Alex0

Well, I deleted the game, uninstalled it fully, and then redownloaded it--nothing changed whatsoever. There was a way that a user found out how to fix it, but it did not work for me in the least. This solution that apparently works for some people can be found at: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/show...ad.php?t=762088 in the 2nd post I believe under the title "The Application Has Failed to Launch." I am rather close to wholly giving up and finding a crack for the game since I've already bought the game and it does not work, or perhaps just getting a refund from Steam and buying another game wholly since GTA IV is so obviously fraught with bugs, which begs the question if it is really worth all of this annoyance. So I'll keep it around for just a bit longer to see if I can fix it or whatever, but yeah. I will certainly post if I find a way to fix it for those of us who the other will not work for, though.

Okay, so I e-mailed SecuROM directly about this problem. After downloading some sort of tool that retrieved data for the problem and taking a screenshot of the error message and attaching them to a second e-mail, they responded with, verbatim: "Thank you for your e-mail. The error code '2000' means that the GTAIV.exe can't be launched from the LaunchGTAIV.exe - e.g. the GTAIV.exe was renamed / deleted / moved,… Undoing this change or re-installing the game could solve the issue." I do not really know how to find the .exe yet (I haven't really looked into it, so I have no clue if it is difficult to do that or not), but I uninstalled the game via the Control Panel and am currently redownloading on Steam. I will keep this updated on what worked or didn't work so that anyone else with the problem now or in the future can know what to do

I purchased GTA IV on Steam a few days ago, started the download Dec. 2 when it released, and it finished sometime this morning. I did the whole Rockstar Social Club registration, though I had nothing to link it to. When prompted to activate it online, I made the mistake (I suppose at this point it must be an understatement) of accidentally clicking "Cancel" instead of "Ok"or "Continue" (whatever it was). I figured, "Hey, no biggy. I'm sure it will just ask again next time I try to launch it from Steam. Wrong. I launched GTA IV from Steam. It brings up the Rockstar Social Club page.. thing.. And I clicked "Play." It does nothing for a few seconds, as if it is about to start up, and then I get an error message that says "SecuLauncer: failed to start application. [2000]" I have tried: Logging Out of Rockstar Social Club, disconnecting from the internet while attempting to launch it, and even tried uninstalling SecuRom with what was supposed to be their official uninstaller. Nothing thus far has worked. I looked at the manual activation page that Rockstar set up, but that is useless for me since none of the things it says I can even do. If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate them.