npc slow

I have a problem with the NPCs, they are very slow, shoot a bullet every 10 seconds, stay in place, I looked at the other discussions on the support, I don't understand, do you have any idea?

On 5/9/2025 at 4:52 PM, bazou52 said:

I have a problem with the NPCs, they are very slow, shoot a bullet every 10 seconds, stay in place, I looked at the other discussions on the support, I don't understand, do you have any idea?

Do you have any video to show the issues?

I do not want to jump to any conclusions. This could be a server performance issue, or a client side issue. So let me know if it is happening to everyone or only some players are reporting it. With mentioning it could be a server performance issue, if you can review the server performance you might be able to confirm or deny this possibility. Modded servers can be much more taxing than a vanilla server, especially the more mods you have, or the more complex your custom map could be.

Otherwise I would also ensure that when you reload the plugin, no error occurs and that all of the loading messages appear, to ensure there is no folder or file missing during the loading process.

I'm also having these issues but I'm a heavy mod PVE server. Normal Rust NPCs seem to be fine but the  BetterNPCs will let you walk right up to them and shoot them without any care. Caravan NPCs do it as well. Is there a server FPS limit that might be causing this issue. I will try and get a video of this happening. Cause all the BetterNPCs are having this issue.

I still haven't found the solution. I tried to reduce the mods, the NPCs in the bioms, the NPCs move a little more, but the reactivity is not there. I also have that with the NPCs of better NPC, the server runs between 15 and 27 fps, no errors in the console.

22 minutes ago, bazou52 said:

I still haven't found the solution. I tried to reduce the mods, the NPCs in the bioms, the NPCs move a little more, but the reactivity is not there. I also have that with the NPCs of better NPC, the server runs between 15 and 27 fps, no errors in the console.

 

Do you have events runs also if so make sure there's not to many running at same times which can impact performance. Anything else like raidables and such.

On 5/14/2025 at 10:22 AM, NHGaming said:

I'm also having these issues but I'm a heavy mod PVE server. Normal Rust NPCs seem to be fine but the  BetterNPCs will let you walk right up to them and shoot them without any care. Caravan NPCs do it as well. Is there a server FPS limit that might be causing this issue. I will try and get a video of this happening. Cause all the BetterNPCs are having this issue.

Do you have your server hosted? Do they have an option to upgrade your RAM?

On 5/14/2025 at 12:33 PM, bazou52 said:

I still haven't found the solution. I tried to reduce the mods, the NPCs in the bioms, the NPCs move a little more, but the reactivity is not there. I also have that with the NPCs of better NPC, the server runs between 15 and 27 fps, no errors in the console.

That is getting about as low as you want to go. The 27 is okay but the 15 is getting much lower than I would recommend that you want to be for a modded server.

On 5/14/2025 at 12:58 PM, NHGaming said:

Do you have events runs also if so make sure there's not to many running at same times which can impact performance. Anything else like raidables and such.

Normally I'd ask for a separate ticket but since you are having similar issues and are on point this is definitely fine as a joined ticket. Same question by the way do you have any option to upgrade the RAM on your server by chance?

I host my server with Nitrado and I have the biggest offer for RAM so I'm a bit stuck and I paid 3 months in advance I think I'll try another host when my subscription is finished

18 hours ago, Jbird said:

Do you have your server hosted? Do they have an option to upgrade your RAM?

 

That is getting about as low as you want to go. The 27 is okay but the 15 is getting much lower than I would recommend that you want to be for a modded server.

 

Normally I'd ask for a separate ticket but since you are having similar issues and are on point this is definitely fine as a joined ticket. Same question by the way do you have any option to upgrade the RAM on your server by chance?

I have 24gb of ram and run between 13 to 16gb when events are running. I also have 200% on cpu and it runs between 112 to 130% when events run. I have 136 plugins on this server. It's heavily modded server but haven't had any of these issue till this Rust update. I did get a command to purge the vines which add up fast, by purging those vines things seem to have leveled out. Only Npc which are acting some what weird now are the shot gunners at supermarket and oxiums they run like right into your body before they shoot especially if your in a recycler it's like they can only half see you and they wait till your done recycling to shot you. I also went through and used a event manager to makes sure events weren't over lapping a lot which also has increased performance.

On 5/18/2025 at 5:25 AM, bazou52 said:

I host my server with Nitrado and I have the biggest offer for RAM so I'm a bit stuck and I paid 3 months in advance I think I'll try another host when my subscription is finished

How much RAM do you have with them?

21 hours ago, NHGaming said:

I have 24gb of ram and run between 13 to 16gb when events are running. I also have 200% on cpu and it runs between 112 to 130% when events run. I have 136 plugins on this server. It's heavily modded server but haven't had any of these issue till this Rust update. I did get a command to purge the vines which add up fast, by purging those vines things seem to have leveled out. Only Npc which are acting some what weird now are the shot gunners at supermarket and oxiums they run like right into your body before they shoot especially if your in a recycler it's like they can only half see you and they wait till your done recycling to shot you. I also went through and used a event manager to makes sure events weren't over lapping a lot which also has increased performance.

It sounds like you have done a lot to look into outside influences. Thank you for checking these things. Confirming that the issue is less present as you make changes helps to show that we are on the right track.