steam failed to initialize. please verify that the steam client is running

DeKaiGuy · May 23

ive just reinstalled gta, updated it, updated shv, updated rph, and no matter what, whenever i try to open rph, it comes up with the message "steam failed to initialize. please verify that the steam client is running and try again". ive looked at a post similar to this and tried sorting it with the solution posted there, but it still isnt working. ive also tried running as administrator, renaming mods to _mods, and nothings working. video attached for reference. normal gta 5 game, without rph, runs fine

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RagePluginHook_23052024_191137.log here is a log from what happened

Edited May 23 by DeKaiGuy

57z · May 23

if you have a mod folder, delete it and restart from scratch, something in it is corrupted and bugging out social club.
[might be wrong but i had this issue before and this was the problem]

8 minutes ago, DeKaiGuy said:

ive just reinstalled gta, updated it, updated shv, updated rph, and no matter what, whenever i try to open rph, it comes up with the message "steam failed to initialize. please verify that the steam client is running and try again". ive looked at a post similar to this and tried sorting it with the solution posted there, but it still isnt working. ive also tried running as administrator, renaming mods to _mods, and nothings working. video attached for reference. normal gta 5 game, without rph, runs fine

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RagePluginHook_23052024_191137.log here is a log from what happened

DeKaiGuy · May 23

i was hoping it didn't have to come to that ill give it a shot, thanks for your help

Dozel · May 23

4 hours ago, 57z said:

if you have a mod folder, delete it and restart from scratch, something in it is corrupted and bugging out social club.
[might be wrong but i had this issue before and this was the problem]

Mods folder? Ooof

3 hours ago, DeKaiGuy said:

i was hoping it didn't have to come to that ill give it a shot, thanks for your help

This issue has been around for a while. You need to load into GTAV Story mode normal way > Alt+Tab > Launch RagePluginHook.exe.
RockstarGameLauncher update somehow broke the normal RPH launching on Steam version and that wasn't fixed yet (and probably never will, the same as rph's game backuping).

Edited May 23 by Dozel

57z · May 24

No. sometimes it crashes even when doing that, like my problem, i had this problem and the only fix was to restart mods folder from scratch for me, tried everything, usually this bug is accompanied by a crash at startup if you do go through steam to load it

On 5/23/2024 at 4:29 PM, Dozel said:

Mods folder? Ooof

This issue has been around for a while. You need to load into GTAV Story mode normal way > Alt+Tab > Launch RagePluginHook.exe.
RockstarGameLauncher update somehow broke the normal RPH launching on Steam version and that wasn't fixed yet (and probably never will, the same as rph's game backuping).

Edited June 21 by 57z

DeKaiGuy · May 25

RagePluginHook_25052024_210353.log i have now completely reinstalled everything from my plugins folder and cleared out my mods folder. the "steam client" error somehow fixed itself, but ironically, now the game crashes as soon as it starts. log attached

57z · May 26

yeah so this is exactly what happened to me, now it crashes at startup for no reason, try going through some basic troubleshooting, verify integrity of files through steam, launch gta 5 without RPH, etc.

15 hours ago, DeKaiGuy said:

RagePluginHook_25052024_210353.log i have now completely reinstalled everything from my plugins folder and cleared out my mods folder. the "steam client" error somehow fixed itself, but ironically, now the game crashes as soon as it starts. log attached