How to Fix Texture Loss in FiveM

How to Fix Holes in Map and Disappearing Textures in FiveM

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Missing textures, map holes, and flickering buildings in FiveM can significantly impact gameplay experience. These issues are commonly caused by texture streaming limitations, where your system struggles to load all the required textures in time. This guide provides solutions for both players and server owners to fix these visual glitches.

Understanding Texture Streaming

FiveM servers often include many custom assets beyond the base game. Texture streaming manages how these assets are loaded into memory, but when your settings are too low or your hardware is insufficient, textures may fail to load properly, resulting in missing textures or "holes" in the map.

The most common symptoms of missing textures / ground in FiveM are:

  • Missing textures

  • Map holes

  • Flickering buildings

  • Invisible roads

  • Disappearing terrain

  • Low texture quality

  • Buildings not loading

    Last updated: May 2025

    Common Causes

    • Texture Budget setting is too low for the server's content
    • Your graphics card has insufficient VRAM for the server's custom assets
    • Game texture streaming is having difficulty loading assets fast enough
    • Custom mods causing texture conflicts

    Solutions for Players

    • Increase your Texture Budget setting:
      1. 1
        Open the FiveM pause menu
      2. 2
        Go to Settings → Graphics Settings
      3. 3
        Find the Enhanced Texture Budget slider
      4. 4
        Increase this setting as high as your system will support
      5. 5
        Apply the changes
      6. 6
        Restart FiveM to test if the texture issues are resolved
    • Adjust other graphics settings:
      1. 1
        Lower your resolution to reduce VRAM usage
      2. 2
        Decrease Texture Quality in graphics settings
      3. 3
        Lower Shader Quality if you're still experiencing issues
      4. 4
        Reduce Extended Distance Scaling to improve performance

    Common Questions About Texture Issues in FiveM

    Answers to frequently asked questions about FiveM texture problems

    Textures disappear in FiveM when your system cannot load all required textures fast enough. This typically happens when your texture budget setting is too low, your graphics card has insufficient VRAM, or the server has poorly optimized custom assets.

    Enhanced Texture Budget is a FiveM-specific setting that controls how much memory is allocated for texture streaming. Increasing this setting allows more textures to be loaded at once, which can fix missing textures and map holes, but requires more VRAM from your graphics card.

    A graphics card with more VRAM can significantly reduce texture issues in FiveM, especially on servers with many custom assets. However, optimizing your settings first (particularly the Enhanced Texture Budget) is often enough to fix most texture problems without hardware upgrades.

    Yes, server owners can optimize their servers to reduce texture issues by properly configuring streaming settings, optimizing custom assets, implementing distance-based resource loading, and avoiding excessive map modifications loading simultaneously.

    Servers with more custom assets (vehicles, maps, props) require more texture memory. Servers that have many unoptimized custom assets or conflicting map modifications will cause more texture streaming issues for players than servers with properly optimized content.

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