IMPORTANT TIP‼⬇ I completely forgot to mention in the video that setting your system's virtual memory is very important! To do this, go to the Windows search bar and type "Advanced System Settings" and click, "View Advanced System Settings." Make sure that you are in the Advanced tab and click Settings on the Performance tab. Then go to Advanced again and under the Virtual Memory tab click Change. Select the drive that you have Star Citizen downloaded on and select Custom Size. Set the Initial Size to 16,000 and the Maximum Size to 32,000, click "Set" and then press OK. Then just click Apply and OK until you are out of the System Settings. ‼DO NOT do this if you play the game on a Hard Disk Drive, but only if you are on a Solid State Drive.‼
Win11 auto allocation is really good. If you have enough SSD space, auto will eat as much as it needs. The times where you manually need to select 2xRAM size as pagefile size are gone. Even worse, when you have 16gig ram and limit pagefile to 32 gig, that leaves you with a limit of 48 gig, while star citizen (with all it's bugs and leaks at the moment) sometimes asks for 50+ gig to be allocated. The important part when setting it to auto mode is that you have at least 60-70 gig free on the SSD you are using for the pagefile.
should be "do not play on a mechanical HDD AT ALL!!!" you will face so many issues running the game and loading in will be terrible and it's always for Virtual Memory double the size of your exact amount of RAM available
Do You recommend this as the only virtual memory setting? SC is on drive F: (SSD) while OS is on drive C: (also SSD) which already had an entry for virtual memory. Should I keep the settings for drive C: and add VM settings to drive F: or should drive F: be the only one with VM settings? Edit: Forgot to mention that I´m using Windows 10
Thanks, this stopped the stuttering issues I had, and now even my graphics are much better on top of performance. There are so many little details I've been missing. I'm like, those stairs have lights. Oh, the signs flicker. Wow, the reflection on this plant in the station is so nice😂
Disabling high precision event timer only make it LOOK like a game is running smoother because FPS and Frame time logging rely on it for accurate performance measurements. Disabling it makes your performance monitoring less accurate which makes your nunbers look smoother even when performance is the same
@LukieSeven my comment has nothing to do with star citizen. It applies to all games, because people falsely tell you to disable high precision event timer as a general rule on optimization videos when it's wrong.
@@seanmackay6739 I appreciate what you did. Im not attacking or mocking you. Take a breath. Im mocking the idea that star citizen could ever be anything close to optimized. You proved that because that setting doesnt actually change things as you stated.
I went through and made adjustments with your recommendations and am very happy to say it has tremendously improved the smoothness of my experience. Thank you! I have outdated hardware and that cant be changed but it did improve the experience over all.
Why don't you show the results before and after? Reducing windows host files brings instability to the system. Show the FPS before and after, otherwise it's just repeating more of the same man.
Il show you the results lol you probably get 5 more fps, I used to get more (about + 20-30fps) by disabling E-Cores but for whatever reason it doesn’t do much anymore
The first half of this video just over tripled the FPS I was getting on low settings with volumetric clouds off and I turned that on and bumped my graphics even. Thank you!
Updated tip: you can now pass along the launcher's affinity and CPU priority to the game as of the latest launcher. This can all be done in the shortcut.
@Velus One of the other ones that I always forget to tell people about is to set Discord to not use Hardware Acceleration. You don't really need it for audio. I have seen that boost Star Citizen 10 fps.
I'm about to do these settings now. What are your specss? I'm hoping to get some good results with a 1660 Super and a Ryzen 5 2600. I Haven't play SC in over a year.
Volumetric clouds in photo quality at 4k in Orison is simply breath taking! I tried a lot of different settings, and played just native 4k on high to very high settings on my 5800X3D/7900 XTX rig, then I tried out the photo realistic clouds in Orison, and was like "Yep, this is how I want to play." Native 4k though was down to 20fps. I really like CGI's TSR upscaler, and use it on quality, which allows me around 50-60 FPS when flying into Orison. The settings I have it at loads my system pretty balance, and run into little bottlenecks, as I tried to eliminate them as much as I could with 32GB Samsung B-Die being tuned as well at 3733Mhz CL 14-8-14-14-22, with all secondary and tertiary timings tuned. I will try some of the other things suggested, like using Lasso, as I noticed I wasn't able to switch the priority for Star Citizen through WIndow's Task Manager. Great video! Really covered all the bases.
Oh My God! Thank you my brother! I can not believe how much doing what you proposed for the setting has done to improve my FPS and the smoothness and everything looks awesome! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I have been looking at a much lower quality and slow and broken up graphics for the year that I have been playing SC. YOU ARE THE MAN! I was getting around 30FPS when it looked good and around 15 when it wasn't. Now I am getting over 60FPS and nothing looks choppy anymore. WOW I did everything you said to do, and man am I one happy MF. Best Regards to you, your new fan. Mikie_MG
Thank you for these hints. For those who like me can't set high CPU priority in Process Lasso because it says "access denied", the registry alternative worked for me.
DUDE THANK YOU! got about a 30-40% bump in overall performance. Like i knew some of these things, but the Lasso really helped most of my improvements came from there appreciate this
Tips so good i had to immediately come back and throw the sub! 🎉 Yesterday i was roughly get between 28 - 35 at the blue cog orb in Area18, right now im clocking in between 61 - 71 in the exact same spot. I have a rtx 2060 which doesn't have ReBar (tho there is a github mod for those who are more tech save than i am) But i did also combine your tips with the program "Lossless scaling" to get my results.
Lossless scaling is a great tool. I don't use it just because I get good enough frames without it, and sometimes for me it causes screen tearing. But most of the time, it works wonders. Thanks for the sub!
Process Lasso was a life saver. The event timer atleast for me made the game run worse but every PC is different. I would say if your going to set your cpu priority to high depending on your cpu its going to run hot. If so i would atleast set your curve optimizer to a minimum of -10 so it doesn't get too hot.
Also if your using AMD card I would at least try Vulcan. For me the game was more stable. Just remember it does have a small Vram leak. It will leak about 2gigs in 3 hours. I have a 7900xt so it's not really an issue for me but just wanted to let people know.
