Star Citizen: ULTIMATE! Performance Guide - "2023 - 2024" - A Smoother Experience! 

--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ -- Guys, can't stress this enough, but if anyone is trying to run the game on 16gb of RAM, especially above 1080p resolution, don't be shocked if your game crashes. The game can and will use up to 24GB+ depending on settings and resolution. Simply put, 16gb is not enough for Star Citizen anymore if you plan on running above 1080p. These settings will still work for people at 1080p with 16gb, but you may have to adjust settings to lower your RAM usage to avoid crashes. The virtual memory pool is not there to compensate for this. Buy 32gb for Star Citizen. It will make a huge difference! ALSO, Check out Displate for amazing high quality metal canvas prints! Any purchased from this link in my collections gives me a small commission from each sale they receive - displate.com/velvet?art=2101365ae074c4864f4 Check out my website for computer help support or just to drop a donation to help out! - lynx-sunflower-npl9.squarespace.com/

Dude. I don't have the words to describe my gratitude. I'm running an i7 1100k and somehow fit a 3090 in my rig. For the past few months, I've been cringing at my monitor when playing this game. Upon booting up every day, It would take a good 3-5 minutes to stop violently stuttering. I'd only ever achieve 29fps on loaded areas and at all times stuttering followed me. Duuuuude. A Million Thank Yous. You didn't just fix my game, it's more like it was just perfectly optimized for my rig! It's an insanely different experience. I can fly in from space (100fps+) down to a starter city with 0 stuttering. 0! It smoothly loads things in and steadily FPS does decline but you don't notice! It's incredible. Did I mention when I boot the game I can just press y to get out of bed and instantly enjoy the game? No more crazy lag or unholy stutters and so on. One more Thank You! You really have transformed my experience on SC and I'm very greatful. I've subscribed to your yt to hopefully pay you back somehow.

Helped my watercooled 3080 FTW3's 99% FPS stay noticeably closer to Avg FPS, providing a much smoother experience. 11/10 would recommend, especially if your GPU is more powerful than your CPU.

The only thing that is missing is an explanation what it actually does (especially the Regedit stuff)

incredibly well done man thanks so much this guide is amazing wish content this straightforward was more popular.

Breh..... you fixed or enhanced performance across the board...... hands down best guide for performance i have ever tried... You Are A God

A great help! Increase my FPS significantly. Thanks for your help, m8!

Thank you so much this helped me out with my problems definitely just subscribed this was the most helpful tutorial video ive found 🙌🏼

Thank you for this, my dude. It is very much appreciated 🙂

These changes helped so much. Very appreciated. Thanks!!

Wow, so much good information in a clear, concise manner!

Great video, well done. I don't most of this on my last pc but it took hours of research from a bunch of different friendly Indian guys

amazing guide! i've watched at least 5 videos on performance optimization for star citizen but the techniques shown in this video are the only ones that make a noticeable impact on my frame rate. went from averaging 15-20 fps in populated spaces to 25-30, with some stuttering but otherwise very impressive results, thank you

brooooooo ty so much this tutorial really works out for me !

Thanks for great tutorial, saw similar advice on another channel but this video was very clear and easy to follow. Have not tested extensively yet but there is definitely an uplift in performance and smoothness in Star Citizen. Also seeing big benefits in other games. In Cyberpunk 2077 now getting 55fps running 4K high settings with Ray Tracing on. Previously if I had RT on would get about 25fps.

Dude, this was so incredibly helpful! I just DLed SC 3 days ago and was starting to crash to desktop every time I tried landing at Lorville. I don't know if this if an ultimate solution but I could tell my 1st Launch after restart that the load-in screen chaser was flying back and forth far quicker than ever before. Such an in-depth guide that was far beyond my scope of knowledge and so easy to follow along with in almost real-time. Great work my friend. Thank you so much. 👍

This solved a lot of problems for me, thank you!

