Kane99 Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 If you've ever played GTA V, you know the game is a massive slog to load the game world up, and even more so when it comes to booting up the online mode. Why is it that it takes so long for GTA V to load? The reason it takes so long to load, is due to the amount of products you can buy in game. As each item has a unique number associated with it. Here's exactly why it loads so slowly: From GTA Boom Quote Essentially, there are two main culprits that bog down the loading process, and one of them truly is tied to the amount of content in the game - specifically, the amount of things you can buy. Everything you can purchase in the game has a unique number associated with it, and all of this information is stored in one, comparatively huge, 10 MB JSON file. Every existing variant and combination of all items, vehicles and properties - meaning every possible visual upgrade combination of every vehicle in the game, for example - is in this, totaling at over 63,000 items. Every time you load up GTA Online, this entire list is checked. However, instead of moving immediately on to the next item upon a successful return, the parse jumps back to the start and goes through the whole list again until it reaches the subsequent item. According to tostercx's calculations, this means that the check runs 1,984,531,500 times every time you load the game! So essentially, he stopped it from starting the list over each time, and instead move it to the next in the list as it probably should. He was able to get it down from a 6 min + load time to just a bit over a minute. He informed Rockstar and forwarded the details to them. So it's now up to them to implement their own patch. You can choose to use the patch yourself, but do so at your own risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
