FiveM for GTAV Enhanced: Early Access Patch Notes September 22

September's patch leans on server hardening. It is a mix of community reports from our GitHub Discussions and issues we found during the last FiveM for GTAV Enhanced stress test session.

This patch includes connection protocol changes. Server owners need to update to the latest cfx-server build, otherwise players will not be able to connect and will get a handshake error.

What's fixed in this patch:

• Cutscenes finish loading again, so HasCutsceneLoaded returns true after RequestCutscene instead of staying false while IsCutsceneActive already reports the cutscene as active (#104)
• InterpolateCamWithParams is now exposed, so calling it no longer fails with attempt to call a nil value (global 'InterpolateCamWithParams')
• DeleteEntity removes the entity properly and no longer crashes the client or leaves the entity invisible but still collidable (#489)
• Synced scenes play for everyone again, not just the player who starts them, and the server receives the startNetworkSyncedSceneEvent and stopNetworkSyncedSceneEvent net game events (#528)
• Net game events are more reliable in general, since the same root cause could affect other events without it being obvious
• Client-side file lookups work again in resources whose name contains an uppercase letter, so natives like CreateRuntimeTextureFromImage find files declared in files {} rather than reporting them as not found (#149)
• Permissions granted at runtime take effect again, so add_ace and add_principal run through ExecuteCommand apply instead of silently doing nothing while IsPrincipalAceAllowed keeps returning not allowed (#473)
• Resources that ship both a stream and a stream_enhanced folder now load assets from stream_enhanced only, and no longer also pull in the deprecated stream folder
• The dwdStore pool sizes itself from the number of .ydd drawable dictionaries a server streams, so custom assets no longer fail to load with a dwdStore pool error
• Keyboard and mouse input no longer reaches the game or the NUI underneath while the F8 console or the openUrl confirmation dialog has focus (#7, #453)
• SetHttpHandler endpoints keep responding under heavy local testing, rather than closing the connection or returning a truncated response after a few dozen rapid requests (#496)
• The F8 console log no longer prints low-level connection details when joining a server (#420)
• The network commands monitor in the dev tools shows command names like msgStateBags again rather than raw numeric hashes like 3432388556, so you can tell which commands are using bandwidth (#261)
• NUI reports a missing file by name when a resource requests one that does not exist, rather than reporting it as an unsupported file type
• Asset downloads are no longer capped at around 25 MB/s, so the client uses the available bandwidth again like on FiveM for GTAV Legacy (#517)
• Resource downloads that fail validation on startup are now retried, and report the failure if the retry does not succeed, rather than failing silently
• TLS now uses hardware acceleration, cutting the overhead on resource file downloads over HTTPS
• Voice relevancy data now includes whether a player's voice should play back in 2D or 3D, so voice resources can pick the right output without going through the client voice API
• Third-party tools such as Stream Deck plugins can send client commands again, off by default and enabled from the F8 menu (#285)
• sv_disconnectOnUnhandledNetEvent is now supported. It is off by default, and when enabled it disconnects clients that send a reliable network event with no registered handler
• Twelve new server metrics cover each main thread execution stage that blocks svMain, so server owners can see which stage is holding up the main thread
• Per-resource performance is now exposed on the Prometheus metrics endpoint, including for resources registered at runtime
• Replicating state bags costs less server CPU time, most noticeably on servers with many players or routing buckets
• Sync tree creation happens outside the sync thread's critical path, which reduces lock contention on busy servers
• Server memory use is now lower during long sessions
• Server networking holds up better under heavy event traffic
• Starting a resource from inside a script tick no longer crashes, since resources are queued and started once the tick is over
• The setKickReason callback in a playerConnecting handler no longer crashes the server when it is passed nil (#521)
• The server no longer crashes when players connect or disconnect
• Fixed a server crash from routing bucket allocation
• Fixed a server crash during entity synchronization
• Fixed a network ID leak in entity ownership handling
• Fixed a client crash during player synchronization
• Fixed a client crash involving vehicle appearance data
• The game no longer crashes when loading certain models
• OverrideVehicleXenonColor no longer causes intermittent crashes
• txAdmin: typing clear in the live console no longer shows an error (#159)
• txAdmin: the live console no longer shows duplicated timestamps or log levels
• txAdmin: update notifications are now shown
• txAdmin: feature branches no longer show a pre-release expiration
• Various other client and server crash and stability fixes

[ayerosu]

Yippe!!

[KevinOB22]

We've been using "sv_playerIdReuseDelayMilliseconds" at 12 hours for our uptime cycles, and it's been working fine; without it, moderating our server would be a nightmare. It would be nice if we had a baseline feature to disable reuse in general.

[titanium-cfx]

This patch for FiveM for GTAV Enhanced has been temporarily rolled back to investigate reported issues with interiors. We will investigate and roll it out again once these issues are fixed.

[766974616c79]

sick

Issues with this patch have been resolved and it's now deployed. Thanks for your patience.

[MadsLeander]

Is it just me or does something seem wrong with state bags after this update?

GetPlayerFromStateBagName seems to always return 0 when used inside a AddStateBagChangeHandler on the client when another player's state bag changes (not your own state bag, it works fine. Test with two clients).

Global states also seem to not replicate like before? Global states set before a player joined used to be avalible on the client when the resource started, now it seems that we have to wait at least 1 tick before it's avalible.

On a different note InterpolateCamWithParams (see #476) seems to still not work even tho it was mentioned in the patch notes.

[wolfram-cfx]

Thanks, will check the statebag stuff.

[deenz-dev]

Now, every time I ensure or stop a resource through F8, my client crashes. This never happened to me before this update.

[Ozoonn]

same

[nanyan5420]

Hey, I don’t know what you guys are playing at. I can understand that you require forcefully updating artifacts to version 153, but shouldn’t you at least test it before releasing it? You forcibly released a version with serious bugs? It made all users feel sick for a while, unable to hot-restart any resources on the server, whether they had entities or not, even pure code resources crash on restart, crash on stop. Your update announcement is so long, you might as well just write:

We fixed some trivial known bugs and brought users even worse ones. OK? Next time, just write it like this.

[RickyB505]

dont worry im getting crashing without even restarting stuff

[ESK0]

Testing before releasing is overrated.

[Scotty1944]

❌ testing before release
✅ testing on production

[mempler]

it is early access folks, don't be so dramatic about it. it's not like this is production fivem, just report bugs as usual