Over the past few months, we’ve been working on several performance-related improvements to significantly reduce React resource consumption. Your feedback has been critical in helping us identify which in-experience UI has been impacting your experiences the most - check out what’s new and what’s coming below!
What’s New
We’re excited to share the recent updates and performance improvements:
Overall P95 React Frame Time: Improved 95th percentile React frame time by ~30% across all platforms.
Experience Chat Improvements: Optimized to take ~40% less frame time on all platforms with improvements in chat window and bubble chat billboards that power text and voice chat. See more here.
Playerlist: Optimized to do 66% less work on Desktop, and 20% less on Mobile.
Faster TopBar: Optimized to consume 3x fewer resources on Desktop, enhancing overall performance.
Developer Control of Self View: Developers now have the option to turn off the Self View feature, providing greater control over resource allocation. Check out our documentation here.
What’s Next
We’re just getting started! We have more updates coming out soon:
Continuing to optimize our least-performant pieces of UI (Experience Chat, PlayerList, TopBar)
Preventing non-visible UI components from doing work in the background
An optimized React scheduler
What This Means for You
By providing you with more control and better performance, these improvements translate to smoother, more efficient experiences for Roblox users.
Feedback & Questions
We are eager to hear your feedback on these updates. Please share your experiences and any questions you may have in the comments below. Thanks!
FAQs
Will these updates require me to take any actions on my existing experiences?
These updates are designed to improve performance without requiring any change from your end.
When will the future updates be released?
We are actively working on these updates, and we will provide more information on timelines as they become available.
Where can I find documentation and tutorials on the new performance controls?
All documentation will be available in Creator Hub, such as this documentation on how to disable SelfView.
Insert complaint about React here so people don’t need to spam this thread with comments about how they hate it and think it’s single-handedly responsible for all of the performance woes with Roblox.
I’m genuinely curious what you even optimized with the top bar? It feels crazy that anything could be done about what’s mostly a static GUI.
That’s controlled by your proximity to a server. I live in Canada and my ping is 50, which is more than good enough for competitive gameplay.
In regards to the topic, will we see any improvements for the desktop app? I’m still consistently using the website because the performance difference is gigantic.
aw heck yeah I love me some performance improvements
If y’all added a function to WorldRoot that allowed us to bulk update any property across any instance (like BulkMoveTo) the things that could be made that weren’t previously viable would be insane
Games I play require high render distance, but I don’t want all the extra effects full graphics quality gives. When is a way to do that getting added?
And for heavens sakes let players hide the experience controls on PC already.
This is barely providing us any control other than the self-view, which nobody uses anyway. The title of this topic, albeit true to an extent, irks me in the wrong direction.
Exactly, how does stuff like this even happen??? Lowest ping I’ve ever gotten on roblox was like 35, average is 70-110 (I can get a consistent 20 ping in any other game.)
Opening the Hamburger menu also causes a huge lag spike often times. In addition to that, I’ve seen cases of CharacterNameHandler and CameraModule causing lag spikes and using a lot more resources than usual. This mostly happens in demanding and intensive experiences with a lot of players in a single server like Doors and MTC 4.
I appreciate it but its insane this is an issue to begin with. It’s insane how such little care is put into such critical parts of the client that we are all forced to use. It’s insane only now some of the issues are being tackled after what, two to four years?
We can talk about meaningful improvements when we get a 500% improvements minimum.
Only place I get those consistent 20ms is in Studio’s local servers, which are processed LOCALLY, so the LOCAL server already has a 20ms delay and it doesn’t even leave the machine itself.
Lowest average pings I’ve ever gotten in my gaming history are 10ms in SCP SL and 30ms in Genshin’s European servers. My best average ping in roblox is 70ms in FRANCE (I’m in Spain) and yet I still get horrible inconsistent spikes that I don’t get anywhere else. Roblox has a horrible ping issue…
And about your ping, are you sure you’re not confusing your network response time with your cpu-gpu’s response time? 20ms seems way too good for… Anything Roblox related. I’ve never gotten below 50ms in any game, not even baseplates.
It especially makes no sense because the old CoreGUI features where all done without a UI library.
Why did Roblox decide to switch to React-lua?? We are forced to have these things in our game and they degrade performance.
The fact that there is non-visible UI components doing work as well is completely insane, that is such a basic optimization.
