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Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 years ago

Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam

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Rockstar selling you cracked copies on Steam

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Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 years ago
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/16afo4x/rockstar_selling_you_cracked_copies_on_steam/

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    2 years ago

    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…

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      Writeup: https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

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        Good on R* for fixing the bug and paying the bounty. Nintendo would’ve given him the middle finger and a cease and desist.

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          Rockstar also has a pair of middle fingers:

          • https://za.ign.com/grand-theft-auto-v/180711/news/creator-of-ai-powered-gta-5-story-mode-mod-unlikely-to-fight-back-against-take-two-after-shutdown
          • https://www.gameinformer.com/mod-corner/2021/09/07/massively-beloved-gta-mod-taken-down-modders-claim-increasing-hostility-from
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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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