3.4GB Client Memory Usage on Empty Baseplate — Is This Normal?

[Bz1_Studios (Bone)]

I want to reduce or understand why a completely empty baseplate in Roblox Studio is using ** ~3.3–3.5 GB of memory**, even when there are no assets, scripts, or plugins active.

I’ve noticed that even in a brand new baseplate experience, my memory usage is extremely high. I originally thought this was only happening in a large project I’m working on, but this same issue occurs even in empty places.

Here’s what I’m seeing:

• Memory usage: 3.3–3.5 GB
• CoreMemory: default: 1.4 GB
• PlaceMemory: 1.2 GB
• UntrackedMemory: 750 MB
• This place has Plugins disabled, no terrain, no scripts, and no models.

Screenshots:
Developer Console:

Performance Tab:

Extra Details:

• Ive Turned off all plugins
• Cleared out every asset from the experience
• Opened a brand new baseplate template
• Reinstalled studio

Despite all of this, I still get high memory usage from Core and Untracked memory categories.

• I’m using the latest version of Roblox Studio.
• This isn’t caused by my own content, it’s reproducible in fresh projects.
• My suspicion is that this memory usage is coming from the CoreGui system (Roact/Rodux modules, analytics, default systems) or Roblox’s built-in telemetry and editor tools from Roblox’s latest update.
• I don’t know if this is just a Studio thing or if it affects published games and players as well.

So My Questions Are:

1. Is this normal behavior for Studio?
2. Will this same memory usage carry over to live gameplay?
3. Is there a way to optimize or reduce the baseline memory footprint of Roblox Studio?
4. Should I be concerned about this type of high memory usage performance when I haven’t even added content yet?
5. Is there any fix or way to lower this memory usage.

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Thanks in advance for any help or clarification. If I’m missing something obvious, I’d love to know. I just want to make sure I’m not overlooking a setting or misunderstanding how memory usage is calculated in Studio.

[BeneBDev (BeneB)]

roblox studio just does that (since it is a whole engine)
if you test the baseplate on roblox it should cut the memory in half

this is a pretty popular topic, so just searching for it you should find a solution

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