Some games only measure the amount of time it takes for a message to travel to the server only, instead of “to and back”.
Any progress on getting the TopBar (experience controls) to display properly on consoles?
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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.)
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This! Glad that you had mentioned it.
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.
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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.
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Great to see action being taken regarding the performance of this.
While you mention in-experience UI, will you also be addressing Roblox App’s Home Page incurring React scheduler frametime spikes despite being in-experience and user context not requiring it?
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it would be interesting if the UI was implemented in a library such as vide, as it offers many more performance and memory benefits over react
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.
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I said I get 20ms in every other game, lowest in roblox was like 35 in a very good server
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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.
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Roblox wanted to modernize and wanted to do it for cheap. The only real explanation.
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Don’t make me tap the sign.
The reason is that previously they were using Roact, which has a bunch of performance problems and it’s really stupid to try to maintain your own implementation of React when it sucks. As to why they swapped to Roact from “nothing”? The answer is that declarative UI libraries are generally considered to be a lot better than imperative UI and reinventing the wheel by creating a Roblox-specific solution is silly when there are already solutions to the problem.
For reference though, they’ve used UI libraries for a very long time. Pre-Roact things were done with RbxGui and the like, and they were also inefficient and horrible. Or so people complained, anyway. I never bothered to check.
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Could you please explain how this is the conclusion you came to? Why is that the only real explanation?
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React is one of the most available and widely used UI libraries out there. It is pretty much an industry standard UI library. It’s very easy to hire people fresh out of college who were taught such industry standards for dirt cheap. React talent is cheap, easy to find and easy to replace.
the option to turn off 1 singular feature that nobody uses anyway should not be considered as “giving more control”
While it technically is more control, it is too insignificant
Performance could also be greatly improved by just giving us true control of how we want certain client aspects (chat, CoreGui, playerlist etc.) to both look and operate behind the scenes, so we can just throw this vampiric implementation of react in the trash and do our own thing with much less performance loss
Either that, or yall open up some kind of experimental thing where devs can try to improve the react things and whoever gets the best performance wins some kind of reward
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I like this, but more control is basically just a technicality when it comes to disabling selfview. I would really like options to disable more topbar elements, including the stupid report button that doesn’t help at all because it’s also in the escape menu. PLEASE.
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Or, you know, Roblox just fixes the performances issues like they’re doing right now and this isn’t an issue again.
ok, anyway can you guys not force us to have the annoying, useless button that we don’t need
(also why can’t we disable music)
this is so stupid bro
local GuiService: GuiService = game:GetService('GuiService')
local StarterGui: StarterGui = game:GetService('StarterGui')
local function SetCoreEnabled(CoreGuiType: Enum.CoreGuiType, Enabled: boolean): boolean
local Success: boolean, Error: any;
repeat Success, Error = pcall(function()
StarterGui:SetCore("ResetButtonCallback", false)
StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(CoreGuiType, Enabled)
end)
task.wait()
until Success
GuiService:CloseInspectMenu()
return true
end
local function SetControls(Enabled: boolean): boolean
GuiService.TouchControlsEnabled = Enabled
return true
end
SetControls(false)
SetCoreEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.All, false)
What we need:
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Please let us disable the new “Music” feature in the experience controls! In my opinion, any new built-in UI added by Roblox should always ship with the option for devs to disable it, unless it’s absolutely necessary to keep it available at all times (e.g. the Roblox menu button).
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Can the “What’s playing” UI (in-game Music window thing) be optimized?
Having the music “window” open decreases your frame rate, this is easily noticeable if you’re playing a slightly laggy game.
(In some cases, frame rate get divided by 2)
Seems like it was fixed not too long ago, I was still experiencing this issue the last time I tried but it seems like it’s gone now, great work !