All right fellow officers. After many hours of relentless struggle to actually get out of infinite loading screen I think I have found a solution.

 

I've modified my gameconfig.xml (replaced stock one with modded one (https://gta5-mods.com/misc/gta-5-gameconfig-300-cars), and experienced infinite loading loop.

 

I was trying to remove, add, or even modify files but nothing would work.

 

 

This is how to solve the problem (my way):

 

- Go to your "mods" folder and then to update subfolder (Grand Theft Auto V/mods/update)

- Delete uptade2.rpf file

- Open up OpenIV 

- Copy update2.rpf to your mods folder from Grand Theft Auto V/update via OpenIV (Right click -> Copy to Mods Folder)

- Launch the game as usual

 

 

If this does not work for you, you probably have corrupted gameconfig.xml file. Try using recommended one or just revert to original. 

Hiya,

What you've said here is a mix of issues so I thought I'd provide an explanation. 

 

When your game is updated it reads a version.txt file and while this was located in update.rpf, it is now in update2.rpf.

Therefore when the update hit recently you needed to update your update2.rpf by deleting it and re-adding it. Otherwise when you are booting up GTAV your launcher will think GTAV is updated however upon reading the older entries in version.txt will load infinitely. 

 

It's highly unlikely that a gameconfig was causing this - especially since it isn't even related to update2.rpf which contains files edited by graphic modifications.

But hopefully this sheds some light on what issue you may've experienced. 😄