Anyone running an older i7 I'd love to know how it's running!

@AR_P71

2 ай бұрын

My wife is on an i7-4790k; your results aren't terribly too different. Cities and ports are about a dozen FPS, everywhere else is "workable".

@ImreBertalan86

2 ай бұрын

🤨

@SkywallGuttz

2 ай бұрын

A 64gb pagefile helped with my crashing. Rarely happens and I play hours on end each day. FPS also feels a bit different server to server. Also my i7-2600k is 3.8ghz not 3.4ghz.

@Gamustial

2 ай бұрын

I have an i3-9100F cpu and i have 10 to 20 fps in city and 25 to 60 in space. Pretty good

@Bandit-Darville

2 ай бұрын

Girl friend of mine tried it at Invictus on her i7 7700K, GTX Titan X and 32GB DDR4 and it kept CTD- ing once loaded it. Unable to play it. I have smooth sailings on my good ol' 9900K

CiG: Can it run the game? Devs: Yes, but... CiG: Okay, then it is a minimum spec now

I ran an i5-2500k, 16gb ram, 970 gtx for a while. I would get 25-35 fps in the city, 30-50 in space. Worked really well actually, intill Orison and Crusader came out. After that, it was pretty well rendered useless.

My specs. I get 15-20 in cities 40+ everywhere else. When I desync from server I get .5 fps till it resyncs. i7-2600k 16gb DDR3 6650 8gb GPU SSD

@tiltrawn10

2 ай бұрын

DDR3 ?! o-0

@jrherita

2 ай бұрын

@@tiltrawn102600K is also PCI-E 2.0 even

@jrherita

2 ай бұрын

Is your 2600K running at stock clocks?

That brings back some memories of my old system, an I7 2600 with 16 gigs of Ram and various GPUs (GTX 260, GTX 670, GTX 970) that I used to "play" SC from 2013 until mid 2019 where I then upgraded to a Ryzen 5 3600, with 32 gigs of DDR4 3200 Cl18 Ram and an Radeon RX 5700, though that system was then constantly upgraded over the years and is now a Ryzen 5800X3D, 32 Gigs of DDR4 3600 Cl14 and a Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

@joefawcett2191

2 ай бұрын

we both had the exact same pc apart from I had the 5700xt and then upgraded to 4080 super instead, weird that our original and upgraded were both identical except the graphics card lol

@TheAzurite

2 ай бұрын

Cool, I still use the same as your first system mentioned with the 2600, 16gb and 970 :D

I have an i7-6850k and it works well enough tbh. Its pretty playable (apart from cities) I usually get anywhere from 40-60+ fps in space / on space stations. Even on planets. In cities tho its usually a 30 fps experience. Sometimes 40 fps if the servers are not under heavy load

I have been running this CPU at 4.5ghz since 2014. Ran with a 1060 and SC was a slide show more than in this video. But I have upgraded this year so it was really back in 3.18 era. But had to crank it down to 720p and upscale it just to really get into high single digits in LZs.

Great stuffs as per usual. Running R5 3600 @ 4.4, RX5600xt (oc) + 32gb ddr3. Im the poverty stricken minimum spec player youre talking about Mostly gpu bottlenecked, 6gb vram is in that weird place where its ALMOST enough.. but not quite. although sometimes i notice i am in fact cpu bottlenecked. It's a shame about the GPU prices rn, im an old school mid range buyer and i miss the days of £250-300 mid range gpu's. Things are so evenly matched I reckon no matter which component i upgrade first im going to create a big bottleneck on the other one.

I'll give my personal experience for reference. Until recently (last December) I played SC since 2016 with an AMD FX8350. It was slightly chuggy in major LZ's, but performed well and smooth in space, at 1440p with most settings on high. It was coupled with an RTX2070 Super (I know its over kill, but needed that 1440p) A standard SSD And 16G ram for a few years, but later 32G. Discovered recently that the ram wasn't running at its optimal speeds. That machine can still run SC. I guess minimum has a lot to do with what a person wants or expects. Tenpoundfortytwo is the go to, to find what you want, or to expect from hardware with SC.

I'm not sure if you misspoke but you said in the beginning that you were definitely GPU bound with the i7-2600, which means, a faster GPU will give more performance and allow for the CPU to do more work that the GPU is currently preventing because you are GPU bound. I'm also curious about your settings, are you at 1080p with all other graphics rock bottom? You didnt show them, and finally, you mentioned a the i5-10400 as the minimum spec. I put an i3-10100 in my sons computer with 32gb DDR4 RAM and a Radeon RX 7600 XT and the game rarely drops below 20fps. Most of the time its around 30 to 35 but in areas like space it goes significantly higher.

My 10 year old i7 with 31gb of RAM (can’t remember the GPU) isn’t that bad. Can’t afford a new PC at the moment. No crashes but I’m mindful that it won’t be lasting long.

Have you tried benchmarking around distribution centers? My bro has well above minimum specs, but going near a DC plummets average fps to 9-12. No setting changes alleviate the problem.

I imagine it'll get a lot better after vulkan is fully implemented and exposes some actual graphics settings.

