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GTA V version: Latest Up to date: Yes Legit or Pirate copy: Legit Purchased where - Steam/Rockstar Launcher/Epic: Steam Windows version: Windows 7 Did you try to delete content_index.xml and try again? I cant find it System specifications: GeForce GTX 1050TI / i7 4790K / 16GB Ram CitizenFX crash zip file (‘Save information’ on a crash): No Crash Info logs/CitizenFX_log files: N/A .dmp files/report IDs: N/A
What is the issue you’re having? FiveM will not launch and there is no crash error.
What are you trying to do? Play FiveM
What have you tried already to fix the issue?
Reinstalled GTAV and FiveM
Verified game files
Moved FiveM to the GTA folder
Disabled firewall
Edited the CitizenFx.ini
Ran in administrator
Error screenshot (if any): N/A
What did you do to get this issue? Nothing as far as I know, it started after I restarted my computer.
What server did you get this issue on? Be specific and name some, ‘all of them’ by itself isn’t useful! None, I had no issues with playing until after I restarted my computer.
Additional comments
I just would like to play FiveM. Ive tried everything and I dont know what else to do. I’ve been playing FiveM for years and had no issues with it until now. If anybody has any type of suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. If you think I should just update to windows 10 then I’ll do it but that’s a last resort for me.
EDIT: Upgrading to Windows 10 fixed the issue for me. So if you’re on Windows 7, I suggest just go ahead and switch to 10. Only took less than an hour.
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Same issue here. Something in the update fixed the kernel error a few days ago (FiveM error on KERNEL32.dll) but now i can’t even start the launcher: when starting FiveM it just launches and insta-closes.
I’m having the same issue as the original poster and the previous comment. Very frustrating as I feel very firm that it’s connected with whatever update FiveM pushed out yesterday. I wish it could be rolled back to see if these problems become resolved.
same here with the auto close. it seems a update is messing with win 7 users. i was so tempted to upgrade but i just cant. i’m about to buy a whole computer for gaming only at this point
Friendly reminder that Windows 7 is not technically supported. Yes, steps such as rolling back whatever change was made might fix it, but FiveM as a piece of software cannot be expected to work perfectly across four different operating systems forever, as things get updated and changed, older operating systems will no longer be compatible.
So what you’re saying is win7 users are doomed unless they upgrade at this point? We had this issue no less than a week ago and it was fixed… is another fix possible? I don’t intend on upgrading my windows as I’ll be getting a brand new PC in 6 weeks, but i do not wanna wait that long to be able to play again. So even a temp fix for now would be sufficient.
All I am pointing out is that Windows 7 is over 12 years old now, and it won’t work forever; CFX might push a fix, or they might not, I’m only suggesting you don’t hold your breath waiting for one.
I can understand how Windows7 is old, but surely with enough modern games and programs continue to develop and remain stable on Win7, surely FiveM can as well. Especially if many people can clearly point to an update that was pushed out one day and all problems began that day. The support channel on discord is blowing up with references to this same issue of “failure to launch”, there are multiple posts on here all describing the same problem.
Something has happened, and I’m pointing to the update that came out yesterday, automatically downloaded, and the program doesn’t launch at all thereafter.
Its fixed for me. I just went ahead and upgraded to Windows 10. I didnt want to cause I was so used to Windows 7 and expected to lose all of my files. But nothing changed thankfully.
So I recommend just go ahead and switching over to Windows 10 since its still free. Appreciate the link.
I understand that making this app compatible with lots of OS might be complicated, but we as users were expecting nothing more but a simple launcher to play our favourite game, and everything woked fine so far no matter what Windows we have installed!
Look at what other launchers like ■■■■■■ did all over the years and are still working on older Windows versions no matter the upgrades and stuff…
After trying multiple things, it seems that it might be related to the latest Nvidia update but nothing sure about that yet
I hope that you will find a solution to this problem and the players to play on their FiveM servers
What is it with people somehow assuming game mods are just ‘launchers’?
Again, some recent anticheat changes are somewhat unintentionally broken on your odd 13 year old choice of an OS, this may be fixed in the near future again (perhaps next week’s update, or sometime sooner), but again we can’t test every release on this edge case scenario since it is pretty much impossible to buy any hardware that can run this ancient OS these days, and it’s so ancient that virtual machines for example don’t have working software 3D rendering (a feature introduced in 8, like many others) or 3D rendering at all.
Why anyone uses old OS, software and hardware is anyone guess. I’m “use to” my shoes but eventually one day I’ll have to get new ones. Sounds like pure stubbornness really Both 10 and 11 are free, and I can understand the whole tpm nonsense but at least update to 10. It’s not just about operating systems, it’s about security, support, and having things work.
A fix for Windows 7 has been pushed to the canary branch.
Would be nice for anyone experiencing the issue to confirm it is fixed on Canary so we can schedule a production push in the coming days.
Thank you for your help. I can understand the challenges that you have to come through.
All we want is being able to play the game, so thanks for still caring about us
You answered your own question. I’m good with an old OS for now, i’m just not ready to downgrade to Windows 11 yet, especially when it’s offered for free
I’m totally aware of the security and “old” issues. I’m just feeling good with it for the moment.
Sooner or later i’ll get to the next level don’t worry
