Rockstar to modder who gta times

Rockstar pays $10,000 to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times Developer working on official patch following user’s work on cutting down load times by 70%

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Rockstar pays $10k to the modder who fixed GTA Online’s ridiculous load times. Grand Theft Auto V ‘s load times are ridiculous. That’s true of GTA V …

But the end result was that t0st said he managed to cut GTA Online loading times by 70% using his method.

Now Rockstar has paid $10,000 to a modder who found a way to reduce them by 70%. The modder, who goes by nickname t0st, discovered a way to make GTA Online load much faster on PC. As he pointed out in his blog post , this issue “shouldn’t take more than a day for a single dev to solve.”

Rockstar Pays $10,000 To Modder Who Fixed GTA Online Loading Times (gamesindustry.biz) 72. Rockstar Games has paid a modder $10,000 for identifying a way to make Grand Theft Auto Online load significantly faster.

TL;DR, the long multiplayer load times were caused by an incredibly inefficient single-threaded parser taking multiple minutes to chew through a 10-megabyte JSON database of in-game store items. 381. level 2. · 10 mo. ago. Crazy, we work with big Data at my company, and a lot of the data is stored as JSON files.

[dupe] Rockstar pays $10k to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times (gamesindustry.biz) 256 points by geuis 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 98 comments

Turns out that they were right – or, at least partly – as Rockstar confirmed this fix worked, although it didn’t specify if the 70% number was accurate. The developer is now set to launch this fix in an official capacity in a future update, hence the pay-out to the modder who discovered the solution six years after GTA5’s launch. Now seems like the perfect time to give …

In fact, the studio will now be rolling out the fix as part of an upcoming update for GTA Online. “After a thorough investigation,” says Rockstar, in a statement made to PC Gamer; “we can confirm that player t0st did, in fact, reveal an aspect of the game code related to load times for the PC version of GTA Online that could be improved. As a result of these …

Modding has been seriously prevalent on pc since pc came out, and Rockstar continues to push detection algorithms to their anticheat. They tend to focus on detection of money cheats or they scan for a hashed signature from the mod menu. Good menu devs who actually understand the code they’re writing know of ways to mitigate this risk.