How a Hacker Cut GTA Online’s Loading Time by 70% Using Code Hooks

A reverse‑engineer discovered that GTA Online’s slow startup stems from an inefficient if‑loop that scans a 10 MB JSON file 1.98 billion times, and by hooking strlen and replacing the loop with a hash‑map, reduced load times from six minutes to under two minutes.

GTA OnlinePerformance Optimizationcode hooking

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