Gmod Exe

Symptom: The game lags, stutters, or crashes because GMod is using 8GB+ of RAM.

Cause: Too many high-resolution addons (player models with 4K textures) or a memory leak in a specific Lua script.

Fix:

You can modify how the gmod exe behaves by appending launch options in Steam. Right-click Garry’s Mod → Properties → Launch Options.

Hardcore modders sometimes want to "hex edit" gmod.exe to remove the source engine limit or change the game's memory allocation. We do not recommend this. gmod exe

If you edit gmod.exe with a hex editor (like HxD):

The only legitimate modification is creating a symbolic link to a different folder for addons. Example command (Admin CMD): mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\GarrysMod\garrysmod\cache" "D:\GMod_Cache" Symptom: The game lags, stutters, or crashes because

This moves the cache folder to another drive, but leaves gmod.exe untouched.