It takes like 5 fucking minutes to get from desktop to GTA online gameplay. Oh, and you can't tab out of the loading screen or shift focus to another window or the loading stops so you're forced to stare at a blank screen with no progress bar and listen to the same annoying song every time. Terribly designed game, blows my mind how it's like top 5 in sales every year
You might be able to sort of "tab out" if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, go into the NVIDIA Control Panel > Display > "Adjust desktop size and position" and set "Perform scaling on:" to "GPU" (it may stop working after a restart or your driver updates so you may need to do it again). It's an extremely important graphics option that is apparently disabled by default by other genius user-friendly company NVIDIA. It basically prevents applications that use "exclusive full-screen" from directly controlling your monitor's display mode.
Side note: also make sure in NVIDIA Control Panel that you're using full color resolution under "Change resolution" at the bottom, for me it was on a gross looking TV mode for like 2 years and it looks so much better switching to "Full" output dynamic range.
It's somehow faster to boot into single player mode and then launch online mode from there.
But yeah, that loading screen drove me crazy. Tabbed out to talk to a friend on discord and it took me like 15 minutes to realize the game wasn't even loading anymore because the game really does take that long.
It takes like 5 fucking minutes to get from desktop to GTA online gameplay. Oh, and you can't tab out of the loading screen or shift focus to another window or the loading stops so you're forced to stare at a blank screen with no progress bar and listen to the same annoying song every time. Terribly designed game, blows my mind how it's like top 5 in sales every year
Because gun and boob and says bad words hur hur btw did you know its them evil womz ruining gaming?
You might be able to sort of "tab out" if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, go into the NVIDIA Control Panel > Display > "Adjust desktop size and position" and set "Perform scaling on:" to "GPU" (it may stop working after a restart or your driver updates so you may need to do it again). It's an extremely important graphics option that is apparently disabled by default by other genius user-friendly company NVIDIA. It basically prevents applications that use "exclusive full-screen" from directly controlling your monitor's display mode.
Side note: also make sure in NVIDIA Control Panel that you're using full color resolution under "Change resolution" at the bottom, for me it was on a gross looking TV mode for like 2 years and it looks so much better switching to "Full" output dynamic range.
It's somehow faster to boot into single player mode and then launch online mode from there.
But yeah, that loading screen drove me crazy. Tabbed out to talk to a friend on discord and it took me like 15 minutes to realize the game wasn't even loading anymore because the game really does take that long.