If each patch shadercache is generated and stored in a new folder, I don't understand how deleting shadercache could have any benefit. Besides freeing up storage taken up by older unused shader compiles.
Let me share my experience from yesterday. After playing on speakers instead of headset (too hot these days) I heard my 14 years old 1 TB Samsung HDD running at 100% (it was one of the 1st 1 TB originaly in external box and price was like 100 Euros back in 2010, now using it only for not as important data storage) My game was laging in the rythm of sounds of that HDD even tho my game is installed on M2 Kigston SSD. I realized it was Eset Antivirus doing its thing. Even after disabling thingy in Eset those lags kept going until I turn it off opened the PC case and disconnected that old grandpa for good. Since then no other issues. If you are like my suffering from good old NAH-am-NOT-throwing-THIS-it-MIGHT-be-USEFUL-in-THE-future then this may help :)
I personally think that Windows Defender or Malwarebytes is better than any paid anti-virus. Norton and other things like it bog down your computer so this is totally a real issue for many people.
Why bother use an antivirus in 2024? It's beyond useless and even detrimental, these people install cryptominers on your PC and bombard your PC with various operations. Just get rid of that mate.
Hi all. I have a 12600K and 4070Ti with 64Gb Ram. Nearly all settings for me does not improve anything. The main thing what was im proving overall PFS was Process Lasso and turning all Core's + E-Cores to Star Citizen. I've got from 48 PFS avg. to 70 FPS avg. What I was not ecspecting. Also HT enabled.
That sounds like a more than reasonable frame rate for Star Citizen, especially if you’re sitting in a City, or one of the major planets. It’s not happening if you’re expecting a hundred or more frames unless you’re in space. It just won’t happen, the game itself isn’t optimized well enough some of my friends have basically NASA computers for Flight Sim and they get 100+ FPS on their sims but Star Citizen they don’t get more than 50 FPS. So I’d say see what the frame rate is in space, but the reality is youre already playing with more FPS than probably 3/4’s of the player base
some few good tips i will try on. could not notice your pending windows updates notification in system settings, in light of your advice to have them done :)
I was unable to get the ultimate performance mode to appear. Looked it up and apparently windows patched it? I did everything else and it runs a lot better now thank you! Not sure what I was getting before but now FPS is between 20 and 58 with it staying around 35 or 40 most of the time
You mentioned "HDR should be set to off" but followed with that's because you don't use HDR. Is there any other reason you suggest others do this or just personal preference? I don't recall my experience with SC and HDR as its been a while but I do use it wherever possible as it generally looks a lot better for most games.
hdr shouldn't affect fps its hardware built into the monitor all your computer does is manage the brightness and contrast that should be a purely personal
Would any of these settings impact streaming to OBS or Discord? I got an IRQ error with an NVIDIA 2060KO while streaming to Discord, and flying to Area 18, and opening up Google to login to RSI.
I think i fixed it by not limiting FPS of secondary apps at all (global settings), and also setting vsync to the global 3d option (which also fixed the obs stream stuttering).
It would be beneficial if you also mentioned your computer specs. Are you running current gen or earlier? Might help determine what is useful for some people.
I have my game on solid state but my virtual memory is on a hard drive is that ok? Thanks for the info. Had to watch it 20 times because I couldn't keep up
I'd recommend putting that virtual memory on the ssd but I think you should be fine either way. The virtual memory is a slow version of ram essentially. So it might be slightly slower on the HDD but it should have the same effect!
Any game that is CPU bound like Star Citizen is typically runs better on Linux. I daily drive Star Citizen on OpenSuse Linux using Proton_GE and Lutris. It typically runs better overall than my experience on Windows.
I definitely got a bump using these settings. I did start encountering a new issue though and I haven't nailed down which setting it is. If I am in another window like web browser, as soon as Windows puts SC into "efficiency mode" in the background, SC will CTD. Happens every time. Could this be the registry edit?
7800x3d 7900xtx 6Ghz 32GB RAM NVMe ssd and on my setup the game is so MUCH smoother on Vulkan than DX11 its crazy. Stutters every few second on DX11 i tested it again because i was curious and i hated it lol. Turned off High precision event timer in Device Manager and downloaded Process Lasso, set SC on high, and i think it gave me few FPS more. And Lasso seems like cool utility to use, thanks! 👍
I'm glad I could help! Also I recommended to most people that they stick with D3D because in most systems for people who haven't upgraded to more modern parts it seems that using Vulkan can cause a memory leak and the game will run fine for a short time and then FPS will tank shortly after. This is also dependent on your system but I'm glad it works for you!
@@Velus_ Yeah looks like Vulkan is for the x3D boys only lol. Though the x3D and bigger L2 Cache is just marketing mumbo jumbo, but it actually works it seems 😀
Thank you so much for this video. I recently started playing this game with a computer my brother build a couple years ago. He built it with a ryzen threadripper 1950x 16 core processor and a Geforce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card installed. I have been crashing and getting watchdog errors from the get go. Sometimes as soon as I log in to the game, sometimes I cant get more than 30 minutes of play without crashing and sometime i can get a couple hours before i crash. I tried your settings hoping that that would help. Almost all my settings that you spoke of where different and needed to be changed. I logged in, flew from Tressler to Crusader and locked up while flying into Orison. All my hopes of solving my problems where shattered. Do you have any recommendations? Is this hardware just too old for this game?
It could be just due to the hardware being physically old. I've heard stories of a 1080ti being just fine in today's games. But I have another system with a 1070ti that struggles tremendously so it could be due to aging parts. My best advice is to look up "Star Citizen Ryzen 1950x 1080ti" or whatever your cpu and gpu is and you SHOULD find a channel benchmarking the game with those specs. My guess is that your bottleneck in Star Citizen Specifically is your processor. The 1950x is good but it's definitely a little slow compared to more modern processors. That is the only other thing I could think of.
thx at first. And a question : in nvidia app ; adjust desktop size and adjust video image pref. Do you prefer no scalling and RTX Quality Auto or different ?
