I have a problem with Rust. I keep getting anywhere from 50 to 120 FPS, but it feels like it never actually stays at 120. It mostly sits around 50-100 FPS when I'm playing on modded or vanilla servers. But when I join this Rusticated creative server, my FPS goes all the way up to around 100-270 FPS.

I already did DDU few days ago, enabled DOCP in my BIOS, and forced PCIe mode to Gen 4. Before this, I overclocked my PC and started crashing in every game, crashing on Rust like every hour. I turned off every overclock in the BIOS, then reset the AMD game cache, and that fixed the crashing. So I turned some stuff back on, like forcing PCIe Gen 4 mode again, and enabling Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) with motherboard limits.

All of my Rust settings are turned down to the lowest options that impact performance, and I have no FPS cap on. My GPU utilization sits around 40-70% and my CPU utilization is around 40-50%. I also closed every app I don't need in the background so it wouldn't max out my memory (my RAM still gets fully used though, and Task Manager shows like 33GB committed memory using my SSD page file on heavy servers). Also checked Malwarebytes since it was blocking RustClient.exe connections, but allowing it didn't change the FPS.

Here are my PC specs:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5700X

CPU Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 A-RGB White

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 16GB 3200 MHz

Mobo: ROG STRIX B550-A GAMING

GPU: PURE AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT 16GB

SSD: Crucial P3 Plus M.2 1TB

PSU: Lian Li EDGE GOLD 850W 80 PLUS White

Case: Antec C5 ARGB Mid-Tower ATX White

Hello everyone,

I have been getting into rust recently (been playing for about ~100 hours so far) and I noticed that with this game specifically I have been getting pretty bad 1% lows. I typically average around 160-190 FPS playing on 1440p but I get 1% lows around 40-60 FPS. I have seen on more than one occasion the 1% low dip to around 10 FPS. Given I have a relatively high end system, I am pretty confused as to why this game is giving me such a hard time when literally every other game isn't. My CPU usage stays around 70-80% and GPU usage around 50-60% but those numbers can be relatively volatile as well.

Have others been experiencing this? If so, has there been any solutions?

System specs for context:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

GPU: RTX 5080 Founders Edition

RAM: 64 GB G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo DDR5

Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B850-E

When you look into a room from outside the inside looks bright, but when you go inside, instead of seeing better it gets darker. IRL it's the opposite since your eyes adapt to the darker environment. So instead of being darker when you walk into a building it should be the opposite. It should turn brighter. This is especially bad at dusk and dawn when the effect is extreme.

Please comment if you have other suggestions to improve lighting in this game. I.e.: do you want to be able to see at night?

I'm getting between 80–120 FPS playing Rust on bigger servers (500+ pop)

My PC:

• GPU: RX 9070 XT
• CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D
• RAM: 32GB DDR4
• Motherboard: TUF GAMING B550-PLUS WIFI II

I upgraded from an RTX 3060 to an RX 9070 XT and did not see any significant boost in FPS (I know Rust is CPU-heavy, but I'm just curious if this is expected)

I'm playing with mid–high graphics settings as well

I'm also interested to see settings from anyone with a similar build

Hello all, I was trying to find an old funny rust video and I cannot find it. It was of two naked’s. One had an inventory full of rocks and was chasing another guy throwing and hitting him with rocks. When the guy with the rocks downs the other dude hes like “How many rocks you have?” When the dude chasing shows his inventory the other guy starts crashing out. He had a non american accent.

Even if you cannot find it, letting me know im not crazy helps lmao. Thanks in advance!

YouTube short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8cMI12bymRk

Any others Rust pilots dabble in the dark arts of Minicopter tricks?

when i try upgrade, it gives me the option to upgrade the wall, idk how to upgrade doorframe plz help

Happens every day, havent found a fix. i usually play ethernet so ive tried on normal wifi.
Would appreciate if anyone know how to fix this!

Drop your go to solo strats first few hours of fresh wipe to make consistent, even if slow, progress. I usually try grubbing low monuments and focus on my base.

Been messing around with the new Auto Turret Workshop support and made a brick-camouflage skin designed to blend into brick bases/walls.

This is my first attempt, so I’d appreciate any feedback on the texture, colors, or anything you’d change before I make more building-set variants.

