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Important Not for the Mod Name
This mod will be changing its name from "EXE Integrity Bypass Against RGL" (the next name has not been decided actually, let me dig into the issue more first), which will also be applied to archives since v1.1. alloc8or told us more accurate info about why GTA5.exe fails to check the integrity against socialclub.dll in versions older than game build 2845.
About
This ASI program bypasses/disables the issuer check that GTA5.exe does, which is done by communicating with socialclub.dll. As a result, you can avoid the game refusing to start with the error code 16 for using a old version of the exe. For your information, you cannot patch the exe file with a hex editor at all because almost all part of the game code is encrypted before the launch of the game. This ASI does not disable any social club features, so you can use them (e.g. using your characters for GTA Online in the Director Mode). You should use this mod with the latest RGL!
You can't access GTA Online with the ASI loader installed since v1.0.1032.1 (v1.3.9), so you don't need to worry about accessing it by accident.
Without modifying the game code, the game tests if the issuer of socialclub.dll is either "Entrust Code Signing Certification Authority - L1D, Entrust Code Signing CA - OVCS1", or "DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA" at a earlier stage (will be called during the first Rockstar logo movie and only once, the issuer check won't be done in newer game builds). This plugin just prevents the game from listening to the query result. Looks like Rockstar Games started testing even in Steam and EGS versions starting from April 4th 2023 (in UTC) at the latest.
What made you create this and not alloc8or?
Firstly, alloc8or could make this kind of tool if this issue started to happen for everyone who tries to use a non-latest version until the first half of 2022, but he hasn't been active in GTA modding that much since the beginning of 2023. Another brilliant dev who is familiar with computer science so much got inactive, just like MulleDK19 (who is one of the developers who made RAGE Plugin Hook and has been inactive since May 2021). Neither of them provided source codes of their works or obfuscated their code though (for obfuscation I'm sure works of MulleDK19 or LMS are affected but maybe not the case for alloc8or's).
Secondly, discussing pirating stuff is not allowed in 5Mods and some moderator silently deleted one of my massage that innocently included how to bypass this check with pirated stuff in the 5Mods Discord.
For those reasons, I thought I should create this program to provide a clean way that will be allowed to discuss and this will make us easier to inspect old versions using a disassembler without the help of tainted/dirty stuff (and I will need this tool to add tons of advanced features in ScriptHookVDotNet too, where I am one of the collaborators and the only active one). I tried to create this and managed to do like in 6 hours including the simple log system and a simple testing for compatibility.
Installation
Simply drop ExeIntegrityBypassAgainstRGL.asi into your Grand Theft Auto V folder.
You can see ExeIntegrityBypassAgainstRGL.log created or updated if the ASI runs and the exe has the permission to write to the root folder (won't update the log if the permission is insufficient as logging is not mandatory).
You will need appropriate update.rpf files (at least appropriate ysc script files) for the GTA5.exe you are planning to use (e.g. update.rpf for game build 2699 for the b2699 of GTA5.exe) because hashes for native functions are actually changed in most updates (but no native hash update between b2612 and b2699 at least).
Requirements
The ASI loader. Script Hook V is not needed.
Although this requires Visual C++ Redistributable 2019+ to run, You should have Visual C++ Redistributable 2019 installed already when you installed Rockstar Games Launcher.
Note
To avoid executing the unpatched code, this program will try to patch with another thread and the created thread will keep the main thread suspended until the patch completes (actually yoinked from GTAVLauncherBypass but I changed the code to suspend only one thread). So if the patch fails half done, the game may not get started infinitely.
If Rockstar patch this tool by not even launching a process of GTA5.exe if the exe is not the latest one, this tool can do nothing since the tool can't be loaded in that case (I doubt that will happen since the issuer check is less restricted in later game builds according to what alloc8or said in the above state).
After the patch job is finished, the ASI will detach itself from GTA5.exe and will not occupy the memory or have the lock for the ASI file any longer (Ninja style!), letting you remove the ASI file while the game is running in case you are wondering.
This tool supports all the versions that use Rockstar Games Launcher (tested in b2060, b2372, b2699, and b2845 of Steam version), but this does not support any versions that use the old Social Club system (so this tool doesn't do the job in b1868 or earlier). You can use this tool in the latest version as of your game launch without crashing the game, but this tool does not produce anything meaningful than the complete vanilla game in that case.
