Just recently went from 16 to 32g of ram and I definitely noticed a difference in Orision. The tram ride used to be glitchy af with the clouds off. Now I'm running with the clouds on and quite a bit smoother. Other then that it didn't make too much difference.
Build my sons first comp with him for his 8th birthday a year ago. Only difference from yours was GFX cards were still crazy expensive so his runs a gtx980. Still plays SC fine at approx 30fps. My first SC comp was a laptop with a 2nd gen i7 and RTX580m back in 2013 or whenever the hangar module launched.
nice vid im surprised how well this kind of budget build performed. All that UI engine rework is making a different. It will be cool if you do a follow up vid on this once Gen 12 comes out with 3.18 patch goes live
I am rockin a older ASUS strix with a 1060, SATA SSD (upgraded) , 32GB Ram (made noticed differece), and air cooled with a IETS GT500 Powerful Turbo-Fan . When things get crowded the FRs are not ideal but we fly with with we must. Great vid, and I always try to remember fly dirty :)
I don't know if you have heard of "tenpoundfortytwo" he does a lot of hardware comparisons, where he uses different CPUs, different GPUs, memory speed, amount of RAM, while running SC. His min spec, but still very playable specs are the same as yours, except, a SATA SSD worked almost the same for loading times as a M.2. But if the M.2 is only a small jump in price, go for it. I'm enjoying your content on SC.
I was running Star citizen on an Intel 10105 chip and board for 120 dollars, with a 12 year old hd 7870 graphics card than cost 40 dollars, a 25 dollar 256 gig SSD and 8 gig of ram for 25. Ran fine. 1080p low to medium. It was a budget build with a placeholder GPU for my partner but as it was here I thought I'd try star citizen and got what I expected. Because this game is a buggy badly optimised work in progress so people upgrading to bleeding edge hardware for this game are in fact throwing masses of money away for diminishing returns. Once it is released shortly after I have died of old age, then by all means folks can build for the game. But right now folks should go for best bang for buck. If the game runs fine for you then no need to spend.
Went the budget pc route with a little extra ended up with 12400f (12100 would have sufficed) 16 gig ram (should be a now day minimum) 3060 (because the 3050 is a waste of money) 1TB nvme (because I can, a ssd would have been fine). I hit 50-90 fps depending where I am with everything cranked. This was during the GPU crunch so now you would get away with less but I still spent roughly $1000 in a country where hardware is pricy at the best of times. This should cost you no more than 750-800 dollars in the US and it is all new components.
@AnxiousPenguin69 Try to low your game scale and use "upscale" in invidia settings, mach it with your scale in game and you got a bit better performance, also i recommend to clean ur SSD bc for some reason game runs slower when ur disk is filled with a lot of files. Also your RAM requirements are minimal this game must release up to 4 years so they are expecting what in the future ppl will have more RAM (32±). In total you will launch ur game on stable 30-40 fps (Cities included), a bit low ik:( additionally try to tune your settings to compensate RAM, try to off clouds for example
Optimize your hardware and make sure your drivers are up to date. There’s no way you should be pulling the same as a budget rig. TH-cam will have tutorials my man.
I gots to admit I laughed at the 8GB of RAM thing. I've been specc'ing and buying laptops for my work for ages and recently decided that even basic spec laptops are going to have 16GB from now on. Windows 11 and Microsoft Teams are too damn greedy.
Only on a old CPU new gen don't suffer from this at all. Running 16 gb ddr4 on a 12gen and I am getting no stutters. SC is a cpu hog and is the biggest requirement.
I run an i7-9700f, GTX 1660 (no TI or Super), 32GB RAM and a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSD on a proprietary HP motherboard and proprietary 550W PSU. Both CPU and GPU run at 100% most of the time and SC uses about 90% of my RAM. I can get upwards of 60fps in certain situations but average around 40 (outside of cities). That said, I limit my fps to 30 to limit the severity and frequency of frame dips. Unfortunately for me, any upgrade will require multiple new purchases (Mobo, CPU, PSU, and case) that are well outside my current budget. But I consider SC perfectly playable for now and hopefully the upcoming switch to Vulkan and additions of DLSS and FSR will improve things further
I'm also on a tight budget. I buy parts one at a time, starting with the motherboard so I can make sure everything else is compatible with it. I use a pay-in-4 service so If a part is $600 I'll make 4 $150 payments over 8 weeks. I takes me about 6 to 8 months to save up for a new PC this way, but it's how I've built my last 3 computers over 10 years, and it's the best way to get a much better computer than you think you can afford. And if you can, get the big ticket items like the GPU and CPU when there's specials, like black friday, cyber monday, boxing day, EOFY etc. Used parts can be OK for some things but motherboard, CPU and power supply I always buy new.
hey man, just as a recommendation, theres a program in steam called loseless scaling, it generate frames whit AI, there´s an option to make 3x your fps, but makes artifacts in your screen, ´cause yknow, AI. Sorry for bad enlgish :p
My i7-based PC that I bought in the summer of 2011 in Moscow and was my main gaming rig from then until December 2021 *still* runs SC. It's had a few upgrades, of course. The GPU has been replaced a few times as they've worn out. I've popped in more RAM, so I think it's gone from 8gm to 32gb. And around 3.14 I moved Windows and SC over to a SATA SSD. It's my son's main gaming rig now. He uses it for jumping in the verse with me. He's only shot me once. It was at SPK, and I lived, so it was alright. Most of the time it's so that he can make Roblox videos for his TH-cam channel. But he sees me playing, and he knows that his rig "lags". So I'd love to take some of my entertainment funds to build him a better rig so it's more fun for him when we play together. And this is exactly the sort of inspiration I needed right about now. Thanks for doing this!
