FiveM Anticheat Setup Guide: From Zero to Protected

Dropping an anticheat resource into your server.cfg is the easy part. The difference between a server that quietly catches cheaters and one that mass-bans real players on launch night is everything that happens after the install: how you plan your thresholds, pair your panel, tune for your own population, and roll enforcement out. This guide walks the full path from zero to protected without the rookie mistakes.

Step 1: Plan thresholds and an action ladder first

Before you touch a config file, decide what each detection should do, not just whether it fires. A good FiveM anticheat config separates the trigger from the response. Map every module to a rung on an action ladder so a borderline desync warns while a confirmed money injection bans instantly. Fiveuxe ships 27 detection modules, and the point of planning is deciding which ones earn a hard ban versus a warning on your specific server.

• 1. Warn. Low-confidence signals like a single abnormal speed reading or one explosion-filter hit. Log it, surface it in the panel, take no player-facing action.
• 2. Kick. Repeated movement violations such as noclip or freecam, or entity rate-limit breaches. Removes the player but lets a false positive rejoin.
• 3. Ban locally. High-confidence behavior like weapon spawns, vehicle spawn floods, or Damage Reducer abuse caught with evidence.
• 4. Global ban. Forged money or trigger events caught by Event Security. These hit the Hive-Mind network and propagate across 100+ servers in about 0.3 seconds.

Step 2: Install the resource and pair the panel

With your ladder planned, install the resource and link it to your control surface. Drop the files into your resources folder, add the start line, and license the server using your key, the same flow covered in our FiveM anticheat install guide. The step people skip is pairing the web panel: that is where you actually read detections, adjust thresholds, and manage bans. Fiveuxe's panel ships in 9 languages, and pairing connects your server to live dashboards plus SENTINEL, the AI security co-pilot you can query in plain language to ask what a player did or why a flag fired. Without the panel paired, you are flying blind, configuring rules you cannot observe.

Step 3: Tune in monitor-only mode to avoid false bans

This is the step that protects your reputation. Run the anticheat in detect-only mode for a day or two so every module reports without punishing anyone. Roleplay servers generate odd-looking telemetry, drift cars, custom scripts, lag spikes, and a raw threshold will read some of that as cheating. Watch the panel, and because Fiveuxe attaches Screen & Snapshot Intelligence (live screen capture plus event evidence) to each flag, you can confirm whether a hit was a real injector or a desynced player before it ever costs you. Whitelist your admins and trusted dev resources so staff testing does not trip detections, the same way you would whitelist players or resources. Only promote a rule to auto-ban once it has flagged genuine cheats and zero legitimate players.

Step 4: Go live safely and let identity enforcement do the rest

Once your monitor window looks clean, flip enforcement on, but stage it. Enable the warn and kick rungs first, watch for a few hours, then turn on banning. Lock down identity at the same time: Shadow-Link enforces HWID, Discord IDs, IP, and 12+ identifiers, so a banned cheater cannot simply rejoin on a fresh account. From here the system is mostly hands-off, the Hive-Mind global network keeps known offenders out across the whole fleet, and you only revisit thresholds when you add major new scripts. Because Fiveuxe is server-side with a sub-millisecond client agent, none of this costs your players any FPS.

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