@@rixxy9204 Because you set it in the NV control panel .texture filtering-Quality is High perfromance not high definition In Star Citizen, you can use as many resources as you have, including overclocking, so when your turbine power has no upper limit, this game will make full use of it. Even if you have enough resources, the game will still use your hardware at maximum speed. so it often causes the CPU to overheat and underclock. If you are an air-cooler like me, it is recommended that the wattage of PL1 and PL2 be limited. , the game will run more smoothly, as long as it can meet the power wattage of 70-80FPS. Of course, if your cooling capacity is good enough, you should be able to exceed this number by a lot. FPS + server latency exceeding 60 is basically invisible to the naked eye. The extra FPS will become a "deduction". When the calculation load is too heavy, it will become a resource that can be deducted to maintain it. 60FPS efficiency. The Vulka option was added after the 3.23 update, which CIG intends to use to replace DX11 in the future. When using Vulkan, Intel's Frametimes are significantly lower and more stable than AMD's. The main reason is the delay in L3 cache caused by AMD's CCX stack design. data latency is so high that it explodes, so people who use AMD processors are currently playing with DX11 settings, and the screen will be smoother. Interestingly, the FPS setting of Star Citizen cannot be adjusted in the game, but it can be controlled by setting the wattage of PL1 turbo. You can find a balance point between cooling efficiency and wattage, and you should be able to get the best result. The smoothness of the game has improved.
There hasn't been a need to delete shaders for a year now at least. Every single update it creates a new folder and generates new shaders. Also shader cache size doesn't matter, game still generates the same shader cache amount.
I have tried every single method out there and nothing has worked. Virtual memory, Messing with the Nvidia Control panel, Updating all drivers, Changing Priority, Closing apps, Messing with in-game settings and basically no change. Not sure if something is wrong with my PC but I have only been able to increase my FPS by 2. I don't have a brand new $2000 PC but that isn't really necessary. Specs: 32Gb Ram Nvidia RTX 2070 Super AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
I can only talk about 4k but ill take your system specs into consideration and assume youre gonna be playing at 1920x1080. 32gb ram is NOT enough for star citizen. I have 32 and mine is at 99% at all times. The 2070 is fairly old by now, also it only has 8gb vram. Star citizen (at least in 4k which is unusual bcs its usually the other way around) relys HEAVILY on cpu. Im playing on a rtx 4080 and its barely at 50% while my cpu (5800X) is constantly at 80-90% on ALL cores. You say a 2k$ pc isnt necessarry for star citizen but unfortunately it is! Also the guide in this video is kinda mid and besides changing the ingame settings (volumetric clouds for example) its not gonna impact performance much. For me DLSS on Quality was an absolute blessing. Quality is obviously not as good as native 4k but if im honest its x10 better to play at 80fps+ than 30 on Native.
@@Angry-Pikachu69 Those are my literal reallife results im talking about im having. Lmao 💀32gb ram is RECOMMENDED so its NOT ENOUGH if you want to play at a higher setting. Tell me what i said was wrong please. Im really curious.
tried the nvidia control panel stuff on my 5800X3D / RTX 3080 FE PC and now Helldivers 2 hast stopped working in two of four rounds, my OBS stream is unwatchable (like sometimes the frames go up and down instead of a normal constant 60fps). Have to undo some of the changes and retest everything. Tried to log in (Orison) still 40fps on low / off details :P
@@Angry-Pikachu69 Oh HD2 works better and I can stream/record at the same time. Must have been a driver issue because I updated to the (4 months ago) released driver (always with the fresh install option) and it works again. Now SC I have zero hope they will fix it for IAE. Maybe after 4.0. I'm not upgrading my hardware anytime soon. I'm currently very happy with playing other games released this year 😅
Im getting 120-130FPS at 1440p with a 7800x3d and 3080ti with these settings. But what i have noticed since going to them, the game freezes (music/affect sounds still play) for about 3-4 seconds before resuming. First time launching the game after using these settings, about five minutes in I got a BSOD for a kernal error.
I believe you should be able to, but you can check in the task manager after you've done so. If not, then you can at least close it when you aren't playing the game, and open it back up when you are.
I did just buy the game. FPS is not the problem, the server is ! i try 3 weeks now. its always the same problem. interaction is slow! click and it take 1sec+ before somthing happens. and vary often 5 - 10 sec and then server error. I know alpha games have bugs!! but this game is vary close to not even be playabol at all.
Doing all of this has only increased loading times to the point I might aswell be booting up another game, I'm going to reverse these changes because clearly it was useless on my system.
7800x3d, nvidia 3080, 64gb DDr5 and my games fps is fine everywhere until im on the ground and a storm or massive wind happens then i tank below 20fps everytime no idea how to fix
I think the storms affect FPS in wild ways for some reason. It's probably due to the particle effects and poor optimization due to it being an alpha. I think this is kind of normal from my experience.
think it's important to say that game mostly depends on server side performance and switching to a better server, like asia, will probably yield much better results than everything here, at least in my own experience. ;o
A little correction. Asia servers are not "better", what makes a server better is the server FPS ( tick rate ), and less populated servers have more FPS. Which means you have to find a server with less people on it, and that will depend on the time when you play. So if you are from EU and play at afternoon / night, that means in Asia it's late night, people are sleeping, so it's easier to find less populated servers there. Or if you play from the America, then for you it's gonna be EU servers. Again depending on what time you play. This will all go away hopefully once server meshing is in and works well.
@@Aztaable I'm aware that a server performs better because there's less people, but asia is always a reliable lower pop server to log on to, and I very rarely need to switch off it.
I use Wallpaper Engine, it's a great tool for getting cool animated wallpapers. It does use up system resources tho so I turn it off when playing Star Citizen.
I warning to everyone about adding/editing the REG is important, REGEDIT makes live changes to you system and 1 mistake could completely destroy it. It's not something to mess around with if you don't know what you are doing.
