GTA 5 game files help

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I have my SSD partitioned into two drives. One for Windows & progs, and one for GTA5.

Long story short, I broke Windows, I let it refresh itself, and it removed almost all of the installed programs.

The GTA5 install is untouched.

How can I reinstall Social Club and point it to the installation directory? If I double click GTA5.exe, it asks me to load the game via PlayGTAV. I click that, I get a window appear with the green bar across the bottom, than it just disappears.

Any ideas? Really don't want to reinstall 65GB :o
 
This is by no means the perfect solution, but if no one comes up with a better idea what you could do is start the install just to see where it wants to install everything, then cancel it and copy the old install over to that location.

There is also a file the installer usually generates to keep track of what has and hasn't been downloaded. You will probably want to delete that too, otherwise it may think that nothing has been downloaded and try to redownload everything again. I can't remember what the file was called, but it should be easy enough to find on google
 
I'll do some more research. I was going to start the installer again hoping it would find it already downloaded, but don't want it to overwrite anything
 
I have done this on two pc's, download the installer and just install it to the same folder. The downloader will just detect the files and not re-download them. I would back up the folder just in case but it worked for me twice (this was not the steam version).
 
FredFlint said:
I have done this on two pc's, download the installer and just install it to the same folder. The downloader will just detect the files and not re-download them. I would back up the folder just in case but it worked for me twice (this was not the steam version).
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I've just tried that, but once I change the installation directory to the previous location, it just says there isn't enough room to start
 
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