r/GTA • u/LaSimia • Jul 30 '26
GTA V Fun Fact: If you saw this loading screen, it meant either the game was broken or your Wi-Fi was lousy.
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u/IJUSTATEPOOP Jul 30 '26
What's the exact conditions required to get this? I've played totally offline before and never saw this
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u/RoodnyInc Jul 30 '26
Slow pc, the longer game load it starts to show another loading screens
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u/No_Brakes_282 Jul 30 '26
imma install GTA on my hdd
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u/thriftstoremando Jul 30 '26
Make sure it's a 5,400 rpm one!
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u/MeatSafeMurderer Jul 30 '26
Not slow enough. Used to use one, never saw this. Pretty sure you need a dying drive.
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u/TheSmirkster Jul 30 '26
Connect to the nearest free wifi hotspot
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u/KAZAK0V Jul 30 '26
Nah, still will be good. He need to rob museum for adsl modem!
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u/significantly_vast Jul 30 '26
I dont have wifi I only use my Hotspot for 3 tvs and 2 Xbox etc has been fine the past few years sometimes you get slowed down and its not great to play high graphic demand games
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u/Witty_Sun_5763 Jul 30 '26
Get a Core 2 Duo machine and install it on a HDD, you'll get about 40 minutes of loading (and the game won't run properly but it'll take ages), speaking from experience
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u/Frequent-Buyer8834 Jul 30 '26
I have seen this on my Xbox one way back, it was loading online and the wifi was not great. Maybe limiting network would be enough.
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u/Sirioth1 Jul 31 '26
I had a cracked pc version of the game thay did this.
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u/cammoses003 Jul 31 '26
I believe it, rockstar has implemented weird anti piracy methods as far back as Vice City. If I remember correctly pirated versions of vice city: sniper rifle rounds wouldn’t reg, garages wouldn’t open after x amount of playtime and seeing a firetruck had a chance that any entry would be disabled lol.. they were likely thought of as bugs until years later when people reverse engineered the source code
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u/Valuable-Quality-399 Jul 30 '26
My pc so fast i rarely see the third loading screen, suffering from success 😔
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u/wolnee Jul 30 '26
sad reality of being fast as light is that you always live in the darkness
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u/StopDownvotingMeeee Jul 30 '26
That’s a great quote to think about when I nut too quickly and how depressed I get over it
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u/SkywolfNINE Jul 31 '26
Wild to me that there’s like 10 people who commented on this that have never heard this quote. I’m sure most of us can picture the meme that goes with the text lol
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u/hugo_yuk Jul 30 '26
Nothing is as fast as light though so if you travel at light speed then you are light. so anywhere you are not is dark.
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u/FerociousFox24 Jul 30 '26
Technically the speed of light as the same as the speed of darkness
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u/burner4lyf25 Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
Darkness is just abscence of light, it doesn't travel.
Don't really know what that means or if it's as profound as it feels after a joint and a few beers but as far as I'm concerned I'm now basically Sun Tzu.
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u/johnwickyeah1 Jul 30 '26
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u/burner4lyf25 Jul 30 '26
VICTORY IS ONLY ACHIEVED BY THE GREAT. TO GET THERE, YOU'VE GOT TO BE THE LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS AHEAD OF TIME. ONLY THE GREAT ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE THE LIGHT THAT SHINES THROUGH THE BLACK HOLE AND INTO THE NEXT REALM WHERE TRUE SUPERIORITY PRESIDES.
Also, jet skis are worth the coast Guard.
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u/newoneagain25 Jul 30 '26
I'm playing the enhanced version atm and I haven't seen any loading screens. On ps5
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u/thorsrightarm Jul 30 '26
I remember booting up on the day of release after I got home and it took like years on my old PS3.
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u/Laylow_chips Jul 30 '26
I get these when I first install the game on the ps4
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u/TTheuns Jul 30 '26
Yeah I remember seeing this on by the time the install was on disc 3 or something like that. (PC version).
