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Pays to modder who fixed gta

By Jackson Reed

Pays to modder who fixed gta

But the story has taken a fascinating turn with the work of a modder, t0st, who set to work trying to solve a problem that Rockstar seemingly couldn’t. And he…did.

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Rockstar pays $10,000 to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times Developer working on official patch following user’s work on cutting down load times by 70%

Rockstar pays $10k to the modder who fixed GTA Online’s ridiculous load times. Grand Theft Auto V ‘s load times are ridiculous. That’s true of GTA V …

Now Rockstar has paid $10,000 to a modder who found a way to reduce them by 70%. The modder, who goes by nickname t0st, discovered a way to make GTA Online load much faster on PC. As he pointed out in his blog post , this issue “shouldn’t take more than a day for a single dev to solve.”

Rockstar has offered thanks and compensation to a player/modder who discovered a way to severely reduce the load times of the PC edition of the publisher’s bullet-riddled MMO GTA Online.

Paying modders may look good, but I’m afraid it’ll just open another can of worms which will just stifle the freedom of modding the game. In short, don’t rock the boat. 1. level 1. t-narg. · 3m. Dude deserves a lot more than 10k , this fix is worth than any …

TL;DR, the long multiplayer load times were caused by an incredibly inefficient single-threaded parser taking multiple minutes to chew through a 10-megabyte JSON database of in-game store items. 381. level 2. · 10 mo. ago. Crazy, we work with big Data at my company, and a lot of the data is stored as JSON files.

Turns out that they were right – or, at least partly – as Rockstar confirmed this fix worked, although it didn’t specify if the 70% number was accurate. The developer is now set to launch this fix in an official capacity in a future update, hence the pay-out to the modder who discovered the solution six years after GTA5’s launch. Now seems like the perfect time to give …

After all, as noted by TheGamer, Rockstar typically uses the loading screens in GTA Online to advertise current promotions or upcoming content. PC Gamer also confirmed that t0st was thanked generously for their efforts. The modder revealed that Rockstar has awarded them $10,000 through its Bug Bounty initiative.

Modder’s add interest, heck even the game makers themselves are modders… nothing wrong with a sandbox style GTA.. that was the whole point of GTA V, to be different.Usually this is true but GTA V online is a hot mess because of modders. Spawning cops on you, pulling you out of your vehicle, etc, etc.

Will Rockstar pay out to the modder who fixed GTA 5’s Crashing problem?

Turns out that they were right – or, at least partly – as Rockstar confirmed this fix worked, although it didn’t specify if the 70% number was accurate. The developer is now set to launch this fix in an official capacity in a future update, hence the pay-out to the modder who discovered the solution six years after GTA5’s launch.

Did modders ruin GTA Online?

Modders ruined GTA Online, they are everywhere… :: Grand Theft Auto V General Discussions Your preferences are configured to warn you when images may be sensitive.

Is there a fix for GTA 5 loading screens?

The developer is now set to launch this fix in an official capacity in a future update, hence the pay-out to the modder who discovered the solution six years after GTA5’s launch. Now seems like the perfect time to give it another whirl since you’ll probably spend more time in-game than in loading screens once the bug-fix is live.

Why does GTA 5 multiplayer take so long to load?

Soon, that’ll be fixed. Grand Theft Auto 5 modder t0st managed to discover a CPU bottleneck in the PC version of the game’s multiplayer mode which slows down loading screens to such an extent that it became a running joke in the community. Their fix got them a $10,000 reward from Rockstar Games itself.