GTAO_Booster_PoC VS UIforETW

Everyone should keep in mind that this is the same game whose client-update-handshake-dance largely consisted of an enormous JSON of all the updates that had ever been done to the gamestate, which then got parsed naively. This situation was recognized and patched [0] by an interested third party [1].

Not a slight against the code monkey that implemented it that way, because they surely didn't bother to think about complexity consequences when the gamestate was new and the JSON wasn't 10MB yet, but a slight on Rockstar, because the cash cow that GTA:O turned out to be deserves some fuckin' maintenance, doesn't it? Then again, the eye-popping prevalence of hax0rs in Rockstar games probably ought to signify priorities to even the most casual observer. As others in these comments observe, with what those hackers can achieve, it's not surprising to learn there's RCEs too.

[0] https://github.com/tostercx/GTAO_Booster_PoC

[1] https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

The update was in line with the work of a guy named t0st, who found out why the loading times were so slow in the start and he made a [proof of concept fix](https://github.com/tostercx/GTAO_Booster_PoC) which Rockstar has awarded him $10,000 irl for.

This is an article that reports load times for GTA V PC online were reduced by at least 70% using a mod. Files and instructions to build the mod are found here.

How likely is one to get suspended if one uses the proof of concept for playing the game

The proof of concept source code is on Github.

You can use UI4ETW[0] to capture an event trace when the mouse freezes. You may need to install the Windows SDK or Visual Studio to interpret the results, though.

[0] https://github.com/google/UIforETW

Event Tracing for Windows (WPA/xperf) works quite well for profiling, and it's really easy to set up with UIforETW. Symbol loading works with MSVC-generated symbols (just set the target/debug/ folder as a symbol path), though it's rather slow.

There's a couple methods to achieve this but I like to recommend this project since it provides an easy to use GUI and (iirc) doesn't require the installation of Windows ADK.

If anyone could use UI for ETW (https://github.com/google/UIforETW/releases) to grab an ETL file during the micro-stutters and share it with me, that'd be amazingly helpful. An ETL is like a whole-machine tracefile that'll show exactly what chunk of code is using the time when a stall happens.

Install UI for ETW (https://github.com/google/UIforETW/releases) and collect an ETL file while the stuttering is happening. Upload them to somewhere and send it to JeffHill once you got them.

If you capture an ETL file using UI for ETW (https://github.com/google/UIforETW/releases) and link that ETL file in the report, I'm happy to take a look and see what might be going on?

Could you install UI for ETW and collect an ETL file? https://github.com/google/UIforETW/releases

If you install UI for ETW (https://github.com/google/UIforETW/releases) and capture an ETL trace during gameplay, I'd love to open it with dev tools and find out what's going on! It sounds like you've done all the obvious things, so I'm pretty curious what's actually going on with your system. With a rig like that you should have no problems running Dota at a pretty high frame rate.

If you're seeing poor performance in Dota, one thing that's incredibly helpful is to install UI for ETW (https://github.com/google/UIforETW/releases) and collect an ETL file during the problem. We can read these files to see which parts of Dota are misbehaving or what else on your system might be interacting with Dota.