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RSVSR How to Max Out GTA 5 Enhanced Ped Crowds Safely
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Los Santos can look incredible in the Enhanced Edition, but the vibe falls apart when you roll through Downtown and it feels like nobody lives there. I kept seeing the same gripe pop up—"Where's the traffic? Where are the people?"—so I tried a few fixes and most of them were either janky or unstable. Then XtremeTool Enhanced showed up in late 2025 and, honestly, it finally tackled the real issue instead of just brute-forcing spawns. If you're already the type who messes with single-player setups, you've probably also looked into stuff like GTA 5 Money for speeding up the sandbox side of your save, and this tool fits that same "make the city feel alive" mindset without turning your game into a crash lottery.
What It Actually Changes
Most "more peds" mods just shout at the game to spawn extra bodies and hope the engine doesn't choke. XtremeTool Enhanced is different because it goes after the limits that cause the emptiness in the first place. The tool lets you adjust things like Main Heap Size and the Ped Memory Budget, which is basically telling the game, "Here's more room—keep these NPCs loaded." You'll notice it fast: pedestrians don't blink out as you turn a corner, and traffic doesn't thin out the second you start moving at speed. It feels less like a trick and more like you've finally given the engine enough breathing space to do what it was trying to do all along.
Performance Reality Check
Don't go into this thinking it's free. Enhanced Edition already leans hard on your GPU, and cranking population on top of that can turn a smooth session into hitching and texture pop-in. People online aren't exaggerating when they say 16GB of RAM is the baseline if you want to push higher settings, and you'll want a GPU with at least 4GB of VRAM if you don't want the city to stutter every time a crowd loads in. The good news is you're not stuck with one "max chaos" preset. There's an XtremeTool.ini, and you can tune it like a normal human: bump it up, test for ten minutes, then back it off if the frame pacing feels rough.
Setup And The Payoff
Install is straightforward if you've ever used.asi mods: grab ScriptHookV Enhanced, drop the.asi and.ini into the main game folder, and launch. After that, the change isn't just "more pedestrians standing around." You'll see more scenario peds doing their thing—people sat on benches, messing with phones, grabbing coffee, getting into little arguments. The city starts behaving like a city. It also makes driving feel better because traffic flows in a way that's closer to what you expect in a busy place, especially around commercial areas and beach routes.
Keep It Offline
This is single-player territory, full stop. Tweaking memory pools and population budgets is the kind of thing that can get you flagged online, and it's not worth it. If you want a richer offline run—more street life, more activity, more reasons to slow down and look around—this tool nails it. And if you're also into rounding out your experience with legit storefront options for game currency or items, RSVSR is worth a look alongside your single-player tweaks, just keep the modding side where it belongs: offline, stable, and under your control.