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A new update for Grand Theft Auto Online has left the game in shambles for players on the Steam Deck. Here is what we know so far!

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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago

Its broken in the sense that it doesn't work, but it isn't broken in the sense of oops we accidentally broke something.

They added BattleEye anti-cheat to online, without bothering to support linux.

Even though BattleEye can and does support Proton compatibility, and has for years, the developers of the game have to request or opt-in to this functionality.

But uh, Rockstar didn't, because they don't give a shit about linux players.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Remember that JSON issue? They don't give a shit about any players.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I do not, could you explain it?

It's been... about half a decade since I last played GTO.

[-] Rossphorus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

GTA online took ages to load, like 10+ minutes on some machines. One guy got really annoyed and investigated. It turned out to be loading a single 10MB JSON file in an incredibly inefficient manner. The JSON file contains about 60,000 items and they need to extract each item from it, but every time they look for the next item they start from the beginning of the file again, despite already knowing where they found the previous item! All the entries in the JSON list are unique, but the code also checks for any duplicate entries, of course it's also done in the least efficient way possible requiring 1,984,531,500 comparisons for something that has no effect. Not only did this one person find these problems but he also implemented a fix that reduced load times by 70% as a result, shaving off more than 7 minutes of load times for some machines. The fact that Rockstar didn't notice this is frankly shocking and speaks to the fact that they really just don't care.

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

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Thats ... amazing.

Reminds me of when someone figured out that a huge part of the reason Halo Infinite takes so long to load and go between various menu screens was something like the game redownloading hundreds or thousands of the same exact image, in very high resolutions... basically instead of just pointing multiple instances of the image being used to a single file and directory, for some reason each distinct usage of this same image had its own unique directory...

Its the kind of oopsie daisy you expect from a first time modder, not some of the most expensive dev teams in the world.

Also along those lines, kind of: BF2042 has had and still does have a fundamental flaw with the engine level code for fucking mouse movement interpolation.

They never fixed it. They admitted it exists in their bug logs, but they never managed to fix one of the most fundamental parts of a shooter game, how aiming itself works.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fact that Rockstar didn't notice this is frankly shocking and speaks to the fact that they really just don't care.

I have no love for R*, but in this case it's more to do with the size of the company and the fact that the programmers don't get the time to look through and find everything. Even if they did know about it, they may not get the time or resources to fix it because they have schedules and deadlines.

They almost immediately fixed the problem when that modder came to them with the fix and they even paid him a bounty for it.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I think that's the point, nobody is blaming the individual dev but the org and leadership.

[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Well, GTA online is a cash grab and destroyed the single player DLC. So, good. Break it on all platforms for all I care.

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Leave a bad review on steam if you can. Its not much but its something. I won't be buying GTA 6 anyway, they can go suck a lemon

this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
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