RGSC has encountered a problem and needs to close.

[kupal]

 

you are all a bunch of stupid noobz. My computer is just an X2 5000+, 2 gb ram, 9500GT and it runs well and without any problems. i use a razor1911 crack.

 

the only problem you got is your stupidity.

 

 

[agent_47]

Kupal, have some dignity to feel sorry for those who are less fortunate with running the game. 'cause problems can pop up no matter what, if it would've happened to you, you wouldn't have been any calmer than they are, so if you could shut up, noobscake... it would be great.

 

As for the last few people who are still having issues, contact the Rockstar user that's hanging around in this Forum, send him a personal message, and try to be less "anti rockstar", because they wanna help you, it's just something that got screwed up, so don't bash them and let them help you. I understand you're mad as hell, but control your anger, and ask them directly and calmly about the problem.

[amosforce]

Rockstar please post the complete configuration we need to put to fix this problem

 

my config :

 

Champ Valeur

Ordinateur

Système d'exploitation Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Service Pack du système Service Pack 3

DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)

Nom du système HOME-WOP3BT5V5B

Nom de l'utilisateur Administrator

 

Carte mère

Type de processeur Intel Pentium III Xeon, 3000 MHz (7 x 429)

Nom de la carte mère Inconnu

Chipset de la carte mère Inconnu

Mémoire système 3072 Mo

Type de BIOS AMI (06/25/08)

Port de communication Communications Port (COM1)

 

Moniteur

Carte vidéo NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 (896 Mo)

Moniteur Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (H9NL206657)

 

Multimédia

Carte audio HD Audio digital out 2

Carte audio SoundMAX HD Audio

 

Stockage

Contrôleur IDE Intel® ICH10 Family 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 2 - 3A26

Contrôleur IDE Intel® ICH10 Family 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 1 - 3A20

Contrôleur SCSI/RAID Marvell 61xx RAID Controller

Lecteur de disquettes Floppy disk drive

Disque dur SAMSUNG HD753LJ (698 Go, IDE)

Lecteur optique _NEC DVD_RW ND-4570A SCSI CdRom Device

État des disques durs SMART OK

 

Partitions

C: (NTFS) 64997 Mo (48255 Mo libre)

E: (NTFS) 650397 Mo (505548 Mo libre)

Taille totale 698.6 Go (540.8 Go libre)

 

 

Réseau

Carte réseau Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (192.168.0.11)

Carte réseau Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller

 

 

I installed everything recomended (new patch, ...) but still have the famous "RGSC encountered a problem..."

 

I've never play with this game and I have it since 3 weeks.

 

THX

[amosforce]

iiiiittttt woooooooooooooooorkkkkkkkkkkssssssss, only had 2 install the framework 3.5 pack 1 and it's allright

[agent_47]

iiiiittttt woooooooooooooooorkkkkkkkkkkssssssss, only had 2 install the framework 3.5 pack 1 and it's allright

congrats man, enjoy the game!

[mike125]

This truly is pissing me off with this stupid Social Club. Rockstar really screwed us over on GTA 4's PC version. I feel sorry for the people who bought this game - truly do - as I was able to play it and I will explain how soon. Microsoft really needs to bug off with their crap, as does all this Rockstar crap. I'm sick of infecting my computer with this Microsoft Live crap, no wonder this game requires a QUAD CORE CPU, with so much crap running in the background, I'm not surprised. Why can't this be like COD4, Counter-strike, and ANY normal freaking game out there... buy your CD key and use it for online, BUT NO - need to make like 3 accounts, need an online activation code and a serial code. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Yet this game has been cracked, with ease. In only 2 days, with their expensive protection crap.

Now let's make this clear, there is NO difference what so ever between the pirated version of this game and the retail version.

 

I use a WinXP 64bit OS and as you know the maximum you can go is SP2. I've tweaked it and removed many crucial software components for maximum performance (I mean who uses even half of those services). GTA4 is the only game that didn't run and ONLY because of this DAMN social club crap. My laptop however, was NOT tweaked and nothing was removed, while services have been disabled, RGSC worked perfectly. (this states that it's clearly something I removed that caused the problem).