Souce Code
Can be found on GitHub, which is licensed under BSD Zero Clause License, where you can do basically anything against the source code but not a public domain dedication (so some parties such as Google can use some piece of code) and without liability and warranty.
I don't want to keep this thing secret or protected with copyright. Some part of source code is redundant (in v1.0) since I made this tool in a bit of a hurry.
This mod will be changing its name from "EXE Integrity Bypass Against RGL" (the next name has not been decided actually, let me dig into the issue more first), which will also be applied to archives since v1.1. alloc8or told us more accurate info about why GTA5.exe fails to check the integrity against socialclub.dll in versions older than game build 2845.
About
This ASI program bypasses/disables the issuer check that GTA5.exe does, which is done by communicating with socialclub.dll. As a result, you can avoid the game refusing to start with the error code 16 for using a old version of the exe. For your information, you cannot patch the exe file with a hex editor at all because almost all part of the game code is encrypted before the launch of the game. This ASI does not disable any social club features, so you can use them (e.g. using your characters for GTA Online in the Director Mode). You should use this mod with the latest RGL!
You can't access GTA Online with the ASI loader installed since v1.0.1032.1 (v1.3.9), so you don't need to worry about accessing it by accident.
Without modifying the game code, the game tests if the issuer of socialclub.dll is either "Entrust Code Signing Certification Authority - L1D, Entrust Code Signing CA - OVCS1", or "DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA" at a earlier stage (will be called during the first Rockstar logo movie and only once, the issuer check won't be done in newer game builds). This plugin just prevents the game from listening to the query result. Looks like Rockstar Games started testing even in Steam and EGS versions starting from April 4th 2023 (in UTC) at the latest.
What made you create this and not alloc8or?
Firstly, alloc8or could make this kind of tool if this issue started to happen for everyone who tries to use a non-latest version until the first half of 2022, but he hasn't been active in GTA modding that much since the beginning of 2023. Another brilliant dev who is familiar with computer science so much got inactive, just like MulleDK19 (who is one of the developers who made RAGE Plugin Hook and has been inactive since May 2021). Neither of them provided source codes of their works or obfuscated their code though (for obfuscation I'm sure works of MulleDK19 or LMS are affected but maybe not the case for alloc8or's).
Secondly, discussing pirating stuff is not allowed in 5Mods and some moderator silently deleted one of my massage that innocently included how to bypass this check with pirated stuff in the 5Mods Discord.
For those reasons, I thought I should create this program to provide a clean way that will be allowed to discuss and this will make us easier to inspect old versions using a disassembler without the help of tainted/dirty stuff (and I will need this tool to add tons of advanced features in ScriptHookVDotNet too, where I am one of the collaborators and the only active one). I tried to create this and managed to do like in 6 hours including the simple log system and a simple testing for compatibility.
Installation
Simply drop ExeIntegrityBypassAgainstRGL.asi into your Grand Theft Auto V folder.
You can see ExeIntegrityBypassAgainstRGL.log created or updated if the ASI runs and the exe has the permission to write to the root folder (won't update the log if the permission is insufficient as logging is not mandatory).
You will need appropriate update.rpf files (at least appropriate ysc script files) for the GTA5.exe you are planning to use (e.g. update.rpf for game build 2699 for the b2699 of GTA5.exe) because hashes for native functions are actually changed in most updates (but no native hash update between b2612 and b2699 at least).
Requirements
The ASI loader. Script Hook V is not needed.
Although this requires Visual C++ Redistributable 2019+ to run, You should have Visual C++ Redistributable 2019 installed already when you installed Rockstar Games Launcher.
Note
To avoid executing the unpatched code, this program will try to patch with another thread and the created thread will keep the main thread suspended until the patch completes (actually yoinked from GTAVLauncherBypass but I changed the code to suspend only one thread). So if the patch fails half done, the game may not get started infinitely.
If Rockstar patch this tool by not even launching a process of GTA5.exe if the exe is not the latest one, this tool can do nothing since the tool can't be loaded in that case (I doubt that will happen since the issuer check is less restricted in later game builds according to what alloc8or said in the above state).
After the patch job is finished, the ASI will detach itself from GTA5.exe and will not occupy the memory or have the lock for the ASI file any longer (Ninja style!), letting you remove the ASI file while the game is running in case you are wondering.
This tool supports all the versions that use Rockstar Games Launcher (tested in b2060, b2372, b2699, and b2845 of Steam version), but this does not support any versions that use the old Social Club system (so this tool doesn't do the job in b1868 or earlier). You can use this tool in the latest version as of your game launch without crashing the game, but this tool does not produce anything meaningful than the complete vanilla game in that case.
