Crash on startup: caused by Rockstar Games Launcher

[ThirteenAG]

Game version this happens in

v1.2.0.59

What area of the game

If you open crash log and see

Unhandled exception at 0x606716AD in GTAIV.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation DEP at 0x606716AD.
...
    Backtrace (may be wrong):
        =>0x606716AD in unknown (+0x606716ad) (0x04DEEFF4) 

It's caused by RGL for an a unknown reason.

What should happen

Report was submitted to R* support:

CrashDumps and logs

No response

Last working version

No response

Checklist

• Test in the latest git build in case it's already fixed.
• Search for other reports of the same issue.
• Include logs or screenshots of issue.

[SandeMC]

expecting a proper reply from rockstar support :clueless:

these guys are useless as shit, though i'll be surprised if they actually bother with the issue

[RecklessGlue540]

Does this happen when launching from Steam? No crashes on plain RGL for me. Never had any issues either.

[TONYSOAD05]

Having the same issue, I need to launch the game a couple of times to get into the game.

[rinalds211]

well i checked the event holder and found out it is having issue opening asi file if you want to see log file i got here:
logfile.txt
and next error i get is
logfile2.txt

compare them guys if we got same errors i got steam full completed edition gta 4 version 1.20.59 as it states in gta4.exe

Plus i think this could be related to gta 4 remastering edition comming out soon from rockstart and they are trying to lock out mods that are working on base game.

[rinalds211]

And if you remove in game files file in plugins asi file the game opens fine check it if you got same behaivour so we can slowly find the way out.