I’m able to get a consistent 45 fps on my gaming laptop, four core processor and a gotchu 1660. Really appreciate the guide!

Very useful 5star advice. would recommend for all star citizen players to apply

Awesome video 👍brought my fps up in the 100s and fixed a lot of my stuttering. Thank you!

that was amazing. thank you very much!

Thanks mate, stutter is 99% gone and frame rate a balmy average of 60! Appreciate it! GTX 1660 Ti

10/10 would configure again, got like 10-20 frames more in populated areas, now i can die in fps and not blame the stutters (2070 Super 2560/1440)

Thanks for the vid. Massive difference

Thanks mate I'm giving it a try right now! Appreciate looks amazing and I thinks is going to work 💪 nice 1 CITIZEN!!! 😉

This guide is simply amazing! Went from 15-45 fps to 60-110 fps! (Average 85 in most situations)

Thanks! Star Citizen is running loads better now

i7-4790k CPU - GTX 970 4Gb - 16Gb Ram, and it helped! So thank you! Game is not crashing. I can see a big improvement, but my pc is very old so in some places I still drop to 18fps, but in more remote places I can have 40, 60, and even 90 fps, it depends. During bounty hunter missions and depending the location, I can have a decent stable 35 fps which is more than enough to enjoy with my system. Need a new pc though. If I have this type of results with my pc, I can clearly see that with an optimized and clean system, you can enjoy the game and have good fps with a recent, optimized, but not very expensive system. However, 32gb of ram is the way to go. Keeping in mind that in some places and at this stage of development, the game will drop your fps drastically, no matter the pc

This actually made a difference for my game not a gimmick good video

Between these registry tweaks and adding a .cfg file i saw in a different video I legimately doubled my FPS. I just built a new PC with a 12600k, 32gb of DDR5 RAM and a 3070 and was getting around 50 fps in my starting dorm room. After the tweaks in this video and adding the .cfg file I am now getting around 105-115 fps in the dorm room and 85-90 in the city with almost no stuttering. 10/10 pristine content.

Thx, man! you're the best!!!

dude u are amazing for this. solved my problem.

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!

Yo bro this is such a big difference! Sub for my appreciation 💯

this helped a lot. Thanks

Thanks for the tuto, it combines all i read on this topic. 1 subsidiary question : why not disabling the swap file on systems using 32GB of ram ?

i love you so much for this

This actually fixed my MW2 from running like ass! I had thrown in the towel and wanted to come back and play some SC after not getting MW2 to work correctly.

Thank you very much. 😊

Thank you so much. It solved my lag spikes.🙏 What a SC lifesaver!! (Spec: i9-9900k, 2080ti, 64gb ram, M.2) One Question, do I need to repeat all the steps when starting a new game?

THANKS!!!!

Great video! Any updates for this video yet? For some reason, I cannot find my background apps settings at all in windows anymore, and I cannot disable Xbox Game Bar. Furthermore, any tips or changes for folks running a Ryzen 7800x3D?

Thank you!!!!

you deserve the world! went from 30-40 FPS to 60-90. followed every step, took 01 mins maybee

How has your performance been in 3.17.2 Live, Velvet? My 99% is dropping much lower than 3.17 after implementing these changes. Any chance the reg edits conflict with any stealth client updates?

Great stuff! Thanks for the details. If I'm running an AMD GPU (RX 6900 XT) can I just skip the NVIDIA settings part and do everything else?

THANKS

Yo this game is wicked cool!

man, this is just good advice for ANY PC game, really, lol NICE thanks!!

is it recommended at all to use Process Lasso or other such CPU process assignment utilities, or is this basically what the regedit settings do?

Amazing guide! A question: why I cannot find any of the folders you named in my Windows NT folder? I just find "Terminal services" and "Windows file protection". Please help!

Just a question, what are your specs and what is your average fps?

