Medicmojo

Well, I managed to sort this out myself - thanks to anyone who read it, and put some thought into it, though!

LOL........gotta love/hate this game, right?!?!  It definitely was a simple fix - I stumbled across another video on YouTube posted a few years ago.  And, it was something obvious.  Best advice - always backtrack through whatever you have done lately!

As part of working through the original "unable to launch, try reinstall" issue that many were having - which turned out to be that args.txt file - one of the possible issues I read about/saw in a different YouTube video, was changing compatability settings.  In the both the GTAV.exe, and GTAVLauncher.exe files - the suggested fix was to check off "Run as Administrator".  I did that, no help - until seeing all the args.txt comments here.

But, apparently the game ultimately did not like that!  The more recent video I watched for my specific issue now, the "unable to launch GTA5.exe" error, mentioned the same file compatability checks.......but to make sure those WERE NOT checked off.  I unchecked them.......

Sure enough.........problem fixed!   Maybe this weill help someone else down the road.

Man....this game!