Optimising Rust (FPS and workshop downloads)#1473

Lag, ping and frustration: me and many other players face this making RUST literally unplayable. 2 main things need to be fixed:
1 - Optimising the game itself. This game ran better some months ago than it did now. Maybe an option to disable shadows?
2 - Finding a way to stop background workshop downloads. This is one of main things that stops me from playing RUST, even though I want to love it. Please find a way around this, I don’t want to ping all game even though I have skins disabled.

Try the FPS guide by Panjno on Youtube. I ended up reverting most of his suggestions, but something among his recommendations that helped me get out of constant dips to 30-40 fps from 60 was not even Rust-specific, it was more on the OS side. Try it, you’ll never know. I was sceptical as well (“Great, here is another smartypants telling me what I already know”), but now I’m actually impressed by how well an Unity game as large as Rust runs on my system.

There is no point logging such request apart wasting their time. If they could give you 144fps, they would.

Optimization is always an ongoing process and not a task or feature on its own which defeats the purpose of this feedback system.

We have a lot of work currently being done on optimization and much more planned after that.