Start from a symptom
Pick the closest line. The catalog filters.
How to read this guide
Computed, never copied. No magic numbers from someone else's machine. Where a value depends on your hardware, the entry shows the arithmetic and you compute it from your own core count, RAM and monitor.
Evidence, labeled. Every entry carries one word for how far we trust its main recommendation, and you can filter by it.
Reversible, always. Every entry states its undo. Entries marked restore point want a System Restore point first — and on most Windows 11 machines you have to switch System Protection on before you can make one.
The four evidence labels
- measured
- Established first-hand on our reference machine, and the entry says how — usually an A/B, sometimes a capture or a dump analysis where an A/B is not the question. The hardware is always named.
- consensus
- Community-established, and consistent with what we see.
- vendor
- Official vendor, Microsoft or Facepunch guidance.
- inference
- Reasoned but unverified, and labeled as such.
How to create a restore point on Windows 11
- Start > type “Create a restore point” > open it.
- If Create is greyed out, System Protection is off: select your Windows drive > Configure > Turn on system protection > set Max Usage to about 5% > OK.
- Back on the main page, click Create, name it after the change you are about to make, and wait for it to finish.
Apply one risky change at a time and play a round between changes. A restore point you never needed costs a few gigabytes; one you needed and skipped costs an evening.
Every row carries two tags: evidence, how far we trust it, and impact, how much it matters.
The catalog
The 19 don'ts
What we deliberately do not recommend.
Given a config by someone else? Check my
config names every line of a client.cfg set away from the
value the Rust client ships, plus every name that is not a setting.
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Config Tuner
Applies every setting in this catalog that lives in client.cfg,
in your browser.
PC Audit
A read-only script that snapshots the settings this catalog talks about, and a page that reads the file back.
Command Reference
The records behind every settings list in this catalog, plus the several hundred no entry needs.