I know that their hardware specs are a lot better but surely not 5x better. How come their story mode still takes near a minute to load? (The M.2 one didn’t count the startup logos btw.) Also, loading story to online takes them only a minute more while I’m getting about five more. I would kill hack for a 2 minute load time! It does seem to be hardware-dependent but something doesn’t add up here… Looking around a bit to find who are the lucky ~20% that get sub 3 minute load times I came across a few benchmarks with high-end gaming PCs and an online mode load time of about 2 minutes. If this poll is to be trusted then the issue is widespread enough to mildly annoy more than 80% of the player base. Even if it did work the results would be down in the noise. I know my setup is dated but what on earth could take 6x longer to load into online mode? I couldn’t measure any difference using the story-to-online loading technique as others have found before me. Startup menu disabled, time from R* logo until in-game (social club login time isn't counted). Some more reading told me we could save a whopping 10-30 seconds with these combined!

Most of the results I found pointed towards anecdata about how the game is so sophisticated that it needs to load so long, stories on how the p2p network architecture is rubbish (not saying that it isn’t), some elaborate ways of loading into story mode and a solo session after that and a couple of mods that allowed skipping the startup R* logo video. Reconįirst I wanted to check if someone had already solved this problem.

Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was released 7 years ago.

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