Souce Code
Can be found on GitHub, which is licensed under BSD Zero Clause License, where you can do basically anything against the source code but not a public domain dedication (so some parties such as Google can use some piece of code) and without liability and warranty.
I don't want to keep this thing secret or protected with copyright. Some part of source code is redundant (in v1.0) since I made this tool in a bit of a hurry.
First Uploaded: April 20, 2023
Last Updated: May 02, 2023
Last Downloaded: 2 minutes ago
133 Comments
More mods by kagikn:
Important Not for the Mod Name
This mod will be changing its name from "EXE Integrity Bypass Against RGL" (the next name has not been decided actually, let me dig into the issue more first), which will also be applied to archives since v1.1. alloc8or told us more accurate info about why GTA5.exe fails to check the integrity against socialclub.dll in versions older than game build 2845.
About
This ASI program bypasses/disables the issuer check that GTA5.exe does, which is done by communicating with socialclub.dll. As a result, you can avoid the game refusing to start with the error code 16 for using a old version of the exe. For your information, you cannot patch the exe file with a hex editor at all because almost all part of the game code is encrypted before the launch of the game. This ASI does not disable any social club features, so you can use them (e.g. using your characters for GTA Online in the Director Mode). You should use this mod with the latest RGL!
You can't access GTA Online with the ASI loader installed since v1.0.1032.1 (v1.3.9), so you don't need to worry about accessing it by accident.
Without modifying the game code, the game tests if the issuer of socialclub.dll is either "Entrust Code Signing Certification Authority - L1D, Entrust Code Signing CA - OVCS1", or "DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA" at a earlier stage (will be called during the first Rockstar logo movie and only once, the issuer check won't be done in newer game builds). This plugin just prevents the game from listening to the query result. Looks like Rockstar Games started testing even in Steam and EGS versions starting from April 4th 2023 (in UTC) at the latest.
What made you create this and not alloc8or?
Firstly, alloc8or could make this kind of tool if this issue started to happen for everyone who tries to use a non-latest version until the first half of 2022, but he hasn't been active in GTA modding that much since the beginning of 2023. Another brilliant dev who is familiar with computer science so much got inactive, just like MulleDK19 (who is one of the developers who made RAGE Plugin Hook and has been inactive since May 2021). Neither of them provided source codes of their works or obfuscated their code though (for obfuscation I'm sure works of MulleDK19 or LMS are affected but maybe not the case for alloc8or's).
Secondly, discussing pirating stuff is not allowed in 5Mods and some moderator silently deleted one of my massage that innocently included how to bypass this check with pirated stuff in the 5Mods Discord.
For those reasons, I thought I should create this program to provide a clean way that will be allowed to discuss and this will make us easier to inspect old versions using a disassembler without the help of tainted/dirty stuff (and I will need this tool to add tons of advanced features in ScriptHookVDotNet too, where I am one of the collaborators and the only active one). I tried to create this and managed to do like in 6 hours including the simple log system and a simple testing for compatibility.
Installation
Simply drop ExeIntegrityBypassAgainstRGL.asi into your Grand Theft Auto V folder.
You can see ExeIntegrityBypassAgainstRGL.log created or updated if the ASI runs and the exe has the permission to write to the root folder (won't update the log if the permission is insufficient as logging is not mandatory).
You will need appropriate update.rpf files (at least appropriate ysc script files) for the GTA5.exe you are planning to use (e.g. update.rpf for game build 2699 for the b2699 of GTA5.exe) because hashes for native functions are actually changed in most updates (but no native hash update between b2612 and b2699 at least).
Requirements
The ASI loader. Script Hook V is not needed.
Although this requires Visual C++ Redistributable 2019+ to run, You should have Visual C++ Redistributable 2019 installed already when you installed Rockstar Games Launcher.
Note
To avoid executing the unpatched code, this program will try to patch with another thread and the created thread will keep the main thread suspended until the patch completes (actually yoinked from GTAVLauncherBypass but I changed the code to suspend only one thread). So if the patch fails half done, the game may not get started infinitely.
If Rockstar patch this tool by not even launching a process of GTA5.exe if the exe is not the latest one, this tool can do nothing since the tool can't be loaded in that case (I doubt that will happen since the issuer check is less restricted in later game builds according to what alloc8or said in the above state).