So how did I get to play the game? Well I installed WinXP 32bit SP3 (I hate having 2.75GB RAM, especially when this damn game requires so much of it). I installed NOTHING but the drivers for my computer, firefox, and GTA4... letting GTA4 install framework and so on. This way I got RGSC to work, therefore the game worked.

 

My goal is to help you people fix the problem, I am no longer playing this game, I rather have a super fast windows than a slow one with GTA4 on it. This is why I buy games that Blizzard, Valve and 2K makes. They don't rip you off and work without any other software. I'm not buying games that are poorly designed and are slow even if they are the best games ever (for example: GTA4). Clearly, a game with graphics like GTA4 requiring a QUAD CORE, we have a problem here with the coding. I have the best Dual-Core on the market (E8400) clocked at 3.6GHz and you're telling me a Quad clocked at 2GHz will run the game faster? Pfft... Crysis has much better graphics and physics yet runs perfectly on my system. Games should NEVER rely on a CPU - but on the GPU, that said - a dual core should be more then enough for any game without crap clogging it (AKA Microsoft Live). I'm dissapointed Microsoft, stay the hell out of our games.

This is my 2 cents, trying to explain how I solved the problem and... complaining I guess. Thanks.

[Sibarta]

Hallo i got a Radeon HD3650 but i cant even start the game, installed everything that was needed (tried it on Vista and XP, freshinstalls) nothing worked.

 

When i click Play in RGSC, that dos windows comes up and then the windows error, "GTA IV has stopped working, send/dont send" with no error code so i have no damn clou what it can be.

 

Any has/had a solution for this?

 

Greetz&Thx Sibarta

 

Edit my system specs:

 

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2 Ghz

Asus AH3650 512DDR2

1,5GB HyperX RAM

200 GB HDD

Windows vista Ultimate 32bit SP 1/Windows XP SP3 (Tried both)

 

[Twi_Xi]

i have this problem too -.-

 

AppName: rgsc.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.0 AppStamp:49432158

ModName: kernel32.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600

 

i wonder if i could install net framework 3.5 (gives an error too when trying to install)

the game might work

 

if anyone has a clue plx :|

 

 

EDIT:oh yeah i cant open either RGSC.exe nor GTAIV.exe gives same error everytime

and on 3.5 dotnet i get error: EventType : visualstudio8setup P1 : 14001

P2 : 3.5.21022.08_orcas_x86_net P3 : mc P4 : inst P5 : f

P6 : installfiles P7 : 1321 P8 : 1603 P9 : -

P10 : gencomp780_{12cd

 

*confused*

 

EDIT2: im f*cking to start loose my patience ffs payed 50 e for this sh*t game which doesnt even work and i cant get my f*cking money back ! 2 days of trying im f*cking going nuts.

I payed 50 e to loose my f*cking nerves >:|

Edited December 25, 2008 by Twi_Xi

[ShadowBoyX]

I had to rush to create an account to be able to post but I think I may have the answer. I had the same problem too but through some experimentation I went ahead and set the compatibility. Try right clicking on on your rockstar games social club and go to compatibility. then change it to windows xp (service pack 2). I manage to social club working on mine. If it works for you then be sure to send a reply.

[SAMSUNGmobile]

shadowboy, that didnt work for me

[FRAGEYE]

Hi all, i got to say it worked when i tried it in vista 32 with sp1. But now after several attempts installing xp with sp3 and net 3.5 fresh with all the right drivers RGSC won't even load !!!!

I have tried for days !!!! I don't want to run it in vista, i prefer xp for gaming as you get about 15-20 % more speed.

What pisses me off is i spend 30 quid on a badly coded game what wont work.

I fix computers and build them, test them etc and have over 10 years knowledge yet this is the worst game i have ever come across to play.

 

EDIT2: im f*cking to start loose my patience ffs payed 50 e for this sh*t game which doesnt even work and i cant get my f*cking money back ! 2 days of trying im f*cking going nuts.