Thanks for the gide just one thing after I did this my game is constantly crashing and it never did that before

will this produce a noticeable increase with AMD cards ? of course we would have to skip the Nvidia optimization but if we follow everything else ?

should also do the cleanup a second time but on the second run through once it scans then instead of telling it ok then click cleanup system files instead and click every box and click delete then

Small question, probably a stupid question, but I'm assuming some of these setting make the game priority while running for performance? The reason I ask is, I like to have a stream or something running at time while I play to pass the time while mining for instance, but my god, other than the game everything else is slowed down a lot. Curious if there's anything I can revert to correct that in specific? I ask because prior to following the guide I did not have these issues. That being said, the guide definitely made the game run significantly smoother, like fps isn't a big difference but a lot less hitching for sure, which is very nice. So thank you very much.

does this work for all games before the game-specific options?

I’ve followed this vid twice . Got 32 gb of ram still crashing on startup . Still looking into it

Can you explain where we put the discord.exe folder for a 4 core processor? Is it replacing the StarCitizen folder and the CpuPriorityClass file? Or is it added separately? Other than that everything worked great!

After following this guide I started getting game crashes constantly. Look at the game logs and it said a SYSMEM error, couldn't allocate 2MB. Which is funny, because I have 32GB RAM and the game is barely using 16GB. Anyhow, had to return the Pagefile size back to "Managed by system" and the crashes have stopped. Also, looking at what size of pagefile the system is using atm while the game is running and a couple of background apps, it's almost 14GB. So, willingly limiting the pagefile to just 12GB is a bad idea. At least for Windows 11.

Fuckin legit, thanks dude!

I'm running Win 11 and been having a terrible time with graphics latency and tearing in some of my games, to include Star Citizen. After doing all the steps in this video I'm amazed by the difference. Most importantly, any latency and tearing is gone. I have smooth play and can run my settings on high in SC. The second thing I noticed are my colors in-game and out of game are just amazing! I feel more emersed now and can see details that I didn't know existed in my games. DO IT!

Will these settings (changing page file size/editing registry) effect only SC or will these have an effect on every game I play?

As of the 3.23.2, can confirm, this BOOSTS the hell out of FPS . I'm on Windows 11, was getting stuttering on overclocked i7-12700kf to 5.0ghz , 64gb ram, AMD 6750 XT 12gb and this fixed it :)

fixed the spikes which is all i care about. still have below great FPS but ill manage thank you.

Use the environment variable on explorer %appdata% to find appdata

does all this advice work for improving the performance of games in general?

What can I do be able to watch youtube videos while playing? If star citizen is running it will buffer for 2 seconds every 1 second on any video. Is this related to the CPU priority? Should I move the priority down by 1 or what? I might only need to look a YT video about how to do something in game every now and then, anything else can wait until I am not playing.

Do this register edits effect the rest of the system in any way?

what exactly does the editing the registry do?

i have to game on a laptop and do not have all of these settings. is that normal, or do i need to reinstall some things?

Frame rate is higher than ever though I have noticed a large increase in stuttering and hitching, as well as massive frame drops from things as small as turning around or looking to my side

inside the star citizen folder I have 2 sc-alpha folders : one is 3.17.x and the other is 3.17.0 I saw in the video that you only have the 3.17.x. Should I delete the 3.17.0 or just leave it?

Is anyone else experiencing an issue after following this guide where their 2nd monitor is now starting to black out for a few seconds intermittently? The guide did improve my game but now my 2nd monitor (the one that isnt displaying Star Citizen) goes to black for a couple seconds randomly.

How do you disable background apps on Windows 11?

GREAT FUCKING VIDEO THANKS

I did this.. and it did make my game smoother but also crash the game immediately after entering the world. I'll try to reconfigure it again and see how it goes.

Having an issue after applying these tweaks. Now constantly crashes after 5 minutes or so. 16GB RAM, 3070 Ti, i7 12700. Any ideas? As this wasn't an issue beforehand

Using a 5800X3D and a 6750XT, will be interesting to see where I can take it. So far this CPU absolutely kicks butt.

