I turned car friction off in GTA 5. Help
A PC Gamer writer has created a chaotic modding experiment in GTA 5 by disabling car friction physics for every NPC vehicle in the game. The modification has resulted in absurdist consequences: vehicles accelerate to extreme speeds and become impossible to control, leading to hundreds of in-game deaths in seconds. Rather than installing new mods, the modder repurposed an existing tool to set constant, unstoppable momentum on all NPC cars while removing friction entirely.
The experimental approach has transformed familiar locations and scenarios in the game into comedic nightmares, with vehicles achieving what the modder describes as “the speed of light.” This is part of an ongoing daily modding project aimed at either recreating elements of GTA 6 or breaking GTA 5 entirely through increasingly creative modifications.
The story exemplifies the creative modding culture surrounding the aging but still-popular GTA 5, showing how players continue to discover new ways to interact with and experiment on Rockstar’s open-world sandbox years after its original release.