Cult Citizen

[icycalm]

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I get 40 fps on a original rtx 2080 at 4k high and its only that low because my ram speed is to slow to keep up with more. None of my parts are at 100 percent when the game is running. The game is extremely cpu and ram dependent.

1. Even the speed of the RAM matters.

2. It's entirely possible to play at 4K, even on 20-series, let alone on 30- or the upcoming 40-.

For the record, I now play on Very High on my 1080 Shadow. It's a big jump up from High, and I want to see the cities in max detail.

[icycalm]

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/telemetry

We receive and analyze client FPS data from every machine playing Star Citizen every hour.

Great tool by the developers that compares your specs to the playerbase's and the recommended specs. Haven't seen anything like it for any other game.

Note that my ping is high because my Shadow is in Paris and I play on US servers. Also the Shadow has a weak CPU because they figure the GPU is what matters. Which is true for most games but not Star Citizen, at least not yet (upcoming updates will shift more workload to the GPU).

[icycalm]

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The game def.needs 32gb it can use over 42 with everything in nackground and depending on how many people are near your guy...I have seen 29 gb used personally with Mt machine

Never heard of a game using more than 16, let alone more than 32. Looks like we found a reason to buy 64.

[icycalm]

I was just about to order 16 GB more RAM for my laptop, and then realized it already has 32!

Gigabyte AORUS 15G YC-8ES2450SH - Ordenador portátil de 15.6" FHD 240Hz, Intel Core i7-10870H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Nvidia RTX3080GB-8GB, Windows 10 H

I just need to take it out of the box lol and install everything.

[icycalm]

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Ram speed

So I have 32gb of ram but it’s running at 2400mhz. How important is it to have 3200mhz and up?

From what others have said, it can make a difference. However, 32gb of 'slow' ram is far better than 16gb of 'fast' ram.

400 speed gain or 2cl less worth about 4ish fps

Any FPS is FPS lol

In this case you want fastest possible ram

(I’m running 4000cl16)

It'll probably make the game run a bit faster but it may also start causing crash to desktop issues with exception violations in the game log. Star Citizen sometimes had an issue with RAM running at its absolutely fastest XMP profile.

I was looking to go to 3200mhz would I have that issue at that speed?

It depends on your RAM. If 3200 is the absolute max you can go, then yes you might run into issues. If it's rated to go faster then it'll probably be ok. My RAM is rated for 3600MHz but if I try to run it at 3600 Star Citizen (and only Star Citizen) crashes regularly. If I run it at 3000 everything is reliable.

My ram is xmped to 3200 cl14, I run it at 4000cl16 with no issues in sc.

So you run your ram at a higher speed than it’s rated for?

Yes.

Star citizen is pretty good stress test, unless your system 100% stable on max load you’ll have issues.

Single digit percentage performance increase typically. If your memory has an XMP profile that has a higher frequency without much higher CAS latency then try that out, if not don't worry about it.

I don't know where other people are getting their information, but your RAM speed is super important, and not just for SC. I don't know the exact trade off for SC going with slow 32GB vs fast 16GB, but I can tell you that fast is almost always better. I set aside a large percentage of my PC budget because I didn't want to compromise on RAM, I wanted fast and a lot of it so I went with 64GB of 4000mhz. Star Citizen uses quite a lot of it, so you do you, but if I was given the choice right now, I would shop around and get the fastest set I could find, even if I had to sacrifice some capacity to do it.

Video: I suggest you to watch this Video from tenpoundfortytwo about SC and RAM speeds. He has a good bunch of videos to test how this and that works works for SC.

[icycalm]

What settings have you guys changed to make the game run more smoothly?
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... o_make_the

Game has to be installed on SSD or else it will chug.

Minimum RAM requirements are 16 GB, 32 recommended. If you have 16, make sure to close other apps first that eat RAM, like browsers and such.

In the graphics settings

• Set graphics quality to high, as this uses the GPU more (Game is currently CPU limited)
  
• Set clouds to medium (At least try different settings here, depending on your rig it might give you a lot of frames on planets)
  
• Motion blur and film grain off

The first time you go anywhere, be it the first time you load into the game, or the first time you go to a new landing zone or planet, it will compile the shaders for that area.

It will only do this once and store the result to drive, so the next time it will just read them from drive. But it does mean that the first time you load in, the game will be very slow and chunky for a while.

So I recomend the first time you load in just walk around in your hab for a few minutes and wait for all the shaders to compile.

Setting the shader cache to 10gb or more depending on your ssd size also is necessary

Have you got a intel cpu with E cores? If so disable it

Yes SSD but i think Not only SSD, you need fast SSD. If PCI.e 3.0 best 960pro or 970evo ( or Other Same lvl) , If you have amd Board with PCI.e 4.0 Take 970pro or 980pro. All of this are m2 slot SSD with fast then 2000 MB read and ( Most) write. But this only what i think. Perhaps Other has more Data and know it better.

Turning of chromatic aberration function also helps

[ysignal]

If you have a gen 12 or 13 Intel CPU, you might want to look into disabling your E-Cores if you have any. I tried running Star Citizen on an i9-13900K and it was stuttering so badly it was hard to aim. After turning the E-Cores off in the BIOS it runs at over 90 FPS with plenty of CPU and GPU to spare:



This is in 4K with all settings on max aside from motion blur.

[ysignal]

Here are the rest of the specs that are relevant to Star Citizen:

CPU: i9-13900K
GPU: RTX 4090
RAM: 64 GB DDR5 5600
Storage: 2 TB SSD

The game loads from the menu to the game in about 30 seconds.


Edit: The total cost for the system (including fees for assembling the system and installing the OS) was about 5,150 USD.

[icycalm]

Star Citizen RTX 4090 at 4K Max settings. Tested with different ram settings +1080p, 1440p. Same identical lorville run average of 3 runs. Patch 3.17.4 (Pre 3.18). Interestingly slow ram still bottlenecks the 4090 in 4k
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... ngs_tested

[icycalm]

Hotfix for all NVIDIA users, Star Citizen performance degradation in latest driver update
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... ar_citizen

Solution is either roll back drivers, or download hotfix.