FiveM Performance Advisor

Description

About FiveM Performance Advisor

Running a FiveM server can be rewarding, but it can also make you question every life decision that led you to staring at a server console at 2:00 AM.

FiveM Performance Advisor by RF Gaming is a free diagnostic and planning tool designed to make that process easier.

The Advisor can evaluate a physical server, virtual machine, VPS, or cloud-based host that is either planned for FiveM or already running an existing FiveM server. It reviews hardware performance, virtualization details, storage, memory, CPU suitability, resource workload, streamed assets, and server configuration.

For existing servers, FiveM Performance Advisor can scan your resource folder and review server.cfg, including resources started individually or through bracket folders such as [dependencies], [mlo], [vehicles], and [standalone].

The tool supports QBCore, QBox, ESX, standalone servers, and mixed or custom setups. It provides conservative capacity estimates instead of pretending there is one magical player number that works for every server.

Reports can be saved as HTML, PDF, text, or JSON, and previous scans can be compared after hardware upgrades, configuration changes, resource cleanup, or optimization work.

FiveM performance depends on much more than hardware alone. Script quality, database performance, player activity, streamed assets, resource design, and server configuration all affect real-world results.

For deeper inspection and optimization of streamed assets, pair it with FiveM Stream Doctor by RF Gaming.

Important Notice

FiveM Performance Advisor is an advisory and diagnostic tool. Its recommendations and capacity estimates are not guarantees.

Actual server performance can be affected by scripts, player behavior, database usage, streamed assets, network conditions, hosting-provider limitations, background workloads, FiveM updates, and many other factors.

Always review recommendations carefully and back up your server files, database, and configuration before making major changes.

Included

Features

  • Free tool provided by RF Gaming
  • Guided setup for planned and existing FiveM servers
  • Hardware and virtual-machine analysis
  • CPU single-thread and multi-core suitability review
  • Memory, storage, operating system, and network inspection
  • Detection of physical servers, VMs, VPS platforms, and cloud environments
  • QBCore, QBox, ESX, standalone, and custom-framework support
  • Optional FiveM resource-folder scan
  • Recursive bracket-folder support
  • server.cfg and executed configuration-file review
  • Missing-resource and duplicate-start detection
  • Dependency and startup-order analysis
  • Resource workload classification
  • Heavy, streaming-heavy, database-heavy, moderate, and lightweight classifications
  • Streamed asset size and folder-organization review
  • Estimated player-capacity ranges
  • Estimated server workload and scaling guidance
  • Offline Baseline Scan and Live-State Scan support
  • FXServer process detection before benchmarks
  • Configuration and folder-organization recommendations
  • HTML, PDF, plain-text, and JSON reports
  • User-selectable report location
  • Baseline and previous-scan comparisons
  • Automatic redaction of likely passwords, license keys, tokens, webhooks, and connection strings
  • Built-in Help and About sections
  • Custom RF Gaming theme and FiveM Performance Advisor branding

Requirements

What You Need

  • Windows 10 or Windows 11
  • 64-bit operating system
  • Administrator permission during installation
  • Approximately 250 MB of available disk space
  • A physical server, VM, VPS, or cloud host intended to run FiveM
  • FiveM does not need to be installed when using Planned Server mode
  • An accessible FiveM server folder is required for resource and server.cfg scanning
  • Internet access is not required for normal local scans
  • FXServer should be stopped before running a Standard or Full Offline Baseline Scan for the most accurate results
  • Live-State Scans can be run while FXServer is active, but results will reflect the current workload rather than the machine’s full available capacity

Setup

Installation

1. Download the FiveM Performance Advisor ZIP file. 2. Right-click the downloaded ZIP file and select Properties. 3. At the bottom of the General tab, look for the Security section. 4. If it exists, check the Unblock box next to: This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer. 5. Click Apply, then click OK. 6. Right-click the ZIP file and select Extract All. 7. Choose where you want to extract the files, then click Extract. 8. Open the extracted folder. 9. Run FiveMPerformanceAdvisor_v1.0.0_Setup.exe. 10. Approve the Windows administrator elevation prompt. 11. Review the installation options. 12. Choose whether to create a desktop shortcut. 13. Click Install. 14. FiveM Performance Advisor will be installed to: C:\Program Files\RF Gaming\FiveM Performance Advisor 15. Launch FiveM Performance Advisor from the Start Menu or desktop shortcut. 16. Select Planned FiveM Server or Existing FiveM Server. 17. Choose where the generated reports should be saved. 18. Follow the guided scan process. 19. Future versions can be installed over the existing version. The installer will recognize the previous installation and upgrade the application without requiring the existing folder to be removed.

Updates

Release History