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This wikiHow teaches you how to relieve your game in GTA IV. As of May 30, 2020, you are required to sign in to Social Club online or by creating an offline account. You tin can sign in without signing into Social Club past changing the engagement on your estimator or using an app that changes the date for specific apps. There is as well a mod that allows you to kickoff the game without a Microsoft/Xbox Live business relationship.

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Launch the game. Click the GTA Four icon on your desktop or Windows Outset menu to launch GTA 4. It has an icon that resembles a roman numeral "IV" in big letters.
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Click Start below the game yous want to play. If you are playing the Complete Edition, you can play either the original GTA Iv or Episodes from Liberty City. Click Start below the game you want to play and so click Start at the bottom of the screen to first the game.

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Press Enter to log in. If you are not signed in to your Social Club account already, yous volition exist prompted to sign in to your Club account. Printing the Enter push to sign in.
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Log into your Social Society account. Enter the email accost and password associated with your Social Society account and click Log In to sign in to your Social Club business relationship. An internet connectedness is required to log in.
- If you do non have a Social Guild account, click Create New Profile. If you want to create an offline account so you can salve your game without an internet connection, click Create Offline Contour. Then enter a username, valid email accost, and password that you will use to log in to your Social Lodge account. Then click Submit.^[1]
- You tin can apply the same Social Gild account for both GTA 4 and GTA Five.
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Play the game. If you have a previous game saved, it will load the latest salvage file and you volition continue where y'all left off. If y'all do non have a previously saved game, you will get-go a new game from the beginning.
- If you want to load a unlike save file or showtime a new game, press Esc and then click Game at the height of the screen. Click the save file you desire to load or click New to beginning a new game.
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Salvage automatically. When logged into your online account, your progress is saved automatically upon completing missions.
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Save manually. You tin can save manually past going to one of your safehouses. They are the house icons on the map. When you're at the safehouse, but caput to your bed and stand close to it. Press F sleep in the bed and save your progress.

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Get to https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html in a web browser. This is where you can download RunAsDate which is a program that allows you to change the date on a Windows executable file earlier launching it. With this program, you tin launch GTA IV with the date set prior to when the game started requiring you to sign in to a Social Club business relationship to relieve.
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Ringlet down and click Download RunAsDate or Download RunAsDate x64 . If y'all are using a 32-fleck version of Windows, click Download RunAsDate. If you are using a 64-bit version of Windows, click Download RunAsDate x64. This will download a zip file containing the RunAsDate programme.
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Extract the contents of the RunAsDate zilch file. The RunAsDate null file contains the RunAsDate program. Double-click the RunAsDate zero file in your web browser or Downloads folder to open up the zip file either in File Explorer or whichever archive program you use on your computer.
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Excerpt the contents of the nix file. The zip file contains an executable file for RunAsDate. Click Extract or Extract all option or similar in your annal program to extract the contents of the naught file. Extract it to any location on your hard drive.
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Double-click RunAsDate.exe . Navigate to the location you extracted the RunAsDate zip file to and double-click RunAsDate.exe to launch the program.
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Select the GTA IV executable file. To select the GTA IV executable file, click Browse in SaveAsDate and and then navigate to the location of your GTA IV launch file. This may exist in your Steam folder nether "Steamapps" and "common" or where ever you chose to install the game. Click the "GTAIV.exe" file and click Open.
- If you are not sure where the GTAIV.exe is located, right-click the launch icon in your Windows Starting time carte and click More. Then click Open file location. This the folder that contains the GTAIV.exe file.
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Select a engagement prior to 5/30/2020. Use the field that has the current date to type in a new engagement. You lot can also click the calendar icon and select a date from the calendar. Enter whatever date prior to 5/30/2020.^[2]
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Click the checkbox next to "Immediate Mode." This ensures the game registers the date alter every bit presently equally information technology launches.
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Click Run . This launches GTA IV with the date change.
- If you desire, you lot can create a desktop shortcut for the game with the permanent engagement change. Type a proper noun next to "Create Desktop Shortcut" and click Create Desktop Shortcut.
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Click Start below the game you want to play. If you are playing the Complete Edition, you tin can play both the original GTA IV or the Episodes from Liberty City game expansion. Click Get-go below the game y'all want to play and so click Showtime at the bottom of the screen to start the game.
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Play the game. If yous have a previous game saved, it will load the latest save file and you will continue where y'all left off. If y'all do non have a previously saved game, you volition start a new game from the starting time.
- If you desire to load a different salvage file or start a new game, press Esc and then click Game Click the save file you want to load or click New to start a new game.
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Save automatically. When logged into your online account, your progress is saved automatically upon completing missions.
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Save manually. You tin relieve manually by going to one of your safehouses in the game. They are the firm icons on the map. When you're at the safehouse, simply caput to your bed and stand up close to it. Printing F sleep in the bed and save your progress.

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Curl downwardly and click Download Now . This downloads the xliveless.dll files from the website. Allow a few seconds for the download to kickoff.
- If it does non start downloading you can click one of the download links on the download page.
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Excerpt the contents of the RAR file to the GTA IV EFLC folder. You lot need to download WinRAR to be able to excerpt RAR files. Extract the "xlive.dll" and "xlive_d.dll" files in the EFLC folder within your GTA Four installation folder. If you downloaded GTA Iv from Stream and installed it to the default location, you can find the folder in "Program Files (x86) > Steam > Steamapps > Common > GTA 4 (Game version) > EFLC."
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Launch the game. Click the GTA 4 icon on your desktop or Windows Start menu to launch GTA IV. It has an icon that resembles a roman numeral "IV" in big letters. Normally, y'all will be asked to sign in to your Xbox Live account before the game launches if you are not already signed in. The xliveless files allow y'all to launch the game without signing in to an Xbox Live business relationship. You can play the game and salvage as you normally would.^[3]
- It may take a picayune longer for the game to launch the first time.
- If you don't accept a Gild business relationship, yous will need to launch the game with RunAsDate in order to bypass the Social Lodge sign-in screen.

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i. Launch GTA 4.
2. Click Kickoff before a game yous want to play.
2. Click Commencement.
4. Printing Enter to sign in to your Social Club account or create a new online or offline account.
5. Complete missions to save the game automatically.
6. Go to a safehouse and slumber in your bed to save manually.

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