[Bug]: "The game process was not detected after launching. Is it taking too long to start?"

[JamesMDenton]

Describe the bug

Occasionally I will get this notification after launching the game via YLP: "The game process was not detected after launching. Is it taking too long to start?"

The game has already launched and is actively running when this notification dings.

Steps To Reproduce

It seems to only happen what I am not trying to get it to happen.

Expected behavior

Not doing that.

Log

[23:16:40] [INFO]: [ProcMon]: Found process 'GTA5_Enhanced.exe'
[23:16:59] [WARN]: The game process was not detected after launching. Is it taking too long to start?
[23:17:00] [DEBUG]: Scanning memory pattern: 'Game Version'
[23:17:00] [DEBUG]: Found pattern 'Game Version' at 0x7FF7C8582EF0
[23:17:00] [DEBUG]: Scanning memory pattern: 'Game Time'
[23:17:00] [DEBUG]: Found pattern 'Game Time' at 0x7FF7C9BB3C71

Screenshots / Video

Store

Steam

Additional context

WaitForGameReady might need longer than 35 seconds?

Not a hardware issue.
CPU: i9-13900K
RAM: 96GB DDR5
Game SSD: Samsung 990 PRO 4TB NVMe
GPU: RTX 4080

Version

• I've confirmed the issue exists on the latest version of YLP.

[xesdoog]

Hi James,

This happens because GTA V is notoriously slow to load due to the Rockstar Launcher being royally fucked. The process can exist for quite some time before the game actually starts. That’s why the program may say it found the process but also didn’t detect the game yet. It sounds confusing but it simply means the process exists while the game itself hasn’t loaded (no game window, memory hasn't been mapped, etc.).

YLP waits up to 35 seconds for the game to load. If it doesn’t fully start within that time, for example if the Rockstar Launcher hangs or begins updating or crashes, you’ll see that warning. The wait time is unrelated to anything else other than UI purposes. It's only there to prevent users from launching the game again after already attempting to launch it because of how slow it can be. You can see the Play/Start button being greyed out until either the game loads or the timer expires.

TLDR; It’s not an error, just a warning to let you know the program attempted to start the game but it either took too long to load or closed itself. You can safely ignore it, everything will still work as expected.

[JamesMDenton]

Thanks for the reply!
I didn't think it was an error, just might be nice to be able to extend the timeout period in settings or silence the notification.

It seems to happen whenever I haven't started GTA for 15-20 min (so most times unless I'm testing something) and the timing is just slightly off, as it dings after the fullscreen (technically borderless window) takeover has happened and the intro movies are playing. So I keep tabbing out to make sure it's not an error or something that needs my attention.

[xesdoog]

Thanks for the reply!
I didn't think it was an error, just might be nice to be able to extend the timeout period in settings or silence the notification.

It seems to happen whenever I haven't started GTA for 15-20 min (so most times unless I'm testing something) and the timing is just slightly off, as it dings after the fullscreen (technically borderless window) takeover has happened and the intro movies are playing. So I keep tabbing out to make sure it's not an error or something that needs my attention.

Totally agree.

I will add an option to extend the wait time and an option to mute notifications. I think it would probably be wise to just remove that notification? I'm not sure, it does feel a bit too repetitive and useless.