GTA 6 Server Performance

Tick rate and ping. 60 Hz tick rate means the server reads inputs every 16.6 ms. Ping is the round-trip latency of your connection. A player with 40 ms ping on a 60 Hz tick server will see their inputs register at around 56 ms, which is tight enough to feel responsive even for racing and PvP scenarios.

Achieving those numbers requires actual hardware and actual networking. Our GTA 6 server locations page has the POP map available. Pricing explains the hardware offered at each tier.

Most server crashes occur at peak player count when scripts that worked fine with 32 players melt down with 96. Monitor your control panel resource profiler at all times. Any resource over 2 ms tick time should be looked into and optimized if possible. Cache queries to your database like your life depends on it. Move as much non-crucial work off the main thread as you can.

If you've optimized and you're still CPU bound, it's time to move to GTA 6 dedicated server hosting. No shared cores, no noisy neighbors, and complete control over CPU pinning.

Scale up RAM and CPU live on Professional and above. Going one tier higher within the same class of hardware is zero downtime, pro-rated. Moving up to dedicated (different hardware class) will take about a two-minute cutover.