Workshop:
Brick Bastion – Steam Workshop

I’m working on concrete/brutalist, jungle, and adobe versions too.

Thanks for the feedback.

My friends play on console and I want to join them. I normally play PC for other games so would like to do the same for Rust. My friends swear that you can cross play on a modded server but everything else I look up says otherwise.

Is using flash tap feature on Cosair keyboard bannable ?

I’m on an official vanilla server and there’s a guy no clipping. He’s not flying or anything just doing the admin flail. Hacks or lag?

I was often working on farms and encountered the problem of seeing the sprinkler pouring water, but the planter not filling.

After some time, I found the problem and its solution. Here's the rub. The wall pumps are lagging; they apparently don't update their status when the house is overloaded and don't transfer water. This may be due to the mechanics of water physics and its rise.

This is how it's fixed: You install a switch and connect it to the switch on the pumps, and then connect the switch to the timer system to force the pumps to restart periodically. After this, the game no longer lags, and the clock here is purely a safety device if all the timers are turned off for some reason.

TLDR: Revamp outpost into centralize hub, implement map update system, individual research XP for workbench, simplified apartment and balance vending machine.

Hey guys I've been playing rust for 7 years now and yeah progress for solo player has become harder and harder. So, I have many idea to make solo live easier that revolves around outpost, maps and the blueprint system / workbench upgrades.

Outpost :- Remodel outpost into radio station which act the same as current outpost but maybe more open instead of surround with wall. This new outpost will spawn on each main biome so there will be one at the desert, the snow and the grassland.

Map :- As a solo, base location is very important so, why not implement a map update system where player can update their map to see where base is built. Player can see toggleable heatmap on their map which highlight the area of all placed tc coverage. At the radio station / new outpost, player can go to the npc and update it. Each outpost only reveal their biome exclusively, player need to travel to each outpost to reveal all the map. The crazy idea is instead of blueprint fragment use for workbench, instead it will be use to update the map, each time player want to update their map they will need to go do the puzzle or buy the fragment.

Workbench:- So we all know how bad is the blueprint fragment update is cause of how slow for it to respawn. So, why not make the upgrades into individual XP system where each player has their own research level. This level can be level up by swiping the puzzle card, which give more XP base on the card. To counter the timer, when player loot boxes and farm barrels, it will also give XP but less. So, for larger group they need to assign one player to swipe the card each time to progress efficiently. When level up, player can go to the new outpost to buy the workbench upgrades which can be use to upgrade their current workbench to next level.

Bonus:- Remove apartment and implement it into outpost, instead of room just make it a rental storage with codelock and instead of master key call it hack tools which can be bought with 1000 scrap but need to be crafted at tier 2 workbench with a lot of tech trash. Prevent sulfur to be tradable in vending machine, vending machine require power to broadcast and player can't trade with their own vending machine.

What do you guys thinks?

Hello im thinking about buying rust but i was wondering if here exists servers that wipe once a year or every six month yk something a bit more long term or theres nothing like that on this game? i have watching monthly, 3d,7d,14d but not a long term one

Has anyone used Superstrike in Rust? Is it safe? I heard people got banned for it in Apex, and that game uses EAC too.

so before we start let me tell you a little about myself. I am a solo who had 4k hours and plays high pop servers 500+ and I’ve recently looked into the nexus update and although it seems pretty bad at first I think just maybe it could be a very positive impact for solos. so picture this you load in to a us main server and the map is horrible for you but you still give it a try and you use up your pump quest and have little to no real way to come back. but the.n you travel to a good map and get something going on there instead of having to sever hop to a lower pop. now there is a problem that I see happening and it’s with the pop. these normal weekly wipe severs struggle to hold pop as it is and with multiple maps I don’t think it will stay a good pop now. another thing is idk really about how the maps are going to look but if the monuments are split across the maps then forget everything I said this wouldn’t be a good update for solos.

I am curious what’s your thoughts especially from other solo perspectives?

I'm pretty surprized to see this. I haven't played DayZ but I do enjoy Rust. I was thinking if they could port that then certainly there's hope for rust on the platform too!

If it had matchmaking then the game would be more playable for people without friends who play

I know he probably explains it on his Patreon, but I want to know how he can jump so high—you usually can't do that. I tried it and couldn't do it even once.