it is still asking for the product key even tho i have already the gfwl activator installed

[rare acorn]

share a screenshot of your game folder

[rare acorn]

you used an outdated downgrader

download the alternative downgrader from #tutorial, then extract it to your game folder

[plush dew]

does it mean i have to unistall it again and downgrade it again? pls no

and also,i cant,the one you guys putted on the tutorial,is identified as a virus,so i cant download it

[rare acorn]

nah, u can just extract it on top of ur game

[plush dew]

.

[rare acorn]

make an exception in your antivirus

or disable it

also just for debug purposes, can u send your asilog.txt here?

oh wait nvm

you dont have gfwlactivator.asi anyway lmao

u sure ur antivirus didnt block that too?

[plush dew]

also,is it normal to a windows installer to pop up saying that a package coulndt be open?

cuz it pops up everytime i launch the game on steam

[rare acorn]

ok yeah dsound.dll failed to load it, address is 0, you need dinput8.dll instead

dont forget to delete dsound.dll after putting the alternative downgrader

[rare acorn]

screenshot it

[plush dew]

well,its in portuguese (portuguese brazil,not spanish dumbass gringo)

[rare acorn]

yea i think this is about vcredist installer

no idea how to make it go away, you'd have to reinstall the game then let it install the redistributables first ig

[plush dew]

wdym the redistributable??

[rare acorn]

vcredist, rgl etc

[plush dew]

so i need to reinstall my game? pls nah man,im tired of always needing to reinstall my game

[rare acorn]

you can just open ur game thru playgtaiv.exe

no need for steam

[plush dew]

i tried

[plush dew]

and this is what is poping up

[rare acorn]

again, you need to use the alternative downgrader

[plush dew]

do ya have that .exe? pls send it here,im not downloading another downgrader after the almost 20 i downloaded

[rare acorn]

how do you plan on activating gfwl after you're past that error

[plush dew]

wdym

[rare acorn]

you said it's asking for a product key

[plush dew]

im not talking about that now,i guess its working,i just want the launchgtaiv.exe

(not from another downgrader because its probably only the exe that is asking for it)

[rare acorn]

rename playgtaiv.exe to launchgtaiv.exe

[plush dew]

it launched,but its still asking for the damn product key

[rare acorn]

what did you expect 💀

[plush dew]

wtf you mean what did i expected bruh

[rare acorn]

just use the downgrader and everything will work bro

it's not that deep

[plush dew]

it does not download cuz its fucking identified as a virus

[rare acorn]

ok

delete dsound.dll, jacksivfixes.asi, jacksivfixes.ini

then put these files to ur game folder

[plush dew]

the gfwlactivator also is identified as a virus,could you guys dont make fishy files?

[rare acorn]

you're free to use gta connected instead if you don't trust open source mods

[plush dew]

no,no no and no

[plush dew]

and now my game is completely broken

[rare acorn]

delete paul.dll too

[rare acorn]

run launchgtaiv.exe as admin

[plush dew]

same error

[rare acorn]

try uninstalling visual c++ 2005 from control panel, then reinstalling from here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26347

[plush dew]

nvm,i decided to reinstall my game for the 38th time

(im just tired of all of this,i just want to play gta iv online)

now,what the hell do i do,cuz that downgrader is 'too fishy' for both me and google

you know what,im using gta connected,fuck gfwl

[rare acorn]

alright, have fun