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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

(nee.lv)
3883 points kuroguro | 2 comments | 28 Feb 21 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.497s | 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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ThomW ◴[28 Feb 21 21:30 UTC] No.26297248[source]▶
Load times is absolutely the primary reason I quit playing.
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1. 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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2. 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.