Yo Dig ! Build me a PC Mayne ! Just as long as it doesn't heat up and the Ram starts sauteing and the GPU starts barbecuing and I can make CPU Kabobs ! Just like what happened with your last PC ! Buahahaha 🤣😂 Seriously, Great Video 👍
I5 12600k, z690, M.2 Pcie5.0 8gb's transfer rates with a geforce 1050TI (yes 1050TI) 45fps at orison(very high + high and no volumetric clouds) CPU with data transfer is 100% the way to go if you wanna play SC. I built this rig 2weeks ago from the time of this post, came in to canada computers to buy a 3070ti, came out with a mobo, cpu, storage drive best investment i made. Can it run SC? If your pc has 4 cores, then NO. 10-16 cores+? hell's yea.
Now c'mon dig you know you shoulda hit up Micro Ctr first 👀Im just playing, that is some BS that BB system was lyin tho! Love this vid, I caught this one a bit late, buuuut, when it comes to SC, is anything really late in comparison? Keep doin your thing, like a Bowssse...
I really want to play this game. Came across your video and this gave me some direction cause I was about to blow 1500 on a rig and I can just build my own good stuff
Yeah those are great! Picked one up after the vid, but I find there's still some things that can use that concentrated blast of air through the straw on a can of air.
1440p, which runs the same as 1080p. TBF, it's not half the time, but there are times it runs sub 1fps (hell, sub 0.1fps) for a while, it usually sits somewhere around18-22 in most planet areas. Tried every combination of settings, all of the windows settings, all of the Nvidia control panel settings, the only thing left is hardware changes and/or waiting for performance updates
Going to upgrade my rig soon, but do you think my setup will run it okay? i7-5820K Asus X99-A Nvidia GTX 1080 Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8G 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB
Can u please help me, i have i5, 32gb of ram, 1tb m2 ssd and 1070 6gb and it doesn't run smooth. Is it possibly that cpu is old and worn out? I get 35fps but sometumes ist like 12-15 and ist not playable. I already overclocked my gpu.
Idk what the CPU cache is looking like but the rest of the components look fine. There's a million potential software/ hardware issues but if your other games run fine, 🤷♂️. Maybe run some tests to see if any hardware issues exist. Other than that, turn the clouds down & don't run any higher than 1080p.
@@m.amadeo3434 oh ok. i believe i did that. the verse must be busy the last couple days. finding low frames now when it was higher last week. dunno what changed
In SC you want to throw as much on your gpu as possible, if you don't it streams from your choice of drive and cpu. Check your task manager wile running the game and you will see that your gpu is under utilized for the most part.
It’ll run decent. I just got done using a core i7 myself and it worked well, I was also running a RTX 3060 with 16g of ram…your pc will run it just fine trust me haha As of today I actually just bought myself a upgraded pc
@@surge0266 nice. Yeah I’ve seen some videos with $3,000 rigs and the performance isn’t bad but I’m shocked. I don’t ever see this game being optimized but at least we get above 30 fps now lol
I don't understand what's wrong with my rig. RTX 2070 super, Ryzen 7 2700, 16 gb ram, 500gb m.2 SSD and the game runs at 15-20fps in cities and max of 40 in space. The absolute highest I've ever seen it was in my friend's ship in the cargo bay at 60. My temps are good too. Seriously don't know what could be causing my $1000+ rig to be performing at half of what your $500 rig is.
A lot has changed on the back end since this vid, but there are many variables that could affect your performance. Resolution (don't try to run it in 4k), other software using up resources, quality settings (use one of the higher settings), turn clouds down to medium or below, Windows Performance settings, 16gb ram is doable but 32 gives more headroom, biggest issue: R7 2700 has kinda aged out w/ its 16mb of cache..an R7 5800x3D would make the game SING, but even the CPU I used in the build would double your cache.
Months before I made this vid, I had no clue how to build a PC either. But when I bought some upgrades that required my PC to basically be rebuilt & all the stores were too busy to install em as fast as I needed em, I watched tutorials. After you take way too long doing it the first time, it becomes enjoyable.
@@DigThat32 SC is only allocating 8gb of my ram because my system is using only a small amount of the other 8gb. edit: Now after updating the game it says I only have 6.6 gb free out of 16gb. I have no idea what it is doing. Lol
@@timadams3975 Hi, you‘ve probably resolved the issue by now but just in case, two things come to mind. - Launch the game, open the Task Manager, select the 'Details' tab, find the SC exe, rightclick it and set its priority to 'high'. This should ensure that its hardware demands are met before any background processes. While you‘re in the Task Manager, check which processes are using all the RAM, my clean Windows install idles at 4 out of 16GB and gets much lower if anything demanding is running. Biggest offender is Microsoft Defender at 220 ish MB, then Windows Explorer and a lightweight firewall i installed at 50 MB each. Any other system processes are single or low double digits MB. - Assuming you‘re using 2x8GB, double check that they are slotted in dual channel (every second slot if your mainboard has 4, usually the ones with white latches)
Hey I'm about to get AMD Ryzen 5 5500 AMD Radeon 6500XT GPU with Corsair Vengence 16gb RAM and was wondering of it qould be enough to play star citizen (first PC)
It will definitely run it. The weakest point will prolly be the CPU. Its pretty light on cache & upgrading it to something w/at least 32mb or more of L3 cache will make a difference in your experience.
