GTA 5 On Pc

kill1978 · 9 Jan 2020 at 13:20

Hi I wonder if anyone can help please. I'm trying to get on to gta 5 to play the online version does anyone know what to do please thank you

Amnesia · 9 Jan 2020 at 13:22

Have you bought the game, as thats the first step.

Use your D-pad on your controller to bring up a menu and select play online

kill1978 · 9 Jan 2020 at 13:23

yes I have I bought it on steam

suenstar · 9 Jan 2020 at 13:38

There's multiple ways to get to the online mode...
When you launch the game, it should ask you during the loading screen if you want to play Story Mode or Online.
Alternatively whilst playing, pause the game and there's a whole 'online' menu section.
Thirdly you should also be able to switch to online gaming whilst playing the Story Mode by using the character swapping feature and selecting the space that doesn't contain Franklin, Trevor or Michael (I believe it's at the bottom of the wheel).

Edit:
There's also a massive GTA 5 thread if you want to link up with other people on here that play:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...important-warning-updated-in-the-op.18665862/

Amnesia · 9 Jan 2020 at 13:39

kill1978 · 9 Jan 2020 at 14:18

thank you

Van_Dammesque · 9 Jan 2020 at 21:33

You need to make sure Rockstar Games Social Club is installed, at least that is what I have to do for the disc version!

b00merang69 · 9 Jan 2020 at 21:42

Rockstar Games Social Club < that junk had an issue where it sat running in the background all the time and made PC slow down (think it was patched).

AHarvey · 17 Jan 2020 at 08:52

I am looking at getting this too as my 5 years has been asking. I've played the single-player through but he enjoys watching these driving course videos on youtube. I take it these are just player-created mods/content?

bazzabear · 17 Jan 2020 at 09:31

You want to get your 5 year old playing an 18 certificate game with constant swearing and violence?

AHarvey · 17 Jan 2020 at 12:10

bazzabear said:
You want to get your 5 year old playing an 18 certificate game with constant swearing and violence?

I take it you completely missed the "these driving course videos on youtube. I take it these are just player-created mods/content?"

that's what he's interested in and gta 5 seems to be the platform that is mostly used to do it.

suenstar · 17 Jan 2020 at 12:52

AHarvey said:
I am looking at getting this too as my 5 years has been asking. I've played the single-player through but he enjoys watching these driving course videos on youtube. I take it these are just player-created mods/content?

The custom race tracks are generally made using the GTA 5 Map Editor mod and played using the FiveM client for GTA 5, there's also tons of maps shared on the GTA 5 Mods website.

AHarvey · 17 Jan 2020 at 12:54

suenstar said:
The custom race tracks are generally made using the GTA 5 Map Editor mod and played using the FiveM client for GTA 5, there's also tons of maps shared on the GTA 5 Mods website.

Thanks, I'll have a look. That's all he's interested in so he'll love it.

suenstar · 17 Jan 2020 at 13:22

AHarvey said:
Thanks, I'll have a look. That's all he's interested in so he'll love it.

If it's a racing game with a track builder he's after, he may also like the look of BeamNG.drive.

AHarvey · 17 Jan 2020 at 13:27

suenstar said:
If it's a racing game with a track builder he's after, he may also like the look of BeamNG.drive.

Nice one, I'll have a nosy after work when the gaming sites aren't banned

bazzabear · 17 Jan 2020 at 14:03

AHarvey said:
I take it you completely missed the "these driving course videos on youtube. I take it these are just player-created mods/content?"

that's what he's interested in and gta 5 seems to be the platform that is mostly used to do it.

I didn't miss it, but my memory of playing GTA5 (from a good few years ago) was that to get to the player made races involved going through the main online game. It might be that I'm wrong and things have changed these days - but I'd be at least cautious about what he'll have access to if I were you.

Apologies though that my reply was flippant.

suenstar · 17 Jan 2020 at 14:38

bazzabear said:
I didn't miss it, but my memory of playing GTA5 (from a good few years ago) was that to get to the player made races involved going through the main online game. It might be that I'm wrong and things have changed these days - but I'd be at least cautious about what he'll have access to if I were you.

Apologies though that my reply was flippant.

I think it's changed a little bit after Rockstar more or less kicked modding off of the official GTA Online servers, I think partly because people modded in money spawners and that rendered their micro-transaction shark cards obsolete.

Some of the self hosted servers on FiveM that are specifically for races have a lot of things disabled/changed to prevent anyone fighting or messing with the races. The more serious servers also often require registration and approval so less chance of encountering someone with bad intentions on those one, though I'd still probably sit and monitor any game if it was my kid playing online with strangers... I assume AHarvey would be doing that as well.