Roblox aims to support high-performance, 100-player games – even on low-end devices. During the 2024 Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company shared its plans to optimize performance across the platform, ensuring that experiences like battle royale, sports games and open world adventures can run smoothly on devices with just 2GB of RAM.
“We will enable a developer to host a high-performance, 100-player open world, sports or battle royale game on Roblox and have it run on 2 GB RAM devices anywhere in the world at good frame rates We will not stop until this is possible, ” David Baszucki, Founder and CEO announced.
This focus on performance comes after significant improvements that were made earlier this year. Roblox has tuned its platform by reducing app launch times, increasing downstream adoption and decreasing crashes, especially on Windows. According to Baszucki, there was a 64% reduction in crash rates across all devices.
To continue their efforts, Roblox unveiled harmony at RDC2024. Harmony optimizes the way the platform handles everything from CPU and GPU usage to RAM and bandwidth, both on the client and server side. It is designed to ensure that players across all types of devices have the best experience possible.
Roblox is also looking to the future with AI-driven creation tools. The company gave users an early look at a project that will allow developers to generate 3D content using text, video or even 3D prompts.
“We see a powerful future where Roblox experiences will have extensive generative AI capabilities to power real-time creation integrated with gameplay,” Baszucki said. These tools will be designed to work efficiently, making them accessible to all creators, regardless of device.
With these performance goals and tools, Roblox is clearly looking to make its platform more powerful and accessible, ensuring that large-scale games can thrive without sacrificing the quality of the player experience.
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