Star Citizen continues to arouse both love and hate wherever it goes, but surely whether you are a regular or professional player, as well as if you are going to venture into this universe, you have to know the updated requirements for this year of one of the titles that they remain in shape despite being a mature game in constant evolution. These are the components you need to play Star Citizen with minimal performance.
The requirements have been changing as time has passed, because Star Citizen has been adapting to the needs of the new times. That is why it is interesting to know what we are going to face, mainly because after a few months after the launch of Windows 11 everything has become a bit ambiguous and this issue needs to be addressed so that players are aware of the changes.
Star Citizen, minimum requirements for PC
Total ambiguity about the performance we can expect to play at the minimum possible and required depending on the resolution we have. Where before the company specified more specific data, now there are quite interesting specifications that leave more, if anything, open.
Starting with the OS, which can be Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 with all the relevant updates where Windows 7 is completely forgotten and of course macOS or Linux. What about the CPU? Well, an Intel Sandy Bridge CPU is recommended (4 cores) or later for Blues and a Bulldozer CPU or later for AMD.
The reason for this choice is not so much the IPC of the processor or the number of cores but the fact that as of patch 3.11 the game requires a processor with AVX instructions. These vector instructions were implemented in 2011 on those architectures and hence the new requirements for it.
The graphics card is indistinct for NVIDIA or AMD. It simply specifies that it be compatible with DX11 and have 3GB of VRAM. Something similar happens in RAM memory, where they only declare 16 GB, since there is no speed or latency available. More of the same with storage: 65GB without clarifying if the speed of an SSD or with a moderately powerful HDD is needed.
Recommended Requirements
Here everything changes, since Windows 8.1 has already been forgotten for the company and they focus exclusively on Windows 10. In CPU nothing changes compared to the minimum requirements, which is curious, but in GPU we will already need a graphics card with 4GB of VRAM.
As for RAM, we will need more than 16 GB of DDR4, so it is a game that makes a lot of RAMCache with the SSD or processor. Interestingly, in terms of storage, now a SSD with at least 65 GB of available space.
Finally, those of you who have made the leap to Windows 11 should know that currently, and for lack of more data, the company states that Star Citizen is fully compatible, however, they also state that the tests and the resolution of possible problems have not been completed. there may be to ensure the game has proper compatibility (then full compatibility cannot be confirmed How do you say).
If we find a problem we should report it to the problem council so that the engineering team can investigate and resolve it while testing continues.