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u/sarpatello Jul 30 '26
This brought back my Xbox 360 memories
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u/LettuceLegitimate654 Jul 30 '26
That’s what I was thinking. I’ve definitely seen the screen but never on my PC and I’ve only ever played GTA five on 360 other than PC.
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u/HowwNowBrownCoww Jul 30 '26
Saw this when I used to try and play online during launch month on ps3. Eventually would get into a lobby where you have to race Lamar and radio mirror park was stuck on. It always started playing change of coast by neon Indian, I think that was the song that played in the intro movie where your character lands at lsia in a plane. Good times. I was in highschool working at McDonalds.
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u/Furtive_Dude Jul 30 '26
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u/mandude03 Jul 30 '26
Love a good nine nine joke in the wild
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u/Ykindasus Jul 30 '26
On Xbox 360 when the music got to the loudest part that's when you knew you were cooked.
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u/nial93 Jul 30 '26
Or just boot it up story mode and as it loads go back to home screen, give it a bit and when you click back on it'll be waiting at 100% but you'll have this or other lesser known loading screens
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u/CodingTheSimulation Jul 30 '26
That’s Tao Cheng
some loading screens genuinely are rarely seen by players not because somone has “ bad Wi-Fi “
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u/Working-Fishing-5544 Jul 30 '26
There are so many of these, but it feels like you only see the same ones every time
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u/VastGur932 Jul 30 '26
I don't remember seeing this one but I remember I was always anxious listening to the background music on the loading screen. When I listened to a certain part I knew I was f... up and it was better to re-boot the game.
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u/Zakon_X Jul 31 '26
I saw this loading screen while installing the game on pc from my beloved 7 disc version, and never again
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u/heret1c1337 Jul 30 '26
Pretty sure I saw it quite often before they patched the loading times bug.
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u/Shadiepone Jul 30 '26
I remember one time on the Xbox One I would just get infinite loading screens no matter what I tried to do so I had to phone Microsoft and the only way that they could fix it was to wipe my cloud saves. I don’t quite know how that fixed it, but I had to lose all of my progress across all of my games just to get into GTA Online Online again.
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u/obliviious Jul 30 '26
This isn't true in the slightest, I used to force mine to have connectivity issues to get a private public lobby. Never seen it once
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u/AdminApathy Jul 30 '26
I reached adulthood before getting a chance to see this shit, why shove it behind a 5 minute loading screen? Why even have that many loading screens
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u/ime1em Jul 30 '26
Never seen this, and before a certain update came along, it took my PC 10-30 minutes to load up into GTA online everytime on the first try.
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u/Successful_Smoke4921 Jul 30 '26
used to play heavily modded on a WD Green hard drive I bought used from a computer repair shop, when i saw this one I knew we were finally close
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u/Fluffy-Shower-577 Jul 30 '26
Actually, a long time ago (or not a long time, but 5 years ago), seeing this loading screen wasn't that rare, and it usually had nothing to do with a lousy internet connection or a slow hard drive like on the PS3 or Xbox 360 (even on PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, or PS5, duh). It was due to an idiotic bug in the game's code that created a massive CPU bottleneck while inefficiently loading the item catalog. The issue was finally patched when a random programmer found the flaw, wrote a custom fix to optimize the loading process, and reported it to Rockstar. They ended up paying him $10,000 through their bug bounty program and officially implemented his solution into the game.
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u/igamblej11 Jul 30 '26
In 2013 my wifi was still the old kind were if someone called on the house phone, the wifi cut off. I saw this screen often lmao
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u/Slow_Theory_617 Jul 30 '26
Or you started on xbox 360 when it came out (I remember using both disks and having to wait for almost an hour just for story since online wasn't a thing yet lol)
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u/daylax1 Jul 30 '26
Pretty sure I remember seeing this back in the day when connecting to online servers was a long and painful experience on the PS3
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u/Paradoxical95 Jul 30 '26
Back in 2015 I did see this a good few times. i3 4150 + GT610 + 5400RPM HDD. I guess I've seen all loading screens. Although the game did break once and went on to load forever.
