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Star Citizens PC Configuration: Won’t Support DirectX 10 or 4GB

Posted on November 21, 2014December 31, 2016 by starcitizenguides

Cloud Imperium said a couple of years ago (yes, it’s been that long) that Star Cititzen will require fairly hefty hardware: A dual-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a GTX 460 display adapter. Six months later, a follow-up forum post jacked the minimum spec up even higher, to 8GB of RAM.

Of course, Cloud Imperium has never made any bones about the demanding nature of the game—you will recall the bit about how consoles “couldn’t possible handle” it—but if you were thinking you’d be able to coast through with the mid-range rig you built in 2011, think again: When asked by DSoGaming if the minimum requirement could be cut back again, Engine Technical Director Sean Tracy said, “Likely not.”

“We are creating this game with the PC gamer in mind. Of course performance will be optimized much further than our current version of Arena Commander but I wouldn’t expect that we would drop the system requirements any time soon,” he explained. “Additionally on the Direct X 10 front, as almost every engine/rendering we’d like to put in relies heavily on DX11 and even DX12 or Mantle I can’t see DX10 cards even existing much longer. It’s difficult to say, but I don’t expect that the majority of gamers would even have DX10 cards anymore and so for us to continue support it wouldn’t make sense.”

Of course, if you’re gaming on a PC with 4GB and a DirectX 10 card, the odds are that either you’re playing Peggle, or you’re already looking into a fairly major upgrade. And by the time Star Citizen rolls around, which isn’t likely to happen for a couple more years, that sort of system will be just about completely untenable for any kind of gaming that isn’t built into Windows.

For the record, the minimum system requirements as they currently stand are:

  • Windows 7 or 8, 64-bit only
  • Dual-core CPU – Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or AMD Phenom X2
  • 8GB RAM
  • Nvidia GeForce 460GTX or AMD Radeon HD5850, DirectX 11 only

An Intel Core i5 2500 and a GTX 670 GPU is recommended, while “a smooth experience at maximum settings” will demand an R9 290X or GTX 780. To play it properly in 4K, you’ll need to either slap together a pair of mid-to-high end cards, or wait for Nvidia or AMD to invent something new.

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