 C_Rule
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I was having issues with gtaIV, it was pissing me off and windows troubleshoot was even suggesting I had bad RAM. I just went to the steam website and downloaded the newest steam update. Tada;)

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What is the latest patch for GTA IV? Is it still 1.7?