New MakerPen Perf Menu

Hey Creators!

We’re excited to share a new feature that we just rolled out - a “Perf” menu in the Maker Pen!

We know that room performance can be tricky to understand, and up until now, there haven’t been great tools to show what’s impacting your FPS and crash rates. This new menu makes it easier to see how different parts of your room affect performance, so you can make informed improvements.

The Perf menu gives you a rating from Poor → Great across several categories. These ratings can guide you toward optimizations that will keep your rooms running smoothly:

  • Circuit count

  • Ink usage

  • Containers (R2 only)

  • Triangles

In addition, we’ve added a performance warning on room save. If your room is performing poorly, you’ll now see a notice so you can take action before publishing or updating your room. For now, these warnings will only appear in very un-optimized rooms, but we’ll be tuning this system over time.

We want your feedback as we tune/adjust this new menu! Please reply in this forum thread with suggestions and ideas for improvements.

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I don’t know if the circuit count or ink usage is very helpful since those can just be seen on the makerpen and don’t change too much. What could be nice is maybe a render time graph.
Also as a side note, it would be really cool if we got a blogpost on how shapes rendering works. Would help with optimizing shapes and also reveal just how much work goes into making them performant.

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YES! Thats what i was waiting for! its the actual debugging tool instead of FPS! Thank you Rec Room!

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Feedback/Suggestions for The Performance menu.

“Enable Wireframe”
it will enable Wireframe

Disable CPU/Heat Limits (Creators only ) Temporarly
It will disable Every CPU/HEAT Limit which can only be Enabled when alone in Room or with another Creator with Maker Pen. And Will Show what Chip Is Using most of CPU/NET

Fire Event of “event Selectable”

Object with most Triangles
"shows List (selectable) that will show Objects that has the most Triangle (even ones that are on Unity Scene)

Disable Physics
Disables Physics of Everything for Local player only

Show other Players Performance and Their Platform
Will show the list of players currently in the Room Which will Show RAM Usage, CPU Usage, GPU Usage, Platform, Latency and lastly Download/upload speed.

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Thanks for adding my feature!

Love the improvement and work, great update!!

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PEAK!

good update, can’t wait to see how bad my room performance is

I think I’ve encountered a “bug” the CPUheat is a bit different in perf HUD than the makerpen UI

  • i haven’t tested the other values to see if they are correct