A request: Please can you make a video about 'minimum processor to run the game at 60 fps at minimum in city areas' corresponding to each resolution segment? I know it is lot to ask but that would help us finding the minimum spec for securing 60 fps in all circumstances.

i have a i7 7700 and gtx 1080 32gb ram, at all the major landing zones i get 10-30 fps mainly at the lower end of that, all the new locations planet and moon side are unplayable 5-15 fps, in space its good around 40-50. (i play in 1440p) im currently building a new pc with a 13700k, i have to wait and save a bit more to get a new gpu so i will putting my 1080 in the new rig im hoping for some big improvements!!

How can i tell if im cpu bound ?, when i look at the windows game bar it shows cpu usage between 20 -60 , gpu 50 -70 yet im getting 30- 44fps .

I can confirm it runs on a intel 8700k, i upgraded the 1080ti to a AMD rx 6900 xt last year and i play on 4k. I get around 35 fps so enough to get around untill i have saved for a new PC.

@mastertrader8144

Ай бұрын

Also i dont use upscaling because the game is defitelty cpu bottlenecked by the 8700k

I mean technically if you overclock the ram you can make the game almost playable My laptop has 1600 ram and its what i was using to play the game back in the day with an external GPU via the mPCIe slot

I7 6700, 16GB DDR, 1080ti here Cities: between 5 and 30 fps outside: between 5 and 60 fps it is "playable" most of the times but it really depends on the server.

The oldest CPU I ever ran SC on was a 3570K - in the 2013 hangar module! WITH A 7970!

Until fall 2022 I was on a FX-6300 (4.1GHz all core overclock), MSI R9 290 4G Gaming Edition, 32GB of DDR3-1600 CL9, and Seagate 2TB Firecuda SATA SSD. The performance was about the same as the new minimum spec, probably a little worse. My recommendation for minimum spec is AMD Ryzen 5600X, a GPU with at least 8GB VRAM, 32GB of RAM suitable for the CPU and a SSD. Edit: Also, fast wired ethernet. Stop causing server desync as it tries to compensate for your noisy wifi and/or slow internet

Im getting the 7800x3d and 64 gigs of 6000 30cl ram in a few weeks. I hope it runs well, given i wont swap my 3080 just yet.

Yet again CIG should thank you for your efforts and should list your min spec

You should test RE-BAR again but this time on vulkan, the results might be completely different this time.

intel 5775c 32gigs 2400mhz ram, ssd, 1080ti. I get 20-30fps at cities and up to 60fps outside at 1440p.

An intersting piece if the data is available...."how has the minimmm spec increased"

Isnt the "industry standard" for minimum specs usually 720p30? Or doesnt the game support that low of a resolution? Also, im not sure, but does it support FSR and perhaps even frame generation? FSR to lower the rendering resolution to like 720 and then upscale, frame gen to help overcome cpu bottleneck by creating fake smoothness?

I run SC with R5 2600 for quite a bit, paired with GTX 1660. 720P medium/low. 30 FPS locked in driver side. I have to say, it was playable and enjoyable. I was using 22inch display so 720P on that is not that bad (IMO). I then upgraded to R6 5600 with GTX 1080Ti 1080P High, 30FPS locked. Its buttery smoooth (again, in my disgustingly humble opinion). I tried on my laptop before, with AMD FX 9830P + RX460, it was miserable.

That's the CPU I am still using hehehe since 2011 2700K

This gentleman's taking one for the team. CIG's drunken again, yikes. Great info TenPound, appreciate the vids.

My i5 9400K, RTX 1650S and 32GB RAM make SC playable, although not desirable. A new computer is on my shopping list at end of the year.

How to get to your discord? I would need some help with tweaking my ASUS laptop if possible.

@tenpoundfortytwo

2 ай бұрын

Check out the link in the video description!

Pretty good for 1333 ddr3, that is some atrociously slow ram. It's been a while but I think more mainstream ddr3 was 2133 for the later generations of ddr3 cpu.

I think that it is playable on an 18 year old CPU is pretty impressive. Yes, it isn't a fantastic experience, but for the age of the hardware, you can't expect to play AAA games well. I have been trying it on my secondary PC with Ryzen 2600 and a GTX1060 and it is playable with cities at about 20-30 fps, so they have made a lot of progress with optimisation. I remember 3.0 where it was seconds/frame in Lagski but I still played it!

Guess the time is coming...been playing on my I7-7700 and Nvidia 1060 with 16GB ram and a sata ssd with 500mb/s reading

Great stuff £10.42

I run an i7 2600K for more than 7 years @5.1GHz with a cheap custom watercooling system from AliExpress. Those CPU's were unkillable and pretty durable. I sold the PC, but that sucker is probably still running somewhere.

