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Can someone help me installing the Rockstar Launcher so I can play GTAV? (transparent rectangle) (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi,

I have GTAV on the Rockstar Launcher (and on Epic) but I can't install it because the Rockstar Launcher has a weird rectangle covering the upper left part of the screen when I open it up. You can see what I mean here.

I tried installing it from Steam, adding the launcher as a non Steam game. I tried with Bottles, Heroic and Lutris too. And every time I get the same bug. That invisible rectangle (moving windows on top of it I could make it appear as painted, but it's normally transparent) that sits on top of every window. I also tried different Proton versions and login in on the X11 session to no avail.

I don't know what more I could try. I can't find anything online about this mysterious rectangle.

My specs are:

Operating System: Bazzite 39

KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10

KDE Frameworks Version: 5.113.0

Qt Version: 5.15.12

Kernel Version: 6.6.14-201.fsync.fc39.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor

Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600

Any kind of help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

EDIT: fixed it running the Lutris patched installer !

Thank you for your help!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

First of all, make sure that Steamworks Common Redistributables is installed because according to the steamdb page for GTA 5 it requires vcrun2022 and d3dx9 installed from winetricks (or protontricks) which it normally gets from the Steamworks Common Redistributables automatically.

From my admittedly very brief research, it doesn't look like you can play GTA 5 online if you skip the launcher but if you want to just play offline you can set your Steam Launch Options by right clicking the game and going to properties. If you set it to %command% -scOfflineOnly that will skip the launcher but disable multiplayer.

You can also try setting the Steam Launch Options to PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% which forces Proton to use the OpenGL driver rather than the Vulkan driver for D3D.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see you have already solved this with lutris, but checkout also https://heroicgameslauncher.com/ for epic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Heroic had the same problem for me, I think it’s because it installs the latest Rockstar Launcher.

I'm actually using Bottles. What I needed is the Rockstar Launcher installer that is patched and hosted by Lutris. This one:

https://dl-eu.opendataapi.net/lutris/games/GTA/rockstar-games-launcher-1-0-36-344.exe

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried the standalone version of the launcher on the Lutris website?

Hope you'll get it sorted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh wow, I downloaded that old patched version (Standalone-1.0.36.344) looking at the install script and it seems to be working correctly!

I guess when I tried installing it from Lutris it automatically used the other method, which downloads the latest version of the Rockstar Launcher that seems to be broken.

Now I need to wait about 2 hours to see if GTAV works correctly, but this is awesome, thank you very much!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn, downloading GTAV in 2 hours would be my dream... Fucking internet in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

And I just had to upgrade my wifi card to handle 600Mbps and not throttle my PC’s connection to 200. Now it takes me like 30min to download GTA V. I wish you guys some much deserved fiber infrastructure, sincerely your eastern neighbor

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

That's great to hear! I hope GTAV will work now, have fun!