Free
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All 39 modules, every look, and automatic updates.
Download freeRust, the way you want to see it.
Pick a look and Refract regrades your whole screen. FPS tools, sound radar, clips and Rust+ come in the same app.
Try a look
Real in-game captures from one spot in Rust. The app grades your whole screen the same way, live.
Drag the line. That's the real game.
Two takes from the same spot in Rust, one with Refract on and one with it off, lined up to the frame. Drag across to see what changes.
RefractRust default
FPS Lab: see what's holding you back.
Measure Rust while you play, benchmark a setting before you keep it, and pin the numbers over the game. These are the app's own screens.
FPS, 1% and 0.1% lows, frametime and stutters while Rust runs, and what is holding you back: the graphics card, the processor or your FPS cap.
The overlay, in game
Drawn by Refract's own click-through window above Rust, never inside the game. Drag and resize it in game; it stays out of your clips.
One app for the whole wipe.
39 modules, all built around Rust. Switch on the ones you want, and leave the rest off.
Colour & vision
Make Rust look how you want it to, even in exclusive fullscreen.
- ColourSaturation, tone, balance and NVIDIA vibrance
- GammaLift or deepen shadows with the GPU's gamma table
- Digital VibranceNVIDIA's hardware saturation boost
- Colour AssistShift Rust's own colours to your liking, which the game can't do
- Black HoloBlack reticle while you aim, with no lag
- CrosshairAlways-on crosshair overlay
- Screen ZoomMagnify around the cursor while a key is held
- Stretched ResLower resolution stretched to fill: the classic "zoom"
- Rust OnlyEffects only while Rust is focused
Performance
Know your real frame rate, then raise it.
- FPS LabReal FPS, 1% lows and frametimes, benchmark runs, a graphics tuner
- Game BoosterHigher CPU priority for Rust, PC stays awake
- Hardware MonitorGPU temperature, load and VRAM, CPU and RAM, with throttle warnings
- Connection MonitorPing, jitter and loss to your server, and whose fault a lag spike is
- Focus ModeNo more Windows key mid-fight, and no sleeping screen
Sound
Hear what is around you, and see where it came from.
- Rust AudioBass-boosted footsteps & hits, quieter guns
- Sound RadarAn arrow to where a sound came from, which follows your turns
- Sound CompassA compass strip with recent sounds and your team on it
- Combat ListenerA log of the gunfire and explosions around you, and a raid-nearby warning
Fights & clips
Learn from every fight, and keep the good ones.
- Spray CoachRates every spray, Noob to Scripter, with your aim path
- Crouch SensitivityAiming while crouched: its own sensitivity, so sprays need the same pull-down
- Fight ReportWho killed you, how low they were, and a background check
- ClippingAuto-clips your kills and deaths, hotkeys, continuous replay
- Death CamA screenshot every time you die, named after your killer
- Death RecallWhere your body is, how far, and how long it lasts
- Screenshot+Screenshots that include your gamma, too
- Stream MirrorShare your effects on Discord
Team & server
Your team, your base and your server, without alt-tabbing.
- Rust+ LinkYour team's positions and chat from Facepunch's Rust+
- Team RadarTeammates on a mini radar, with tracers on your screen
- Team AlertsKnow the moment a teammate goes down, and where
- CalloutsContact, help and a ping wheel, straight to team chat
- Raid ResponseLive "what got destroyed" feed, and auto-join when raided
- Base DevicesSmart switches on a key, and your TC's upkeep at a glance
- TimersCountdowns with an alert: upkeep, raids, crafts
- Event TrackerCargo, heli, Chinook and locked crates, with timers
- Server HubRecent servers and the forced-wipe countdown
- Wipe & Queue WatchPlayers, queue and last wipe of your servers, and an alert when one wipes
- Position HUDYour grid and heading in a corner, no map needed
- AFK GuardAn alarm when someone walks up while you're away or tabbed out
- In-game EditorTap Right Shift in game: move overlays, switch modules
Four straight answers.
The questions every Rust player asks before running something new on their PC.
- Is it a virus?
No. Every release publishes its SHA-256 fingerprint, and Refract's own updater refuses any download that doesn't match it. Check the file you got against this one:
afba904b984fa7a902d92938485c542e9e4d89a667148bbb8e0c09f6d19e41c8In PowerShell:
Get-FileHash Refract.exe- Will I get banned?
Refract is a separate Windows app. It never reads or writes Rust's memory and never injects code into the game. Colour goes through Windows' display and your graphics card; overlays are their own windows drawn on top.
We can't speak for any anti-cheat or server admin, so check your server's rules. How it works, in full
- Is it free?
Yes. Download it and use every module on this page for free. A paid tier is planned; what it adds isn't final yet. See plans
- Does it work in fullscreen?
Partly. The gamma tone curves and NVIDIA Digital Vibrance live in your graphics card, so they work in exclusive fullscreen too. The full colour filter and every overlay need Rust in borderless or windowed mode.
It changes your screen, not your game.
Colour is applied in three layers on its way to your monitor. Each one can do something the others can't, and each one stops at your screen.
Windows' Magnification colour layer
Mixes channels, so it handles saturation, vibrance, temperature and hue across the whole screen.
Works in Borderless and windowed
Inside your graphics card, after everything else
Tone curves: film contrast, soft highlights, faded blacks and split tints. It costs no FPS.
Works in Everywhere, including exclusive fullscreen
NVIDIA's display hardware
The real non-linear boost: dull colours lift more than vivid ones.
Works in Everywhere · NVIDIA cards only
What Refract never does
- Reads or writes Rust's memory
- Injects code into the game
- Changes game files, except your own client.cfg and keys.cfg when you apply settings or binds
Overlays such as Sound Radar and the crosshair are separate click-through windows drawn above the game. Rust+ Link uses Facepunch's own Rust+ companion service.
Free today. Pro is on the way.
Everything on this page is in the free download right now.
Pro Planned
Soon
What Pro adds, what it costs and how it's billed haven't been decided yet.
Take it into your next wipe.
- Your look
- Ember
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Size
- 78 MB · one .exe
- Needs
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- Updates
- Automatic, SHA-256 checked
- SHA-256
- afba904b984fa7a9…d19e41c8