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Knowledge for your FiveM server
Guides, comparisons and workshop insights: installing FiveM cars, choosing scripts, setting up a GTA RP server. Written by people who do this every day.
Server setup·1 October 2026
FiveM server optimization: why it stutters and how to find the cause in an hour
Server tick, client FPS and streaming are three different problems with three different tools. How to find the culprit with resmon, the profiler and txAdmin, and the ten causes that are almost always behind it.
5 min read
Server setup·1 October 2026
What a FiveM server really costs: three budgets for three kinds of server
Hosting, framework, scripts, vehicles, Discord, domain and the items nobody thinks of. Three worked examples from a friends-only server to a whitelist project, with what really adds up in the first year.
5 min read
Clothing·1 October 2026
FiveM clothing: how add-on packs work, how to install them and how custom uniforms are made
Add-on instead of replace, components and props, the number that shifts, installing with a manifest and the two routes to custom clothing. Including the rigging mistakes that fail silently.
6 min read
Maps & MLOs·1 October 2026
How to build a FiveM MLO: from idea to a custom interior on your server
What separates an MLO from a YMAP, which files an interior is made of, the two routes to a finished room and the rules GTA imposes along the way. Including the mistakes we made ourselves.
7 min read
Vehicles·1 October 2026
How to install FiveM cars: add-on vehicles on your server, step by step
From the downloaded folder to a car on the street: folder layout, fxmanifest, server.cfg, in-game test and the five mistakes almost everyone makes the first time.
6 min read
Server setup·1 October 2026
How to make a GTA RP server in 2026: from licence to first player, step by step
What you really need to set up your own FiveM roleplay server: licence, hosting, artifacts, txAdmin, database, framework, scripts, Discord and what all of it costs. No detours.
6 min read
Scripts·1 October 2026
FiveM scripts: the 12 systems every RP server needs, and how to spot good ones
Which scripts a roleplay server really needs, in which order to install them and how to tell before buying whether a script will slow your server down or carry it.
6 min read
Scripts·1 October 2026
ESX, QBCore, Qbox or 5MCustoms: which FiveM framework fits your server?
An honest comparison of the four ways to build a FiveM server: what the open frameworks can do, where they leave you alone, and when a closed framework with support pays off.
4 min read
Behind the scenes·1 October 2026
What 5MCustoms is: framework, Forge, Sentinel and portal, explained in ten minutes
Who is behind 5MCustoms, what the framework does, how the modules work together and why we build our vehicles, clothing and interiors with a tool of our own.
4 min read
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