infinite loading screen softlock

[Mr.Slappy]

half the time when i enter a building i get an infinite black loading screen. completely locks down the game and i have to "end task" in task manager even after waiting an hour.

[FatBaldBoomer]

yep. ive been complaining about this in several posts. the game for me is unplayable
iwant to do the 1.5 million per hour thing but i cant even go in the building. hell, last week the computer didnt work in the office

total pos

[FatBaldBoomer]

just to point out, i did everything the rockstar support page told me to do ... change port settings and all that. i also saw a video saying run it as administrator in win 8 compatibility mode ... still staring at the outside of my arcade. wt effing f

asus tuf b760, intel 13xxx, rtx 3060, 128 gb ram, hi speed connection
i get good fps and everything running ultra, but ive dialed that down too still staring at the outside of my building, no spinning wheel ... bunch of frustrating GARBAGE

[XOLiD]

Instead of using task manager to just end the task, use resource monitor(resmon) to suspend it for ~10 seconds and then resume it. You'll be put in your own public session and all of your loading issues will disappear as you will be the host of this new session, anybody else that joins will be at the whim of your internet capabilities.

[macatak]

Originally posted by Mr.Slappy:

half the time when i enter a building i get an infinite black loading screen. completely locks down the game and i have to "end task" in task manager even after waiting an hour.

i'm sure this is only happening in Public sessions

[hooch]

If you have friends online, hit "home" (opens the R* social thing) and try to "join game".

It should pull you out of the soft lock and give you the "are you sure you want to join another server?" popup which you can say "no" to and enter your building.

Annoying as hell, but it works for me every time.

[Wizzen One]

Well slap my pappy and call me happy... I thought a few times it was gonna lock up when entering a building, black screen like 30 seconds or so, but as yet have not locked up except when trying to exit game, forcing me to shut down steam to close game.

[Mr.Slappy]

Originally posted by FatBaldBoomer:

just to point out, i did everything the rockstar support page told me to do ... change port settings and all that. i also saw a video saying run it as administrator in win 8 compatibility mode ... still staring at the outside of my arcade. wt effing f

asus tuf b760, intel 13xxx, rtx 3060, 128 gb ram, hi speed connection
i get good fps and everything running ultra, but ive dialed that down too still staring at the outside of my building, no spinning wheel ... bunch of frustrating GARBAGE

i use an Intel core i9-14900HX, RTX 4090, 64GB DDR5 dual channel RAM, and a Crucial P3 Plus NVMe SSD. i dont think specs or power is related to the issue. what ive seen on other posts is that Rockstar uses a peer-to-peer connection and it requires everyone in the lobby to "ping" back confirming what you are doing. peer-to-peer is only viable when there is like 4 people, take Helldivers 2 for instance. GTA lobbies are like 20-30 usually. its a way to skim more money off people by increasing the bottom line but its just not viable for the sizes of GTA lobbies. they need fully hosted servers. even Helldivers 2 had infinite loading screen issues but they worked diligently to fix it by dedicating multiple entire patch cycles too it... and thats for a 4 person peer-to-peer. take official TF2 servers as an example, 24 people all on the same server and i get nearly instant loading screens because its a hosted server.

[Mr.Slappy]

Originally posted by macatak:

Originally posted by Mr.Slappy:

half the time when i enter a building i get an infinite black loading screen. completely locks down the game and i have to "end task" in task manager even after waiting an hour.

i'm sure this is only happening in Public sessions

whats the point if you aren't playing in public games? it just feels dead playing alone or even with a small select few people/friends. the random encounters of nice and funny players are worth getting randomly blown up or headshot. personally i like to drive up to new/low lvl players and let them take my maxed out vehicles for a joyride.

[Mr.Slappy]

Originally posted by hooch:

If you have friends online, hit "home" (opens the R* social thing) and try to "join game".

It should pull you out of the soft lock and give you the "are you sure you want to join another server?" popup which you can say "no" to and enter your building.

Annoying as hell, but it works for me every time.

im a solo player from start to end so there isnt anyone on my list to begin with

[Kubark, In Memory of Laika]

how solve?

[Mirage]

Originally posted by XOLiD:

Instead of using task manager to just end the task, use resource monitor(resmon) to suspend it for ~10 seconds and then resume it. You'll be put in your own public session and all of your loading issues will disappear as you will be the host of this new session, anybody else that joins will be at the whim of your internet capabilities.

This is how you get out of them.

[Klutch]

Don't do anything stupid like open up ports. Everyone is having the same issues right now, and being so close to launch its almost guaranteed to be Rockstars issue.

[Kiborg]

Yeah it is awful every time you enter a building you either wait for 5-10 minutes or you suspend the GTA5 exe in task manager and get in a solo lobby and in this Enhanced version even that does not work all the time.

[Levianne]

Originally posted by Mr.Slappy:

whats the point if you aren't playing in public games? it just feels dead playing alone or even with a small select few people/friends. the random encounters of nice and funny players are worth getting randomly blown up or headshot. personally i like to drive up to new/low lvl players and let them take my maxed out vehicles for a joyride.

The issue on hand is trust. And yea, I'll never trust randoms and take chances for "a good portion of fun with nice people" over garbage filled try hard trigger happy idiots in public sessions. I have the same amount of fun with friends in my Invite Only sessions. If I want to do stuff, we do stuff together. If I want to blow off some steam, we do that together. I can relay on them much more, than I could ever on randoms. + I have less issues to get in/out of buildings, faster loading times and so on. What could public filled mostly with brain dead cancer possibly offer, that an IO doesn't? Oh yes, a tiny chance of a nice random encounter? 1:100 over the sh*t, that blows up everywhere around? No thank you.

[Mr.Slappy]

Originally posted by Levianne:

Originally posted by Mr.Slappy:

whats the point if you aren't playing in public games? it just feels dead playing alone or even with a small select few people/friends. the random encounters of nice and funny players are worth getting randomly blown up or headshot. personally i like to drive up to new/low lvl players and let them take my maxed out vehicles for a joyride.

The issue on hand is trust. And yea, I'll never trust randoms and take chances for "a good portion of fun with nice people" over garbage filled try hard trigger happy idiots in public sessions. I have the same amount of fun with friends in my Invite Only sessions. If I want to do stuff, we do stuff together. If I want to blow off some steam, we do that together. I can relay on them much more, than I could ever on randoms. + I have less issues to get in/out of buildings, faster loading times and so on. What could public filled mostly with brain dead cancer possibly offer, that an IO doesn't? Oh yes, a tiny chance of a nice random encounter? 1:100 over the sh*t, that blows up everywhere around? No thank you.

you also get "high demand" bonuses on selling products basically doubling your income. plus the whole point of a multiplayer game is to play with multiple players. the game feels dead with even 10 people because of the size of the map.