OK, so I got pissed off with dealing with Best Buy and just bought GTA IV from Steam for $9.99 because of their fall sale. I downloaded Steam and installed it and downloaded and installed GTA IV, but now I can't get GTA IV to start or anything. I click the play button in Steam for GTA but it does nothing. I know they are having issues with the serials not working, but that should only deny me multiplayer access, I should still be able to get to singleplayer and play, right? I have been dealing with this since about 12:00 pm today. I'm off to work until 10pm and hopefully I can get help.

Edited November 29, 201312 yr by CRAWFORDx96

Are you running the game as administrator? Do you need to play online btw? 

Are you running the game as administrator? Do you need to play online btw?

That's the thing, I don't know how. I've never used steam before so I don't know where anything is located. Also, I'm not concerned about online, just single player.

It's installed in the steam directory. "Steamsteamappscommon"

 

You could try using xlive if live is acting up. 

Steam is a giant mess with this kind of thing. Try making a desktop shortcut or looking for the file location (Should be:    OS (C:)>Program Files (x86)>Steam>Steamapps>Common>Grand theft auto IV>GTAIV.

From there, launch "LaunchGTAIV.exe" as administrator. :P

 

^Beat me to it

Edited November 30, 201312 yr by kshark

It's installed in the steam directory. "Steamsteamappscommon"

You could try using xlive if live is acting up.

OK, thanks. I ended up getting into there, but it says live.dll is missing, so I put xlive.dll in from my laptop but it still says that xlive.dll is missing.

EDIT: OK, so I'm home and I tried running it as an administrator but nothing happens. I've tried running it in Windows 7 compatibility mode and Windows Vista, but still no dice. What should I do now?

Edited November 30, 201312 yr by CRAWFORDx96