Star Citizen 8GB Requirement Won't Change "Any Time Soon"; DX10 Support Unlikely

Star Citizen 8GB Requirement Won't Change "Any Time Soon"; DX10 Support Unlikely
[Nov 14, 2014, 10:34 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

The last we recall hearing about system requirements for Star Citizen was a couple of years ago when Cloud Imperium said their space combat game would probably share system requirements with the CryENGINE upon which it is built. A subsequent form post outlined steeper system requirements, including an 8GB RAM minimum, for the game's Dogfighting Module, but also warned that these were "not final." DSOGaming recently spoke with Sean Tracy, Engine Technical Director at Cloud Imperium Games, and promise they will post their full interview soon. In the meantime, they share his indication that system requirements like that RAM minimum will not be lowered "any time soon," and that Star Citizen will probably not support DirectX 10 graphics cards. Here's his answer when asked if the game will run on systems with less than 8 GB of RAM:

"Likely not. We are creating this game with the PC gamer in mind. Of course performance will be optimized much further than our current version of Arena Commander but I wouldn’t expect that we would drop the system requirements any time soon. Additionally on the Direct X 10 front, as almost every engine/rendering we’d like to put in relies heavily on DX11 and even DX12 or Mantle I can’t see DX10 cards even existing much longer. It’s difficult to say, but I don’t expect that the majority of gamers would even have DX10 cards anymore and so for us to continue support it wouldn’t make sense."

View : : :

Post Comment

Search Log In

Search Log In Post Comment

50.

Re: Star Citizen 8GB Requirement Won't Change
Nov 15, 2014, 20:23

Bundy

50.

Re: Star Citizen 8GB Requirement Won't Change Nov 15, 2014, 20:23

Nov 15, 2014, 20:23

Bundy

Flatline wrote on Nov 14, 2014, 17:19:
InBlack wrote on Nov 14, 2014, 16:35:
SpectralMeat wrote on Nov 14, 2014, 12:57:
Creston wrote on Nov 14, 2014, 12:39:
Aw shit. Here. 256TB RAM, a core i19@5.3Ghz and a GTXMegaForceSupreme99990Ti.

Well the good news is you will not need specs like that to play the other space game that is due out in a month
and instead of a digital cigar or hair comb they are giving all beta testers an additional free ship (your choice of the 5 new ships) as a thank you for the support.
Oh yeah and there will be 5 more ships in the final game than what was promised in the kickstarter

Looking forward to it. Probably a day one buy. I didnt opt in the beta as Im still lacking a proper TrackIR (it's on the way yay!) but I will definitely purchase Elite Dangerous as soon as it goes 'live'. I realise the game is kind of barebones but it will be a nice change of pace from DCS which is what Ill be playing 'full time'.

Ah you already ordered it. I was going to tell you to google EDTracker. Assembled it's about 50 bucks, if you buy the pieces on their own, figure about 30 bucks plus some soldering. It basically uses similar bits to the Occulus Rift to do accellerometer based head tracking and works really well for X/Y plane tracking (Z plane isn't doable with the chipsets involved apparently).

If you don't have TrackIR it's a good option.