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While its jank will hurt you in other ways, I'm impressed by how well shillout performs generally. I can actually maintain 144hz with 2x supersampling on a 3080ti, with a video player and all 5 other people from the thread in the same instance. vrshat drops to 72hz as soon as another person joins, and usually hovers around 48, with those same 5 people. I (and everyone else) got used to it over the years when vrc was the only option, but now the fps hurts whenever I go back.

In the grand scheme of things, you still have to trade off that better performance to all the other stuff like sdk3 avatar features, udon world scripting, and of course more worlds and people, plus the friction of porting and reuploading avatars, launching a different .exe in steam, etc. However, if you're just trying to watch some chinese cartoons with people you already know in a private instance, I think shillout works pretty tolerably these days. And depending on how you think vrchat's future is going to go with """creator economy"""", well, you can start exploring a different platform now, before you have to.