Must just be the events starting this week causing the game to act up. Because I am running a Ryzen 7 3700 with a 1660 super on 16g of 3200 ram. Lol😂. And I fell through a few floors and got ejected from an elevator during my tutorial.
@@chronaii I actually realized that was in fact the problem… I didn’t realize I had put an HDD by mistake when I put it together, new builder excitement. Switched it to my other drive and is fine now.
@@Bloodlit Ah nice to hear, When i first tried this game I had the same issues as you described. I was running on HDD only. How does it run for you now? Im upgrading my pc bit by bit, so i have an i5 6600k, and an rx 6800 xt (slight bottleneck) and 16gb 2666 ram on an m.2 ssd.
@@chronaii flawlessly other than the usual Star Citizen shenanigans 😂. Even when streaming and game recording. The only thing when I stream it turns of my head tracking.
I already have 1tb nvme and 16gb of ram so im gonna get a ryzeb 7 5600x and a ventus 3x 3060 for about $500 overkill i know but hey i personally want those extra frames if im playin with my freinds
When you use the lowest settings the engine offloads everything on the cpu because the alpha is still unoptimised. Put everything on high and turn the clouds off. Also new babbage is a slide show right now because of the event.
@@theCoffinSeller yeah I learned that. That's literally devs trolling players lmao. Also, it didn't change anything on my end. Game still doesn't look good and fps is still low with hiccups.
@@theCoffinSeller ofc no one is trolling me personally. and even if I accept the fact the game is still a "tech demo" after 10 years, that doesn't explain why low graphic settings don't use GPU. CPU's are terrible at graphical calculations. You should never ever use a CPU for those tasks. Even modern operating systems won't run without a GPU, that's why most CPU's come with integrated GPU's. Cause even the most putrid integrated GPU is better than a CPU for these specialised tasks. This is not optimisation/tech demo/in development etc. issue. This is a design principle issue and a serious one. For the last I-don't-even-remember-how-much years people are trying to utilize GPU's as much as possible for various tasks in addition to graphical operations. While Star Citizen is offloading graphical calculations from GPU into CPU. That's beyond backwards and utterly ridiculous. So yes, I find it hard to believe the developers of this hundreds of millions of dollars game don't know about this and that's why I think the possibility of that they are just trolling is higher.
@@eckee We can have the typical armchair-game-developer back and forth but I find that's a mood point. The "design issue" is from the roots of the engine which was crytek. They then moved to lumberyard, which is build on crytek, and then made their own engine which is star engine. Thats the fancy video everyone and their mother is reacting to. The star engine doesn't have the problem of the crytek engine. "But where is it then?!" I hear you not ask. The "game" is in open developemet for 10 years, it did not start with the stanton system, it started with a kickstarter video and a bunch of jpegs. They remade the engine, made tools for faster developement, assests, models and physics during the decade for two games.
Hi just happen to stumble upon your video and it was great. I have never played or owned a PC just been playing video games on my Tv-Console. I came by Star Citizen 2 months ago and wanted to buy a PC but I don’t know anything about them, could you recommend a gaming pc to play star citizen. If my budget is 1000 US Dollars. Or if you could List me part to build one for 1000 dollars. Greeting’s from Sweden :)
Well you can start off by going with the list he gave you and swap out the cpu, gpu, ram, and storage for an upgraded one. He gave some tips toward the end on better performing hardware if you have the budget.
Hey man love the video so i play on a old laptop i get upto 50fps on 720p medium settings so i play on a 8th gen i7 1050 4gb and 16gb of ram and a sata ssd its on i need to get second ram chip thou for that duel boost
Shit I'm running on a r5 3600 16gb ram and a strix 3070 ti. And runs good. 60 to 80 fps. And yes I know I'm bottleneck the cpu. R7 5800x3d coming soon.
You pay MONEY for Blow Off? Everyone I meet gives me that for free! Been sittin’ on that joke for a while-waitin’ for someone to give me the OPENING TO STRIKE! Now that it’s over, and I’m starting to calm down, I wonder if I should’ve sat on that joke longer...maybe forever...
It's stuttering 'cause your 3070 is sitting there bored waiting on instructions from your CPU. Your CPU only has 9mb of L3 cache. You find a CPU w/ at least quadruple that amount & your whole experience will change.
I have computer which cost 4000e hp z6 g4 with cpu intel xeon 4114 (10 cores) ,32mb ram, and plus i buy rtx3060ti have lower fps (25-35)that your cheap computer, incredible
@@deejagers716 I watched a video about that scenario. Apparently the situation is a bottleneck caused by the speed of the ram being too slow, causing the bottleneck between the GPU and the CPU.
