Rust performance

[Whiskey]

so first of all thank you to all for taking the time to help me.

system specs:

i5-10400F

GTX 1050 Ti

also got 2x8gb DDR4 Ram sticks

also tried having rust installed on an SSD and HDD doesn´t help at all

So basically, I have played Rust for a long time—not on the best PC, but it got the job done. I played Rust in April this year and had stable FPS, playing through the wipe with no problem. Then, I played it maybe a month or two later for a short time, and the performance was still good. Rust was playable even when not on the best settings.

However, I downloaded it again 7 months later this month (November), and the game has been running awfully. There are stutters and freezes, and I have no clue what happened. I tried everything the internet has to offer: GeForce Experience settings, Nvidia Control Panel, launch options, tweaking the settings, giving myself full control, and renaming a file that was apparently using a lot of the processing power needed for Rust to function. But none of that helped.

I’m wondering if you, the people of this Reddit, have any more suggestions for how I can run Rust without stutters. When I run it, I get 80-90 FPS, but sometimes it drops to 60, and then it stutters—especially when I try to do things like shoot or mine. I haven’t had any crashes, though. At first, I thought I might have too little RAM, but I have the normal required amount of 16 GB, so I’m not sure.

Could this be because of the new update with the terrain and stuff? atleast that was the only logical solution for me.

[No_Quarter]

1050 Ti is borderline minimum to run this game so your performance is as expected.

It's an open world game where people are allowed to build huge buildings that drain resources, 4gigs of vram is pretty tight for that.

[Dooks]

reduce your draw distance and lower your settings especially around shadow and light rays then try it again
the Draw distance is the big one usually for borderline systems but lowering your graphics settings literally will help ANY game perform better as you are asking for less!
hope this helps a bit
have a good day

[Whiskey]

thanks for the reply

i have tried to turn down all the settings to the minimum and although had 110 fps that i never seen before it was still going down to 60 and it had stutters as well while going down so idk. Feels like it stutters no matter what even if i had 200 fps it still would stutter cause if it drops from 110 to 60 and stutters then i dont think its the settings cause with normal settings and with everything on minimum it still does the same so idk.

no clue if my system is dying or if the game has got too much stuff for my pc to work with but rust aint rusting

[Whiskey]

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

1050 Ti is borderline minimum to run this game so your performance is as expected.

It's an open world game where people are allowed to build huge buildings that drain resources, 4gigs of vram is pretty tight for that.

so you say that i should think about upgrading my gpu ?

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Whiskey:

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

1050 Ti is borderline minimum to run this game so your performance is as expected.

It's an open world game where people are allowed to build huge buildings that drain resources, 4gigs of vram is pretty tight for that.

so you say that i should think about upgrading my gpu ?

I think that's where you'll see the most benefit, your CPU and RAM are enough to pull the game at a decent level but GPU is barely enough. 4 gigs of VRAM are not enough for open world game to run smoothly these days, it's likely the reason for your dips as your PC is using your RAM as temporary VRAM which is not optimal.

Rust would benefit from more RAM but 16 gigs are enough. Think game consumes like 18 on systems with more RAM so it's not a big deal tbh.

It's probably not a bad time to look into upgrading, it's almost December and you should be able to catch some discounts. And if you are looking into used stuff, that's where influx happens as well.

[Whiskey]

Originally posted by No_Quarter:

Originally posted by Whiskey:

so you say that i should think about upgrading my gpu ?

I think that's where you'll see the most benefit, your CPU and RAM are enough to pull the game at a decent level but GPU is barely enough. 4 gigs of VRAM are not enough for open world game to run smoothly these days, it's likely the reason for your dips as your PC is using your RAM as temporary VRAM which is not optimal.

Rust would benefit from more RAM but 16 gigs are enough. Think game consumes like 18 on systems with more RAM so it's not a big deal tbh.

It's probably not a bad time to look into upgrading, it's almost December and you should be able to catch some discounts. And if you are looking into used stuff, that's where influx happens as well.

cheers man,

that´s what i thought tbh i was gonna buy more ram to have like 32gb but like i asked my mate and his game was running fine so i figured if he has 16 gb and hes fine then it must be something else. deffo gonna look into replacing the GPU as its almost 6 yrs old so it would be beneficial lol if i may ask you got any suggestions for GPUs ? was thinking about a GTX 1660 TI 6GB or something like that you think that would be able to hold rust ? just so you know got a corsair RM750x 750watt PSU and a asus prime z590-P Motherboard if you have any suggestions what i should get as a good gpu for rust that i wouldn´t have to sell a kidney for?

thanks.

[dArkimbA]

Here is a startup option you can try on Rust.

-nolog -headlerp 500 -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded -cpu_priority high -maxMem=12288

I put in 12288 as your ram because you want to leave a few for other apps / windows.
Stuttering can also be the result av high CPU and GPU temps. And without Ram allocation for Rust in startup option I've heard it just keeps on eating whatever Ram you have installed.

Even if Rust ran fine before doesn't mean it should run fine now, they upgraded graphical options and the world itself = requires more CPU / GPU power.

Also, you may try to turn on V-sync for couple hours at 60 FPS just to see if that does anything. For your rig running game without V-sync can actually make things overheat, not any danger in that but again - you'll notice it overheat in FPS loss / stuttering.

