FiveM for GTA V Enhanced: The Complete Guide (Install, Convert & Migrate)

It's official: FiveM for GTAV Enhanced launched in early access today, July 21, 2026, and it's available to everyone. This is the version the FiveM community has been waiting on for years — modern rendering and ray tracing on roleplay servers, a rebuilt sync engine, and headroom to push past the old player cap.

But "early access" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Enhanced is a separate client and a separate server platform from the FiveM you know, it ships with known bugs, and one feature that matters a lot for paid servers — Asset Escrow — isn't implemented yet. So before you tear down your production server, read this.

This guide is the practical, no-fluff version: what Enhanced actually is, whether you should touch it yet, and exactly how to install the client, set up a Cfx Server, convert your assets with Alchemist, and migrate an existing server without breaking it. Every fact here is cross-checked against the official Cfx.re documentation and launch announcements (sources at the bottom).

In a hurry? Jump to the step-by-step docs: Install the client · Set up a Cfx Server · Convert with Alchemist · Migration checklist

Table of contents

1. What is FiveM for GTA V Enhanced?
2. What's actually new
3. Ray tracing, DLSS & FSR — now native
4. Should you migrate right now?
5. Install the FiveM Enhanced client
6. Set up an Enhanced (Cfx) server
7. Convert your assets with Alchemist
8. The breaking changes that will bite you
9. Migrating an existing server safely
10. FiveM Enhanced and HZ-Scripts
11. FAQ

What is FiveM for GTA V Enhanced?

In March 2025, Rockstar shipped GTA V Enhanced — the "next-gen" PC build of GTA V (often called Gen9), with ray tracing and modern rendering. The FiveM client you've used for years targets the Legacy build (Gen8). Those are two different games.

• It installs through its own dedicated installer, downloaded from a separate "Download FiveM for GTAV Enhanced" button — not the classic FiveM download.
• Servers run on new Cfx Server binaries (the build formerly known as FXServer, now rebranded Cfx Server).
• It does not replace Legacy. GTA V Legacy stays supported in the current FiveM client, and the two run side by side — you can keep both installed.

What's actually new

Beyond the graphics of the Enhanced game build, Cfx.re rebuilt a lot of the plumbing. The headline improvements from the official announcements:

Reality check: these are the launch claims. Enhanced is early access, so real-world numbers on your hardware will vary while Cfx.re works through bugs.

Ray tracing, DLSS & FSR — now native

This is the part players notice first. Because FiveM Enhanced runs on the GTA V Enhanced engine, modern graphics tech is built into the game — no injectors required. On Legacy, people faked this with third-party mods (ReShade, RTX-V, upscaler injectors); on Enhanced, it's native.

• Ray-traced reflections
• Ray-traced shadows
• Ray-traced ambient occlusion (RTAO)
• Ray-traced global illumination (RTGI)

• NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution (Quality / Balanced / Performance) and DLAA, on all RTX GPUs, plus NVIDIA Reflex for lower latency.
• DLSS Frame Generation (RTX 40) and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation (RTX 50, up to 4×) were added in an August 2025 update.
• AMD FSR 3 (and legacy FSR 1), selected via the in-game "Frame Scaling" option, with FSR 3 frame generation.
• Plus DirectStorage faster loading and Dolby Atmos audio.

• No HDR on PC. GTA V Enhanced is SDR-only on PC (HDR is a console-only feature). Don't expect an in-game HDR toggle.
• No native Intel XeSS — the in-game upscaler menu only offers DLSS, FSR 3 and FSR 1.
• It's not "DLSS 3" — at the March 2025 launch it was DLSS Super Resolution + DLAA + Reflex; frame generation came later.
• Graphics mods are still blocked. Pure Mode is always on in early access, so ReShade, NaturalVision (NVE), RTX-V and upscaler-injector mods won't run. The point is you no longer need them — the ray tracing and DLSS/FSR are real, in the base game.
• Cfx.re hasn't officially confirmed every native toggle is exposed and working inside the FiveM Enhanced client yet — it's early access, so verify in-client.

Bottom line: the visual jump RP servers have wanted for years — real ray tracing plus DLSS/FSR — now comes from the game itself, not a fragile mod stack.

Should you migrate right now?

Short answer for most servers: not for production — yet. Build and test in parallel, keep players on Legacy. Here's the honest breakdown.

• Asset Escrow is not implemented yet. Escrow-protected (encrypted) paid resources can't be relied on. Cfx.re itself says "most production servers will want to wait for this feature before moving to GTAV Enhanced." If your server runs paid Tebex scripts, this alone is a blocker.
• It's explicitly buggy. Cfx.re warns the release "will contain bugs, performance issues, and game crashes."
• Many frameworks and resources aren't ported. ESX, QBCore, QBox and thousands of community scripts need review, and some depend on things that changed (Mono, Pure Mode, removed convars).
• Graphics mods don't work. Pure Mode is always on during early access.

• Get ahead of your competition on the new platform.
• Surface migration problems early (convar changes, lua54, gamebuild) while it's low-stakes.
• Test which of your resources already convert cleanly.

Install the FiveM Enhanced client

Player side — this is quick. The one thing people get wrong is clicking the wrong download button.