Hey, uh, my computer is nearly not working now. I followed the video and did nearly anything, yes my Star Citizen is much better now, but it also crashes a lot more, i'm having freezes on Valorant since, and my Celeste is not working anymore, all since I did all the system management for Sc, I think its all a problem of memory allowed to those games, if you could help me it would be good thanks.
@@swindler1570 I'm kind of unfamiliar with AMD's GPU settings. The best thing I can say is to try to find the similar settings on the AMD GPU software that is similar to the settings I have on the NVIDIA Control Panel. I believe that a lot of the settings are the same with their AMD version of the names for them. But they should be similar.
This is sad though to use scaling in order to get to play a game decently. This encourages devs to make more and more poorly optimized games abusing upscaling and TAA instead of optimizing and finding better solutions. It's scandalous that a decent GPU nowadays can't run a game on native res properly (and I will be kind saying 1080p-1440p, maximum UW).
Thanks for mentioning FOV. You can tell someone isn’t serious about a game unless they max out their FOV, and I find it nearly impossible to take their advice seriously unless they max out their FOV In any game. I’m sure a lot of people agree
No need for any of this. CIG boosted my FPS from 3.23 where I had 120FPS in space, to now 40FPS in Space in 3.24. Amazing progress. The best boost RN is to click Uninstall and save urself 100GB of space
@@JoeyMania91 I haven't played in like a month but Ii think your CPU will be your saviour likely. The settings don't matter, Id say keep them at high and Turn clouds off. I'd also recommend lossless scaling. It gives you a smoother gameplay Overall with 1650 super and i3 10100f I got 15-25 fps in cities and 25+ fps in outer space and stations and moons. So I'd guess you will have at least 5-10 fps more
Hi Velus! My PC set is GTX3060Ti with AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, I tried your guide and have a boost on frame rate but still not stable enough to do any distribution center mission. I wonder if that's probably my PC's limit or there's any possible way to further boost FPS beside methods in your guide.
With you mentioning the distribution center, I'm pretty sure fps will be low unless you have an absolute powerhouse of a pc, like best cpu, gpu, everything. What fps are you getting?
IMPORTANT TIP‼⬇
I completely forgot to mention in the video that setting your system's virtual memory is very important! To do this, go to the Windows search bar and type "Advanced System Settings" and click, "View Advanced System Settings." Make sure that you are in the Advanced tab and click Settings on the Performance tab. Then go to Advanced again and under the Virtual Memory tab click Change. Select the drive that you have Star Citizen downloaded on and select Custom Size. Set the Initial Size to 16,000 and the Maximum Size to 32,000, click "Set" and then press OK. Then just click Apply and OK until you are out of the System Settings. ‼DO NOT do this if you play the game on a Hard Disk Drive, but only if you are on a Solid State Drive.‼
One of the few things are pretty much mandatory for SC 😂
@@Sangvinivs true 🤣
Win11 auto allocation is really good. If you have enough SSD space, auto will eat as much as it needs. The times where you manually need to select 2xRAM size as pagefile size are gone. Even worse, when you have 16gig ram and limit pagefile to 32 gig, that leaves you with a limit of 48 gig, while star citizen (with all it's bugs and leaks at the moment) sometimes asks for 50+ gig to be allocated. The important part when setting it to auto mode is that you have at least 60-70 gig free on the SSD you are using for the pagefile.
should be "do not play on a mechanical HDD AT ALL!!!"
you will face so many issues running the game and loading in will be terrible and it's always for Virtual Memory double the size of your exact amount of RAM available
Do You recommend this as the only virtual memory setting?
SC is on drive F: (SSD) while OS is on drive C: (also SSD) which already had an entry for virtual memory. Should I keep the settings for drive C: and add VM settings to drive F: or should drive F: be the only one with VM settings?
Edit: Forgot to mention that I´m using Windows 10
Thanks, this stopped the stuttering issues I had, and now even my graphics are much better on top of performance. There are so many little details I've been missing. I'm like, those stairs have lights. Oh, the signs flicker. Wow, the reflection on this plant in the station is so nice😂
Same ❤
Disabling high precision event timer only make it LOOK like a game is running smoother because FPS and Frame time logging rely on it for accurate performance measurements. Disabling it makes your performance monitoring less accurate which makes your nunbers look smoother even when performance is the same
Its almost like putting "optimization" in the same video as "Star Citizen" is a joke.
@LukieSeven my comment has nothing to do with star citizen. It applies to all games, because people falsely tell you to disable high precision event timer as a general rule on optimization videos when it's wrong.
@@seanmackay6739 I appreciate what you did. Im not attacking or mocking you. Take a breath. Im mocking the idea that star citizen could ever be anything close to optimized. You proved that because that setting doesnt actually change things as you stated.
I went through and made adjustments with your recommendations and am very happy to say it has tremendously improved the smoothness of my experience. Thank you! I have outdated hardware and that cant be changed but it did improve the experience over all.
Why don't you show the results before and after? Reducing windows host files brings instability to the system. Show the FPS before and after, otherwise it's just repeating more of the same man.
Il show you the results lol you probably get 5 more fps, I used to get more (about + 20-30fps) by disabling E-Cores but for whatever reason it doesn’t do much anymore
@@Genny_Woo Because windows/intel fixed the issue with E-Cores
@@BGIANAKy I doubt since I used to get more fps im pretty sure but maybe not 🤷♂️
@@Genny_Wooemphasis on the “used to” like are you dumb?
The first half of this video just over tripled the FPS I was getting on low settings with volumetric clouds off and I turned that on and bumped my graphics even. Thank you!
should not run less than high. it just hogs more cpu instead of gpu in its current form.
Updated tip: you can now pass along the launcher's affinity and CPU priority to the game as of the latest launcher. This can all be done in the shortcut.
i'm having trouble figuring out how to do this in the launcher, can you explain?
I don't normally comment, but after trying so many different videos this one had the best and most clear instructions
@Velus One of the other ones that I always forget to tell people about is to set Discord to not use Hardware Acceleration. You don't really need it for audio. I have seen that boost Star Citizen 10 fps.
Thanks man I got about 10 to 15 fps extra🔥
I'm glad I could help!