Performance ought to see some more gains with the full Gen12 implementation... until you land at an outpost and come across 500 PTVs parked all around, all bouncing around. Great vid Dig! Glad you were able to get a budget rig for SC. That's how you play the game of savings! 😎🦎
@@miranda.cooper a Decent star citzien rig will cost MINIMUM of $1500 if you're starting from nothing. $500 wouldn't even get you a Motherboard processor with decent Express lane bandwidth, i wouldn't go for anything lower than a 12 series Intel, because future graphic cards will be running PCIe 5.0 and you're litterally gimping yourself buying amd till they switch to AM5 socket. i mean this is why i haven't even bothered upgrading for the past 3 years, i spent more on my accessories (wish i never bought the secret lab chair, it sucks)
@@jaydavy5971still i'm not buying anything till the z790 range is a little cheeper, 399+ so far and i tend to lean toward ROG in the past but their boards like 4x in the last 10 years.
sorry but i cant play a game at 30 fps and have a dogfight ! 60fps fine but thats 3070 and up =P gpu prices is skyrocket ! i thought i wanted to upgrade my pc so i did i5 12600kf with a sapphire rx 6700xt 12gb and 32gb ram ! still think ill struggle to maintain 60fps ! i have never played the game only alot of elite and wanted to try it out but i want a rig that can handle it at 60fps constant and that dont exsist since SC is not optimized good enough so i pass on the game =P
These specs are way too old & overpriced, u could have gotten a waaaay better setup for the same money, especially the CPU, for 200 bucks u can get the 5600x, costs the same and is better. And yeah, it runs way more stable with 32GB of fast RAM, especially for a Ryzen u need fast RAM.
Who is running or began Star Citizen life on a budget rig?
yea, 2060 super, i7 8900, 16 gigs of ram. i get 22 fps at Orison in 1080p
@@maelradec6766 3 year old laptop, 1650, 32 gigs of DDR4, maybe, just maybeee, I get 20 in the big city with cherry trees, no i dont know the name
I started on a GTX 970 a little over a year ago
@@newbs1659 yea that is orison
Rx570 4gb and a ryzen 5 1600. Upgraded CPU and GPU this year finally
Just recently went from 16 to 32g of ram and I definitely noticed a difference in Orision. The tram ride used to be glitchy af with the clouds off. Now I'm running with the clouds on and quite a bit smoother. Other then that it didn't make too much difference.
32 is definitely better than 16 which is better than 8. For the baller on a budget 16 will do til an upgrade is possible.
Build my sons first comp with him for his 8th birthday a year ago. Only difference from yours was GFX cards were still crazy expensive so his runs a gtx980. Still plays SC fine at approx 30fps.
My first SC comp was a laptop with a 2nd gen i7 and RTX580m back in 2013 or whenever the hangar module launched.
nice vid im surprised how well this kind of budget build performed. All that UI engine rework is making a different. It will be cool if you do a follow up vid on this once Gen 12 comes out with 3.18 patch goes live
I like that idea
This is a great video. Persistence over time people. Persistence over time. And yes, MicroCenter is the mecca baby!
Definitely beats having to order everything online...especially when ya gotta return somethin'
I am rockin a older ASUS strix with a 1060, SATA SSD (upgraded) , 32GB Ram (made noticed differece), and air cooled with a IETS GT500 Powerful Turbo-Fan . When things get crowded the FRs are not ideal but we fly with with we must. Great vid, and I always try to remember fly dirty :)
I don't know if you have heard of "tenpoundfortytwo" he does a lot of hardware comparisons, where he uses different CPUs, different GPUs, memory speed, amount of RAM, while running SC. His min spec, but still very playable specs are the same as yours, except, a SATA SSD worked almost the same for loading times as a M.2. But if the M.2 is only a small jump in price, go for it.
I'm enjoying your content on SC.
Yeah I remember seeing his 5800x3d vid! Thanks
dude this was a brilliant video, well done man.
o7
I nearly bought a set up from very for a £1000 which would barely get 30 fps. Im so glad i found this video ill be learning to build my own for sure
no cap.... that procesor could be bought as a much cheaper price.......then i countinued watching the video... great video, my guy
Thanks for your support man in showing what works on this game
I was running Star citizen on an Intel 10105 chip and board for 120 dollars, with a 12 year old hd 7870 graphics card than cost 40 dollars, a 25 dollar 256 gig SSD and 8 gig of ram for 25. Ran fine. 1080p low to medium. It was a budget build with a placeholder GPU for my partner but as it was here I thought I'd try star citizen and got what I expected. Because this game is a buggy badly optimised work in progress so people upgrading to bleeding edge hardware for this game are in fact throwing masses of money away for diminishing returns. Once it is released shortly after I have died of old age, then by all means folks can build for the game. But right now folks should go for best bang for buck. If the game runs fine for you then no need to spend.
Someone saw the r/gaming post. Lol
I used to run SC on an OLD i5 with a 960ti. Was painful at times, but doable.
I haven't. What's the title?
Went the budget pc route with a little extra ended up with 12400f (12100 would have sufficed) 16 gig ram (should be a now day minimum) 3060 (because the 3050 is a waste of money) 1TB nvme (because I can, a ssd would have been fine). I hit 50-90 fps depending where I am with everything cranked. This was during the GPU crunch so now you would get away with less but I still spent roughly $1000 in a country where hardware is pricy at the best of times. This should cost you no more than 750-800 dollars in the US and it is all new components.
That video hit harder than a right hook out the airlock.
Myxo! Waddup Bawse
This video gave me hope to get back into the verse but now I feel bad for missing out on cyber monday & black friday :/
Dude your voice man. I thought I was listening to a radio station at first lol
honestly XD, reminds me of my time in fallout listening for hours on end. Amazing voice!
looks like i might be able too start this game sooner then i thoght
I have an rtx 3060, 16gb ram, 1tb ssd, i5 10500 and crazy to see you spend half of what i did and i pull same fps as you
4070 32gb no lag here
@AnxiousPenguin69 Try to low your game scale and use "upscale" in invidia settings, mach it with your scale in game and you got a bit better performance, also i recommend to clean ur SSD bc for some reason game runs slower when ur disk is filled with a lot of files. Also your RAM requirements are minimal this game must release up to 4 years so they are expecting what in the future ppl will have more RAM (32±). In total you will launch ur game on stable 30-40 fps (Cities included), a bit low ik:(
additionally try to tune your settings to compensate RAM, try to off clouds for example
Optimize your hardware and make sure your drivers are up to date. There’s no way you should be pulling the same as a budget rig.