1. Own GTA V Enhanced on PC. You need the Enhanced build from Steam, the Epic Games Store, or the Rockstar Games Launcher. (Owners of the original PC port got the Enhanced upgrade for free.) It's Windows-PC only — the Xbox/console version can't be used. Launch the game once so it's fully installed and updated.
2. Go to fivem.net.
3. Click "Download FiveM for GTAV Enhanced" — the tile marked "Currently In Early-Access. Requires Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced." Not the classic "Download FiveM" button.
4. Run the installer. The new installer lets you choose the install folder, optionally put the server cache on a separate folder or drive, and create Desktop / Start Menu shortcuts.
5. Launch FiveM for GTAV Enhanced and connect to an Enhanced server.

Set up an Enhanced (Cfx) server

Server side is where the real work is. The short version:

1. Enhanced is a separate deployment target. To serve Enhanced clients you stand up a new server instance — you can't just flip a switch on your Legacy box.
2. Download Cfx Server from the official server download page: switch the Platform selector from "FiveM / RedM" to "FiveM for GTAV Enhanced", pick your OS and branch.
3. The archive is cfx-server_win_x64 (Windows) / cfx-server-linux_x64 (Linux), and the executable is cfx-server.exe — replacing server.7z and FXServer.exe. Update any .bat files or hosting-panel scripts that hardcode the old names.
4. txAdmin is still embedded, so first-run setup follows the usual txAdmin flow.

New to hosting entirely? Start with our complete beginner guide to creating a FiveM server first, then come back here.

Convert your assets with Alchemist

Your Legacy 3D assets (vehicles, props, maps, clothing) won't load on Enhanced as-is. Alchemist is the official Cfx.re tool that converts them from Gen8 to Gen9.

• It converts exactly five filetypes: YDR, YTD, YFT, YPT and YDD.
• Point it at a folder and it recursively converts every Legacy asset into a separate output folder, copying your scripts, UI, and config through unchanged.
• Point it at your resources directory and you get a drop-in replacement resources folder for Enhanced.

• The GUI fails and stops the whole conversion the moment it hits an escrowed asset.
• The CLI skips escrowed assets automatically and lists them in the report.

The breaking changes that will bite you

Enhanced is a new runtime, and a lot changed under the hood. The ones that break real servers:

• Lua 5.3 is gone. Every resource's fxmanifest.lua must contain lua54 'yes' or it won't load. (This one already applies on Legacy — it trips up a lot of older/leaked scripts.)
• Mono → .NET 10. C# resources must be rebuilt with the .NET 10 SDK.
• Pure Mode is always on and can't be disabled; graphics mods can't be used in early access.
• Asset Escrow: not implemented yet.
• sv_useAccurateSends is deprecated — use sv_syncTickRate (default 60, range 1–120).
• sv_protectServerEntities is deprecated — use sv_entityLockdown.
• Removed / no-op convars: sv_netHttp2, onesync_automaticResend, onesync_enableBeyond, sv_enhancedHostSupport, DevCon ports 29200/29300, and +set moo 31337 (dev mode is now sv_devMode true, capped at eight player slots).
• Only the latest gamebuild (Kortz Center Heist) is supported — use sv_enforceGameBuild 1 for the DLC-free base game. Old pins like 2802/3095/3258 will throw "invalid game build enforcement."
• State bags: callbacks only fire if the entity exists, and replicated values are only replicated if explicitly set.
• Mumble is deprecated. Its natives still work only because they route through the new voice system, and will be removed later — plan a migration to the new server-side Voice API.

Migrating an existing server safely

Don't upgrade in place. Migrate in parallel. The safe path in one paragraph:

Keep Legacy live. Clone (never point live) your database. Stand up a separate Enhanced Cfx Server on a test port. Add lua54 'yes' everywhere, fix your gamebuild enforcement, and clean the deprecated convars out of server.cfg. Convert unencrypted assets with Alchemist, and leave escrow-protected paid resources on Legacy for now. Install the .NET 10 SDK if you run C#. Then test every resource before a single real player joins.

We turned that into a copy-paste checklist:

And when things go wrong (they will): Troubleshooting common Enhanced errors →

FiveM Enhanced and HZ-Scripts

We build HZ-Scripts as standalone, load-tested resources for ESX, QBCore, QBox and standalone — and the good news: our pure-code / NUI / audio scripts run on Enhanced right now, with no conversion. That's HZ-Bridge, HZ-AudioMixer, HZ-Weather and the phone-app add-ons (LB Phone / QS Smartphone). Look for the gold "Enhanced" badge on the shop.

Scripts that ship binary assets (like HZ-Television) need those assets converted with Alchemist — a converted Enhanced build is on the way for each, marked with an "Enhanced soon" badge until it lands.

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FAQ

The most common questions are answered in the boxes below. For deeper procedures, follow the linked docs pages — they're kept up to date as Enhanced evolves out of early access.

Sources

This guide is based on the official Cfx.re documentation and launch posts:

• FiveM for GTAV Enhanced — early access announcement
• Development Update #3 and #2
• What's Changed in FiveM for GTAV Enhanced (Legacy vs Enhanced)
• Alchemist · Server Download · Voice