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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 | 1 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | 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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db48x ◴[23 Apr 25 15:33 UTC] No.43773326[source]▶
It was like crack. People put up with a lot of problems and bugs just because it was really fun just enough of the time to get them hooked.
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1. Henchman21 ◴[23 Apr 25 17:25 UTC] No.43774473[source]▶
Definitely similar to a drug addiction, speaking from firsthand experience with both. GTA has been harder to give up than cocaine was.