I payed 50 e to loose my f*cking nerves >:|

 

I know how you feel like 1000's of us. Skanked !!!

 

I am happy now and here for you all check the thread if you having a RGSC working problem and you use xp pro and nvidia driver set 180.84.

http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=388435

Edited December 29, 2008 by FRAGEYE

[celouco]

OK OK OK

I READ A LOT..AND I HAVE MADE IT..

LOOK INTO RGSC FOLDER ..

HAVE A FOLDER LIKE 1.0.0.0 OR 1.0.0.2 SOMETHING LIKE THIS..

ENTER AND 2CLICK RGSC ..ILL BE AUTOMATIC UPDATE

IN THE FIRST TIME..UPDATE TO 1_1_2_0

AND ERROR AGAIN..

I HAVE 2 TIMES AND THE FOLDER CHANGE TO 1_1_3_0

AND SUCESFULL!!!

NOW ..I'M PLAYING...

SORRY ABOUT THE INGLISH..

I'M FROM BRAZIL!

 

GOOD LUCK..

MAYBE CHANGE FOR ME...NOT CHAGE FOR YOU...AT YOUR RISC!!!

 

[Snicka]

my problem is that this error appears every time after I restarted my computer... to get rid of this error I need to repair gta4 and reinstall rockstar games social club..... EVERY TIME as soon as I restart my system... this really starts getting annoying... can someone tell me how to solve this problem please? Í'd like to play right away after my system booted..

 

edit: moreover i cant log into my rockstar GSC account (probably because it's not updated... but it also doesn't update automatically) I can only play in offline mode at the moment..

Edited December 31, 2008 by Snicka

[AA93]

Exact same problem. I play for a bit and then the RSSC has encoutered comes up...

[kenwyne]

This error is so annoying. When i first bought the game it ran well but then i started getting random slowdowns after the patch and now i cant even start it anymore, it says:

RGSC has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Yeah right, sorry my ass.

 

Ive reinstalled windows and the game multiple times and i still get this crap.

 

 

[kenwyne]

OK OK OK

I READ A LOT..AND I HAVE MADE IT..

LOOK INTO RGSC FOLDER ..

HAVE A FOLDER LIKE 1.0.0.0 OR 1.0.0.2 SOMETHING LIKE THIS..

ENTER AND 2CLICK RGSC ..ILL BE AUTOMATIC UPDATE

IN THE FIRST TIME..UPDATE TO 1_1_2_0

AND ERROR AGAIN..

I HAVE 2 TIMES AND THE FOLDER CHANGE TO 1_1_3_0

AND SUCESFULL!!!

NOW ..I'M PLAYING...

SORRY ABOUT THE INGLISH..

I'M FROM BRAZIL!

 

GOOD LUCK..

MAYBE CHANGE FOR ME...NOT CHAGE FOR YOU...AT YOUR RISC!!!

thank you thank you thank you sooooo much this works.

 

EVERYBODY go into the rockstar games folder and then into Rockstar games social club and there will be a folder witht the version number. Go into it and launch the .exe after that it says fatal error but look in the folder again and a new one has been created. Go into it and launch the new .exe

 

PROBLEM SOLVED (i think)

[steam03]

Wow, seems like this is the most common problem...

 

Glad that there are ppl willing to help us out.

 

ANyway, I have got the same issue and did EVERY POSSIBLE thing listed on here that solved others' game but it did no good to mine.

 

On the first install, I did:

 

- installed XP SP3

- updated all updates

- updated JAVA (just in case...)

