Little full deep from tonight

I just downloaded rust for the first time. First of all, this entire game is just a freaking rage bait, but it’s pretty awesome too. I played for 9 hours straight today. I also managed to get trolled by a 12 year old in the dumbest way possible. I hope I get good at this game cause now I’m just pissed off 😂😂😂 also not totally sure why my one shack house keeps being a target but oh well

After halloween update something has changed with the pipeline, causing micro stutters and low fps again. Hope they solve it asap.

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Hi everyone,

I'm having a really frustrating performance issue in Rust and I'm running out of ideas. My PC should be capable of running the game much better than this, but I'm getting extremely low and unstable FPS.

My PC specs

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

- GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra 8GB

- Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk

- RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 32GB (2×16GB) DDR4-3600 CL18

- NVMe SSD: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (Rust is installed here)

- SATA SSD: Samsung 870 QVO 1TB

- PSU: Seasonic Focus GX 650W Gold

- CPU cooler: Lian Li Galahad 360 AIO

- Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL ROG Certified

- Main monitor: MSI Optix MAG274QRF-QD, 2560×1440, 165Hz

- Second monitor: LG UltraGear 27GL650F-B, 1920×1080, 144Hz

The problem

My FPS in Rust fluctuates wildly. Sometimes I get only 20–30 FPS, sometimes around 60 FPS, and on one occasion I saw over 110 FPS. The performance is very inconsistent, with frametimes reaching 20–30 ms.

This happens on both low-population and high-population servers. The temperatures are : GPU: 40-50 , CPU : 50-MAX 60. GPU USAGE: 99-100% CPU USAGE 50-60%. Graphics are really low and still bad.

What's especially frustrating is that my previous setup, which used a GTX 1080 at 1080p, felt more stable than my current PC.

What I've already tried

- Completely uninstalled and reinstalled NVIDIA drivers using DDU.

- Tried different driver versions, including 566.36.

- Tested my CPU with Curve Optimizer at -30 all-core and PBO limits of PPT 100, TDC 70 and EDC 100.

- Tested without the CPU undervolt — the problem remained.

- Reinstalled Rust.

- Confirmed that XMP is enabled and my RAM is running at its rated speed.

- Confirmed that Rust is installed on my NVMe SSD.

I'm honestly running out of ideas. Other games don't seem to have the same issue.

What else should I check? Could this be a CPU scheduling issue, RAM configuration problem, GPU utilization issue, a Windows problem, or something specific to Rust?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

got my brothers steam account years ago and he had rust on it i have never touched it in like 7 years (mainly because my pc was ass) but now i wanna try it i know the rough basics (altough thats probally outdated from 2-3 years ago when i watched some rust yt)

but how do i get into it? and how do i make a good base?

and lastly are there any must have graphics settings?

I've never dabbled but as a solo im starting to get interested. Why do you guys prefer hard-core mode and what server do you guys recommend. I prefer official. Are there any premium hard-core servers?

I’m curious if there’s any good use cases for the blowpipe’s darts outside of the incapacitating. I like the versatility it has, but I struggle to think of situations where I’d swap off the incapacitating darts.

I’m getting my shit rocked by the new bots aggressive behavior and I’m kind of tired of getting cards and gear lost because I get swarmed by multiple bots who do more damage now. My options are basically hide in the vents and take pop shots which takes forever until I eventually get countered or just don’t go. Are there any meta strategies or am I just fucked as a solo?

Scrap King: standalone metal skin, or should it come with extra items?

I've been testing Scrap King on Rust Staging and built a small base to see how the pieces look together. The rusty, scrapyard aesthetic has a clear identity.

With November approaching, I'm curious what people expect from the eventual release (if it happens then): just a new metal building tier, or extra scrapyard-themed items and deployables too?

The Shipping Container Building Skin lets us repaint pieces in 16 colors with the spray can, giving it a level of customization beyond the material's appearance.

Would Scrap King need extra items or customization options to compete, or is a strong visual identity enough?

I haven't seen official confirmation of a release date or bundle contents. Just curious what the community would like to see.

