How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

Excellent investigation, and an elegant solution.

There's a "but" though: you might end up getting banned from GTA Online altogether if this DLL injection is detected by some anti-cheat routine. The developers should really fix it on their end.

Yeah, there's some disclaimers in the PoC repo. Definetly use at your own risk.

It's highly unlikely you are going to get banned on GTA even with cheats. The anti-cheat is a joke. The game is filled to the brim with cheaters. If me and my friends play, we play with cheats just to protect ourselves from other cheaters.

Game cheat dev here: Just to provide some context, the GTA Online client is woefully horrible at doing client-side validation on the packets it receives from other peers. (there isn't an authoritative server)

This means that anyone in your session can send you a weirdly-formed packet to crash your game. Most cheats have protections against this by just doing Rockstar's job and adding better validation around packet interpretation routines.

Using "cheats just to protect [your]selves" actually makes a lot of sense.