At the end of February, fans of GTA Online announced they had found a way to reduce GTA Online loading times by up to 70%. In response, Rockstar announced that he had found a solution and that he would officially apply it.
Rockstar announced on the 16th (local basis) that it will apply the GTA online loading time reduction patch created by fans through PC gamers, an overseas game magazine, to the game through a future update. GTA Online was famous for having a long loading time that sometimes requires waiting 5 minutes or more to launch the game.
The solution was found by a programmer using the nickname t0st on the source code sharing site Github. According to what he posted on his blog on February 28th, the issue was caused by a single-threaded CPU bottleneck during the launch of GTA Online, which could be resolved in less than a day by one developer. did.
In response, Rockstar said, “Investigation has confirmed that a user named t0st has found a way to improve the GTA Online PC version in relation to the loading time.” However, it did not say when the changes were applied, or whether the loading time would actually be reduced by 70%.
In addition, Rockstar announced that it has paid $10,000 (approximately KRW 1,133 million) to the user in accordance with its bug bounty program (a reward to external developers who found program vulnerabilities). On the 15th, t0st also announced that it received a bounty from rock stars.