Rage and Steam

[Kingtutuk 17]

Does anyone know why rage is not recognizing and loading my steam version of GTA? I have noticed in the rage settings that it shows GTA V version 3179 Retail. Is that correct for the steam version? I dont recall seeing it say "retail" before. When I click on rage, it used to say "Loading game via Steam" now it just says "Loading game..." then shows the error "Steam failed to initialize. Please verify that the steam client is running and try again." You can see steam is running in the pics.

It works very well if I start GTA and then click rage but it is annoying that it used to start and load just by clicking the Rage icon.
Any thoughts or ideas appreciated.

Edited April 19 by Kingtutuk
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[GTAbear 109]

3 hours ago, Kingtutuk said:

used to start and load just by clicking the Rage icon

Afaik that has not worked for a looooong time
You do need to first go to Story-mode, then step out and invoke RAGE-PH

[Kingtutuk 17]

1 hour ago, GTAbear said:

Afaik that has not worked for a looooong time
You do need to first go to Story-mode, then step out and invoke RAGE-PH

Downer, never mind thanks for the answer.

[gman124 12]

On 4/19/2024 at 10:03 AM, GTAbear said:

Afaik that has not worked for a looooong time
You do need to first go to Story-mode, then step out and invoke RAGE-PH

Uhhhh actually it has been working until just recently. I never had this issue, in fact in the past we had to do that when rank insignia was missing, you had to load story mode then invoke Rage to get the decals, then with the new Update to LSPDFR it was fixed, no more loading story mode first then invoke Rage, now I get the same issue Kingtutuk is having. So there is something else going on now. 

[gman124 12]

On 4/19/2024 at 10:03 AM, GTAbear said:

Afaik that has not worked for a looooong time
You do need to first go to Story-mode, then step out and invoke RAGE-PH

Unfortunately you’re right, Rockstar support told me they don’t have technical support for Rage or any of the mods which i understand all too well. I honestly thought the issue was with Steam but it’s not. You do have to launch story mode then invoke the Rage Plugin Hook again. They had fixed that issue and now we’re back to it again. I apologize for my earlier comment but you are correct. 

[GTAbear 109]

31 minutes ago, gman124 said:

Unfortunately you’re right,

Nvm that, you got it working, so enjoy the game

[gman124 12]

45 minutes ago, GTAbear said:

Nvm that, you got it working, so enjoy the game

Yes I did