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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you saying the INSANE GTA Online load time is fixed now?

Back in the old day, I literally just throw my hands up and said "I can't wait for this shit anymore, I don't have all day" then rage quit and delete the game.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rockstar paid the guy like 50K or something for discovering it, and then it was apparently implemented into GTA online. Too bad I quit playing that time black hole years ago.

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago

I watched a YT video about this and they said the guy was paid 10K (way too low imo), a Google search shows different numbers everywhere so it's hard to confirm. But at least the guy got paid, for sure.

As far as I'm understanding it, the game was using a single threading process to load every single items in the game one by one (over 10 thousands in total), then checking again for duplicate.

[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Yep. I'd long quit the game when they finally figured it out.