Excellent guide! I like that your changes focused on streamlining background processes as much as possible. I can't stand these guys that offer best frame rates in their guides and then turn down all the settings in Star Citizen, lol. Another tip that eliminated stutter for me: I'm running a 5800X, a 3070 and 32Gb RAM at 1440p and was having problems with stuttering. Went into my BIOS and disabled SMT (multithreading, Intel equivalent is hyperthreading) and haven't had a problem with stuttering since (other than during shader compilation when entering a new patch for the first time). If you're worried about performance in other applications you can use Process Lasso to disable it on a per application basis. I also set the shader cache in the Global tab but set the power and refresh rate settings in the Program tab under "Squadron 42 - Star Citizen". That way I'm not running full power to the GPU and GSync on the monitor unless Star Citizen is running.

I need that desktop backround

My game seems to crash I watched the video over a lot to double check everything I did

Does the same guide work for AMD? Especially the part with graphic card setting could not be replicated. I am on Ryzen 3600 with 6600XT and 32GB RAM. Set page file as instructed, at the same location as the game (I presume) and I still experience stutters, both sound and movements with settings quality to High and rest to Medium. At Port Tresslar I would get stunning 80FPS, but the moment I leave the station, I experience a drop to 50 FPS and then at New Babbage the game drops to 24 and stays around that value no matter what. I just upgraded from my old rx570 which would generate similar FPS at the same location despite my current card beats 3060. I am kinda out of my league here :((

This type of content so so much better to consume in web format. Would be great if youtubers had accompanying websites. Thanks for the help!

Why do these things never seem to work for me? Swear I heard an electrical arc sound and star citizen crashed immediately after doing all this. My luck is shit.

Would I follow the same process for Guilded just like you would do for Discord with a hexadecimal of 2?

definite frame rate boost, still got stuttering though sadly, running a 3080 with 32gb of ram

I followed everything in the video and it helped a lot. But I'm also crashing to desktop every time I play now. I have 32 Gig of RAM and I play at 1080. My GPU is a 3070 and CPU is a Ryzen 7 5800x. I don't know what could be causing it. If anyone has similar problems and finds a fix, please let me know.

Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling does not exist in the menu you described. I’m running a radion rx 6800.

I'd also add to turn off Planet Volumetric Clouds, takes up more resources then it should. Hopefully once they actually get this game more optimized, we can enjoy the beauty of volumetric clouds lol

can somebody help me? I have an i9-12900KF, 32gb of 3600mhz ram, an empty 2 tb ssd, and a 10gb rog strix 3080 but get 30 fps even after this video.

what do I do if I have a AMD card

May I ask what mic you're using?

Did all this and after trying to boot my star citizen it says, "@Frontend_Login_waiting_repair_Reset". Any help?

Two questions... In relation to the page file settings. Does it matter where the game is installed; or is it always for the main drive? And do the registry edit values apply to a 6 core cpu? Edit: I am also curious if these optimizations work on an install relating to Windows 11. Has anyone tried?

At the Reg edit part, windows NT, I have none of the folders (eg. Multimedia and so on) running w10 wat do?

After tinkering with all these settings my pc now gets a blue screen after having restarted it and now windows can't repair my pc... Ugh... Any help?

Thanks for video but unfortunately I'm still only able to pull 14 fps max at A18 and about 23 in the black. Running on 11700k OC to 4.7. No overheat. 32GB DDR4 3600 XMP G1 Gig Z590 Rtx 3060 nv driver ver. 516.94 SSD Win 10 21H2 Raising and lowering graphics setting changes nothing at all for better or worse. Feels like I'm capped no matter what I do. Disabling HT gave about 2 fps, at this point I'll take it lol. No issues outside of SC. Are there other things I could check for?

As asked by someone else but you did not reply. Could you explain why we do Allow telemetry part. Thanks

This seemed to have helped but now my task manager is telling me Im using (sporadically) anywhere from 40% to 100%. is this okay?