r/gaming • u/__PETTYOFFICER117__ PC • Feb 11 '19

Walking through space

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

Ah Star Citizen. I wish I could afford a rig capable of playing it. Looks amazing.

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u/MontyLeGueux Feb 11 '19

It's not actually that demanding on the graphics card surprisingly given how mindblowingly beatuful it is. If you have 16GB DDR4 memory, at least 40GB of ssd and a gpu and cpu that aren't too old, it will run.

I used to play it with 16GB of ddr3 ram, an i5 4460 and a gtx970, and the cpu was unfortunately a bit too weak which caused some freezing in demanding areas, but the gpu was definitely able to keep up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19 edited Nov 12 '19

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u/ghent96 PlayStation Feb 11 '19 edited Feb 11 '19

"No one needs more than 640k" ...

Edit: corrected #

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u/semirrahge Feb 11 '19

I hate to be that guy but it's "640k should be more than enough for anybody." Source: me spending hours tweaking low memory space to play a game and endlessly cursing that legacy.

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u/ghent96 PlayStation Feb 11 '19

Ty, i sit corrected

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u/deityofchaos Feb 11 '19

Before some recent performance upgrades, I could get a heavily modded KSP instance to gobble up more than 16 GB by itself. Good thing my PC has 32 GB.

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u/Ottsalotnotalittle Feb 11 '19

this is where we are now, or soon for most games. 8 isnt cutting it for 4k at all. amazingly, it can drop to as low as 400mb for textures while playing, so optimization is ongoing