BRO

Attaching recording in case its needed, April-18-2023_06-13AM.mp4

gonna post this here since every person who I've talked to on US scourge that has low fps has been helped by this immensely, Rust has launch options you can add in Steam to essentially make the client 1. utilize more memory, 2. utilize multicore processors, and 3. force DX11 and some other ish. the one I run is this: -heapsize 27262976 -force-feature-level-11-0 -cpuCount=6 -exThreads=12 -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded -gc.buffer 4096 -heapsize=x = This is the amount of memory IN KILOBYTES that Rust is allowed to consume basically, where x = the number of KB to dedicate. I set mine to 28GB I believe since I have 32GB of RAM and Windows doesn't really have that much overhead on my machine. It's recommended to set this to 16GB on a 32GB system but I give 0 fucks and want my damn Rust to play well. To convert GB to KB, take the number in GB you wish to dedicated and multiply it by 1024, then again by 1024. 16GB would be 16777216. -force-feature-level-11-0 = This forces the game to render in DX11. -cpuCount=x and -exThreads=x = These are the total amount of cores and threads you wish to dedicate to the client, where x represents the number of cores/threads. I'm running a Ryzen 5 5600X, so my machine has a total of 6 cores, 12 threads. To find this, you can right click your Start Menu, select Task Manager, select Performance, then your CPU. Cores and Logical Processors (threads) should be listed here. You can also change the view here by right clicking the graph of your CPU utilization, select Change graph and then Logical Processors to see your overall per core utilization, as well as how many total cores/threads there are in a graphical format. You can also use a tool like CPU-Z to see this information in more detail. -force-d3d11-no-singlethreaded = This instructs Rust to run DX11 with multithreading on. -gc.buffer 4096 = This is the amount of memory to dedicate to garbage collection. Since Rust has so many entities/assets, and people LOVE pickle farming, this helps A LOT when you're passing by areas with an extreme (and sometimes unnecessary) amount of entities. It's recommended to set it to it's maximum value, which it currently is at 4096. If you have less than 16GB of memory, set this to 2048. To access the launch options, right click Rust in Steam and select Properties. Should open to the General section which has the Launch Options right there. Of course, there are multiple other things you can also do to increase your Rust performance, like enabling your RAM's XMP/D.O.C.P. settings in UEFI settings, and overclocking/undervolting your GPU, however those I won't go into simply because an amateur can quite literally brick their PC from doing so. If that's something you're interested in, hit me up on Discord (I'm BRO in the discord, you can't miss me, the only dude with the Rolf from Ed Edd n Eddy pfp) and I'll be glad to hook you up with some tools to pull some reports and give you a best-guestimate based on hardware what else you can maximize from it for the best performance you could possibly get without upgrading components. Cheers, and happy Rustmas (or Deathmas?)!

Think you found part of the problem right there.

As someone who has literally never built a farm in any wipe (participated in 3 so far), didn't even know this was a thing. Yet I knew people around me were insanely rich - scrap + HQM + Diesel + everything and it didn't make sense to me until this thread. I've spent the last 3 wipes grinding endlessly to get even remotely near 1m scrap or 1m net worth. I've stopped playing until the next wipe at this point since I realized that was a futile effort and I should spend next wipe most likely on another server with less economy issues. Amassed about 6.9k (nice) scrap at any one time and that was solely from selling stuff with Vending Machines. Roughly 60k-ish net worth but I also used the money to buy things in the shop that otherwise would have taken too long for me to obtain or to research due to having a life and a newborn. Never really thought the Net Worth part really mattered, nor did I think having anything more than 6k scrap at a time for a solo player is even remotely necessary. The fact that people are out here unironically hording a virtual number for sake of hording it is baffling to me. You're telling me people care about how much Net Worth they have on a server that will wipe it every 3 months anyway? Or the amount of NW/scrap you can stockpile in the first week so you can sit in your base and not play the game for the rest of the wipe? At that point - I'd consider the following: 1. Foundation limits. You are allowed a total of 4 TC's. If you're on a team of players, that is more than plenty of space that you may not even end up utilizing all of by wipe day. This limits the size of farms unless their sole purpose is to farm, which at that point - why the hell are you playing Rust? 2. Nerf pickles to all shit. Nobody needs that amount of scrap. Not that easily. Rust is and has always been about survival. 3. Buff the shit out of Zombies for Scourge, All Animals for Survival - I'm talking there should be roaming, sprinting, 28 Days Later zombies on Scourge in packs of 10-20 or more. The kind where you fuck around and find out. Animals - wolf packs should literally be a pack. 3 wolves is a scouting party. 16 is a pack. 4. Consider PVE/PVP zones. Make more incentive to actually interact with the game. Some servers implement this by making Monuments PVP zones, or simply have random events that create a zone every X minutes/hours/etc in specified locations that is PVP-enabled. This could be anything from Gas Stations, Oil Rigs, or even Heli events. Get people out of their fucking bases because that's ridiculous.

Yellow marker is where my base is. This wall was not here literally 10 hours ago but now there's no way to the road on the beach. I'd have to go up the mountain to get around or backtrack around. This is on RustEZ Survival US.