It's been four days, and I've tried literally everything but have still not been able to even launch the game - please, any suggestions?

So hey! it seems like we are having the 'same' problem! Haha Doesn't BEX64 just fuggin suck? It's sooo super general! It doesn't point us anywhere, which means there are lots of individual problems with lots of individual solutions. I know the feel, I have tried everything short of reinstalling windows which I really don't want to do. The Key Differences between us though is that I'm running windows 7 and I have the retail copy. Our errors are the same though! I cannot get past clicking on my launcher, as it instantly crashes with BEX64 error. Totally annoying and Rockstar support has been terrible. My friend and I have scoured the internet trying all the solutions yet nothing.

There are times where I have made progress past the crash, the first is running it in safe mode with networking. This sadly instantly gives me a social club error saying I need to have Direct X running to go any further. So dead end there. Second is I followed a solution of downloading an Asian version of the launcher, glory behold it allowed me to get to social club menu! I logged in and I was able to download updates and patches to the game. How ever, before the game launches I notice that the Launcher gets replaced with the original, and right when it does BAM bex64 error. I'm thinking it's one of my processes but I have gone through ending process tree's to where supposedly I only have the windows ones running.

I got really fed up and proceeded to 'crack' the game with one provided from the internet to see if that would do anything. It was weird becaused they provided a different individual launcher instead of replacing the one rockstar supplied, that skips it and starts the game by its self. Woo I can play Singeplayer, but really it sucks cause I still cant play Online, which I really want to cause I got so many friends to get it to play with me.. My conclusion is DRM sucks and it's causing more problems that it's supposed to remedy. The game runs fine if you didn't need that Launcher to get to it. So for me, lately I'm considering just slowly uninstalling programs to see if some how the Launcher is nit picky about it. Hope we can figure something out together!

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