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6 browser-only utilities for FiveM server owners — a start-order checker for server.cfg, a resmon total & frame-budget calculator, a config/log redaction checker, a stack compatibility checker, a server stack planner, and an install pre-flight checklist. Every one of them runs entirely on your machine: nothing you paste, select, or tick is ever sent anywhere, logged, or stored.

These are heuristics over text you paste, not a connection to your server. Each tool is deliberately narrow, checks a short, named list of things, and says so when it cannot check something. None of them promise your server will start, that your performance is acceptable, or that your paste is safe to share — they surface what is worth inspecting and leave the judgment to you. What each tool does not do is documented as prominently as what it does, on its own page and below.

FiveM Start Order Checker

Client-side only

Paste your server.cfg ensure/start lines and see ordering problems before you boot.

Reads a pasted list of ensure/start lines and flags duplicate entries, resources started before a prerequisite they likely need (oxmysql, ox_lib, a framework core, or vf_core), and commented-out lines that are silently being ignored. Runs entirely in your browser.

What it does

  • Parses ensure/start lines you paste and lists them in the order the server would actually process them.
  • Flags a small, named set of known prerequisite relationships (oxmysql, ox_lib, the three framework cores, vf_core) when a likely dependent starts first.
  • Flags duplicate resource entries and commented-out lines so nothing is silently ignored without you noticing.

What it does NOT do

  • Does not read your actual resource folders, fxmanifest files, or convars — only the text you paste.
  • Does not know about resources started from a separate exec'd config file it was never shown.
  • Does not know every resource's real dependencies — only a small, named list of well-known ones.
  • Does not guarantee your server will start cleanly even with zero findings.
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Resmon Total & Frame Budget Calculator

Client-side only

Add up resmon numbers you already measured and see their share of a 60fps frame.

Enter resource names with the idle and active milliseconds you measured yourself with FiveM's resmon, and it totals them and shows what share of a 16.67ms (60fps) frame budget they represent. It does not measure anything itself — it only adds up numbers you already recorded.

What it does

  • Adds the idle and active milliseconds you enter for each row into running totals.
  • Shows what share of a 16.67ms (60fps) frame those totals represent, as arithmetic.
  • States Vice Drip's own idle/active engineering target next to your numbers, clearly labeled as our target, not a verdict on yours.

What it does NOT do

  • Does not measure anything — it has no connection to your server and never runs resmon itself.
  • Does not know your player count, your other resources, or your hardware, all of which affect real frame time.
  • Does not declare your numbers good or bad against any industry threshold — none is published here.
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Config & Log Redaction Checker

Client-side only

Scan a config or log paste for likely secrets before you post it anywhere.

Scans pasted text for patterns that commonly indicate secrets — database connection strings, license keys, API keys, tokens, Discord webhooks, IP addresses, email addresses — and produces a redacted copy plus a plain-English explanation for each finding. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing is transmitted.

What it does

  • Scans pasted text against a named list of patterns that commonly indicate secrets or personal data.
  • Produces a redacted copy with each match replaced by a labeled placeholder, ready to select and copy.
  • Explains, per finding, what the pattern usually is and why it is worth stripping before you share the text.

What it does NOT do

  • Does not guarantee the redacted copy is safe to post — it surfaces likely secrets, it does not certify their absence.
  • Does not send, log, or store anything you paste; everything happens in memory in your browser tab.
  • Does not replace rotating a credential that was actually exposed — redacting text after the fact does not undo a leak.
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FiveM Stack Compatibility Checker

Client-side only

Declare your framework, database, inventory, and target, and see what's worth checking before you install.

Select your framework, database layer, inventory, and target system, plus whether the resource uses ox_lib, NUI, or is escrowed, and it reasons through likely conflicts, a suggested install sequence, and a testing checklist. It reasons only from the stack you declare and cannot see the actual resource — it never promises compatibility, only 'likely works,' 'worth inspecting,' or 'commonly needs a bridge.'

What it does

  • Cross-checks the framework, database, inventory, and target you select for named patterns that commonly need a bridge or are worth a second look.
  • Flags specific conflicts — a target system that doesn't match your framework's common default, an inventory from a different framework's ecosystem, or an escrowed resource that cannot be patched later.
  • Suggests an install sequence and a testing checklist tailored to the exact stack you selected.

What it does NOT do

  • Does not read the actual resource you're installing — it only reasons from the stack choices you select here.
  • Never states a combination is "compatible": findings are phrased as likely, worth inspecting, or commonly needs a bridge, never a guarantee.
  • Does not know the resource's real dependency list, its actual code, or its author's tested-version matrix.
  • A "likely works" result is not a certification that nothing will break.
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FiveM Server Stack Planner

Client-side only

Tick the systems your server needs and get a dependency-ordered plan.

Check off framework, database, inventory, target, voice, and gameplay systems — jobs, banking, garage, housing, MDT, evidence, EMS, dispatch, gangs, businesses, admin/audit, announcements, events — and get a category checklist in dependency order, the integration questions each choice forces, an integration-risk note per layer, an install sequence, and a testing plan. Runs entirely in your browser.

What it does

  • Turns the systems you tick into a single checklist, ordered the way they commonly need to be planned and installed.
  • Lists the integration questions each choice forces — the decisions that connect one category to another — plus a plain-English integration-risk note per layer.
  • Names a Vice Drip product where one maps to a category you ticked, always with the same honest, hedged status.

What it does NOT do

  • Does not know your actual server, its current resources, or your player count — it only orders the categories you tick.
  • Does not recommend a specific third-party resource for any category — that choice, and the diligence behind it, stays yours.
  • Naming a Vice Drip product next to a category is not an offer: nothing here is purchasable, no runtime proof is published for any of them — pending Shadow bench — and this page is a planning reference, not a storefront.
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FiveM Install Pre-Flight Checklist

Client-side only

A tickable checklist for before, during, and after installing a script — with a copy-as-text button.

An interactive pre-flight checklist grouped into before you download, before you install, install, first boot, verify, and rollback readiness, with a running progress count and a copy-as-text button. Ticked state lives only in this page's memory for this visit — not in localStorage, not in a cookie, nowhere persistent.

What it does

  • Groups a pre-flight checklist into before you download, before you install, install, first boot, verify, and rollback readiness, with a running progress count.
  • Lets you tick items as you go and copy the whole checklist — with your progress marked — as plain text to paste into your own notes.
  • Keeps every tick in this page's own memory for the duration of your visit, nothing more.

What it does NOT do

  • Does not save your progress between visits — there is no localStorage, cookie, or account behind it, so refreshing or closing the tab clears it.
  • Does not install, download, or touch anything on your server — it is a checklist, not an installer.
  • Does not know which items apply to your specific resource — some rows (an escrow manifest check, for instance) only matter if the resource you're installing is actually escrowed.
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Why these six

Small, checkable, and honest about their limits.

Each of these targets a real, recurring FiveM server-owner problem: a resource that won't start because of ordering, a resmon reading that needs turning into something comparable, a paste that is about to leave a credential in a public channel, a stack combination worth a second look before you install, a whole server's worth of systems that need planning before they need code, and a pre-flight routine that catches the disasters that are never actually about the resource itself. None of them require an account, a download, or trusting us with your data — the browser tab you already have open is the whole tool.

Nothing on this page or behind it is a Vice Drip product claim — these are utilities, not proof of anything about our resources. No tool here reads your files, calls a server, or stores what you type; check your browser's network tab if you want to verify that yourself.

Last verified: 2026-09-02