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So now that my new build is completely finished (see build log in signature) - I wanted to see what kind of performance I could get out of what is probably the least optimized and worst-running game in existence: Star Citizen. I like the game, Ive been playing it off and on for a few years now, I like the concepts and the gameplay. The mechanics are great and also shenanigans you can get into with friends are pretty hilarious. At this point you could even argue that it might just be good enough to be called a "minimum viable product" - IF they just killed some bugs and added another system or two. Sure, its taken 11 years to get here - but its here, and it still runs like s*** lol . But hey, technology seems to have finally caught up. My last build (Ryzen 3700X and RX 5700-XT) would barely run this game at acceptable frame rates MOST of the time. I also had to employ tactics, mess with settings a lot, tweak windows, and downscale the game to 2560x1080p to get the game to run smoothly. Even with these tweaks and changes, the Ryzen 3700X would barely manage 40-45 FPS in combat and would hang around 65-70 FPS during quantum travel. Now, even at much higher settings, my overall FPS has jumped at least 50%. This new Ryzen 7800-X3D and RX 7900-XTX build runs the game almost as well as a real, finished game in some areas. Out in open space I can push 120-150 FPS at full phat 3440x1440p native with maxed out quality settings. I can run around cities while maintaining a very respectable 50-60 FPS average. Combat is smooth, running around 65-70 FPS average. During quantum travel I usually see 105-115 FPS. The only setting that can bring my FPS low is if I turn the Volumetric Clouds all the way up to Very High, which will drop my FPS while walking around outside at Orison to 30-35. So I leave it at medium and get about 50-60 FPS in Orison instead. But yea, it would seem that modern, powerful, current-gen PC hardware has finally been able to conquer the performance problems found in Star Citizen by means of sheer brute force. Hardware has simply come so far since the project first began that the amount of computational horsepower has more than tripled and that triple-plus horsepower is why the game can be played so well these days. If you would like to try the game, keep in mind its un-optimized state currently makes the game more CPU bound than GPU bound. Running the game with high graphics settings actually HELPs performance as you can offload some of the CPU bottleneck onto the GPU, but it only goes so far. Observe my 7800X-3D in the video below constantly maxed out on select cores, pinned at 5050MHz the entire time, but the GPU just refuses to load to 100%. A good, modern CPU is highly recommended for the best experience. Other important things to note about the game are that while it can run on a system with 16GB of RAM, its very much not recommended. This game will easily use up 20-24GB of System RAM and those who play with 16GB of RAM report crashing to desktop fairly often. Therefore, 32GB of System RAM us highly recommended. Also, the game may not be GPU-bound at the moment but that doesn't mean playing with a super-low tier GPU is a great idea either. I would recommend something like an RTX 3060 12GB or RTX 3060-Ti, somewhere around there. Finally, Solid-State Storage is 100% required for the game files. If you store this game onto a spinning disk drive, the textures will load in too slowly and you will glitch through the environment when you respawn, killing you and sending you into an endless respawn cycle as the textures unload after you die and then attempt to reload as you respawn again. Anyways, here is a short video, so you can see the overall performance of the game on my new system. Its certainly not perfect by any means, but it is a very good experience I could easily call smooth and responsive overall. If you would like to try out the game, I would be happy to play with you anytime. Just be sure not to drop hundreds of dollars on ships for no reason. You only need $45 to buy the game. Anything spent beyond that is entirely optional. I only recommend maybe upgrading your basic game package ship because major updates require progress wipes from time to time and starting with a decent ship really helps. 95% of all ships can be earned in game with in-game currency earned through missions like any other game, only special editions of certain ships are locked behind paywalls. There really is no reason to fear playing the game. The best value starter ship as of right now would be the Aegis Avenger Titan - a much more powerful combat ship than a basic $45 Game Package but also not too expensive either, and it even has a decent bit of space inside it for storage as well along with a few other features that are lacking from $45 game package ships. Star Citizen uses reference codes to reward players for getting others to buy the game. It also rewards the new player as well. The reward changes based on what is being offered at that current moment but we can both usually get a free small ship or ground vehicle and maybe a small accessory item or two. Either way, you might as well use my reference code if you decide to play as there are literally only positives that come from it: STAR-LSM6-X9Z4 Here is a ship review of the Aegis Avenger Titan, the ship I said was the best value starter ship. Interesting note here: When this video was made, this YouTuber was nothing more than a fan of the game. Then he went to work for CIG making the game, couldn't cut it as a programmer, and now no longer works for CIG as of literally a couple weeks ago:
