Severe Delay and Loading Issues Outside of Roblox Studio

Hi Dev Commutiy!

I’ve encountered severe performance issues when running my experience on Roblox’s main servers compared to the smooth operation within Roblox Studio.

Here’s a breakdown with some examples:

Video 1 - In Studio (20 ms PING avg): Everything works perfectly. There is no visible delay, and all models/instances load correctly, even on a local server.

Video 2 - Roblox Player (85 ms PING avg): There is a significantly noticeable delay when interacting with models, which wasn’t present in Studio.

Video 3 - Directly from the Website (45 ms PING avg): Besides the delay, some elements (e.g., highlights on objects) do not appear at all.

The delay became noticeable after implementing server checks for future-proof cheat protection, primarily for player-specific attributes or interactive models.

In conclusion, Studio Shows the intended smooth interaction. While Roblox Player starts to introduce that noticeable delay. And Website version exhibits both delay and missing elements (the highlight in my case).

My questions are: Is there a potential issue with my server communication that could be causing these delays and missing elements? Should this be a major concern that could worsen with continued development, or is there a specific optimization I should focus on to resolve these issues?

Thank you for your assistance.

Best regards,
Burdy

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Either I am mistaken or you are but roblox studio hosts the game locally on your computer thus causing little to no delay while actual servers aren’t hosted on your computer.

Yes, of course, that’s correct, but I believe my point is that the delay I am experiencing is much more severe than an extra 25-50 ms of ping when switching from Studio to Player. The delay only became noticeable after I implemented those extra server checks.

Additionally, it doesn’t explain why the missing elements are experienced in the website version but not in Roblox Player.

highlights are buggy and have known for highlighting wrong things or not highlighting at all, so that might be the website problem. not sure about the delay though

Yeah idk the highlight issue wasn’t happening until recently, but only happens on the website. Works fine on the app tho

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