- updated adobe flash

- installed GTA IV

- double clicked to start RGSC = no response

- double clicked GTA IV launcher = no response and I had 5 clicks on the mouse before the computer locks up and makes a beep sound (it's always 5 clicks)

 

Then I did the following attempts:

 

- removed .NET until 1.1,

- installed 2.0

- reinstall XP SP3

- downloaded from the R* site, the RGSC installation pack with .NET 3.0

- installed that

- RGSC has the common error now upon a double click "RGSC encounted problem and had to close"

- double clicked GTA IV launcher = no response again + 5 mouse clicks quotas before locking up

- restarted and reinstalled the game and RGSC

- same errors

- installed .NET 3.5 SP1 = same errors

 

- attempted to DELETE the game from Add/Remove

- Uninstallation process comes up but PC locks up within 5 mouse clicks

 

 

OK. I really ran out of ideas. Really hope someone can help me out. I can't play the game now nor remove that 14GB off my HDD!

 

 

 

[Crxlancer]

OK guys, i had this problem for a long time too. after trying everything in this thread to try and fix it (and i mean EVERYTHING), i decided to give in and re-install my XP. i didnt install any programs. i did all of my vital drivers, then i did all of the updates, including SP3. then i installed .net framework 3.5 SP1. this has solved the problem. what happened to me im guessing is that i had problems installing framework 3.5 on my old install of xp. folks, it doesnt hurt to format once in a while and if you want to play GTA 4 i reccomend it. just do all of your updates before installing it. thanks for all of the tips and information, and good luck!

[DataGhost]

Ok, I think I just fixed it I had a similar problem with another .NET application I recently upgraded and this application actually gave me an error message to work with. During my search I came across a thread explaining a similar problem as with that specific application, and it was suggested that I installed Windows Imaging Component. Apparently, this is already in Vista or Vista users don't have any problems with this, but this thing should fix his problem and there were no more posts so I assumed it worked.

I installed the WIC and my application worked again Now just being curious, I started RGSC and I got the login screen! After not logging in, it decided to bitch about games for windows stuff not being up-to-date yet but at least I could start RGSC. It's installing that stuff now so I don't know if the game works yet but at least I hope this much helps.

 

Here is the download link for WIC: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

 

By the way, I have XP SP2, not SP3.

 

Edit: Yay, the game also works! Too bad it crashes somewhere during the intro movie but that was to be expected on my laptop, it's way too slow.

 

Edit2: Skipping the intro movie gave me a couple of minutes playtime, though after driving to some guy's house it'd go out of video memory on me. At least I could drive a car for a bit

Edited January 15, 2009 by DataGhost

[xvampire]

I also had this stupid 'social club encountered...' problem and I was playing around to fix it yesterday for 6 hours with no luck, but today I decided to give it one more try and voila, it worked!

 

here's what I did:

 

I reinstalled my graphic card drivers to latest update and restarted. After that I still got error, so I unninstaled social club and re-installed it to a new folder on my desktop (thanks to a guy a few pages back for giving me this idea), re-installed .NET framework 3.5 sp1, then I reinstalled the game and lauched social club and finally I got no error and it works now!

If you'll try this I hope it'll work for you, but make sure you're not running your social club icon in 2000 win compatibility mode, because if I do that I again get an error. good luck with it!

 

 

here's link from where I downloaded latest drivers (8.12) for my ATI graphic card

 

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

 

if you're using nvidia update to 180.84 and use this link for it:

 

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

[tex0gen]

It seems to be a problem with SP3. Yesterday i completely formatted my HDD. I was running SP2. But, i downloaded updates and it went into SP3. Now i get the error "RGSC had to close."

 

No clue wtf i do now?

[xvampire]

 

It seems to be a problem with SP3. Yesterday i completely formatted my HDD. I was running SP2. But, i downloaded updates and it went into SP3. Now i get the error "RGSC had to close."

 

No clue wtf i do now?

it could be, but I know when I unninstaled sp3 and tried to play it on sp2 I got this error as well. I have sp3 now and I got it to work with installing social club in new folder on my desktop (it could be the problem is in social club itself) so, I suggest you to try this method I described in my previous post. I hope it'll work for you.

