Game Is Performing Poorly

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Recently, my game has started slowing down in terms of asset load time. I haven’t made any large updates to it recently, and I union everything I can. The problem is most severe when I’m trying to load the game, even in a run test. Average wait time now is about 1 minute - 5 minutes. In ROBLOX Player, nothing loads past 36 of the total assets. Players load in as blank dummies and their camera is not head locked. This is exceptionally annoying as it’s stopping me from testing my game at all.

So far I’ve tried:

  • Publishing to ROBLOX as a different place.
  • Looking through the workspace for malicious scripts, despite not using free models.
  • Removing some unnecessary assets.
  • Removing the loading screen as it may have been down to Content Provider.
  • Re-Installing ROBLOX Studio, however I didn’t suspect this as several of my other places perform fine.

Nothing has even come close to working so far, and my friends aren’t having the same problems which makes it more concerning. I’m still looking for solutions, and any help would be greatly appreciated!

[ I didn’t take screenshots / record videos as in edit mode the game is fine, and I cannot record a run test as it doesn’t load enough to begin a recording or take a screenshot ]

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Have you tried removing some scripts (not the malicious ones you mentioned) that are unnecessary? Especially ones that have “while true do” loops? Also could you give us your average ping and/or the client memory usage? If you have terrain, have you tried eroding unnecessary parts of it? (I know this might sound like a lot of question) Is it also laggy in Studio or only in ROBLOX?

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This is not a good practice. Unions are generally less performant than parts. Use them when you need them, not for no reason.

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Sorry, I’m asking a lot of questions, but can you give me the game link so I can see what’s happening?

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Did you use any free models? , depending on whether you used it, your game may have a virus!?

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Thanks a lot! I’ve separated a lot of unnecessary unions with no negated parts, and the load time is now at around 2 minutes. I’ll keep going until Content Provider begins to preload successfully. Again, thank you!

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