TH-cam will have tutorials my man.
Runs better than my 900€ gaming pc...
I gots to admit I laughed at the 8GB of RAM thing. I've been specc'ing and buying laptops for my work for ages and recently decided that even basic spec laptops are going to have 16GB from now on. Windows 11 and Microsoft Teams are too damn greedy.
7:32 I was playing with a 1660 OC and i7-6700 until a few weeks ago! Still holds up.
Nuggets in the NBA Finals, Nice Pick
Too bad I didn't put $$ on it! 🤑
I keep forgetting that I'm trying to get a Build for Star Citizen but realistically I'm gonna be playin heavy modded Minecraft
I play turn-based so a Commodore 64 on an old black and white tv works.
Ay I'm still holding it down on an 8700k, 1070, 12g and an nvme.2
I first started playing SC in 2016 with a 4770k a gtx 680 and 16gigs ram. And it ran decent at 45 ish frames in olisar.
Love this. I've been wanting someone to do a $500 budget build for a long time.32 gigs does help with stuttering for most people though.
Right on, Damon
Only on a old CPU new gen don't suffer from this at all. Running 16 gb ddr4 on a 12gen and I am getting no stutters. SC is a cpu hog and is the biggest requirement.
I run an i7-9700f, GTX 1660 (no TI or Super), 32GB RAM and a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSD on a proprietary HP motherboard and proprietary 550W PSU. Both CPU and GPU run at 100% most of the time and SC uses about 90% of my RAM.
I can get upwards of 60fps in certain situations but average around 40 (outside of cities). That said, I limit my fps to 30 to limit the severity and frequency of frame dips. Unfortunately for me, any upgrade will require multiple new purchases (Mobo, CPU, PSU, and case) that are well outside my current budget. But I consider SC perfectly playable for now and hopefully the upcoming switch to Vulkan and additions of DLSS and FSR will improve things further
I'm also on a tight budget. I buy parts one at a time, starting with the motherboard so I can make sure everything else is compatible with it. I use a pay-in-4 service so If a part is $600 I'll make 4 $150 payments over 8 weeks. I takes me about 6 to 8 months to save up for a new PC this way, but it's how I've built my last 3 computers over 10 years, and it's the best way to get a much better computer than you think you can afford. And if you can, get the big ticket items like the GPU and CPU when there's specials, like black friday, cyber monday, boxing day, EOFY etc. Used parts can be OK for some things but motherboard, CPU and power supply I always buy new.
hey man, just as a recommendation, theres a program in steam called loseless scaling, it generate frames whit AI, there´s an option to make 3x your fps, but makes artifacts in your screen, ´cause yknow, AI.
Sorry for bad enlgish :p
0:23 Which paintjob is that on the Gladius? Looks awesome!
Awesome Vid bro!!! Love this content. Thanks for creating this! Miss ya fam, I gotta get back into the verse!!! o7
Waddup Broski!
My i7-based PC that I bought in the summer of 2011 in Moscow and was my main gaming rig from then until December 2021 *still* runs SC. It's had a few upgrades, of course. The GPU has been replaced a few times as they've worn out. I've popped in more RAM, so I think it's gone from 8gm to 32gb. And around 3.14 I moved Windows and SC over to a SATA SSD. It's my son's main gaming rig now. He uses it for jumping in the verse with me. He's only shot me once. It was at SPK, and I lived, so it was alright. Most of the time it's so that he can make Roblox videos for his TH-cam channel. But he sees me playing, and he knows that his rig "lags". So I'd love to take some of my entertainment funds to build him a better rig so it's more fun for him when we play together. And this is exactly the sort of inspiration I needed right about now. Thanks for doing this!
"He's only shot me once" 😆. Very cool that you can play SC w/ your son.
Derserves wayyyy more views, well done.
Yo Dig ! Build me a PC Mayne ! Just as long as it doesn't heat up and the Ram starts sauteing and the GPU starts barbecuing and I can make CPU Kabobs ! Just like what happened with your last PC ! Buahahaha 🤣😂
Seriously, Great Video 👍
That's your Sous Vide laptop
Can I ask which Micro Center you were at? The one near me never seems to have so many pretty toys out. But that 18 minute pickup saves my wallet.
Yo! Awesome video! Awesome style! Awesome info! Awesome dude! You got a sub my man!
Salute!
2:56 Thats nasty, might want to see if dust filters are in the budget lol
I5 12600k, z690, M.2 Pcie5.0 8gb's transfer rates with a geforce 1050TI (yes 1050TI) 45fps at orison(very high + high and no volumetric clouds)
CPU with data transfer is 100% the way to go if you wanna play SC.
I built this rig 2weeks ago from the time of this post, came in to canada computers to buy a 3070ti, came out with a mobo, cpu, storage drive best investment i made.
Can it run SC? If your pc has 4 cores, then NO.
10-16 cores+? hell's yea.
Now c'mon dig you know you shoulda hit up Micro Ctr first 👀Im just playing, that is some BS that BB system was lyin tho! Love this vid, I caught this one a bit late, buuuut, when it comes to SC, is anything really late in comparison? Keep doin your thing, like a Bowssse...