But it can also be lack off ram. You can easily get some cheap ram sticks and upgrade it from 16 > 32gb that'll make it quite better in Rust.

[Whiskey]

Originally posted by dArkimbA:

Here is a startup option you can try on Rust.

-nolog -headlerp 500 -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded -cpu_priority high -maxMem=12288

I put in 12288 as your ram because you want to leave a few for other apps / windows.
Stuttering can also be the result av high CPU and GPU temps. And without Ram allocation for Rust in startup option I've heard it just keeps on eating whatever Ram you have installed.

Even if Rust ran fine before doesn't mean it should run fine now, they upgraded graphical options and the world itself = requires more CPU / GPU power.

Also, you may try to turn on V-sync for couple hours at 60 FPS just to see if that does anything. For your rig running game without V-sync can actually make things overheat, not any danger in that but again - you'll notice it overheat in FPS loss / stuttering.

But it can also be lack off ram. You can easily get some cheap ram sticks and upgrade it from 16 > 32gb that'll make it quite better in Rust.

thanks for the comment but i tried it and it still runs the same sadly

[Whiskey]

Originally posted by dArkimbA:

Here is a startup option you can try on Rust.

-nolog -headlerp 500 -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded -cpu_priority high -maxMem=12288

I put in 12288 as your ram because you want to leave a few for other apps / windows.
Stuttering can also be the result av high CPU and GPU temps. And without Ram allocation for Rust in startup option I've heard it just keeps on eating whatever Ram you have installed.

Even if Rust ran fine before doesn't mean it should run fine now, they upgraded graphical options and the world itself = requires more CPU / GPU power.

Also, you may try to turn on V-sync for couple hours at 60 FPS just to see if that does anything. For your rig running game without V-sync can actually make things overheat, not any danger in that but again - you'll notice it overheat in FPS loss / stuttering.

But it can also be lack off ram. You can easily get some cheap ram sticks and upgrade it from 16 > 32gb that'll make it quite better in Rust.

Never mind my bad turning Vsync on instanly fixed everything LOL no clue wtf was going on but have constant 90-105 fps to thanks a lot for fixing it.

[musashi]

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[dArkimbA]

Originally posted by Whiskey:

Originally posted by dArkimbA:

Here is a startup option you can try on Rust.

-nolog -headlerp 500 -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded -cpu_priority high -maxMem=12288

I put in 12288 as your ram because you want to leave a few for other apps / windows.
Stuttering can also be the result av high CPU and GPU temps. And without Ram allocation for Rust in startup option I've heard it just keeps on eating whatever Ram you have installed.

Even if Rust ran fine before doesn't mean it should run fine now, they upgraded graphical options and the world itself = requires more CPU / GPU power.

Also, you may try to turn on V-sync for couple hours at 60 FPS just to see if that does anything. For your rig running game without V-sync can actually make things overheat, not any danger in that but again - you'll notice it overheat in FPS loss / stuttering.

But it can also be lack off ram. You can easily get some cheap ram sticks and upgrade it from 16 > 32gb that'll make it quite better in Rust.

Never mind my bad turning Vsync on instanly fixed everything LOL no clue wtf was going on but have constant 90-105 fps to thanks a lot for fixing it.

It could be CPU overheating though, maybe it can handle 90-105 fps fine as you say with locked-fps / v-sync on. But it may overheat if it gets higher than that, either way - good it's working now :)

[Whiskey]

that might just be the case, thanks a lot tho

[No_Quarter]

Originally posted by Whiskey:

e cheers man,

that´s what i thought tbh i was gonna buy more ram to have like 32gb but like i asked my mate and his game was running fine so i figured if he has 16 gb and hes fine then it must be something else. deffo gonna look into replacing the GPU as its almost 6 yrs old so it would be beneficial lol if i may ask you got any suggestions for GPUs ? was thinking about a GTX 1660 TI 6GB or something like that you think that would be able to hold rust ? just so you know got a corsair RM750x 750watt PSU and a asus prime z590-P Motherboard if you have any suggestions what i should get as a good gpu for rust that i wouldn´t have to sell a kidney for?

thanks.

1660 shouldn't have any issues with that PSU. It may, the way to check is to plug it in and see if PSU is overheating. It has more than enough juice, but there's something about power switching in 10 series Nvidia GPU's (and later models) that rips older PSU's and makes them overheat.

I've had a good 600W PSU, didn't stand my 1060 gpu with R5 3600 CPU which is laughable, that's maximum 400W draw with all my drives working and everything running OC. PSU still ran, it was just hot af so I wasn't too comfortable keeping it in.

Some guy explained that somewhere on Gamer's Nexus channel, but it's been a while and that's basically the jist.

As for what GPU I'd recommend, it's about your budget, any GPU is good these days. I would probably let intel have a few more generations before getting that but as much as you can afford it will be of help.

As for your other issue that vsync solved, I'd look into it deeper because keeping vsync on is bad, it absolutely wrecks your input latency so you will lose a lot of fights. Check temperatures and see if something is overheating, maybe you just need new thermal paste on something. HWinfo is a great free piece of software you can use to monitor your temperatures and a lot more