After the patch job is finished, the ASI will detach itself from GTA5.exe and will not occupy the memory or have the lock for the ASI file any longer (Ninja style!), letting you remove the ASI file while the game is running in case you are wondering.
This tool supports all the versions that use Rockstar Games Launcher (tested in b2060, b2372, b2699, and b2845 of Steam version), but this does not support any versions that use the old Social Club system (so this tool doesn't do the job in b1868 or earlier). You can use this tool in the latest version as of your game launch without crashing the game, but this tool does not produce anything meaningful than the complete vanilla game in that case.
Souce Code
Can be found on GitHub, which is licensed under BSD Zero Clause License, where you can do basically anything against the source code but not a public domain dedication (so some parties such as Google can use some piece of code) and without liability and warranty.
I don't want to keep this thing secret or protected with copyright. Some part of source code is redundant (in v1.0) since I made this tool in a bit of a hurry.
This mod will be changing its name from "EXE Integrity Bypass Against RGL" (the next name has not been decided actually, let me dig into the issue more first), which will also be applied to archives since v1.1. alloc8or told us more accurate info about why GTA5.exe fails to check the integrity against socialclub.dll in versions older than game build 2845.
About
This ASI program bypasses/disables the issuer check that GTA5.exe does, which is done by communicating with socialclub.dll. As a result, you can avoid the game refusing to start with the error code 16 for using a old version of the exe. For your information, you cannot patch the exe file with a hex editor at all because almost all part of the game code is encrypted before the launch of the game. This ASI does not disable any social club features, so you can use them (e.g. using your characters for GTA Online in the Director Mode). You should use this mod with the latest RGL!
You can't access GTA Online with the ASI loader installed since v1.0.1032.1 (v1.3.9), so you don't need to worry about accessing it by accident.
Without modifying the game code, the game tests if the issuer of socialclub.dll is either "Entrust Code Signing Certification Authority - L1D, Entrust Code Signing CA - OVCS1", or "DigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA" at a earlier stage (will be called during the first Rockstar logo movie and only once, the issuer check won't be done in newer game builds). This plugin just prevents the game from listening to the query result. Looks like Rockstar Games started testing even in Steam and EGS versions starting from April 4th 2023 (in UTC) at the latest.
What made you create this and not alloc8or?
Firstly, alloc8or could make this kind of tool if this issue started to happen for everyone who tries to use a non-latest version until the first half of 2022, but he hasn't been active in GTA modding that much since the beginning of 2023. Another brilliant dev who is familiar with computer science so much got inactive, just like MulleDK19 (who is one of the developers who made RAGE Plugin Hook and has been inactive since May 2021). Neither of them provided source codes of their works or obfuscated their code though (for obfuscation I'm sure works of MulleDK19 or LMS are affected but maybe not the case for alloc8or's).
Secondly, discussing pirating stuff is not allowed in 5Mods and some moderator silently deleted one of my massage that innocently included how to bypass this check with pirated stuff in the 5Mods Discord.
For those reasons, I thought I should create this program to provide a clean way that will be allowed to discuss and this will make us easier to inspect old versions using a disassembler without the help of tainted/dirty stuff (and I will need this tool to add tons of advanced features in ScriptHookVDotNet too, where I am one of the collaborators and the only active one). I tried to create this and managed to do like in 6 hours including the simple log system and a simple testing for compatibility.
Installation
Simply drop ExeIntegrityBypassAgainstRGL.asi into your Grand Theft Auto V folder.
You can see ExeIntegrityBypassAgainstRGL.log created or updated if the ASI runs and the exe has the permission to write to the root folder (won't update the log if the permission is insufficient as logging is not mandatory).
You will need appropriate update.rpf files (at least appropriate ysc script files) for the GTA5.exe you are planning to use (e.g. update.rpf for game build 2699 for the b2699 of GTA5.exe) because hashes for native functions are actually changed in most updates (but no native hash update between b2612 and b2699 at least).
Requirements
The ASI loader. Script Hook V is not needed.
Although this requires Visual C++ Redistributable 2019+ to run, You should have Visual C++ Redistributable 2019 installed already when you installed Rockstar Games Launcher.
Note
To avoid executing the unpatched code, this program will try to patch with another thread and the created thread will keep the main thread suspended until the patch completes (actually yoinked from GTAVLauncherBypass but I changed the code to suspend only one thread). So if the patch fails half done, the game may not get started infinitely.
