Crash on Server Join
The client dies during connect / load screen. Clothing is only one of several causes. Prove it is involved before you rebuild a pack.
Difficulty: Intermediate · Affects: both (isolation is the same; Enhanced has extra conversion / escrow rules)
INFO
Search: crash on join, crash connecting, YMT, TxdStore, Invalid fixup, entitlement, INIT_SESSION.
Isolate · Tell them apart · Do not
Crash while joining
Intermediate
Cause
YMT over budget, TxdStore full, or a corrupt streamed file at session init.
Confirm
Disable all clothing. Search the log for TxdStore Pool Full, Invalid fixup, or entitlement. Count YMTs per gender.
Fix: Reduce YMTs or YTD count or replace the named file. Cache does nothing.
Isolate first
Is it this server?
Join the public FiveM test server (Cfx advice). If that also crashes, it is not the pack.
Read the string
Crash dialog and CitizenFX.log:
Disable every clothing ensure
DANGER
Still crashes — not primarily clothing. Stop rebuilding the pack.
TIP
Crash gone — clothing participates. Isolate with binary search.
Male and female, then the build
One-gender join crash is a YMT / metadata signature. Compare sv_enforceGameBuild to the last working number.
Full path: Crash Decision Tree.
Tell them apart
| YMT | Crash gone after removing clothing YMTs. One gender only is a strong clue. | ymt-limits | |
| TxdStore | Log contains `TxdStore Pool Full, Size ==` any number. Clothes, cars, maps. | txdstore-pool-full | |
| Invalid fixup | Message names a `.ydd` / `.yft` / `.ydr`. | invalid-fixup | |
| Escrow | Server console: entitlement error, resource failed to start. | entitlement-errors | |
| Game build | Started right after raising `sv_enforceGameBuild`. | crash-after-game-build-change | |
| Three-word hash | Build-specific. Commonly associated with YMTs — never unique. Confirm by isolation. | known-crash-hashes |
Other possibles: wrong artifact for the build, non-clothing pools, Enhanced unconverted YDD/YTD, GPU / game files if every server crashes.
What not to do
WARNING
Clear cache first
Does not add YMT slots or TxdStore capacity.
WARNING
Max every pool
Oversized increase_pool_size has crashed other pools.
WARNING
Decrypt or copy Legacy bypasses
Do not decrypt escrowed files. Do not paste moo 31337 onto Enhanced.