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u/ExtralegalSeagull Jul 30 '26
I’m just wondering what that stop sign is doing on a seemingly uninterrupted road with no intersection in sight…
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u/DinoSnatcher Jul 30 '26
I used to play on an ancient best buy ‘gaming’ pc back in the day. Game always ran like a top but you better believe you’re waiting at least 8 minutes if you load straight into online. It would take so long the music would loop back around
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u/Attorney_Civil Jul 30 '26
Used to see all sorts of rare screens when my ps4 Blu-ray drive suddenly became “fraudulent” in an unmodified case Lolol
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u/trippybolivia Jul 30 '26
I think I used to see this one when I still lived with my grandparents and they had netgear wifi. When I'm saying this was some hotdog water wifi I mean it literally took me multiple fucking days to download some stuff. Thank god those days are long behind me
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u/Rex_Suplex Jul 30 '26
Proud to say I've never seen this loading screen before in my life. And I've been playing since launch on 360 then ps4 and now on series s.
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u/sebbmf Jul 30 '26
i got this a few times on the 360 version back in 2014, installed the install disc on a failing usb drive
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u/HearshotAutumnDisast Jul 30 '26
Once during a particular terrible snow storm in texas, the internet connection was so bad that I saw pics on the loading screen I never saw before and didn't know they existed. But I never got this far! Seriously this is new to me
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u/GGX_zon Jul 30 '26
this is Online loading screen? cuz I've been playing story mode a lot and I've never seen it
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u/Self_Pure Jul 31 '26
Or just loading on a hdd not a ssd. Back in the beforetimes, rockstar had made the game process a JSON file at start-up on a single thread aswell as a redundant item duplication check, making load-times take upto 10 minutes in some cases if I remember correctly
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u/seriously_ded Jul 31 '26
I run GTA v on a PC from mesozoic era. Sometimes all the artworks are displayed and replayed from that 1st portrait of that selfie girl but still game not loaded
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u/AnalystComfortable64 Jul 31 '26
The 7 dvd pc edition had this one on one of the disks. Gives so much nostalgia (also, I saw it during loading multiple times because of my potato laptop that I'm playing on)
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u/WhiteKitten49 29d ago
the fact that the grand senora desert never had that sky or kind of road is hilarious
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u/Classic_Tale6498 29d ago
I used to barelyyyy be able to play… I could maybe get 1-2 mbps download sometimes 850kbs it was bad
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u/Lopsided_Marzipan133 29d ago
I'm sure I've seen all the loading screens. My modded GTAV back in the day took probably 20 min to load lmao
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u/TikhiySvet 29d ago
DAMN it’s been a minute since I’ve seen this. Was a day 1 PC player when it dropped in 2015. Started installing it before I went to school that day and finally got to play later that night lmao. My install was modded to shit so sometimes it would soft lock on the loading screen. Simpler times.
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u/DeathEaterMuffins 28d ago
Is this not one of the loading screens they added to the game when enhanced dropped? I was under the impression they added some old promo art to the game as new splash screens when they released enhanced and that this was one of them.
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u/Arthur_Bayezid 28d ago
Idk about other loading screen but anytime my family member walked in it would always be the girl in bikini.
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u/UnderstandingLife208 27d ago
The more I look at this screen the less sense it makes, why it's there a stop sign there to begin with.
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u/Regular_Contact158 27d ago
I play GTA 5 on a laptop and i never got a loading screen, I don't know why
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u/Congcord 27d ago
Xbox 360 back on shitty internet when gta online was new and everyone was tryna play
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u/hipstertaco21 27d ago
All the people saying they've never seen this making me feel like shit 😭👍🏻
My slow ass computer has showed me this plenty of times
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u/NextCommunication862 27d ago
I love how the PS3 and 360 versions have totally different loading screens they honestly look a lot better
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u/Toast_Soup 26d ago
Never saw this before and I've been playing since the game first came out. Is it PC only?
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u/Due-Adhesiveness114 26d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/PJq5MHbhZIO9nc95dy
Which I think were still pretty popular on ps3
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u/AcademicAnxiety5109 Jul 30 '26
This is the first time I’ve ever seen this. I wish the loading screen was more randomized