If I get 10-15 FPS more, I will have 20
I have done all in this video and it massively helped my performance like damn was having 20fps in arcorp and now I get like 70fps there
Only now realised that's exactly what the thumbnail said haha from 20ish to 80ish
I'm about to do these settings now. What are your specss? I'm hoping to get some good results with a 1660 Super and a Ryzen 5 2600. I Haven't play SC in over a year.
Volumetric clouds in photo quality at 4k in Orison is simply breath taking! I tried a lot of different settings, and played just native 4k on high to very high settings on my 5800X3D/7900 XTX rig, then I tried out the photo realistic clouds in Orison, and was like "Yep, this is how I want to play." Native 4k though was down to 20fps. I really like CGI's TSR upscaler, and use it on quality, which allows me around 50-60 FPS when flying into Orison. The settings I have it at loads my system pretty balance, and run into little bottlenecks, as I tried to eliminate them as much as I could with 32GB Samsung B-Die being tuned as well at 3733Mhz CL 14-8-14-14-22, with all secondary and tertiary timings tuned.
I will try some of the other things suggested, like using Lasso, as I noticed I wasn't able to switch the priority for Star Citizen through WIndow's Task Manager. Great video! Really covered all the bases.
Oh My God! Thank you my brother! I can not believe how much doing what you proposed for the setting has done to improve my FPS and the smoothness and everything looks awesome! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I have been looking at a much lower quality and slow and broken up graphics for the year that I have been playing SC. YOU ARE THE MAN! I was getting around 30FPS when it looked good and around 15 when it wasn't. Now I am getting over 60FPS and nothing looks choppy anymore. WOW I did everything you said to do, and man am I one happy MF. Best Regards to you, your new fan. Mikie_MG
Thank you bro I'm glad I could help 💯
I was extremely sceptical, but damn, you delivered. Thanks for the tips!
I'm glad I could help!
A big Problem are the Server too. Often you have almost dying server where you get way less fps than you could have.
I've felt the same thing as a new player!
Yeah thats 100% true.
Thank you for these hints. For those who like me can't set high CPU priority in Process Lasso because it says "access denied", the registry alternative worked for me.
DUDE THANK YOU! got about a 30-40% bump in overall performance. Like i knew some of these things, but the Lasso really helped most of my improvements came from there appreciate this
Tips so good i had to immediately come back and throw the sub! 🎉
Yesterday i was roughly get between 28 - 35 at the blue cog orb in Area18, right now im clocking in between 61 - 71 in the exact same spot.
I have a rtx 2060 which doesn't have ReBar (tho there is a github mod for those who are more tech save than i am)
But i did also combine your tips with the program "Lossless scaling" to get my results.
Lossless scaling is a great tool. I don't use it just because I get good enough frames without it, and sometimes for me it causes screen tearing. But most of the time, it works wonders. Thanks for the sub!
Process Lasso was a life saver. The event timer atleast for me made the game run worse but every PC is different. I would say if your going to set your cpu priority to high depending on your cpu its going to run hot. If so i would atleast set your curve optimizer to a minimum of -10 so it doesn't get too hot.
Also if your using AMD card I would at least try Vulcan. For me the game was more stable. Just remember it does have a small Vram leak. It will leak about 2gigs in 3 hours. I have a 7900xt so it's not really an issue for me but just wanted to let people know.
@@Kai_7901 i thought they fixed the ram Leak :O
Process Lasso let you change priority? for me it wont work, apparently has something to do with the anti cheat
Nice thanks for the tips. Went from 35 fps to around 55-60 with a fairly budget pc.
If each patch shadercache is generated and stored in a new folder, I don't understand how deleting shadercache could have any benefit. Besides freeing up storage taken up by older unused shader compiles.
Let me share my experience from yesterday. After playing on speakers instead of headset (too hot these days) I heard my 14 years old 1 TB Samsung HDD running at 100% (it was one of the 1st 1 TB originaly in external box and price was like 100 Euros back in 2010, now using it only for not as important data storage)
My game was laging in the rythm of sounds of that HDD even tho my game is installed on M2 Kigston SSD. I realized it was Eset Antivirus doing its thing. Even after disabling thingy in Eset those lags kept going until I turn it off opened the PC case and disconnected that old grandpa for good. Since then no other issues.
If you are like my suffering from good old NAH-am-NOT-throwing-THIS-it-MIGHT-be-USEFUL-in-THE-future then this may help :)
I personally think that Windows Defender or Malwarebytes is better than any paid anti-virus. Norton and other things like it bog down your computer so this is totally a real issue for many people.
Why bother use an antivirus in 2024? It's beyond useless and even detrimental, these people install cryptominers on your PC and bombard your PC with various operations. Just get rid of that mate.
Hi all. I have a 12600K and 4070Ti with 64Gb Ram. Nearly all settings for me does not improve anything. The main thing what was im proving overall PFS was Process Lasso and turning all Core's + E-Cores to Star Citizen. I've got from 48 PFS avg. to 70 FPS avg. What I was not ecspecting. Also HT enabled.
Interresting 🐱
What is HT ?
@@TUROCK320 Hyper Threading
@@robertm5355 thanks
That sounds like a more than reasonable frame rate for Star Citizen, especially if you’re sitting in a City, or one of the major planets. It’s not happening if you’re expecting a hundred or more frames unless you’re in space. It just won’t happen, the game itself isn’t optimized well enough some of my friends have basically NASA computers for Flight Sim and they get 100+ FPS on their sims but Star Citizen they don’t get more than 50 FPS. So I’d say see what the frame rate is in space, but the reality is youre already playing with more FPS than probably 3/4’s of the player base
Works great for me on a 4 years old gaming laptop after tuning as per your video. Good job.
some few good tips i will try on. could not notice your pending windows updates notification in system settings, in light of your advice to have them done :)
I was unable to get the ultimate performance mode to appear. Looked it up and apparently windows patched it?
I did everything else and it runs a lot better now thank you! Not sure what I was getting before but now FPS is between 20 and 58 with it staying around 35 or 40 most of the time
Volumetric clouds medium/off options have zero impact on the performance between eachother.
