Is it possible to play GTA 5 as a Steam version without having bought it?

Su
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I have the following problem:

A friend and I want to share a gaming laptop. He owns GTA 5 on Steam, i.e. He bought it on Steam and also downloaded it from there. However, I did NOT buy it directly via Steam, but via R *. But if I now log in to the Rockstar Launcher with my Social Club login data, I only get the opportunity to start the game with his account on Steam.

Is there a way to change that or do I really need to re-download a quasi-identical version of the game?

I hope someone can help me and thank you in advance.

No

You have to go to the installation folder of Socialclub GTA5 and run GTA5.exe there.

Have fun.

Su

Unfortunately does not work. After four in front of me I have the option to choose "Play on Steam".