Star Citizen Capable CPUs

[NookulearTacoEXE]

I'm planning a build build for playing star citizen AND doing production like colour grading. I'm going to need the cores so I need to get a Haswell-E, Haswell-EP CPU, or wait for Broadwell E/EP CPUs.

I'm not too sure of the price i want to dedicate to the CPU but i also don't need 9001 cores so just give a few appropriate suggestions. I can settle for anything between 6 and 10 cores and maybe 12 depending if i have the money at the time of the build.

The main thing i need to know is the recommended CPU frequency for smooth gameplay on 1080p and 4k in star citizen because xeons have a locked frequency. If the frequency is too low for star citizen to run well on a xeon or the xeon frequency will bottleneck 1 or probably in the future 2 980tis then i will go with the non xeons.

If i'm making a mistake that sc isn't cpu intensive then correct me please.

Thanks for your help guys.

[Guest Kloaked]

Well the game isn't finished yet, so I don't think anyone can give you a "this is what you need" kind of recommendation yet.

 

However, I can say that with just my overclocked 2500k (@4.4Ghz) and 980 that I can run the game fairly well at 1080p. Granted I'm not always keeping 60fps, but it's not getting low enough to make me think I need upgrades for it.

 

But again, I haven't got to play the entire game yet so I can't say for sure, and no one else can either.

[Syntaxvgm]

My 970 does fine with decent settings. Star citizen at the moment runs better with multiples gpus though, it is a taxing game.

I'd just make sure whatever you get plays it decent enough and wait till final release before making a top end system to play it perfectly, as by then hardware that runs the game better will be available at a lower price. 

Really, if you tune the settings right, a fuckin 2780 will run it on medium settings, so there's no sense throwing a ton of money at hardware for maxing this game just yet 

[Syntaxvgm]

Here's a video fo 30 fps 1080p ona  270x and an APU with probably nearly max settings. 

Like I said, people really tend to overestimate the requirements of games like this due to benchmarks being at max. 

 

And I don't know if this person was using a recording method that impacts performance

[Vivilacqua1]

Here's a video fo 30 fps 1080p ona  270x and an APU with probably nearly max settings. 

 

Like I said, people really tend to overestimate the requirements of games like this due to benchmarks being at max. 

 

And I don't know if this person was using a recording method that impacts performance

Hmm. Wow. I manage to be around 30 fps with my rig. 

 

And recording with obs brings me down to 20 fps.

[Syntaxvgm]

Hmm. Wow. I manage to be around 30 fps with my rig. 

 

And recording with obs brings me down to 20 fps.

Yah I'm not exactly recommending a 270x, but I mean if the 270x does just great than I wouldn't worry about this game as much as others claim you should

It's very possible that this person was using a capture card or something. Or maybe even GVR? 

 

 

edit

Or you re running a 290

there are some performance tweaks, I remember lowering the shadow resolution on mine to run it at 1440p better 

[Syntaxvgm]

oh and for cpu usage, I ran it on a non-k 2600 fine, and I've found video, like that above, of it running on an AMD apu (ugh)

Anyway I'm not sure or cpu intensive it or or how well it takes advantage of more threads, but it seems to run on low end cpus pretty well 

[NookulearTacoEXE]

GUYS GUYS GUYS woah there. Hold yet horses. I'm coming from a4770k here. I don't need GPU suggestions. All I need to know is what frequency xeon processor is good enough for star Citizen because playing games isn't my main goal with the build. This guy said anything above 3GHZ is fine. Just need to verify that and if it will bottleneck 1 or 2 980tis

[NookulearTacoEXE]

I'm looking at the e5-2640 v3 right now. Looks pretty good and I might add a second if its good enough for star Citizen.