Thanks for the tips mate, they worked great for getting some of the hitching I was getting and the game still looks good. 👍
THANK YOU IM RUNNING A PRETTY CHEAP LAPTOP AND WENT FROM LIKE 20 to 35fps its so much smoother
You mentioned "HDR should be set to off" but followed with that's because you don't use HDR. Is there any other reason you suggest others do this or just personal preference? I don't recall my experience with SC and HDR as its been a while but I do use it wherever possible as it generally looks a lot better for most games.
If people know what the hdr is evryone will used it, mostly in Space environnement 😊
hdr shouldn't affect fps its hardware built into the monitor all your computer does is manage the brightness and contrast that should be a purely personal
@@TheMrGamma195 If it was possible to record games with 32bit hdr EXR-float ....
Great tips and subbed
Hey, thanks for this video! How did you make your wallpaper ???
I found it on Wallpaper Engine!
@@Velus_ THXXXXXX :DD
thx bro, i went from 30-50 fps, stuttering and almost not enjoyable to a stable 50-60 fps
Would any of these settings impact streaming to OBS or Discord? I got an IRQ error with an NVIDIA 2060KO while streaming to Discord, and flying to Area 18, and opening up Google to login to RSI.
I think i fixed it by not limiting FPS of secondary apps at all (global settings), and also setting vsync to the global 3d option (which also fixed the obs stream stuttering).
It would be beneficial if you also mentioned your computer specs. Are you running current gen or earlier? Might help determine what is useful for some people.
I have my game on solid state but my virtual memory is on a hard drive is that ok? Thanks for the info. Had to watch it 20 times because I couldn't keep up
I'd recommend putting that virtual memory on the ssd but I think you should be fine either way. The virtual memory is a slow version of ram essentially. So it might be slightly slower on the HDD but it should have the same effect!
@Velus_ running 20 fps in New Babbage. Something is working better. I used to only get 5. Maybe later I'll switch it and see if there is a difference
Any game that is CPU bound like Star Citizen is typically runs better on Linux. I daily drive Star Citizen on OpenSuse Linux using Proton_GE and Lutris. It typically runs better overall than my experience on Windows.
I definitely got a bump using these settings. I did start encountering a new issue though and I haven't nailed down which setting it is. If I am in another window like web browser, as soon as Windows puts SC into "efficiency mode" in the background, SC will CTD. Happens every time. Could this be the registry edit?
Velus, is that a moving background, if so, where can I get it?
I use wallpaper engine on Steam. It’s probably $5 max for the program and you can download whatever wallpaper you want.
No Problem with Vulcan here and it performs much better for me.
5K€ configuration pc ?
@@TUROCK320 ryzen 7800x3d and a rtx4070 and 32gb ram.
@@Hotte1967 Same here 7800x3D and 7900xtx. MUCH more stutter on DX11.
Vulkan was great until I got to a moon, the textures weren't rendering 100%
7800x3d 7900xtx 6Ghz 32GB RAM NVMe ssd and on my setup the game is so MUCH smoother on Vulkan than DX11 its crazy. Stutters every few second on DX11 i tested it again because i was curious and i hated it lol. Turned off High precision event timer in Device Manager and downloaded Process Lasso, set SC on high, and i think it gave me few FPS more. And Lasso seems like cool utility to use, thanks! 👍
I'm glad I could help! Also I recommended to most people that they stick with D3D because in most systems for people who haven't upgraded to more modern parts it seems that using Vulkan can cause a memory leak and the game will run fine for a short time and then FPS will tank shortly after. This is also dependent on your system but I'm glad it works for you!
@@Velus_ Yeah looks like Vulkan is for the x3D boys only lol. Though the x3D and bigger L2 Cache is just marketing mumbo jumbo, but it actually works it seems 😀
Thank you so much for this video. I recently started playing this game with a computer my brother build a couple years ago. He built it with a ryzen threadripper 1950x 16 core processor and a Geforce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card installed. I have been crashing and getting watchdog errors from the get go. Sometimes as soon as I log in to the game, sometimes I cant get more than 30 minutes of play without crashing and sometime i can get a couple hours before i crash. I tried your settings hoping that that would help. Almost all my settings that you spoke of where different and needed to be changed. I logged in, flew from Tressler to Crusader and locked up while flying into Orison. All my hopes of solving my problems where shattered. Do you have any recommendations? Is this hardware just too old for this game?
It could be just due to the hardware being physically old. I've heard stories of a 1080ti being just fine in today's games. But I have another system with a 1070ti that struggles tremendously so it could be due to aging parts. My best advice is to look up "Star Citizen Ryzen 1950x 1080ti" or whatever your cpu and gpu is and you SHOULD find a channel benchmarking the game with those specs. My guess is that your bottleneck in Star Citizen Specifically is your processor. The 1950x is good but it's definitely a little slow compared to more modern processors. That is the only other thing I could think of.
thx at first. And a question : in nvidia app ; adjust desktop size and adjust video image pref. Do you prefer no scalling and RTX Quality Auto or different ?
Dude, your settings and optimization tips made me go from barely useable to blazing fast 🎉🎉🎉🎉
if you have intel 13/14th i7 or i9 You can try it Vulkan
Vulkan was great until I got to a moon, the textures weren't rendering 100%
@@rixxy9204
Because you set it in the NV control panel .texture filtering-Quality is High perfromance not high definition
In Star Citizen, you can use as many resources as you have, including overclocking, so when your turbine power has no upper limit, this game will make full use of it.
Even if you have enough resources, the game will still use your hardware at maximum speed. so it often causes the CPU to overheat and underclock. If you are an air-cooler like me, it is recommended that the wattage of PL1 and PL2 be limited. , the game will run more smoothly, as long as it can meet the power wattage of 70-80FPS. Of course, if your cooling capacity is good enough, you should be able to exceed this number by a lot.
