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

Key points

Graphics options are limited to four presets.

General information

List of known bugs

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>\StarCitizen\Public\system.cfg[citation needed]
Linux

Additional settings can be placed in
<path-to-game>\StarCitizen\Public\user.cfg or
<path-to-game>\StarCitizen\LIVE\USER\game.cfg

User settings are stored in <path-to-game>\StarCitizen\Public\Data\game.cfg

Launcher settings are stored in <path-to-game>\Patcher\_TorrentSettings and <path-to-game>\StarCitizen\Public\loginData.json

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows
Linux

Video settings

Graphical settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution			Some resolutions not listed in-game; see 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		See Borderless fullscreen windowed.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Widescreen resolution

Set resolution[citation needed] Go to the user configuration location. Open game.cfg with your text editor of choice. Add the variables and modify the values with your desired resolution: r_Width = 1280 r_Height = 800

Field of view (FOV)

In Ultrawide resulutions 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.

To fix:

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.

Notes

Once back in Ultra-wide, changing the FOV slider will cause it to revert to a minimum of 140

Borderless fullscreen windowed

Enable Borderless/Fullscreen Window[citation needed] Go to the system configuration location. Open system.cfg with your text editor of choice. Add the command below and save. r_FullscreenWindow = 1 Set the in-game option "Fullscreen" to "No".

Input settings

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		sensivity level and curves can be customized
Controller Y-axis inversion		axis actions can be inverted individually

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

Audio settings

Audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
LAN play		Not currently available, but planned for final release.[citation needed]
Online play

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Peer-to-peer		Launcher uses P2P for downloading and updating the game (can be disabled). Game itself doesn't use P2P connections.
Dedicated		Currently CIG servers only.
Self-hosting		Not currently available, but planned for final release.
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	8000-8005
UDP	64090, 64092

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

Issues fixed

Unable to download manifest

Run as admin[citation needed] Right-click on the application and select Run as administrator.

No users logged in

Instructions[citation needed] Run the launcher and log in but do not launch it. Go to to <path-to-game>\CitizenClient\Bin64\ Right-click on StarCitizen.exe and select Run as administrator.

A newer version of Microsoft Visual 2010 has been installed during installation

Instructions[citation needed] Click close window red X in the upper right hand corner. The installation will continue.

VR support

3D modes	Native	Notes
vorpX		2D Officially supported game. Note:Game is currently not on official list, but listed on vorpx local profile factory list. Game has not confirmed to be 3D with vorpx yet.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11	Exclusive Vulkan usage is planned

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7 SP1 64-bit	10
Processor (CPU)	Quad Core Intel Core i5-1700	Quad Core Intel Core i7-4770K
System memory (RAM)	16 GB	16+ GB DDR4
Hard disk drive (HDD)	60 GB	60 GB SSD
Video card (GPU)	AMD Radeon HD7970 Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2 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.

Minimum System Requirements for Star Citizen, as of June 28, 2020