True! But Microcenter was a 30 min drive vs 5
@@DigThat32 I know man, thats why I said I was kidding. Its just happened to me several times. Kidve BS for a company thats been around as long as BB.
THx you really helped me out
Solid content! Stay Frosty!
Solid Vid, thank you
o7 Josh
What do u think about i5 intel, 16gb ram, RTX 3050, ssd m.2? How many frames do you think it will hit?
It's free to play today & tomorrow, so you can find out EXACTLY how many frames it will hit.
I really want to play this game. Came across your video and this gave me some direction cause I was about to blow 1500 on a rig and I can just build my own good stuff
Love this post, but you need to invest in a DataVac Electric Duster. So worth it, and you never have to buy a can of air again.
Yeah those are great! Picked one up after the vid, but I find there's still some things that can use that concentrated blast of air through the straw on a can of air.
Hello! DigThat32 are you the Voice of the Lorville, New Deal Shipyards guy?! :) you sound like him.
R7 2700, 3060, and 32G ram and I'm sitting under 1fps half the time, wtf
1fps?? You running it in 8k resolution or what?
1440p, which runs the same as 1080p. TBF, it's not half the time, but there are times it runs sub 1fps (hell, sub 0.1fps) for a while, it usually sits somewhere around18-22 in most planet areas.
Tried every combination of settings, all of the windows settings, all of the Nvidia control panel settings, the only thing left is hardware changes and/or waiting for performance updates
Lol, I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I'm running that R9 390X upgrading soon. I just started playing, too, so ....😅
That's a blast from the past! It got me on my journey tho!
Going to upgrade my rig soon, but do you think my setup will run it okay?
i7-5820K
Asus X99-A
Nvidia GTX 1080
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8G
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB
Can u please help me, i have i5, 32gb of ram, 1tb m2 ssd and 1070 6gb and it doesn't run smooth. Is it possibly that cpu is old and worn out? I get 35fps but sometumes ist like 12-15 and ist not playable. I already overclocked my gpu.
Idk what the CPU cache is looking like but the rest of the components look fine. There's a million potential software/ hardware issues but if your other games run fine, 🤷♂️. Maybe run some tests to see if any hardware issues exist. Other than that, turn the clouds down & don't run any higher than 1080p.
did you get sub 30 fps in certain areas?
and did you do a ram pagefile?
Yeah, until the game is optomized, everybody gets at least occasional dips below 30fps. I did not do a page file.
What is a ram pagefile? I use a ryzen 7 5800x and a 3060 with 32g of ram. And I don’t get those solid frames. Maybe a 40ish average
@@Doubl0fasho if the system runs out of ram, it will use up the SSD/HDD as ram
@@m.amadeo3434 oh ok. i believe i did that. the verse must be busy the last couple days. finding low frames now when it was higher last week. dunno what changed
DUDE, you are breaking my heart! You went to Best Buy when you have a Micro Center? Man thats just wrong!
Yep, def should've gone to Micro Center. Best Buy is a rip off.
I dig this
Could i run this on “acceptable frames” with a rtx 3060 12gb/ryzen 7 5800x/32 gb 3200mhz/980 pro 1 tb
Acceptable is subjective but IMO the frames would be just fine.
I really want to play this but idk, Intel i710-700f 16gb Ram / MSI GEFORCE RTX 2070 Super Ventus 8gb. I'm afraid if wont work. Any with similar?
It will run fine my friend.
@@cxntfxckshxtkayle Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, ^^
@@AngeloGuzmánSoñé worked it?
Yeah BB has always been a bit on the pricey side in my exp. Hate how Tigerdirect left my area
Agreed
8:25 Gibson fan eeh
How could game settings not affect the performance of this rig? Did I miss that part?
Resolution & cloud settings impact performance at this point, but that's about it.
In SC you want to throw as much on your gpu as possible, if you don't it streams from your choice of drive and cpu. Check your task manager wile running the game and you will see that your gpu is under utilized for the most part.
what graphic are you running on that 1660s oc
Save money on your rig. Have more money to by more ships.
Awesome content as always!
"Dustier than physical copies of Anthem" xD lmaoooo
😁
I’m wondering how my i7 9700k will run star citizen. I’m trying to upgrade my cpu. Current specs are 3080ti evga ftw 3, 32gb ram @ 3200mhz,
It’ll run decent. I just got done using a core i7 myself and it worked well, I was also running a RTX 3060 with 16g of ram…your pc will run it just fine trust me haha
As of today I actually just bought myself a upgraded pc
@@surge0266 nice. Yeah I’ve seen some videos with $3,000 rigs and the performance isn’t bad but I’m shocked. I don’t ever see this game being optimized but at least we get above 30 fps now lol
It will run SC all day & everyday in it's sleep. You'll be fine. o7
I don't understand what's wrong with my rig. RTX 2070 super, Ryzen 7 2700, 16 gb ram, 500gb m.2 SSD and the game runs at 15-20fps in cities and max of 40 in space. The absolute highest I've ever seen it was in my friend's ship in the cargo bay at 60. My temps are good too. Seriously don't know what could be causing my $1000+ rig to be performing at half of what your $500 rig is.
