Player Helped Rockstar Games Seriously Reduce Download Times in Grand Theft Auto Online on PC and Received $ 10K

Multiplayer game Grand theft auto online received a useful update that significantly reduces the speed of in-game downloads by PC… Reach optimization team Rockstar games managed with the help of one talented enthusiast.

In early March, a partial fan of the online action movie, writing on the network under the nickname t0st, I tried to personally establish why the project takes a very long time to load on a PC (up to 7-10 minutes). In the process, he found out that Grand Theft Auto Online inefficiently processes data about the current state of the game world, loading the processor with a double check of more than 60 thousand elements (over 2 billion operations). Through a series of file manipulations, t0st found a way to shorten the download times in Grand theft auto online for whole 70%… He shared the information with the developers, and received an answer only two weeks later.

The creators of the game personally made sure that the t0st method works and implemented it in the 1.53 update

“After a close examination of the situation, we can conclude that the user with the nickname t0st actually managed to find in the game code an opportunity to reduce the load time of content,” – said in a comment from representatives of Rockstar Games.

As a gratitude for his work, the gamer received $ 10 thousand from the developers themselves and popular recognition… Users massively thank him, because now the game is loaded for 1-3 minutes instead of 7-10 minutes.

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