Posting this in support in case someone else with Win10 updated and GTAIV working, and to net some ideas to try and fix.

 

Hello all, just an FYI to anyone else running, or thinking of running, Windows 10 Technical Preview, the latest (9860) build/update somehow seems to have killed GTAIV. I had installed it and had it running quite well under the original (9841 I think) build, but when the latest update installed today, the game would always crash on startup (launch from RGSC, black screen, exe has stopped working message).

 

I actually did get it running once by playing with my commandline.txt, but after that it wouldn't run again. I have tried changing many things, ultimately I did a wipe of the game and a fresh install, and even completely vanilla it still won't run and I cannot figure it out... none of the fixes I have found help (update RGSC, GFWL, Xliveless, admin, Win7 compatibility, etc).

 

It seems, unless someone can think of some ideas that might apply, that you do not want to be running W10-9860 if you want to play GTAIV.

Edited October 28, 201411 yr by Coffeeist

I'm on that build and it works without problem. Check your drivers.

Huh, interesting...

Well, I got it working. ONCE. I don't effing understand. I played with compatibility on the exe down to XPSP3, ran it, worked fine. Ok, great, start reinstalling a few mods. Run again, nope. Same thing, exe has stopped working startup. I realize this would usually have the mods be prime suspects but the game was running fine with them before upgrade, so I really don't think it's a mod error or an installation error.

Ok, new update. Seems to run consistently fine in -windowed.

Fullscreen issues tell me it's something off with resolution (not sure how, it's set to 1080p), something with graphics drivers (shouldn't be anything in CCC messing with it, I don't really mess with CCC functions), or DirectX (installed all drivers in folder).

Also, have changed thread title.


Ok, bit more info:

Installed latest Beta AMD drivers. Double checked DirectX. Tried both dsound and xliveless (not that it should matter in a non-mod issue). Haven't been able to get a run yet.

 

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Edited October 28, 201411 yr by ineseri