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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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1371 points yett | 3 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.612s | source
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db48x ◴[23 Apr 25 14:32 UTC] No.43772686[source]▶
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delfaras ◴[23 Apr 25 14:53 UTC] No.43772908[source]▶
funnily enough, there was an infamous bug in GTA5 for a long time that was related to using JSON : https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
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Henchman21 ◴[23 Apr 25 14:57 UTC] No.43772956[source]▶
Loading times are still absurd, fwiw.
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hnuser123456 ◴[23 Apr 25 15:29 UTC] No.43773287[source]▶
Yes, but now it's in the realm of ~3 minutes, and not ~8 minutes even on a top-spec PC, right? I really liked the game, but waiting 8 minutes to load just to get griefed by hackers within seconds of walking outside... I don't understand how that game makes any money.
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1. Henchman21 ◴[23 Apr 25 16:51 UTC] No.43774074[source]▶
IMO it varies widely. This past weekend it was taking me multiple attempts to get logged in to a public lobby— after waiting ~5-10 minutes!

Nothing has changed appreciably. If they would let you login to a private invite-only lobby that would likely speed things up greatly— but it’ll never happen.

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2. formerly_proven ◴[23 Apr 25 17:14 UTC] No.43774347[source]▶
That's probably just the nature of P2P networking code.

> If they would let you login to a private invite-only lobby that would likely speed things up greatly— but it’ll never happen.

Did they remove this option in the last couple years?

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3. Henchman21 ◴[23 Apr 25 17:24 UTC] No.43774462[source]▶
I don’t think its ever been an option to login directly to an invite-only lobby. But then I have taken multiple multi-year breaks! I was pleasantly surprised you can actually play most of the game in a private lobby now… that is a huge change and I am not at all certain when it occurred.