How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

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3883 points kuroguro | 2 comments | 28 Feb 21 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.474s | source

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4cao ◴[28 Feb 21 20:27 UTC] No.26296742[source]▶

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.

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1. away_throw ◴[28 Feb 21 23:05 UTC] No.26297952[source]▶

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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.

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2. half-kh-hacker ◴[01 Mar 21 02:05 UTC] No.26298987[source]▶

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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.

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