Star Citizen

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Star Citizen

Developers
	Cloud Imperium Games
	Behaviour Interactive
	IllFonic
Publishers
	Cloud Imperium Games
Engines
	Amazon Lumberyard
Release dates
Windows	Early access
Taxonomy
Modes	Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Shooter, MMO, Vehicle combat
Vehicles	Space flight
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi, Space

Star Citizen is an upcoming multiplayer first-person and third-person action, shooter, MMO and vehicle combat game.

General information

List of known issues in latest live build

RSI Community Forums

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website		Uses a separate launcher.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\LIVE\USER

PTU Settings are stored in <path-to-game>\PTU\USER

Video

Graphical settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen			Main menu HUD is stretched. There is also a bug with the FOV resulting in the minimum FOV being 140. See Field of view (FOV).
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Forced TXAA with no other options due to other shader's reliance on temporal information.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Field of view (FOV)

Ultrawide FOV fix

In Ultrawide resolutions the FOV slider in-game has a minimum value of 140. This causes a bad case of the 'fish eye' effect and causes several important HUD elements to not display properly, if at all. Change the game resolution to a 16:9 resolution. Save the settings and exit the game. Restart the game. The FOV slider will now allow you to change the FOV below 140, up to a maximum of 95. Apply the change in FOV, then change back to your desired resolution and save. Once back in Ultra-wide, changing the FOV slider will cause it to revert to a minimum of 140

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		UI key bindings can be changed
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Sensitivity level and curves can be customized
Controller Y-axis inversion		Axis actions can be inverted individually

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Generic/other controllers		Support for Joysticks/HOTAS
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Mouse, keyboard, gamepad and other controllers can be combined

Default Bindings

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  Keyboard - On-Foot

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  Keyboard - Flight

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  Controller - On-Foot

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  Controller - Flight

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  Joystick/HOTAS

Audio

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sound effects, Music, Speech, Ship Computer Speech, Simulation Announcer
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		100

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Dedicated

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	8000 - 8020
UDP	64090 - 64110

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

VR support

3D modes	Native	Notes
vorpX		2D Game is currently not on official list, but listed on vorpx local profile factory list.
Devices	Native	Notes
TrackIR		Supports: Yaw, Pitch, roll, X, Y, Z.
Tobii Eye Tracking		Added in patch 3.12

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Audiokinetic Wwise	Some modifications made to format
Cutscenes	Bink Video	2.6c
Anti-cheat	Easy Anti-Cheat	Often corrupts between patches, if errors are encountered delete the EAC folder and reverify.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	8.1 / Windows 10 (Latest Service Pack)	10 (Latest Service Pack)
Processor (CPU)	Quad Core CPU - Intel: Sandy Bridge or later, AMD: Bulldozer or later	Quad Core Intel Core i7-4770K
System memory (RAM)	16 GB	16+ GB DDR4
Hard disk drive (HDD)	80 GB	80 GB SSD
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon HD7970 Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 3 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	AMD Radeon R9 390 Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4 GB of VRAM

These are estimated system requirements and may change for the final release of the game.

The Public Telemetry can be used to get a more accurate representation of system performance.

As of patch 3.11, Star Citizen requires a computer with the ability to run AVX instructions.

As of patch 3.17, Star Citizen requires DirectX 11.1 compatible graphics cards to run.