Grand Theft Auto V Exited Unexpectedly: How to fix

How to fix the Grand Theft Auto V Exited Unexpectedly error when trying to start the new open world game from Rockstar Games? This a a comment questions belong to the installation problems, that some players including us have. We have tried different solutions from the internet, to solve the problem. Then, after a few hours we finally found a fix for this issue. If you also get the error message “Grand Theft Auto V Exited Unexpectedly” when trying to start or play GTA 5, the following tips may help you to fix it. Rockstar Games hast just released the fifth parts ot the great and maybe the best open-world game Grand Theft Auto 5 for the PC. Even when no problems occur for many users, the above error message appeared on our screen again and again. Fortunetaly we could solve the problem quickly and we have described all necessary steps in this tutorial.

How to fix Grand Theft Auto V Exited Unexpectedly [PC]

As mentioned above, we tried some of the possible solutions found on the web, like update the graphics card drivers, reinstalling and so on. Unfortunally, only one tutorial help us out to solve this issue. The steps differ slightly between the Steam and the Rockstar social club version of GTA 5.

Solution for Steam version

If your GTA 5 crash on start up with the mentioned error message, try to following steps.

1. Open Steam und go into your Library.
2. Now open your games and look for the Grand Theft Auto V entry.
3. Right click and open the “Properties”.
4. Now to to “Local files” and “Verify integrity of game cache”.
5. This feature will run automatically and once it’s finish, hopefully the error Grand Theft Auto V Exited Unexpectedly is gone in your PC version.

Fix for the the Social Club users

If you downloaded GTA 5 over the Social Club and you face the error message Grand Theft Auto V Exited Unexpectedly, then the following should help you to fix this.

1. Open the Windows Explorer and go into the game directory.
2. Create a shortcut file of your GTAVLauncher and save it.
3. Rightclick and open the “Properties”.
4. In the Target box you have to add “-verify”, like “C:/ProgramFiles/RockStarGames/GTAVLauncher.exe” “-verify”
5. Save it and start GTA 5 over the shortcut.
6. This will verify the game files and download any corupted files.

Hope this helps. In our case this little start param resolved the issue and saved us the day.