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[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember that time a random player DRAMATICALLY decreased load times for GTA online after finding bad code that preloaded TONS of game assets? After like, a decade?

Pepperidge Farm remembers...

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe it was a CSV file of every item in all of the shops (comma separated values) and it was being read and stored into memory single threaded so it was maxing out a single core on the CPU.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

JSON, and it had more to do with how they were checking string lengths. But yeah, the general story is that a random dude fixed massive problems with the text parsing.

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

Are you saying the INSANE GTA Online load time is fixed now?

Back in the old day, I literally just throw my hands up and said "I can't wait for this shit anymore, I don't have all day" then rage quit and delete the game.