A programmer has reduced ‘GTA Online’ load times by over 50 per cent

nme.com:

Grand Theft Auto Online load times by around 70 per cent and released a fix to help players.GTA Online’s PC load times have been a longstanding issue since launch, and over time they have crept to an average of around five minutes.A Reddit poll undertaken last year confirmed that half of players were waiting between three and six minutes for the game to load, with some players waiting upwards of 10 minutes.A blog post written by a programmer using the handle ‘t0st’ explains the reasons for the long load times before going on to cover the steps they have taken in order to implement a fix that reduces the load durations.The blog post goes deep into the programming behind the game’s loading processes but identifies the core of the issues as a.