At the end of the list your new entry will appear.ĥ. Select your new just added entry, right click to add a new KEY (as a son of this entry) and call it Grand Theft Auto V so that you finish to have: Rockstar Games └ Grand Theft Auto VĦ. So select Wow6432Node, right click on it, select NEW and select KEY from the submenu to create a new KEY called exactly (case sensitive) Rockstar Games. CLICK TO ZOOM.Ĥ. We need to create the missing entries under Wow6432Node. Since it’s a new Windows installation, we do not find any Rockstar Games entry and this is normal.
On the left side of regedit window, look for and Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then open SOFTWARE then scroll down and open Wow6432Node, then scroll down to the R letter. We need to create the missing keys for the game. Type it into the search windows input box and execute it.
From the old windows, go into your C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\ folder, then open Documents\, look for the Rockstar Games folder and copy it to the same position on C:\ This will preserve old games and profile unless you do want to start a new brand game.ģ. This is under the old Windows’ document folder.Ģ. In order to avoid losing the game progress, let’s copy the User’s profile too. From the old windows, copy the E:\Program Files\Rockerstar Games\Social Club folder to C:\ so to get the copy in C:\Program Files\Rockerstar Games\Social Club each time give permission to read if asked. Remember the letters as seen from the new Windows: old windows E:, new windows C:, game is on D:ġ. LET’S START – First, let’s fix the Social Club things. There are 2 programs to fix, the game and the “social club” program.
I see my old windows with letter E:/ now.Īnd the new windows 10 is on letter C:\ of course.įirst, take note where your Game is on now in my case I installed it on an external hard drive which is now seen as letter D:\ so that I have D:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto V (the 61GB size folder). We assume your windows 7 GTA is/was up and running when on windows 7.
All these steps are done on windows 10 (the destination system) side. Hope this can help someone else as well.īoot and stay in windows 10. Using Regedit and just moving some files. While most of other games run out of the box even if not re-installed ( steam games, ‘s etc), my 61 GB Grand Theft Auto V did not run anymore when clicked.īut I really hoped to run it without re-installing it from scratch. Last week I installed a brand new Windows 10.