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Hello everyone ( Sorry if this is not the forum to post something like this . ) I was planning to make a custom pc case build. looking different you tubers who are making custom pc builds like Luke's( linustechtips) water cooled pc and few desk cases inspired me to make something similar. also custom water cooling from Jayztwocents. and then I came across another pc mod which was something I love a lot which is star wars. so after making few designs( in my head not good with designing on paper or computer ), I scraped them all and started to make a model of "ANAKIN SOLO"( imperial class II ,star destroyer ). Here is the link of the model in sketch up ( not my own design ). Primary desire was to get the model done with stainless steel structure and aluminum body and the details printed by 3d printer. Plans never goes as they are supposed to . At the beginning it was ok with make the stainless steel structure . At the beginning I was thinking of making it as small as possible . but that did not went as it should have. Was looking for a good water cooled solution to get the CPU heat sink size to a minimum. but in my country it is hard to get any enthusiast level item. like getting a custom water cooled loop would cost me a whole lot than it should have. Well but to accompany the exterior design of " Anakin solo" and insider items i ended up making the design around 121cm * 66 cm and ( ) CM height. i do have some horrible designs which I have done in sketch up. But let's not look at them but look at the model itself. Most of the work has been done in a workshop. In the company i work in they have a mechanical workshop i was using the workshop there . but the project took me a lots of time to create as i was doing it only when i was free also the company workshop people were free. and it was really hard to get people free time of people. the project I started more than a year ago. in the mean time my phone LG G4 started boot looped and I lost all my previous pictures of the working project. so I will be adding the pictures that I have with the current place. Started out with getting some 3/4 inch SS flat bar. then made them into angles with half inch in one side rest in another. primary plan was to use SS quarter inch pipes but that been scraped out as soon as started working to make the chassis. Also when i was planning i thought a single layer chassis will do the work, but i was really wrong. when we started working my single layer showed that it will fail to hold such items. at the moment i also realized that an aluminum cover wont do any good with pricewise and the customization i want to be done on it. so we went with 3mm GI sheet. This is the chassis itself. the bigger rectangle will hold the motherboard and smaller one will PSU. the triangle shaped things will hold a 240mm radiator at the back. and this will sit on a spring . right now the spring does not have supports for shaking but later on it will be able to hold the structure without shaking. I cut out my old computer case to get the motherboard tray. i really wanted to buy it for security cause with my planning it the GPU was supposed to be layer down horizontally with a riser cable. i did got the riser cable thanks to one of my friend who lives in the UK . but later on there was a height issue to add the GPU on. so i decided to do the outer shell first then go to inside details. ( well hoping if i can't put my computer in i will still have a killer looking star destroyer model ). Bottom of the case. The round cut out will have only lights and a filter. and the rectangle cut out will have filter and 2*120mm Fan for air intake . Well the bottom part was quite easy. i was told not the include as people wont be able to see them . but i added them anyway because they were in the original space carft. now then the top part this was the tricky part. when i started the first thing i did was to bend the sheet to get the shape and that was a big mistake. as i later on found out that adding things in the bended sheet makes lots of problem. Now i am trying to find a solution for adding top side details . like cannons. i was planning to 3d print the cannon but i could not do it as i find it really hard to design the 3D models. i bought a cheap 3d printer from china . cost was around 300 USD. i went to china for machine inspection of the company. So it was cheap, but to get the same thing in my country it would cost me more than 1200 USD + Import tax. this was the printer ( well similar to this one ) Zbot FDM-D1 http://www.zbot.cc/index.php?m=wenbon&a=a&t=product&id=9&l=en The top part has layer on it . the first layer as shown in the picture before. this is the 2nd layer. Final layer holds this housing which will hold a ROG dual slot front panel. also the first layer holds a single bay multimedia front panel. As of today the computer will be 1. core i7 4790k 2. Asus maximums 7 ranger 3. EVGA 2400 FB 16 GB ram. 4. 