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GTA 5 modding can be simple but when things go wrong, things can get complicated and frustrating as hell. This site is devoted to help you fix your GTA 5 crashes and infinite loops and become a better troubleshooter in the process. Please read this entire guide, if you're impatient and skip sections you'll have a really hard and frustrating time fixing your game.  So let's start.

When troubleshooting a broken game you should consider the following:

1. Does your game run properly and is it stable without any mods? We call this Vanilla mode or unmodded.

2. Did you ever get your game to run with any mods installed?

3. Did your game start to crash after installing one or more specific mods of any type?

4. Did your game crash after you made Hardware or Software changes to your computer?

5. Did your game start to crash after a Rockstar GTA5 update or patch?

This site is organized to examine many factors and possibilities in a systematic and chronological order, moving through the Menu Items from left to right. This is updated for GTA 5 2023.

Structure

We will examine the following topics, explaining what can go wrong and focusing on the most common causes for failures first.

Hardware: is your computer powerful enough to run GTA 5 with the additional resources required to run a modded game? 

Software: is your Windows system properly setup for modding? Are your in-game settings appropriate for your computer, particularly your Graphics Settings?

Essentials: did you install all the necessary essential mods required for stable modding?

Tools and Visuals: what have you installed with respect to tools and visual mods such as ENBs, NVE, QuantV, etc.

Mods: we will examine what can go wrong with various types of addons and replaces.

Meta Data: have you customized or edited meta data files? 

Scripts: are you installing asi scripts in your root folder and dll scripts in your scripts folder?

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