Problem: Sometimes when flying into the city you might notice textures not loading properly, buildings appearing blurry, objects missing, or the game starting to stutter. This usually happens because temporary files stored in your Five M cache become outdated or corrupted over time. Clearing your cache allows Five M to rebuild fresh files the next time you launch the city, which can fix many of these issues. Quick Fix: 1. Close Five M completely. 2. Open your Five M application data folder. 3. Navigate to the cache folder. 4. Delete the extra cache files inside. 5. Open your recycle bin and permanently delete them. The next time you launch Five M, the system will rebuild new files automatically. 🎥 The video below shows exactly where to go and what to delete. When should you do this? Clearing your cache can help if you experience: • Buildings or textures not loading• Random visual glitches• City assets appearing late• Performance drops after updates It’s a quick maintenance step many experienced players do occasionally to keep things running smoothly. Science Bite🧠: Games like Five M rely on temporary storage (called cache) to quickly load textures, models, and assets. Over time, outdated or conflicting cached files can slow down performance or cause visual errors. Clearing these files allows the game engine to rebuild optimized data, helping your system run more efficiently and reducing visual bugs. Survival Tip: Small technical fixes like this can save a lot of frustration and help you stay focused on what matters most — immersive RP.😶‍🌫️ Here’s a short video showing exactly how to clear your FiveM cache and remove the extra files safely. This only takes about a minute and can fix a lot of common texture and loading issues.

The City Survival Guide is a collection of small technical fixes, useful commands, and quality-of-life tips that help players avoid common frustrations in city. These are the little things experienced players learn over time — from fixing HUD issues, clearing cache, improving performance, and making sure recording tools like Medal are set up correctly. The goal is simple:spend less time troubleshooting and more time enjoying immersive RP. Inside this category you'll find quick guides, short videos, and helpful commands that can keep your experience running smoothly. Examples include: • Finding useful city commands (ex: /help or /commands)• Fixing HUD issues (/hud settings)• Clearing FiveM cache to fix glitches• Improving texture and graphics performance• Making sure your microphone and recording tools are working properly• Troubleshooting common audio problems Many of these fixes only take a minute to learn, but they can save hours of frustration. Members are encouraged to share any helpful tricks they’ve learned so we can continue building a shared survival guide for everyone flying into the city. 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

⚠️ Problem If you’ve ever flown into the city and noticed buildings not loading, textures appearing blurry, objects popping in late, or entire areas looking empty for a moment — this is usually related to something called texture budget. Many players experience this and assume their game is broken, but it’s often just a graphics setting that needs adjusting. 🧩 What Is Texture Budget? Texture budget refers to how much video memory (VRAM) your system allows the game engine to use for loading textures like buildings, vehicles, clothing, and environmental assets. When the engine reaches that limit, it has to decide which textures load first. If the limit is too low, you may see: • blurry buildings• textures loading slowly• objects popping in late• missing details in the environment Increasing your texture budget gives the system more memory to work with so assets can load more smoothly. ⚙️ Quick Fix 1. Open your Graphics Settings while running through the Five M client. 2. Find the Texture Budget / Texture Quality option. 3. Increase the setting gradually based on your system’s performance. 4. Apply the changes and reload the city if needed. 🎥 The video below shows exactly where to find this setting and how to adjust it. ⚠️ Important Tip Higher settings are not always better. If your system does not have enough VRAM, setting the texture budget too high can cause stuttering or crashes. The goal is to find a balanced setting where textures load properly without hurting performance. 🎮 Understanding a Few Important Graphics Settings Many texture and performance issues happen because several graphics settings are pushed too high at the same time. Here are a few common one's players see in their settings. MSAA (Mult sample Anti-Aliasing) MSAA smooths the jagged edges you sometimes see on buildings, vehicles, and objects. 🧠 Science Bite: Without anti-aliasing, diagonal lines in a digital environment appear stair-stepped because of how pixels are rendered. MSAA samples those edges multiple times to smooth them out, but this also increases GPU workload.