Did ROBLOX break VectorForce and/or PreRender/RenderStepped or something?

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I would’ve put this in Bug Reports but I’m not sure whether it is a bug or not.

But recently, while testing my ball game I noticed on occasion that the ball would lag to the point where it’s almost unplayable, however this only occurs sometimes. I tried on a different place and the same issue occurs.

Here’s a video:

Notice how it stutters (it’s not a part of the video)
I update the VectorForce in a :BindToRenderStep, I tried switching it for Heartbeat, same issue occurred.
So that’s why I’m considering that maybe VectorForce is broken?

This issue never occurred before, the place in the video is a brand-new place without any of the extra additions I made in the main place.

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Set the network ownership to the player, only saw the video and that’s my first guess instantly

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I run this line of code when the ball is spawned:

newBall:SetNetworkOwner(player)

When I tried removing it, it was like 10x worse so yeah…

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Are you putting the forces on the ball on the Server or client? Keep in mind that all roblox physics when the network ownership is set to a network owner (i.e player) replicates to the server so you should NOT enact any physics on the server but instead on the client.

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All the physics are handled on the client, I update the VectorForce in a module script which is client handled.

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I found out that Raycasting every RenderStep causes lag, which is confusing because it never happened before, but I reduced the effect by only Raycasting every 0.05 seconds.

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Never mind it fixed nothing, it still lags every so often…

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ray casting isnt that heavy, even doing it every frame has almost no impact on performance

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