FPS + server latency exceeding 60 is basically invisible to the naked eye. The extra FPS will become a "deduction". When the calculation load is too heavy, it will become a resource that can be deducted to maintain it. 60FPS efficiency.
The Vulka option was added after the 3.23 update, which CIG intends to use to replace DX11 in the future. When using Vulkan, Intel's Frametimes are significantly lower and more stable than AMD's. The main reason is the delay in L3 cache caused by AMD's CCX stack design. data latency is so high that it explodes, so people who use AMD processors are currently playing with DX11 settings, and the screen will be smoother.
Interestingly, the FPS setting of Star Citizen cannot be adjusted in the game, but it can be controlled by setting the wattage of PL1 turbo. You can find a balance point between cooling efficiency and wattage, and you should be able to get the best result. The smoothness of the game has improved.
I want to know how to fix the performance on the surface on some areas of the moons. It just tanks to sub 30fps in some instances on a 4080.
Yeah it's horrible land vehicles just blow up its so bad
Lossless scaling with frame gen
what processor do you have? my 4080 SUPER is doing fine almost everywhere
Dang this was a lot, good video!
There hasn't been a need to delete shaders for a year now at least.
Every single update it creates a new folder and generates new shaders.
Also shader cache size doesn't matter, game still generates the same shader cache amount.
I just kinda see it as, "better safe than sorry" ya know?
Thanks mate Sharpaning at 100 its a game changer
Subbed for this.
Thank you for this, you got my sub
I have tried every single method out there and nothing has worked. Virtual memory, Messing with the Nvidia Control panel, Updating all drivers, Changing Priority, Closing apps, Messing with in-game settings and basically no change. Not sure if something is wrong with my PC but I have only been able to increase my FPS by 2. I don't have a brand new $2000 PC but that isn't really necessary.
Specs:
32Gb Ram
Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
I can only talk about 4k but ill take your system specs into consideration and assume youre gonna be playing at 1920x1080. 32gb ram is NOT enough for star citizen. I have 32 and mine is at 99% at all times. The 2070 is fairly old by now, also it only has 8gb vram. Star citizen (at least in 4k which is unusual bcs its usually the other way around) relys HEAVILY on cpu. Im playing on a rtx 4080 and its barely at 50% while my cpu (5800X) is constantly at 80-90% on ALL cores. You say a 2k$ pc isnt necessarry for star citizen but unfortunately it is! Also the guide in this video is kinda mid and besides changing the ingame settings (volumetric clouds for example) its not gonna impact performance much. For me DLSS on Quality was an absolute blessing. Quality is obviously not as good as native 4k but if im honest its x10 better to play at 80fps+ than 30 on Native.
@@alexwithanx So much misinformation. Jesus do some more research before typing out a paragraph of bs.
@@Angry-Pikachu69 Those are my literal reallife results im talking about im having. Lmao 💀32gb ram is RECOMMENDED so its NOT ENOUGH if you want to play at a higher setting. Tell me what i said was wrong please. Im really curious.
tried the nvidia control panel stuff on my 5800X3D / RTX 3080 FE PC and now
Helldivers 2 hast stopped working in two of four rounds,
my OBS stream is unwatchable (like sometimes the frames go up and down instead of a normal constant 60fps).
Have to undo some of the changes and retest everything.
Tried to log in (Orison) still 40fps on low / off details :P
Helldivers does this. Its also badly optimized. Its a known bug in the game. Many people have this issue of crashing after a few rounds
@@Angry-Pikachu69 Oh HD2 works better and I can stream/record at the same time.
Must have been a driver issue because I updated to the (4 months ago) released driver (always with the fresh install option) and it works again.
Now SC I have zero hope they will fix it for IAE.
Maybe after 4.0. I'm not upgrading my hardware anytime soon.
I'm currently very happy with playing other games released this year 😅
Yeah imma need that background please 🙏
Im getting 120-130FPS at 1440p with a 7800x3d and 3080ti with these settings. But what i have noticed since going to them, the game freezes (music/affect sounds still play) for about 3-4 seconds before resuming. First time launching the game after using these settings, about five minutes in I got a BSOD for a kernal error.
Did it persist?
Can i delete Process Lasso after I changed the priority
I believe you should be able to, but you can check in the task manager after you've done so. If not, then you can at least close it when you aren't playing the game, and open it back up when you are.
wtf. this video made me realize i havent had rebar on this whole gadam time. this whole time i thought it was on
I did just buy the game. FPS is not the problem, the server is ! i try 3 weeks now. its always the same problem. interaction is slow! click and it take 1sec+ before somthing happens. and vary often 5 - 10 sec and then server error. I know alpha games have bugs!! but this game is vary close to not even be playabol at all.
Doing all of this has only increased loading times to the point I might aswell be booting up another game, I'm going to reverse these changes because clearly it was useless on my system.
7800x3d, nvidia 3080, 64gb DDr5 and my games fps is fine everywhere until im on the ground and a storm or massive wind happens then i tank below 20fps everytime no idea how to fix
I think the storms affect FPS in wild ways for some reason. It's probably due to the particle effects and poor optimization due to it being an alpha. I think this is kind of normal from my experience.
How do you get fullscreen? I want to use a lower resolution, but then it goes to a small window.
Right now fullscreen is bugged. In the 3.24.3 patch it will be back in the game. But for some reason 3.24.2 doesn't have it.
i have more than one star citizen shader folder, am suppose to delete all but the current one?
32gb of dram is my recommendation too..
The game also scales based on ram. I upgraded to 64gb and the game started using a max of 28-32GB when needed.
What is in SoT SOTG? You also play Sea of Thieves? And is Work-School really work inside?
Nice, but Quality > Very High is always better
your vid helped me out, thanks
think it's important to say that game mostly depends on server side performance and switching to a better server, like asia, will probably yield much better results than everything here, at least in my own experience. ;o
A little correction. Asia servers are not "better", what makes a server better is the server FPS ( tick rate ), and less populated servers have more FPS. Which means you have to find a server with less people on it, and that will depend on the time when you play. So if you are from EU and play at afternoon / night, that means in Asia it's late night, people are sleeping, so it's easier to find less populated servers there. Or if you play from the America, then for you it's gonna be EU servers. Again depending on what time you play.
