How to BOOST Your FPS in STAR CITIZEN 3.23+

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With each new update to Star Citizen come's many performance fixes, and issues. Today, I will be covering the best tips that I have found to bring the most performance benefits to Star Citizen 3.23. If there is anything I missed in this video do not hesitate to let me know in the comments as I would love to hear of any more tips to share with others and use for myself.

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My Star Citizen Referral Code:

Links to downloads:

Ultimate Performance Command:
powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

How to enable Resizable Bar on your PC:

IMPORTANT TIP‼⬇

I completely forgot to mention in the video that setting your system's virtual memory is very important! To do this, go to the Windows search bar and type "Advanced System Settings" and click, "View Advanced System Settings." Make sure that you are in the Advanced tab and click Settings on the Performance tab. Then go to Advanced again and under the Virtual Memory tab click Change. Select the drive that you have Star Citizen downloaded on and select Custom Size. Set the Initial Size to 16,000 and the Maximum Size to 32,000, click "Set" and then press OK. Then just click Apply and OK until you are out of the System Settings. ‼DO NOT do this if you play the game on a Hard Disk Drive, but only if you are on a Solid State Drive.‼

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VIDEO CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:32 Graphics Drivers Updates
0:53 Update Windows
1:11 Game Mode
1:37 Graphics Settings
2:25 Power Settings
2:59 CPU Priority (Using Process Lasso)
4:10 CPU Priority (Registry Editor)
5:10 NVIDIA Control Panel
6:21 Enabling Resizable Bar
6:52 Disabling High Precision Event Timer
7:14 A Few Extra Tips
7:50 Deleting the Shader Folder
8:30 In-Game Graphics Settings
10:47 Conclusion

[Velus_]

IMPORTANT TIP‼⬇

I completely forgot to mention in the video that setting your system's virtual memory is very important! To do this, go to the Windows search bar and type "Advanced System Settings" and click, "View Advanced System Settings." Make sure that you are in the Advanced tab and click Settings on the Performance tab. Then go to Advanced again and under the Virtual Memory tab click Change. Select the drive that you have Star Citizen downloaded on and select Custom Size. Set the Initial Size to 16, 000 and the Maximum Size to 32, 000, click "Set" and then press OK. Then just click Apply and OK until you are out of the System Settings. ‼DO NOT do this if you play the game on a Hard Disk Drive, but only if you are on a Solid State Drive.‼

[BlazinPhoenix]

Thanks, this stopped the stuttering issues I had, and now even my graphics are much better on top of performance. There are so many little details I've been missing. I'm like, those stairs have lights. Oh, the signs flicker. Wow, the reflection on this plant in the station is so nice😂

[MemphisPains]

The first half of this video just over tripled the FPS I was getting on low settings with volumetric clouds off and I turned that on and bumped my graphics even. Thank you!

[seanmackay]

Disabling high precision event timer only make it LOOK like a game is running smoother because FPS and Frame time logging rely on it for accurate performance measurements. Disabling it makes your performance monitoring less accurate which makes your nunbers look smoother even when performance is the same

[joshgomer]

I went through and made adjustments with your recommendations and am very happy to say it has tremendously improved the smoothness of my experience. Thank you! I have outdated hardware and that cant be changed but it did improve the experience over all.

[FlameSoulis]

Updated tip: you can now pass along the launcher's affinity and CPU priority to the game as of the latest launcher. This can all be done in the shortcut.

[mikegeldert]

Oh My God! Thank you my brother! I can not believe how much doing what you proposed for the setting has done to improve my FPS and the smoothness and everything looks awesome! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I have been looking at a much lower quality and slow and broken up graphics for the year that I have been playing SC. YOU ARE THE MAN! I was getting around 30FPS when it looked good and around 15 when it wasn't. Now I am getting over 60FPS and nothing looks choppy anymore. WOW I did everything you said to do, and man am I one happy MF. Best Regards to you, your new fan. Mikie_MG

[cameronmaines]

I have done all in this video and it massively helped my performance like damn was having 20fps in arcorp and now I get like 70fps there

[stephenthompson]

Tips so good i had to immediately come back and throw the sub! 🎉

Yesterday i was roughly get between 28 - 35 at the blue cog orb in Area18, right now im clocking in between 61 - 71 in the exact same spot.

I have a rtx 2060 which doesn't have ReBar (tho there is a github mod for those who are more tech save than i am)

But i did also combine your tips with the program "Lossless scaling" to get my results.

[TimothyStovall]

Volumetric clouds in photo quality at 4k in Orison is simply breath taking! I tried a lot of different settings, and played just native 4k on high to very high settings on my 5800X3D/7900 XTX rig, then I tried out the photo realistic clouds in Orison, and was like "Yep, this is how I want to play." Native 4k though was down to 20fps. I really like CGI's TSR upscaler, and use it on quality, which allows me around 50-60 FPS when flying into Orison. The settings I have it at loads my system pretty balance, and run into little bottlenecks, as I tried to eliminate them as much as I could with 32GB Samsung B-Die being tuned as well at 3733Mhz CL 14-8-14-14-22, with all secondary and tertiary timings tuned.

I will try some of the other things suggested, like using Lasso, as I noticed I wasn't able to switch the priority for Star Citizen through WIndow's Task Manager. Great video! Really covered all the bases.

[SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

Thank you for these hints. For those who like me can't set high CPU priority in Process Lasso because it says "access denied", the registry alternative worked for me.

[ChadSutton]

@Velus One of the other ones that I always forget to tell people about is to set Discord to not use Hardware Acceleration. You don't really need it for audio. I have seen that boost Star Citizen 10 fps.

[Romeoblue-rydg]

Thanks man I got about 10 to 15 fps extra🔥

[scottkomar]

DUDE THANK YOU! got about a 30-40% bump in overall performance. Like i knew some of these things, but the Lasso really helped most of my improvements came from there appreciate this

[spaceman]

Why don't you show the results before and after? Reducing windows host files brings instability to the system. Show the FPS before and after, otherwise it's just repeating more of the same man.

[Kaneda]

I was extremely sceptical, but damn, you delivered. Thanks for the tips!

[Kai_]

Process Lasso was a life saver. The event timer atleast for me made the game run worse but every PC is different. I would say if your going to set your cpu priority to high depending on your cpu its going to run hot. If so i would atleast set your curve optimizer to a minimum of -10 so it doesn't get too hot.

[Random-emum]

Dude, your settings and optimization tips made me go from barely useable to blazing fast 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[Hotte]

A big Problem are the Server too. Often you have almost dying server where you get way less fps than you could have.

[Tachakhan]

Works great for me on a 4 years old gaming laptop after tuning as per your video. Good job.