[volga1993]

TRY THÄ°S:

1 go to.. http://www.rockstargames.com/support/IV/PC/RSGSC/index.html .. and download full RGSC

2 remove all frameworks from your computer

3 install only framework 3.0(you can find it in the folder:redistributable,donetfx3.exe)

4 install RGSC and run it

5 enjoy the game

(also you need service pack 3)

[Olds_96]

Honestly have no troubles at all im runnin a windows xp pro pny 9600 oc and a Amd anthlon x64 2.45 and a cheap as mother board nothing worng on my end eveything starts up and runs fine hmmm i patched it like 2 times i used to get m10 error but that fixed that

[Razoroth]

Ok guys, Not sure if this will help anyone else, but I've managed to get social club working. What I did was go to the first disc's directory of RGSC > Redistributable and run the .net installation for x64 (I use vista ulitmate x64 bit, so this may only work for those running this OS)

 

After the installation, i went to Programs and features > turn on/off windows programs > checked ALL THREE folders under the Micrsoft .NET framework 3.0 tree. Beforehand, only "XPS Viewer" was checked an on, but checking the other 2 folders along with it was all i did, and now social club runs and hasn't crashed.

 

Games for windows live works now too, no crashes so far...

 

Testing GTA IV...

 

Ok so this is a fresh install this go round, so after signing into gfwl via the in-game menu, i was prompted that there was an update for GTA IV. Installing now, says it'll probably need to restart... Will post results again after update. So far so good...

[Razoroth]

everything works fine after update. It seems the problem everyone is having has something to do with the .NET framework update windows update installs. I'm now able to load everything, save my game, and reload my game.

 

Only problem I notice now is my framerates are low... game seems very choppy now compared to the lats time i had installed it and had it working... even with most all settings turned down to low... not sure what that is about, but hopefully i can figure it out...

 

If anyone knows anything about this or has a similar problem after getting the game to work again please post any info about it...

 

Intell Duo Core 3.0

4GB RAM

Vista ultimate x64bit

NVidia 9500 GT 512 dual card running in recommended 1440x900 resolution with DVI cable instead of VGA.

[uddipt]

how to solve the problem "RGSC has encountered a problem and needs to close"

please help!

[mkey82]

2 remove all frameworks from your computer

3 install only framework 3.0(you can find it in the folder:redistributable,donetfx3.exe)

This is not correct. Look in the FAQ for proper .net installation.

[oobymach]

I have done all the recommended fixes, sp3, .net3, installed the social club patch, same problem every time. I launch social club (which I cannot right click or left click its icon in the taskbar without my computer locking solid) on my STANDALONE machine and encounter problems EVERY TIME.

 

Needless to say my confidence in Rockstar went from a 9 to a -12/10. Why is it that you retreads couldn't make a game work on a computer? Why did you have to make a piece of garbage named SOCIAL CLUB to f*ck up my computer but only if I run the F*CKING piece of SH!T?

 

I'll say this slowly in capitol letters in the hopes you retards come up with a fix, I HAVE NO INTERNET ON MY COMPUTER, EVERYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH INTERNET HAS BEEN DELETED OR DISABLED (EXCEPT THE ORIGINAL INSTALL OF IE BECAUSE WINDOWS DOESN'T LIKE ME DELETING THAT). NO ETHERNET PORT, NO WIFI ACCESS, NO SYSTEM SERVICES RUN THAT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET.

 

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WILL YOU FIX THAT PIECE OF SH!T YOU CALL 'SOFTWARE' TO RUN ON AN OFFLINE STANDALONE COMPUTER. HOW F*CKING HARD IS THAT????????

 

For the record my machine has a 32 bit version of xp.

 

EDIT: Yay, I fixed it. No more lockups, and uninstalling the old .net frameworks was also stupid. You can't just uninstall the 2.0 framework, you have to be a f*cking engineer to remove the old one. I guess that's why even microsoft opted to just leave the old version there.

Edited April 28, 2009 by oobymach

[geeksindrome]

 

EDIT: Yay, I fixed it. No more lockups, and uninstalling the old .net frameworks was also stupid. You can't just uninstall the 2.0 framework, you have to be a f*cking engineer to remove the old one. I guess that's why even microsoft opted to just leave the old version there.

please share how the way you fix the problems.. thanks

i'm sorry for my bad english..