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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

(nee.lv)
3883 points kuroguro | 4 comments | 28 Feb 21 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.64s | source
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kevinventullo ◴[28 Feb 21 20:49 UTC] No.26296938[source]▶
I gave up on playing GTA:O because everything took so long to load, having never spent a dime. I have to imagine there is so much lost revenue because of this bug; I hate to be harsh but it is truly an embarrassment that someone external to R* debugged and fixed this before they did (given they had 6 years!).
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1. ThomW ◴[28 Feb 21 21:30 UTC] No.26297248[source]▶
Load times is absolutely the primary reason I quit playing.
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2. bouke ◴[28 Feb 21 21:38 UTC] No.26297319[source]▶
Same here, being slow as molasses really spoiled the game for me. I wonder if the same software quality caused other unnecessary in-game loading times. I felt that time spent playing GTA:O was about 60% waiting in lobby/playing, and the remaining 40% actual play time. Same with RDR2 by the way.
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3. gridspy ◴[28 Feb 21 22:40 UTC] No.26297792[source]▶
These problems come down to which programmers were allowed to remain on the team and how much they were allowed to change. So all similar performance problems will remain.
4. jjulius ◴[01 Mar 21 00:50 UTC] No.26298600[source]▶
I can stomach a long load time (but that's not to excuse how godawful this load time is), just as long as it's worth it. I need some kind of resolution/ultimate goal, but in GTA:O there really isn't one; it's just grind-grind-grind so that you can get yet another car, or another house, or another thing that you already have plenty of. Lather, rinse, repeat in perpetuity.

I just felt like every time I logged in I went, "So what's the point here?".