really a resource monster?

[Guillaume_L]

i would really like to play star citizen but a lot of my friends are saying it doesn't play well on the most computers because it's too resource heavy. 

i plan on buying this. would i be able to play it without too much lag?

and would i be able to play at 1080p?

 

 

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[LukeSavenije]

well... Star Citizen is heavy, even on that hardware because it's a unoptimised pre-alpha. but it will do well when it gets in béta

[TH3R34P3R]

also on the idea of star citizen being heavy... does it help having it on an SSD? does that fall into the aspect of making it heavy?

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, Guillaume_L said:

i would really like to play star citizen but a lot of my friends are saying it doesn't play well on the most computers because it's too resource heavy. 

By the time the game releases we'll have 7nm AMD Processors and 10nm Intel processors, not to mention 7nm nVidia and AMD GPUs on the market, along side DDR5 and PCI-e 4.0x

[Adreyu]

Your PC will be more than fine to play star citizen. currently when you are playing by yourself in an underpopulated area it actually runs pretty well, because we have OCS (Object Container Streaming) on client side. We are supposed to get server side OCS in the next big December update which should further increase performance in resource heavy zones. The game actually runs pretty well, its just the servers that are struggling to keep up currently. Keep in mind though, you are buying current gen hardware for a game who's soft release date is probably in or past 2021. 

Also SSD is a must for this game.

[george357]

That system should be adequate at the least. There is a large swing in performance of Star Citizen because of its current Alpha state. I play ultra high settings on 3440x1440 and get anywhere from 10-80 fps which largely depends on server load and the environment you are in at the time. My average is 48.5 fps. I find it very playable and have several hundred hours in game. I run the Live game on my M.2 with the test builds on my striped EVO SSDs (SSDs are really a must). This page may give you more insight into specific system performance.

 

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  EDIT: System is completely stock except for my GPU is running 1100Mhz on the memory instead of 945Mhz