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Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed poor load times, official
update coming

By Andy Chalk 15 March 2021

A player recently claimed to have improved GTA Online's loading times
by up to 70 percent. Turns out, they were right.

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Rockstar Games has confirmed to PC Gamer that a fan-made solution to
GTA Online's abysmal loading times will become official in a
forthcoming update. 

At the beginning of March, Github user tostercx, who also goes by
t0st, claimed they'd discovered a way to reduce GTA Online's loading
times by up to 70 percent. Further, they also released a fix that you
can pick up here--with a caveat that it's an unsupported "proof of
concept, not for casual use."

For those interested in the technical angles of such things, tostercx
also wrote up a detailed analysis of what was wrong, and how they'd
fixed it. It's fairly technical, but the short version is that the
slowdown was being caused by "a single thread CPU bottleneck while
starting up GTA Online," a problem they estimated "shouldn't take
more than a day for a single dev to solve."

It actually took a somewhat longer than that, but Rockstar has
confirmed that tostercx's findings were accurate, and that a fix is
on the way.

"After a thorough investigation, we can confirm that player t0st did,
in fact, reveal an aspect of the game code related to load times for
the PC version of GTA Online that could be improved," the company
said in a statement. "As a result of these investigations, we have
made some changes that will be implemented in a forthcoming title
update."

Rockstar didn't say when the fix might become available, nor did it
confirm t0st's estimation of a 70 percent reduction in load times. It
did confirm that the company has been in touch with t0st, however,
"and would like to thank him again for his efforts." 

Hopefully it also threw a truckload or two of GTA$ his way--or even
better, some of that sweet (and real) Rockstar Bug Bounty cash. That
generally relates to security vulnerabilities in Rockstar's online
games, but I feel like rooting out a significant performance blocker
in a six-year-old game is probably worth some real-world
compensation, too.

Andy Chalk

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Andy covers the day-to-day happenings in the big, wide world of PC
gaming--the stuff we call "news." In his off hours, he wishes he had
time to play the 80-hour RPGs and immersive sims he used to love so
much.
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