For about three consecutive days, when I try to install RedM, it get stuck on “Checking for Rockstar Games Update Services”, which becomes “127. Could not locate the Rockstar Games Launcher Process!”.
Additionally, after failing to connect to Rockstar the first time, RedM continued to try to update the Rockstar Launcher files every subsequent time I tried to run the RedM installer.
And I also started getting error messages that would say “Error updating RedM. Unable to open C:\Users[PC name]\AppData\Local\RedM\RedM.app\data\game-storage\launcher/Launcher.exe for writing.” Of note, there’s a slash going the other way at the end.
What have you tried already to fix the issue?
I have tried the following:
reinstalling RedM, Rockstar Games Launcher, RDO, verifying RDR2 files in Steam
clean uninstall and reinstall of the above
resetting my router (unplugged for 7 minutes, replugged)
flushing DNS
turning off antivirus and firewall (and also adding the programs as exceptions)
putting RedM.exe into Program Files\Rockstar Games\Launcher (as suggested by this forum post: Error 127 - #4)
running both as administrator and as a regular user
restarting my PC (it may work the first time, but not subsequent times, and then stopped working entirely)
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Try and roll back your windows update. I had this issue since about mid October. It was weird because I could connect sometimes after trying 3-30 times. Tried every troubleshooting step, including reinstalling windows. Don’t do that. unistall the last update not sure what it was but googled what update was released around halloween. There was one on october 14th. I ended up getting a older release of windows sept 29th installed it with no internet and disable update after install. Been working fine for 3 days now. Hope this helps
Yesterday, a friend helped me with the following:
So, we uninstalled and reinstalled Rockstar
Then we went to Program Files\Rockstar Games\Launcher
We made sure that none of them were running as administrator (because RedM doesn’t like that)
We also went to Launcher.exe Properties, then Security tab, then edit “Permissions for Authenticated Users”, and then clicked on each group and checked “Allow” next to “Full control”.
Then I think we uninstalled RedM and reinstalled a fresh version of RedM (installer downloaded from website), and that worked.
So we were able to have Rockstar and RedM running. However, it would only work the one time. If you closed either of them and tried to reopen them, you would get those same errors again.
So the only workaround we found is restarting my PC and immediately opening Rockstar and then immediately opening RedM.
If you crash or quit either one, it will not open again unless you restart your PC.
Today, we tried uninstalling the 3 most recent Windows updates on my PC and everything started working fine!