@GamerOne

2 ай бұрын

so far everything is getting worse

I was running on I7-6700k with a 980ti and the game was poor. FPS drops to 8 or 9 fps at times. I moved to a 3090 and was getting capped around 35 to 40 fps, with drops in the sub 20s. When I upgraded to the I9-12900k with the 3090 the game became much smoother and playabe in the plus 50 to plus 60 fps

Lol, maybe I try to install it on my old HTPC which is imminently being updated. i5-2500 w/16gb DDR3 memory being replaced by a new AM4 motherboard/cpu (a cheap Strix wifi, my old 3900xt from before 5800x3d, plus new 64 GB - 3600 with slow timings).

i ve a 5600h and a 3060 and i couldnt run the game at 60 fps... in some zones i would get 56 in another zones 15

There's plenty of videos on YT of people playing SC just fine on a Steamdeck; so yes, ofc a desktop i7 2600 can as well.

I'm playing with the 11700f and in Hangar 18, I get low 40's fps at 1440......then 20.....then 53.......then 13... Thing is, I want frames when I'm fighting so in town I'm not to fussed. I think since these silly patches have come out the game has gotten worse as far a playability issues go. I played for a couple of hours yesterday and recieved 4 server issues problems. One at a bunker, which cancelled my contract, which also flagged me as trespassing and got.my ship blown up!!

The minimum should be like a 7700K. What are the devs smoking with this min. spec? They'd get LAMBASTED on Steam reviews if the PU were on there and rightfully so. Thanks for all your hard work. EDIT: I typed this before you showed the 8700K performance. I was close, but no cigar.

Here I am hoping one day the Steam Deck can run this thing at least at a solid 30 fps xD

Tbf, MULTITHREADED Vulkan will lower the barrier of entry for CPUs, so they MIGHT be right and you might be jumping the gun - once that multithreading actually arrives. In 3.23 thi, you absolutely right. Lol.

haha this it runs on my 4700k.. i mean its terrible but it does in fact work with a 4gig gfx card pmsl :D

Here I am with an i7 9700k and can't get above 10 fps when spawning in...

I wonder what the performance would of been if you used faster RAM. I dont think anyone who bought a PC in the last 5 years or more would be using DDR3 let alone at those speeds I think your limiting the CPU with that RAM. I am curious how much performance you would get from a DDR4 3200 mhz kit which everyone and their dog probably has.

@tenpoundfortytwo

Ай бұрын

Yep a good question! Unfortunately, these CPU's will only run on ddr3 so I can't test them with faster RAM!

It’s the damn servers on my sons rig he has a 4790k and a 1080ti runs fine

I did play star citizen on an i7-920 until 2020. It was horrible but "playable" meaning i could complete most of the mission that was available and do some cargo runs.

@alexanderdooley5833

2 ай бұрын

same I was even running 24g of triple channel on mine. it was soo bad experience.

in a game where cpu specs dont matter and gpu's idle. I really dont know why they even try to give such low specs. you're honestly better off renting from nvidias gamer service to play your game online with sc. really wish the new dlss and vulkan actually worked. sc is so single core cpu bound that its insane. they are in it for the long cone. wait for technology/hardware to outpace their zero optimization. yet once you go into isolated areas or arena commander fps is fine. I really believe they use arena commander to dish out the spec requirement because its far more playable than live.

Try FX9590

Still running 4950k but nearly unplayable

i7 2600 is 13 years old, ancient by moore’s law standards.

I wish I understood all this and it has nothing to do with the accent. I'll just step aside while the big brain people work.

it is a potato, but you can run it.........

I feel like you're misunderstanding "minimum spec" This is not what they recommend you use to play their game. This is literally the minimum viable hardware to be able to run the game at all

The game is so annoying I use my laptop and it runs fine, I setup a PC for my daughter with an RTX 2060 and just keeps crashing out after 10 minutes I have thrown every benchmark at it and absolutely destroyed the card testing it and it wont crash ever. I checked the logs GPU crash disconnected people all over the internet have the same problem tried everything everyone suggested probably going to have to sell this card. My spare PC with a GTX 1080ti runs it perfectly luckily so we can play but does Star Citizen just not like certain cards

@tenpoundfortytwo

2 ай бұрын

What are the rest of the specs? I have tested a 2060 and it worked fine- if you have 16GB RAM in that system then that can sometimes cause problems. Make sure you manually set the pagefile to give yourself roughly another 16GB. But unfortunately, it could just be a bad card.

@Tezrayyou

2 ай бұрын

@@tenpoundfortytwo Thanks I did that and so much more recommended I build PC's a lot to sell on I guess Star Citizen pushes it further than any other game or graphics testing program can

its amazing that the i7-2600 is only 5 years old..... tech has really advanced a bit recently...

@MGB2408

2 ай бұрын

its from 2011...

@alexanderdooley5833

2 ай бұрын

@@MGB2408ah i read it ended production in 2019.

5600x3d 5700x3d 5800x3d 7800x3d

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

But can it run Crysis? 😅

@whendarknessfalls6969

2 ай бұрын

SC does use a modified Cryengine😅

@whendarknessfalls6969

2 ай бұрын

SC does use a modified Cryengine 😅

All I can say is the current patch is very 3.18..ish .. crash after crash after crash.. .. regardless of pc spec 😅

You and most Star Citizen fans need to stop being naive. They obviously put lower specs than they actually require on the game so you can't refund based on poor performance. If you ask them in what scenario could you run the game on these specs, they will tell you that they didn't specified tje resolusion used so it can be the specifications to play on a 360p window.