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Technical notes on what I'm breaking and fixing: reverse engineering, internals, weird bugs and vulnerabilities.

Jun 05, 2026·10 min

How 25 NOPs fixed a 10-year-old GTA V performance issue on AMD

A years-old GTA V performance issue, FPS tanking at night when looking at the city, traced to six prefetchnta hints into write-combine vertex buffers, stalling the AMD Zen pipeline. The final fix is 25 NOPs in two places.

Reverse EngineeringPerformanceGTA VAMD
Nov 11, 2025·3 min

Phasmophobia VR: a one-instruction fix for the remote item offset

VR players' grabbed items appeared floating away from their hands on remote clients. The fix was a single mov instruction in the IL2CPP-compiled DLL.

Reverse EngineeringUnityIL2CPPVRPhasmophobia