A lot has changed on the back end since this vid, but there are many variables that could affect your performance. Resolution (don't try to run it in 4k), other software using up resources, quality settings (use one of the higher settings), turn clouds down to medium or below, Windows Performance settings, 16gb ram is doable but 32 gives more headroom, biggest issue: R7 2700 has kinda aged out w/ its 16mb of cache..an R7 5800x3D would make the game SING, but even the CPU I used in the build would double your cache.
@@DigThat32 thanks for the reply! I’ll definitely look into upgrading my cpu. I’m just a few generations behind…lol
Try upgrade the ram. Also sometimes it’s a sever issue that does the low fps
I have a intel i5 12600k
3070ti
1TB SSD (wd blue sn570 1tb)
AND MY SHI RUNS AT 30FPS AND 20 SOMETIMES.
I got a ryzen 7 5800 with a amd rx6600 on a laptop i been thinking about this gane it runs everything else perfect tarkov ect
I am trying to get a pc that can run star citizen but I have no clue how to build a custom pc and what parts to get
Months before I made this vid, I had no clue how to build a PC either. But when I bought some upgrades that required my PC to basically be rebuilt & all the stores were too busy to install em as fast as I needed em, I watched tutorials. After you take way too long doing it the first time, it becomes enjoyable.
@@DigThat32 thanks for acc replying and thank you for the advice also I am not really sure what parts to buy as my budget is 2000
@ZachsTechTurf
SC cuts my 16gb of ram down to 8gb because the system requires some of the ram. How do you guys bypass that?
What do you mean...SC is only allocating 8gb, or your system is already using 8gb before you even launch SC?
@@DigThat32 SC is only allocating 8gb of my ram because my system is using only a small amount of the other 8gb.
edit: Now after updating the game it says I only have 6.6 gb free out of 16gb. I have no idea what it is doing. Lol
@@timadams3975 Hi, you‘ve probably resolved the issue by now but just in case, two things come to mind.
- Launch the game, open the Task Manager, select the 'Details' tab, find the SC exe, rightclick it and set its priority to 'high'. This should ensure that its hardware demands are met before any background processes. While you‘re in the Task Manager, check which processes are using all the RAM, my clean Windows install idles at 4 out of 16GB and gets much lower if anything demanding is running. Biggest offender is Microsoft Defender at 220 ish MB, then Windows Explorer and a lightweight firewall i installed at 50 MB each. Any other system processes are single or low double digits MB.
- Assuming you‘re using 2x8GB, double check that they are slotted in dual channel (every second slot if your mainboard has 4, usually the ones with white latches)
Hey I'm about to get AMD Ryzen 5 5500
AMD Radeon 6500XT GPU with
Corsair Vengence 16gb RAM and was wondering of it qould be enough to play star citizen (first PC)
It will definitely run it. The weakest point will prolly be the CPU. Its pretty light on cache & upgrading it to something w/at least 32mb or more of L3 cache will make a difference in your experience.
Must just be the events starting this week causing the game to act up. Because I am running a Ryzen 7 3700 with a 1660 super on 16g of 3200 ram. Lol😂. And I fell through a few floors and got ejected from an elevator during my tutorial.
If you have a HDD then thats probably it
@@chronaii I actually realized that was in fact the problem… I didn’t realize I had put an HDD by mistake when I put it together, new builder excitement. Switched it to my other drive and is fine now.
@@Bloodlit Ah nice to hear, When i first tried this game I had the same issues as you described. I was running on HDD only. How does it run for you now?
Im upgrading my pc bit by bit, so i have an i5 6600k, and an rx 6800 xt (slight bottleneck) and 16gb 2666 ram on an m.2 ssd.
@@chronaii flawlessly other than the usual Star Citizen shenanigans 😂. Even when streaming and game recording. The only thing when I stream it turns of my head tracking.
I already have 1tb nvme and 16gb of ram so im gonna get a ryzeb 7 5600x and a ventus 3x 3060 for about $500 overkill i know but hey i personally want those extra frames if im playin with my freinds
how tf did that even work. My RX 6800 XT can't handle lowest settings at 1080p lmao. it's literally unplayable.
When you use the lowest settings the engine offloads everything on the cpu because the alpha is still unoptimised. Put everything on high and turn the clouds off. Also new babbage is a slide show right now because of the event.
@@theCoffinSeller yeah I learned that. That's literally devs trolling players lmao. Also, it didn't change anything on my end. Game still doesn't look good and fps is still low with hiccups.
@@eckee Noone is trolling you. You are not playing a game, you are playing a tech demo of a game that is still in developement.
@@theCoffinSeller ofc no one is trolling me personally. and even if I accept the fact the game is still a "tech demo" after 10 years, that doesn't explain why low graphic settings don't use GPU. CPU's are terrible at graphical calculations. You should never ever use a CPU for those tasks. Even modern operating systems won't run without a GPU, that's why most CPU's come with integrated GPU's. Cause even the most putrid integrated GPU is better than a CPU for these specialised tasks.
This is not optimisation/tech demo/in development etc. issue. This is a design principle issue and a serious one. For the last I-don't-even-remember-how-much years people are trying to utilize GPU's as much as possible for various tasks in addition to graphical operations. While Star Citizen is offloading graphical calculations from GPU into CPU. That's beyond backwards and utterly ridiculous.
So yes, I find it hard to believe the developers of this hundreds of millions of dollars game don't know about this and that's why I think the possibility of that they are just trolling is higher.
@@eckee We can have the typical armchair-game-developer back and forth but I find that's a mood point.
The "design issue" is from the roots of the engine which was crytek. They then moved to lumberyard, which is build on crytek, and then made their own engine which is star engine.
