Short answer: Makes traffic dissapear.

Long answer: When you do that camera flick the game marks the cars that have just spawned in front of you as "out of your view" thus despawns them. This means that you can't despawn all cars by doing this, only the ones that have just loaded or are in the process of loading. This could also backfire and end up spawning traffic right in front of you so it's not a magical strat but it works in your favor most of the time.

The replay thing where you have to wait a couple of seconds is intended, that's why people create "short replays" (by pressing the save replay button after a cutscene with no fade) and that makes the replay duration just 1 second or less. And as Anton said, putting your GTA into an SSD drive helps a lot.

Do you have multiple monitors? If so, when the window to select the monitor and the resolution comes up (), try experiementing with different resolutions. In that image you can see that for some reason there's 2 lists for the x32 resolutions (the first ends at 1920x1080x32 and then it starts at 640x480x32 again) and they're identical, there's no noticeable difference. However, OBS only seems to display the resolutions from the "first list", despite them being exactly the same.

My biggest advice is to practice a lot, especially the parts you dislike about the run or the ones that you find difficult. Personally, I really like splitting the run into chunks and practice them separately so I can get good at the parts that give me trouble.

I like to split the run into 6 parts (LS, Badlands, SF, Desert, LV and RTLS), have a save for each one and practice them individually.

If you're struggling with a specific part of a section like one of the dupes or a hard mission, have a save just before that part and practice it individually.

If you're looking to change some strats, watch the top Any% runs and try to see the strats that these runners use (most of them aren't included in a Youtube tutorial so you will have to try and figure out how they're doing those strats).

About the frame limiter, it's really annoying to play at 25 FPS but the only thing I can tell you about this is to play a lot so you get used to it. It usually feels like you're dropping frames even if you have a good PC but that's just because everyone's used to playing games at 30/60 FPS so 25 FPS feels "laggy". When watching a stream or a recording, even with the frame limiter on, it kinda "looks" 30 FPS. That's pretty much thanks to the recording and the rendering programs having techniques to make the recording smoother. I have recorded some individual segments with OBS Studio and although it feels "laggy" when playing, it's really smooth in the recording.

The San Fierro dupe is another thing that you want to practice until you manage to do it consistently. You will even get all the timings incorporated to you after doing it several times. I can't help you with the Katie strat because I don't use that in my runs so I have no knowledge about it.

Also to disband your homie in Life's a Beach, you should spam F on the door and as soon as the homie opens the passenger door, hold H until CJ says the disband phrase ("I'll see you later homie" or something like that). There you can either shoot him when he is on the passenger side or wait a few seconds and he will get out of the van, enter again in the driver side and stay there.

Good luck in your runs!

Don't see why the rules would need to be changed to allow something that has absolutely nothing to do with gameplay or input or anything that actually has importance within a run and instead has to do with external issues like copyright or third party sites policies.

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Mission: Explosive Situation

If the Dumper blows up even after the cutscene where the armored trucks arrive is played, you will still fail the mission (it blew up because the Forklift caught fire and I parked it right next to it).

Prevention: Make sure the Forklift is not on fire after you grab the last stick or park the Dumper away from it I guess.

By that I mean changing the in-game aiming mode, not the device. Let's say I'm using mouse and keyboard and in Nines and AK's I go to Options -> Controller Setup -> Configuration and change it from "Mouse + Keys" to "Joypad" while still using mouse and keyboard so I can shoot the bottles with auto aim and cycle between them using the Next/Prev Weapon keys, then change it back to "Mouse + Keys" after the shooting part is over.

I can see a few spots where this can be useful and save a few seconds but before I actually start using this myself I'd like to know if this is allowed or not.

It may sound like a dumb question but I always had that doubt since I started learning Any%