it's beyond that now, plugins are malfunctioning now too, EUP and ELS no longer work, this launcher has screwed up a lot of things. i could understand if it was a game update, but it wasn't even that.
@Arin171 Thanks for the update, i had the additional issue. launching via steam then the hook did not work. What worked for me is to launch via the rockstar launcher then the hook with success.
Wonder why Rockstar is pushing this launcher as it's clearly causing issues. hopefully lspdfr can create a fix for this (if it's actually possible) rather than the work around.
Thanks again for the help!