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Rockstar Launcher error 134 with Heroic Games Launcher (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was trying to play the epic games store version of GTA V with Heroic Games Launcher, but after a launcher update today, when i try to launch it, it fails with the error "The rockstar games services are unavailable and offline play could not be verified (code 134)" (at the moment of posting this, the rockstar web services are up and running)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is really weird. I started seeing the same thing a couple of days ago, and switching Proton versions (latest/experimental, or even to wine) didn't help. I also bit the bullet of completely reinstalling the game, without success.

The common "fix" for this posted online seems to be to change your DNS server or use a VPN. I've looked at my DNS traffic, it's fine. Haven't gotten around to trying a VPN yet. (the hypothesis being that rockstar IP-banned you for some reason. doesn't make sense either, because I'm able to log in to the launcher initially)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i guess i will have to try in windows then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i looked on the reddit community and it seems to be a weird interaction between the rockstar launcher and heroic, looks like it works on lutris and someone mentioned a trick to make gta v work, i didnt tried any of those tricks, im going to try on windows first to make sure i didnt got banned due to some weird reason (although it shouldnt be the case, since i havent touched the online at all)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

someone (@arieljuod) on the heroic games launcher discord came up with a fix!

message link: https://discord.com/channels/812703221789097985/1210747284086849578/1210747284086849578

looks like after an update (?), the rockstar games launcher doesn't open automatically / in time anymore when you launch GTA. as a small hack, you can launch the launcher (ugh) in the background, wait a bit, and then run the game. This seems to also affect other games in the rockstar launcher, such as red dead redemption (which I don't play myself)

copying their message here for reference:

I'm don't play the game so I'm not sure if this is fully working, but I got inside the game in the story mode.

This is based on the solution that works on windows.

After installing the game, run it once so it installs the rockstart launcher, log in
Close the Rockstar launcher
In the game install folder, create a file called fix.bat with this content (the file has to be in the same folder as PlayGTAV.exe):

start /B "null" "C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Launcher\LauncherPatcher.exe"

ping -n 20 localhost > nul

./PlayGTAV.exe %*

Set this file as an alternative EXE in the game settings in Heroic
Run the game

NOTES:

you might need to adjust the 20 after ping -n if the rockstar launcher takes longer to be ready
you'll need to adjust the executable for RDR2 (I don't own the game so I don't know what's the executable)
I imagine this should solve the same problem also on Mac but I haven't tried (and I don't know about other problems on Mac)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Windows batch does not have a sleep statement?

PS: It works flawlessly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

thank you :D