120 GB Samsung 750 Evo SSD. 5. 2 TB western digital HDD. 6. Asus Strict X GTX 960.( currently out because i sold it to get gtx 1060 ) 7. Antec 550 watt PSU. 8. Asus ROG dual bay front panel. 9. Single bay multimedia front bay. 10. thermaltech water 3 AIO water cooler. Well but if I can find a good custom cooled water cooling solution I am planning to make a better build may be even will try for a AMD ryzen build. and the graphics card bumped up to to GTX 1080 ( not going to happen cause of the expense but it's nice to dream ). Am also trying to have a more detailed post of it in a blog if any one interested then i can link it to them . Now the time for lighting's . trying to find out how to go with the lights. ( manual or some auto motions ). Sorry for the bad English. And thank you, who ever made it to down here
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Hi, I think a techie STBCrew would be really cool or a steam group with some regular players. Personally, I am based in Germany, but Star Trek English is fine. Live long and prosper!
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Hello! I was bored of my Steam games this evening, and I decided to install LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy on my PC. I wasn't expecting it to work, as many games had already failed me. Nonetheless, it ran. I run a 4K monitor with an R9 390, 16 gigs of DDR3, and an i5-4690K. I can play GTA V on decent settings and get a consistent 60 FPS. This game, however, does not like being maxed out. It ran very poorly, basically unplayably, and it's not fun at all. I don't understand what the problem is, but my prominent guess has been that it only lets my iGPU render the game because perhaps it doesn't recognise my 390. I don't know what could be done about this, nor if this is the problem, but I am not happy with this. I'm also wondering why GTA V is so much slower these days. No matter the resolution or settings, I get a lot of frame drops and weird frame timings. I haven't had these problems with any other games, and my PC seems just fine. I just don't see why it's lagging when it's not being fully utilised. I know my storage isn't full, and I'm concerned it might be something to do with my Games HDD. It's not brand new, but it's a perfectly fine drive, as far as I know. Is 5400RPM enough? This became a whole slue of questions, and if you need more info, I'll provide it when I can.
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Hi, I am rooting my J3 star running android 8.0.0 and I already have supersu and rom manager, what are the next steps? Thank you for your time, Daniel
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I've seen this game for quite a while, and I've been waiting the right time I could get involved in this game by having a supporting PC. But is it too late for me now to get involved in this game now that I have a PC with the right spec to play this game.
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Did i miss something here ? How on earth is there a subforum for what is essentially a shiny tech demo, yet there is no love for actual space games, that are, you know, actually playable ? If a star citizen subforum is popular on here, im pretty sure an Elite Dangerous subforum would be a great addition to LTTF Just a thought
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The new Battlefront II is pay to win scaled up to a ridiculous degree. It costs $80. No one should support it. On the other hand, the legacy version has been given multiplayer support, and everyone starts the round with the same exact base weapons and has the ability to upgrade through their classes required skill, like headshots or slices. It costs around $5 or 10 on Steam. Can someone help me make a decision on which to buy for Christmas?
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So my girlfriend has never seen or even looked at a star wars movie and she said she wanted to watch them to know what I'm always talking about. I just don't know what order to show them in. I don't really want to watch the prequels except for rogue one because that explains the plot of the original movies. This is also because the new star wars came out today. (NO SPOILERS) What order should I watch the movies in?
