The JSON file in question appeared to be the "net shop catalog" that describes every single item GTA Online players can purchase with in-game currency. After using a tool to dump the process stack and disassembling the GTA code as it was running in memory, T0st noticed a set of (somewhat obfuscated) functions that seemed to be parsing a 10MB JSON file with over 63,000 total entries. To get to the bottom of the problem, T0st writes that they started by profiling their own CPU to try to figure out why the game was maxing out a single CPU thread for over four minutes during loading. The problem is even harder to understand when the single-player Grand Theft Auto V tends to load many times faster. That's not a scientific survey or anything, but even accounting for self-selection and reporting issues, those load times are very long, especially for such an old game. An anonymous Reddit poll last year found that roughly half of players were waiting three to six minutes for the game to load up, and about 35 percent of players waiting even longer to start every session.
Further Reading Take Two cancels plans to stop printing money via Grand Theft Auto Online Grand Theft Auto Online's PC load times have been a persistent issue for seven years now, remaining slow despite general improvements to hardware and the game's status as a continuing lucrative revenue stream for publisher Take Two.
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