So I bought GTA IV through Amazon and redeemed the key in Steam, downloaded it in Steam, and installed it in Steam. I installed Games for Windows Live without any problem and signed into Rockstar Social Club without problem.

I can launch the game, however when I hit play it gets stuck on the loading screen. It'll just play the music and loop the music infinitely until I restart my computer.

I can't seem to find a solution for the problem. I've read you should reinstall games for Windows which I did but it made no difference. I right click the lanucher.exe and it doesn't give me a compatibility mode tab, so I can't try that.

Any way to get this to run?

Any advice, or anyone else ever experience this?

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3004707 maybe?

Nope... Don't think so....for one there's no Windows Live directory to put those files in... at least not anywhere I can find.

EDIT: Okay I installed all of the optional Windows 8 updates, plus a recommended update and now it works. Sweet :)

Okay it worked that once and ever since then I get the same problem, it won't get past the loading screens. Any other advice?

Got the same problem. I just thinking Windows 8 just can't play it anymore.

It's been working for me with 64 bit Windows 8, or at least it was a couple days ago, I haven't played since.

It was working for me a back when i was playing it , WIn8 64 pro

Are you sure it's just not loading? I have this issue on Windows 7 when I first install GTA IV. It takes forever for it to load. Just keeps looping pictures, but eventually starts.

@jdh5153: i have a non steam version but facing the same infinite loop problem