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I know you can completely explore planets but what about space travel? Will it be like lillypads in an ocean where you can only use the warp drive to get there or could you manually travel from planet to planet using the standard thrusters even though it would take a long time? Thanks, Blueprint
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http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/233305-the-alien-megastructure-star-continues-to-defy-explanation It could be a natural process we are unaware of... or... an advance alien species is enclosing the star in a dyson sphere to harness it's energy and we have around 1500 years at the speed of light to prepare for an invasion in the off chance they are hostile and have not achieved ftl.
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Hello, I just got star citizen but I realized I don't earn any money once I finish jobs, and after restarting the game I need to re-finish them, is money not yet enabled? Also, on the main website I am shown that I have the 5000 for the reference code, but not the one thousand from the purchase of the game, how do I fix that?
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Last night, I used my new Sony WX500 camera to get long exposure pictures of the sky from my backyard. I used the "Heavens Above" app to find out when satellite flares would happen, and I even got a great picture of the ISS passing overhead at roughly -2mag. I was able to identify many flares that I had gotten pictures of when reviewing the pictures today. However, this where it gets odd. Some moving "things" didn't match what was supposed to show, as according to the app. Some were accidentally caught in the pictures I took, and I am sure they aren't any flare that the app showed me. What could they be? Shooting stars? Forgotten/broken satellites? I will include two pictures taken one after the other and give all the needed info about them. I live in Madison, WI in case you want to cross-check my work. Top: 25 second exposure, facing ESE. Taken @ 9:04pm Bottom: 15 second exposure, facing ESE. Taken @ 9:05pm The object appears to be heading from West to East passing almost directly overhead. I could not see it with my eyes.
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The Offical Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE Please Give Give Your Honest Reactions To This
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So here's my problem, I think that all of these ships would be nice, but am wondering your opinion. Here are the pros and cons of each one based on my needs. Sabre- Looks super nice, has two gimbaled weapon mounts, and two hardpoints at the nose. However this ship is not out yet, and I don't know if I like it. Based on the specs I do though. F7C Hornet- Only has two lazer cannons, but still takes down enemies fast. However, these overheat massively. Flies great. Gladiator- All four lazer cannons are gimbaled, and barely overheat. that is very nice. Can take down a lot of enemies very quickly. Has many torpedoes, which are good for larger targets. However this ship is super slow and cannot turn for anything. I think in the PU this would be a good ship. It's also kinda ugly and large. Anything else I've missed, please tell me about as this will most likely be my first good ship. and I'm not filthy stink'n rich, soooo yah... And I'm new at this whole thing, so thanks a lot for all your help.
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Okay I was gonna test it on my laptop and I saw it say press enter to start but I spam enter and nothing!!!
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i get this error sometimes when i launch the game and have no idea what to do any help would be great
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Hey guys, In the Star Citizen Launcher, the game is currently downloading for me (4.7 GB left ^.^). However, it's downloading at 70 KB/s. When it's supposed to be ~160 KB/s. I have closed every program on my PC that could possibly be using internet and it was still having this problem. I disabled P2P, which didn't work, then re-enabled it, which also didn't work. Does anybody know how to fix this or why it does it?
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So i'm thinking of upgrading my PC to a new processor and motherboard and I just installed Star Citizen after waiting almost a week waiting for it to download. I tested gameplay with my A10-6800k and R9 280 with 8 GB of RAM and see just how it would go. Everything went well, except for the fact that everything was at 25 FPS. I'll deal with upgrading the parts later, but I do NOT want to go through downloading the game again. So, I was wondering if this would work: Backup all the game files to an external drive with other games, Install the new hardware along with a fresh install of Windows, Install new drivers for the new parts, And finally, move the game files back onto the computer. Will this work after the upgrade is done? Or will compatibility issues arise? (Moving the game that was played on an AMD processor to a system with and Intel processor to be exact.)
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So I had this idea of buying and installing a dedicated SSD to install Star Citizen on. What do you guys think? Is it even worth it?
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Hey, i have a 320gb limited edition star wars xbox 360. As the new Star Wars film is coming out I am thinking the price will increace as fans will be more interested. The console is in brand new condition with no cosmetic wear on the controller, console or kinect. Thanks Ish