DirectX version: If you are running the game in DirectX 9, you will probably face the not launching issue.Noise is available on Steam and we noticed several different cases where the game was unable to launch because administrator privileges were not granted. It won't affect them normally but if feel the need to do so, they're located in 'Documents/Rockstar Games/ L.A. If it didn't show up, go the Virus and Threat Protection > History of protection > Check the last 'Threat Quarantined' > Action > Restore.

Windows Defender pop up shows up like : ' VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.XZ', click on it and restore the file. Launch the game, alt+tab and wait a few seconds Reactivate the 'Virus and Threat Protection' Install the game (Fitgirl repack in my case) Uninstall the game with the unins000.exe in the game folder.ĭisable the 'Virus and Threat Protection' in your Windows Security settings. If it didn't work, 'SC1 Missing dll' or 'Rockstar Social Club is outdated, please update', do the steps below: Go the Virus and Threat Protection > History of protection > Check the last 'Threat Quarantined' > Action > Restore. My guess, it's a new anti piracy measure and also to migrate the old Social Club to the new Rockstar Game Launcher. (see below)ĭownloading a new socialclub.dll file from the Internet doesn't seem to work either. You'll will have to reinstall the game to generate a 'good' socialclub.dll file. The file will still be present but blocked.Īnother important thing, if you try to copy a socialclub.dll from the Rockstar Social Club or the new Rockstar Game Launcher, like many other posts or videos suggested until now, you'll get an new 2022 error like: ' The version of your Rockstar Social Club is outdated, please update' and it will block you at the game startup.īlocking LA Noire in the firewall won't solve this issue. Now in May 2022, it will block it immediately at the installation, hence the error 'missing socialclub.dll' at the file checkup and the ' SC1 Missing dll' at the game startup. Windows Defender didn't block the socialclub.dll at the installation when I installed it few month back, but somehow decided to block the dll file a few months later. I've never had an issue before, been playing for a month or two then stopped playing for like a month ago, and then, couldn't launch the game back. The symptoms of a missing or blocked socialclub.dll in 2022 are : ' SC1 Missing dll. The only good fix in my case, was to reinstall the whole game. The Windows Defender 'restore' method like you suggested didn't work for me.

The socialclub.dll file was still visible in the explorer, hence my astonishment when seeing this error.

In my case, Windows Defender didn't delete but simply blocked it. Windows defender did do his dirty work in silence for me too (May 2022)

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