Will arrive in “upcoming title update”.
Rockstar has confirmed that it will release an update that made a recent solution for fans to reduce the painfully long download time of Grand Theft Auto Online by up to 70 percent.
At the end of February, a programmer named t0st did some research into GTA Online’s infamous long loading times – players that can make players wait five minutes longer to start a game – and made some fascinating discoveries done .
The full story has been conveniently transformed into something like lay terms approached by Will Judd of Digital Foundry, but the quick version is that a peculiarity of GTA Online’s loading processes has seen nearly 2 billion (mostly useless) item checks before each match performed.
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After a bit of tampering, t0st came up with a solution that managed to reduce GTA Online’s load times from six minutes to one minute and 50 seconds – a reduction of almost 70 percent. The solution was shared to GitHub and the world waited to see if Rockstar would respond. And now it has.
“After a thorough investigation, we can confirm that the player first revealed an aspect of the game code related to the download times for the PC version of GTA Online that could be improved,” the company said in a statement provided to PC. Gamer.
“As a result of these investigations, it has continued,” we’ve made some changes that will be implemented in an upcoming title update. ‘
Rockstar has not shared any details about its solution – there is no indication that the official implementation will have a similar 70 percent load time reduction as, for example, those experienced by t0st – and there is still no word on a time frame for the official release.
However, Rockstar confirmed that it had spoken to him about his discovery, “and would like to thank him again for his efforts.”