Thats the fancy video everyone and their mother is reacting to.
The star engine doesn't have the problem of the crytek engine.
"But where is it then?!" I hear you not ask.
The "game" is in open developemet for 10 years, it did not start with the stanton system, it started with a kickstarter video and a bunch of jpegs. They remade the engine, made tools for faster developement, assests, models and physics during the decade for two games.
You reckon a 3060 in place of a 3070 would perform well?
I ran it very well on a 2060 👀
@@dragonoidman alright I'm gonna get the free fly and test it out.
Hi just happen to stumble upon your video and it was great. I have never played or owned a PC just been playing video games on my Tv-Console. I came by Star Citizen 2 months ago and wanted to buy a PC but I don’t know anything about them, could you recommend a gaming pc to play star citizen. If my budget is 1000 US Dollars. Or if you could List me part to build one for 1000 dollars. Greeting’s from Sweden :)
Well you can start off by going with the list he gave you and swap out the cpu, gpu, ram, and storage for an upgraded one. He gave some tips toward the end on better performing hardware if you have the budget.
Hey man love the video so i play on a old laptop i get upto 50fps on 720p medium settings so i play on a 8th gen i7 1050 4gb and 16gb of ram and a sata ssd its on i need to get second ram chip thou for that duel boost
Shit I'm running on a r5 3600 16gb ram and a strix 3070 ti. And runs good. 60 to 80 fps. And yes I know I'm bottleneck the cpu. R7 5800x3d coming soon.
That'll be a beautiful combo
You pay MONEY for Blow Off? Everyone I meet gives me that for free!
Been sittin’ on that joke for a while-waitin’ for someone to give me the OPENING TO STRIKE!
Now that it’s over, and I’m starting to calm down, I wonder if I should’ve sat on that joke longer...maybe forever...
i know nothing bout pc but is a i5 11400f eneough?
Don't know if you still need to know but yes, its almost the same as a R5 3600
my pc is i5 9600k rtx 3070 16gb 3200mhz ram nvme m.2 but it is stuttering like hell unplayable for sum reason what should i upgrade
It's stuttering 'cause your 3070 is sitting there bored waiting on instructions from your CPU. Your CPU only has 9mb of L3 cache. You find a CPU w/ at least quadruple that amount & your whole experience will change.
@@DigThat32 thanks going to order a new i7 12th gen with its mother board hopefully it will run smoothly
I have computer which cost 4000e hp z6 g4 with cpu intel xeon 4114 (10 cores) ,32mb ram, and plus i buy rtx3060ti have lower fps (25-35)that your cheap computer, incredible
@@deejagers716 I watched a video about that scenario. Apparently the situation is a bottleneck caused by the speed of the ram being too slow, causing the bottleneck between the GPU and the CPU.
Performance ought to see some more gains with the full Gen12 implementation... until you land at an outpost and come across 500 PTVs parked all around, all bouncing around. Great vid Dig! Glad you were able to get a budget rig for SC. That's how you play the game of savings! 😎🦎
I still get 15 fps average. Lol
so 500 bucks for everything?
or just upgrade parts?
He spent over $500 in the first 2 parts listed...
@@miranda.cooper a Decent star citzien rig will cost MINIMUM of $1500 if you're starting from nothing.
$500 wouldn't even get you a Motherboard processor with decent Express lane bandwidth, i wouldn't go for anything lower than a 12 series Intel, because future graphic cards will be running PCIe 5.0 and you're litterally gimping yourself buying amd till they switch to AM5 socket.
i mean this is why i haven't even bothered upgrading for the past 3 years, i spent more on my accessories (wish i never bought the secret lab chair, it sucks)
@@arcadealchemist HUGE CAP unless your talking about retail prices. used. 800 can get you a very good rig.
@@jaydavy5971still i'm not buying anything till the z790 range is a little cheeper, 399+ so far and i tend to lean toward ROG in the past but their boards like 4x in the last 10 years.
used?
Are you In Colorado? Whats up with this budget PC man? Can I buy It off you?
Ah..sold that one shortly after this vid. If you have a look around, I'm sure you can scrape up enough parts for somethin' similar.
so ive been a subscriber for a bit and im curious why you play with the same name, doesnt it bring too many people bothering you?
Caused an occasional problem, but CIG fixed an issue that made it easy to stream snipe so it's all good now.
Dat voice... Man you should've work on on a radio
1:40 - Talks about ram, shows NVME Drives LMAO
sorry but i cant play a game at 30 fps and have a dogfight ! 60fps fine but thats 3070 and up =P gpu prices is skyrocket ! i thought i wanted to upgrade my pc so i did i5 12600kf with a sapphire rx 6700xt 12gb and 32gb ram ! still think ill struggle to maintain 60fps ! i have never played the game only alot of elite and wanted to try it out but i want a rig that can handle it at 60fps constant and that dont exsist since SC is not optimized good enough so i pass on the game =P
With that config you‘ll get hundreds of frames in space, only the big cities are demanding so everyone tests there
16 gb is not enough anymore it lags alot on bigger planet and cities
Yeah I noticed that. I'm gonna upgrade my tuf f15 to 32 and see if that does it
I’ve played just fine with 12 gigabytes for a while
These specs are way too old & overpriced, u could have gotten a waaaay better setup for the same money, especially the CPU, for 200 bucks u can get the 5600x, costs the same and is better.
And yeah, it runs way more stable with 32GB of fast RAM, especially for a Ryzen u need fast RAM.