{"id":245981,"date":"2026-10-26T17:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/gta-onlines-loading-screen-fixed-by-a-total-stranger-game-story"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:11:59","slug":"gta-onlines-loading-screen-fixed-by-a-total-stranger-game-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/gta-onlines-loading-screen-fixed-by-a-total-stranger-game-story","title":{"rendered":"GTA Online\u2019s loading screen fixed by a total stranger #game #story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"GTA Online\u2019s loading screen fixed by a total stranger #game #story\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z65liUjRWyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For 7 years GTA Online kept players waiting up to 6 minutes, until a programmer with no source code found the 2 bugs behind it. He cut load times by almost 70%, and Rockstar paid him $10,000 and shipped his fix. Source (6 minutes, 70%, February 2021, Rockstar\u2019s response): <a href=\"https:\/\/nee.lv\/2021\/02\/28\/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70\/\">https:\/\/nee.lv\/2021\/02\/28\/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70\/<\/a> Full stories on Dead Game Archive. 0:00 The paradox 0:19 It gets worse 1:38 The twist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 7 years GTA Online kept players waiting up to 6 minutes, until a programmer with no source code found the 2 bugs behind it. He cut load times by almost 70%, and Rockstar paid him $10,000 and shipped his fix. Source (6 minutes, 70%, February 2021, Rockstar\u2019s response): https:\/\/nee.lv\/2021\/02\/28\/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70\/ Full stories on Dead Game [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}