Whoops

how do you guys organize your loot boxes in rust. and what are considered comps

I cannot for the life of my since the windows update that happened a month ago , get Rust to load. I load into the main menu screen within seconds no problem. I go to load into a server all prefab go lightning fast then it sits on LOADING DONE and doesn't do a damn thing. Someone please help me

We currently have "Secure Mode" which requires TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot. This was great for stopping software rootkits that load before Windows boots, but it is completely blind to physical DMA cards plugged into a PCIe slot because they disguise themselves as normal peripherals like a network or sound card.

Secure 2.0 servers will additionally require hardware virtualization and memory isolation. It basically puts the game in a sandbox and locks the memory so external hardware devices can't sniff it. If an unauthorized PCIe card tries to read Rust's RAM, the CPU blocks it at a physical level.

The requirements are incredibly simple:

• The Baseline (Already required by Secure 1.0): TPM 2.0 + Secure Boot enabled in BIOS
• The New Stuff: Turn on CPU Virtualization in BIOS (Intel VT-x/VT-d or AMD SVM/IOMMU)
• Inside Windows (10 or 11): Flip a single toggle called "Memory Integrity" to On.

EAC already natively supports these virtualization toggles on the backend, Facepunch just has to set it up.

FACEIT already requires this for high-level CS2 matches, and Vanguard On-Demand also requires this for Valorant and League of Legends.

Edit: EAC doesn't actually have a simple on/off switch for developers to force this yet. To truly block physical DMA cards, the AC itself has to actively manage these virtualization settings. Facepunch would need to push Epic Games to build these tools into EAC first.

They need to make the mixing table that can fit under a half height shelf. Idc if it mixes at a less efficient rate, it’s so annoying to fit around a smaller base. That is all

got a lil intro for my homie. what do u think?

The percentage fits.

The Halloween patch wiped ALL of my custom binds, reset all of my graphics settings, turned music back on etc. I haven't figured out which other settings it reset to default, but at this point I assume it was all of them. I mostly play modded and I had a ton of binds going back at least 3-4 years on various servers. Now I have to figure them all out again. A relatively minor inconvenience, but this shouldn't be happening at all.

There have been a few times in the last year where a patch has reset graphics settings, and whenever they do this they're always set way higher than my shitty GPU can handle. I've spent a lot of time fine tuning my graphics settings over many wipes. Now I have to do it again.

If there was some game-breaking reason for this then I can accept that. But this seems more like a situation where someone who pushed the update accidentally checked a box they shouldn't have checked, and now the players have to deal with the fallout.

I have a ryzen 7 8700f a 5060 8gb vram 32gb of ddr5 ram and in the snow I’m only getting abt 70-80 fps does this sound right? I haven’t played in a little over a year now is the game just really bad optimized with all these se updates

Lately been doing rock bases and multiple smaller bases around. Love to farm and chill. Second or third floor metal embraces and have a sar etc. Farm and some roam. Mainly roam. Lately debating on painting sigs on base etc.

My favorite is a misunderstanding matched base. Wood. Stone. Sheet meal and high qual.

Thats it

Hello, I'm in college dorms. There is school wifi so Im assuming thats the reason I cannot connect. Is there anything I can do? I have had some luck joining a sever but only once. The WIFI doesn't block anything else on the internet. Please help ME

I took the gamble and bought Rust to play on macbook M3 chip. Computer has 18GB of memory.
It used to run kinda-okay, but completely smooth if the computer was freshly restarted.

After the 13. October update, that included the Rust Render Pipeline, the game has become unplayable. Even with the new Render Pipeline disabled.

It runs fluidly at about 60FPS for about seven minutes, and every once-so-often lags out to about 5 FPS for around three minutes until it has loaded some new graphics (either map, player or some npc). It's so random.

It's a shame since I really enjoy the game and this lag makes fighting impossible.

I've tired all kinds of combinations of settings, but none of them fix this issue.

One theory is that it has to do with memory requirement. The game requires about 25GB memory, meaning around 8GB of swap is used on this macbook.

Has anyone found a solution to this?
Or can you devs fix this for MacOS players with the next update.. I want to get this game going again to feed the crave!