Rust System Requirements

The Rust system requirements are set pretty low with a sensible minimum. Many players experience some frame rate issues - but they can mostly be fixed in the Rust game settings menu. Provided that you have at least an AMD Radeon R9 280 graphics card you can play the game. Furthermore, an AMD Radeon R9 Fury is recommended in order to run Rust with the highest settings. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 20 GB of free disk space available. Rust system requirements state that you will need at least 8 GB of RAM. If possible, make sure you have 16 GB of RAM in order to run Rust to its full potential. An Intel Core i7-3770 CPU is required at a minimum to run Rust. Whereas, an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 is recommended in order to run it.

Rust Performance Guide

The game Rust can get pretty rough on your PC, especially in high population multiplayer servers. Thankfully Rust requirements have a huge range of graphics options available, both in the main game settings and by using console commands.

• You can keep track of your FPS by pressing F1 to bring up the console screen and typing “perf 1”. This will put an FPS counter on the bottom left part of your screen during play.
• To improve performance, turn off HDR, sun shafts, depth of field and color grading. You can also turn down the overall graphics quality, water quality, number of shadows and draw distance.
• In the performance tab you can make additional improvements to help hit the Rust specs. For example, by lowering the maximum number of “gibs” (the biggest impact of this is in reducing the number of broken pieces when a wall or other constructed object is destroyed), and lowering the quality of particles, objects, trees, terrain, grass and decor.
• If this still hasn’t done the trick, you can make additional changes via the in-game console. Use the commands “find animation”, “find graphics”, “find terrain” and “find audio” to see a whole host of additional options that can be adjusted. Once your changes are made, enter the command “writecfg” to apply and save your tweaks.

Rust Steam

You will need to play Rust on Steam - it is only available via that platform. There is a vague announcement of a Rust PS4 release, but nothing known yet. If you're looking for deals the game is not available on GMG - Rust G2A is your best bet if you're looking for the Steam codes cheap. There are loads of third parties who sell Rust servers - we recommend GTX Gaming. Fun fact - the Rust player count recently broke a new record, hitting 134,483 concurrent players.

Rust Twitch

There was a a surge of players jumping into Rust, with a bunch of big names on Twitch playing on January 3. Play from people like 2020’s most watched streamer Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel, Chance ‘sodapoppin’ Morris, and Ibai ‘ibai’ Llanos meant that Rust became only the eighth game to have ever broken a million concurrent viewers across all of Twitch. Want to play yourself? Compare your PC against the Rust system requirements. You can unlock in-game items via the Rust Twitch drops.

Rust updates and patches

The Rust Big QoL update was released on December 1 , 2022 and celebrated the upcoming 9 year anniversary for Rust. In this update, car keys were removed and replaced by code locks, updated mining quarries, a caboose at the outpost was added, and wall debris now stays longer before disappearing. Along with many fixes to make the game more balanced like changing the spread of the LR & MP5.

Rust will run on PC system with Windows 7 64bit and upwards. Additionally it has a Mac version.

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Rust FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Rust? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Rust performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does Rust run at?

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
49	Intel Core i7-9700K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	16 GB
42	Intel Core i7-7700K	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	32 GB
38	Intel Core i5-10400F	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	16 GB
32	Intel Core i5-8400	AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT	48 GB
18	Intel Core i5-6400	Intel HD 530	16 GB

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