Performance improvements - Rust

Hi everyone, I recently started playing Rust, but i seem to have really low fps. In it's current state it's impossible to win a fight with anyone so it's not really much fun playing. I suspect these issues are just because of my pc, but i would like to know if there is a way to improve performance without spending money on my pc. I have a pc that was not too expensive but still built for gaming a few years back, so i never expect things that look good to play well on high settings. i already use the lowest resolution with the lowest rendering quality and i have tried with vsync on and off, but nothing seems to help much.

type /help in the server and see if there is a function for FPS. ex. /FPS and /FPSOFF. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBsRxEnu4mQ[/url] [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1341428[/url]

Please post your specs. That'll determine the upper limit of what you can expect, and we can go from there.

this is what i get directly from the performance information and tools thingy in the control panel. System -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Model GA-A55M-DS2 Total amount of system memory 4,00 GB RAM System type 64-bit operating system Number of processor cores 3 Storage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total size of hard disk(s) 466 GB Disk partition (C:) 147 GB Free (466 GB Total) Media drive (D:) CD/DVD Media drive (F:) CD/DVD Graphics -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Display adapter type AMD Radeon HD 6530D Total available graphics memory 2046 MB Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB Dedicated system memory 0 MB Shared system memory 1534 MB Display adapter driver version 8.961.0.0 Primary monitor resolution 1920x1080 DirectX version DirectX 10 [editline]11th February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=t0stit0;43873116]type /help in the server and see if there is a function for FPS. ex. /FPS and /FPSOFF. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBsRxEnu4mQ[/url] [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1341428[/url][/QUOTE] in the video he recommends going to 1280x720 but not lower. does it just not matter at all if you go lower, or does he has some other reason? [editline]11th February 2014[/editline] so i tried out the tricks in the forum help thread and i saw that i got 10 7-11 fps... this is after doing all the things said in that thread. and with the force feature 11 0 thingy in my launch options. i did however notice the following things in the config file which look like things i see in most option menus. so i though diabling some or all of them might help. i'm gonna try that now. gfx.ssaa True gfx.bloom True gfx.grain True gfx.ssao True gfx.shafts True gfx.tonemap True if this doesn't help i don't think i'm going to be playing much of this unless they can optimize the game better (which may or may not be possible) and the minimum specs change. so i disabled all those options set the resolution to 1280x720 and got up to a solid 20 fps!!! /sarcasm. until i start resizing my window because if i do that frames drop back to ten when i'm fullscreen.