This will all go away hopefully once server meshing is in and works well.
@@Aztaable I'm aware that a server performs better because there's less people, but asia is always a reliable lower pop server to log on to, and I very rarely need to switch off it.
How can I get this live desktop wallpaper? 🌟
I use Wallpaper Engine, it's a great tool for getting cool animated wallpapers. It does use up system resources tho so I turn it off when playing Star Citizen.
Do these settings fix the OP's audio micro stutter xD
Lossless scaling with frame gen is by far the best thing to be used with the PU
WHY YOU DID NOT RECORD BEFORE AND AFTER BENCHMARKS?
1) I didn't even think about it idk why lol.
2) Everyone's system will perform differently, even if you have the exact same parts.
@@Velus_ it will perform differently with 1-5% difference, but if results are good for you, it will be good for others too
Thank you for all this.
Ships do not render for me while in the hangar. Frames are below 20s for most issues. Im trapped on the ground until the server crashes
What are your specs for your pc?
@@Velus_ i run a gen 7 cpu and a 1050ti and 32gb ram...
@@HarenunHoppus that could be part of the reason. But my old 1070ti can still just barely get the job done on my other system. So it all just depends.
@@Velus_ ill stick to Elite Dangerous then, got some exploring to do.
Thanks for the tips, but nothing exept deleting shader folders helped much :/ still only 24 fps haha
I warning to everyone about adding/editing the REG is important, REGEDIT makes live changes to you system and 1 mistake could completely destroy it. It's not something to mess around with if you don't know what you are doing.
Thank you so mutch m8 😎
Lets see you try flying a bike on cellum or daymar
its wierd, when I use fsr upscaling all my mfd's on my ships don't show anything.
Hey, uh, my computer is nearly not working now. I followed the video and did nearly anything, yes my Star Citizen is much better now, but it also crashes a lot more, i'm having freezes on Valorant since, and my Celeste is not working anymore, all since I did all the system management for Sc, I think its all a problem of memory allowed to those games, if you could help me it would be good thanks.
Thanks heaps dude!
Thank you Human.
Just heads - your legal name is visible in the video somewhere. I noticed you blurred out your start menu, so figured you'd like to know.
Thank you so much! I added a change so hopefully that hides it. I appreciate it!
@@Velus_ Yay! Glad I could help. =)
@@Velus_ Also - any tips for AMD GPU settings?
@@swindler1570 I'm kind of unfamiliar with AMD's GPU settings. The best thing I can say is to try to find the similar settings on the AMD GPU software that is similar to the settings I have on the NVIDIA Control Panel. I believe that a lot of the settings are the same with their AMD version of the names for them. But they should be similar.
Games using 30gb ram, gpu at 50%utl ... The devs just dont give a fuck
They will say it's because it's EA, that optimization comes afterwards. LOL!
i use lossless scaling ang got 90 fps
This is sad though to use scaling in order to get to play a game decently. This encourages devs to make more and more poorly optimized games abusing upscaling and TAA instead of optimizing and finding better solutions. It's scandalous that a decent GPU nowadays can't run a game on native res properly (and I will be kind saying 1080p-1440p, maximum UW).
I can’t find the refund option
To bad cope L bad pc lmao
Thanks for mentioning FOV.
You can tell someone isn’t serious about a game unless they max out their FOV, and I find it nearly impossible to take their advice seriously unless they max out their FOV In any game. I’m sure a lot of people agree
Why vertical sync on fast and not off?
Fast sync is a smarter Vsync Off that still keeps your game running as fast as possible but also doesn't tear because it won't render partial frames.
I wish I've seen this during 3.18.
Those are amazing tips but sorry that thumbnail is giga clickbait bro.
yeahhhhhhhh unless you have the most powerful parts I don't think anyone's getting 80fps in any city my bad og...
@@Velus_ I will release a video soon where people can ACTUALLY get that much FPS. So stay tuned ;)
@@TheBabeh BET. Just let me know bro, otherwise I'm gonna have to hook up a nitrous tank to my pc and hope that works lmaoooo
No need for any of this.
CIG boosted my FPS from 3.23 where I had 120FPS in space, to now 40FPS in Space in 3.24.
Amazing progress.
The best boost RN is to click Uninstall and save urself 100GB of space
Bro i'm out here trying to make this run with a 1650s i'm not even sure if it could run.
Did you ever find smooth settings? I'm debating whether to play again with my 1660 Super as a Ryzen 5 2600.
@@JoeyMania91 I haven't played in like a month but Ii think your CPU will be your saviour likely. The settings don't matter, Id say keep them at high and Turn clouds off. I'd also recommend lossless scaling. It gives you a smoother gameplay
Overall with 1650 super and i3 10100f I got 15-25 fps in cities and 25+ fps in outer space and stations and moons. So I'd guess you will have at least 5-10 fps more
@Mozh644 , yeah that's about what I had. I might play again when I get the new PC built.
Virtual Memory is a must do in starcitzen, need to know this, this in not in the vídeo, Your Welcome.
I did this to my system and COMPLETELY forgot to put that in the video. Thank you for pointing this out!
I pinned a message in the comments for anyone else who might see this on how to set up your virtual memory.
Put everything on high
Great tips
shader folder gets automatically installed whjen u launch game pretty sure
Didnt work for me and my game stuck on loading screen
What are your PC specs?
Thanks!!! 🎉
Of course!
Will any of these settings make star citizen run better but cause other games to run worse?
All these videoa recommending settings are a mess!
They all contradict each other 😅 😅😅
Hi Velus! My PC set is GTX3060Ti with AMD Ryzen 5 5600X,
I tried your guide and have a boost on frame rate but still not stable enough to do any distribution center mission.
I wonder if that's probably my PC's limit or there's any possible way to further boost FPS beside methods in your guide.
With you mentioning the distribution center, I'm pretty sure fps will be low unless you have an absolute powerhouse of a pc, like best cpu, gpu, everything. What fps are you getting?