PSA: The Roblox App Beta for Windows is Chugging Along!

Hey! My Roblox just stopped working and when I reinstalled this feature was on my client, Was this an intended change?

I have the beta on another account but I had it disabled and I haven’t re-enabled it for a few days so I doubt it would have automatically re-enabled by itself but somehow it did once I reinstalled roblox :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Hey there! Loving the app so far, although there’s something that’s been “bugging” me.

Even on a standard baseplate, the lua app every so often freezes the client for a few frames. The labels are in descending order:

  • Green: LuaAppStarterScript
  • Red: Text Shaping+Layout
  • Orange: Mostly DataModel.GetFastFlag, but sometimes TextService.GetTextSize
  • Blue: Typesetter : : Shape
  • Green: getHbFont

Here’s what the micro profiler looks like:

I’m on Windows 10 as well.

This has made playing games a bit of a hassle, especially in fast-paced action games.
I also have the dump file! Let me know if that’s needed and I can definitely provide it!

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@goldzun it appears Ive stumbled across a major loading issue, I’ve been in this game for quite some time and it loads parts of the game then after that nothing loads its like it just gives up and stops loading. I’ve went on 2 different games and have the same issue

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I should note this was not happening before I was on the new launcher

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I cant find the opt out button, If you can it would be an honor to temporarily remove me from this while the loading issue is resolved

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jailbreaks new update is awesome

This isn’t a problem with the Desktop App. This happened to me like last year with the original client.

Step 1. Just go on the app:
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Step 2: Press the three dots at the left.
Step 3: Press the “Settings” button.
Step 4: You can opt out at the bottom.

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Hey everyone, just want to give you an update that the “esc” + L + enter flow should now work to exit experiences! We are chugging away at the other bugs, keep flagging them to us.

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I’ve been a user of the windows app beta for a while so heres some feedback i want to give:

The new menus don’t seem to support gamepad navigation. I know that they are not really meant for controller navigation. But it would be nice if at least the new ingame menu had it.

It also seems that a lot of the parts of the app are just the roblox website that runs inside a webview. This causes these parts to feel more out of place and incomplete and this is especially the case with basic features like user profiles and groups which haven’t had an app equivalent.

Another think would be if we could access camera, graphics, controls & audio settings from the app instead of having to join a experience to change them.

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It stinks that I have the option to opt-in to the The Roblox Mac Beta App, even though I never use Mac.

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Hmm, not sure if anyone else has this problem but I’ve been using the Beta app for around a month or 2 now and there’s this small issue:

The duplication of servers. As you can see above, there are 2 arrows pointing to the same server. This can get really annoying seeing the same server over and over again. It also makes going to the bottom of the list longer.

I’ve never seen this on the website (or somethings up with my eyes).

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Please make it so the html is not using the default windows html (because its really bad) and for god sakes make it so it doesnt pop up in a new window and have it embedded in the app its super annoying and is probably the main reason why I don’t use it a lot. Also please get rid of the pop up that tries to get you to explore more roblox when you click on it

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Thanks for the feedback! We are working on improving the webviews over the next couple months, and hope to make them feel much more native!

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Once the new app is fully released, will we be able to switch to have the player to just be a client rather than a full blown app?

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Is there a specific reason you would want that? The website will still be usable as is.

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Personally, I don’t like the roblox player as a whole application. It’s feels too much like a mobile app. Maybe I’m weird, but I’m not a big fan of everything being mobile-like. When I’m on a computer, I want my experience to feel like I’m on a computer, not a phone or tablet. I’m not saying the new app is bad, but I think the option of switching the player from being a full app to just a client should be in considered.

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I’m having overall issues with the Roblox App recently.

One of these was highlighted on my post:

This issue can be bypassed by getting into the shop via the extra menu.
(Also, inconsistency with it being called Shop, Catalog…)

There’s also buttons, that don’t work.



Which should work like this (for some reason these work if under the chat menu but not the ones in the main menu):

The ESC menu, also has some issues with sliders:

Chat messages have an issue where sending the message right after you type it makes them be cut off. (???)
The message sent continues cut-off if you go to the website.

@Elttob also had this issue and mentioned it on Twitter on how he suspects a State object is delayed for some reason

Edit: I uploaded the wrong example, but you can see kind of how it happens on Elttob’s tweet.


Also this button still mentions gears, which should be changed.


I think it would be really nice to have a button to be able to see the console of the app while it’s in beta to help with data to send to the engineers when anything weird happens.

Edit: A lot of the issues above, particularly with buttons only recently happened, all at once in a single Roblox update. It seems like those were caused by some module breaking.

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Yeah I’ve been having issues with the sliders in the menu

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same i wish they would just have the html of the website embedded into the app instead of having a crappy mobile port.

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i think its still rendering the avatar editor while your not using it

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I find it a bit annoying to always click “Leave roblox” when you’ve already pressed the close button. Maybe a option for “Do not show this again” would be helpful. It gets annoying as this always happens whenever I try to close the tab.
https://gyazo.com/3be9e93573619228c48d857136bbdc8e

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A fix is to press the x button 2 times, or press alt + f4 2 times, it still will close roblox.

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