{"id":52103,"date":"2021-03-15T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=52103"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:06:51","slug":"it-took-almost-a-decade-to-fix-grand-theft-auto-onlines-loading-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/03\/15\/it-took-almost-a-decade-to-fix-grand-theft-auto-onlines-loading-times\/","title":{"rendered":"It took almost a decade to fix Grand Theft Auto Online’s loading times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grand Theft Auto Online’s loading times are notoriously slow. It’s been something of a running joke for nearly a decade that loading into Grand Theft Auto V’s multiplayer mode is excruciating. Even with an SSD in the PC version of the game, it can be multiple minutes of staring at the cloudy cityscape of Los Santos while the game slowly ambles along. Now, Rockstar says improvements are coming thanks to a diligent player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of February, a fan who goes by the handle “t0st” wrote that they had found a solution<\/a> that cut GTA Online loading times by up to 70%. (The technical details and sample can be found here<\/a>.) By eliminating a CPU bottleneck that was demanding calls to verify every single item available in the in-game shops, the game loaded significantly faster. So much faster, in fact, that Rockstar confirmed<\/a> that they will be using t0st’s findings, which is good news for the company as there are still thousands of daily players that purchase Shark Cards to buy in-game stuff. The faster they can load in is that much faster to spend all their money and buy more in-game cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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