Rockstar Games has announced that the fan-made solution to the long load times that affect the PC version of GTA Online will be officially implemented in a future update. The Github user tostercx, who also goes by t0st, published a blog post that details how they reduced the GTA Time online loading screen by 70%. This change would reduce the time that players had to wait to load the game from six minutes to just one minute and 50 seconds.
Although t0st shared the correction, they warned that it was an unsupported “proof of concept” and “not for casual use”. They also mentioned that “it shouldn’t take more than a day for a single [Rockstar] dev to solve “the problem.
Rockstar realized this situation and issued a statement to PC Gamer, confirming that the t0st findings were accurate. In addition, he informed that he will be releasing an update that will incorporate his solution to improve the loading time of GTA Online on the PC.
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“After a thorough investigation, we can confirm that the player actually revealed an aspect of the game’s code related to the loading times of the PC version of GTA Online that could be improved,” the company said in a statement. “As a result of these investigations, we made some changes that will be implemented in an upcoming title update.”Rockstar did not share when the fix would be available, nor whether fans could expect a 70% reduction in load times, but said it had contacted t0st and that the company thanked them for their efforts.
T0st shared that Rockstar gave them $ 10,000 through its Bug Bounty program. This is an even more impressive result, as this service from Rockstar is usually intended for anyone who discovers a privacy security issue in the company’s online games. This was a special case, and Rockstar made “an exception” to honor the work of t0st.
IGN contacted Rockstar for a comment.
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