If Rockstar patch this tool by not even launching a process of GTA5.exe if the exe is not the latest one, this tool can do nothing since the tool can't be loaded in that case (I doubt that will happen since the issuer check is less restricted in later game builds according to what alloc8or said in the above state).
After the patch job is finished, the ASI will detach itself from GTA5.exe and will not occupy the memory or have the lock for the ASI file any longer (Ninja style!), letting you remove the ASI file while the game is running in case you are wondering.
This tool supports all the versions that use Rockstar Games Launcher (tested in b2060, b2372, b2699, and b2845 of Steam version), but this does not support any versions that use the old Social Club system (so this tool doesn't do the job in b1868 or earlier). You can use this tool in the latest version as of your game launch without crashing the game, but this tool does not produce anything meaningful than the complete vanilla game in that case.
Souce Code
Can be found on GitHub, which is licensed under BSD Zero Clause License, where you can do basically anything against the source code but not a public domain dedication (so some parties such as Google can use some piece of code) and without liability and warranty.
I don't want to keep this thing secret or protected with copyright. Some part of source code is redundant (in v1.0) since I made this tool in a bit of a hurry.
First Uploaded: April 20, 2023
Last Updated: May 02, 2023
Last Downloaded: 2 minutes ago
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As much as I appreciate for your interests in the RDR2 variant or this tool, I am not doing some research for RDR2.exe for now. I don't have any dumps other than v1.0.1491.17. The ASCII "MO_SC_ERR_GENERIC" string is present in RDR2.exe too, but it looks like it's more obfuscated in RDR2.exe how the error message is determined than in GTA5.exe.
Anyway, thank you for your understanding.
@Anakin01 I apologize, I misread your post. Are you getting any error message? How about this? Update your game simply by swapping in current exe. Remove the bypass mod. Now see if you can login. You might also want to rename dinput8.dll to dinput8.bak to disable all mods. In other words get the vanilla game to work first, then try modded and reverted.
@Anakin01 just to add, your error has nothing to do with code 16 so this bypass mod will not help. If the vanilla game throws a code 16, for unknown reasons, try https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/5165879060883/Social-Club-Error-Code-16
If other loading errors, use Rockstar support pages. No reason for a vanilla game not to load unless launcher or social club have been modified or downgraded. That's the easy part. Then simplify drop in GTA5.exe version 2372 and the bypass mod.
@JohnFromGWN Don't worry, maybe I didn't explain myself well.
I've already tried, the game without the downgrade starts perfectly without problems. I have also removed all the mods and I have left only the degradation 2372 and nothing, it remains the same.
@Anakin01 any game issue can be fixed but suggest you post in forums section as this is unrelated to this bypass, if you're OK with that
@JohnFromGWN I understand. I'll post it on the forums. Thanks for all the trouble.
Works perfect, thank you for the contribution. Wish it worked for version 1868.1. Just missed it by this much! Still thankful.
Lifesavor mod man, It works...I have installed a lot of mods in old gta version which some of them don't even work with new versions of game, I thought they were lost forever but due to your mod they're saved, Hope you keep it updated.
I play in VR and have to use an old version of GTA5 to play. I hadn't played for a while and found out today that I had a 16 error on Steam. This fixed it for me and I can play again. Thanks!!!
Does this work for red dead redemption 2 aswell cause social club launcher?
may have to boycott R* cant begin to fathom how many copies they sold just for modding... and they shit all over the fiveM and SP modding community... of course regular online should be played with 0 mods... some people get confused and think thats what this is all about... but its not. its about a single player or FiveM experience.
hey it's not working
rdr2 version pls
of course this came after i reinstalled gta 5 quite some times to get it back working
People that say this doesn't work, that do not have STEAM version of gta 5, need to unlink game folder from rockstar launcher..... do not hit "scan now" in the rockstar launcher.
god bless you
After installing this I get error code 1005 which for some reason other people didn't?? How do I fix this?
@SideRazor the fact nobody else has this issue might possibly be answered if we knew why your setup was different. Best to post this on the forums providing info on your version of the game etc.
@geniusofgta how do i exactly unlink it
@Lizmono copy your gtav folder to another location so you can delete it from the normal location that rockstar launcher launches the game from, once fully copied, delete normal gtav folder, then open rockstar launcher and it should be unlinked, you can still start gtav from other locations, game should run, and in rockstar launcher, you should see "scan now", but never scan and select a folder. if this doesn't work, i'm sorry i tried.
will this ever be compatible with older versions of the game such as in builds 1800s?