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PCSystem Requirements

STAR CITIZEN

StarengineWindows 11SSD

Release Date

TBA

Publisher

Cloud Imperium Games

Engine

Starengine

Graphics API

DirectX 12 / 11.1

OFFICIAL PC SPEC GUIDE

STAR CITIZEN SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Star Citizen is an ambitious and still-evolving space sim that mixes ship interiors, first-person action, trading, dogfights, and large-scale simulation goals inside one persistent universe. It is as much a technical experiment as a finished traditional game.

Its biggest attraction is ambition itself: an attempt to make spaceflight, trading, combat, and planetary travel feel part of one enormous, tangible fiction. For some players the unfinished edges are a dealbreaker; for others they are the price of getting to inhabit a sci-fi sandbox that aims far beyond a traditional boxed campaign.
16 GBMinimum RAM
32 GBRecommended RAM
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Steam Requirement Tiers

Steam provides minimum and recommended PC requirement tiers.

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Windows Listing

Official OS listing: Windows 10 64-bit.

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API Support

Official DirectX listing: DirectX 12 / 11.1.

System Requirements

Specs sourced from Roberts Space Industries' official launcher/support requirements snippet. The live support site is protected behind anti-bot checks, so only the directly surfaced first-party requirements were used.

MMinimum
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Minimum System Requirements

Official RSI launcher minimum tier

CPUQuad Core CPU
GPUDirectX 11.1 graphics card with 4 GB RAM
RAM16 GB+
OSWindows 10 Anniversary Update (64-bit)
StorageSSD strongly recommended
NotesAVX instructions required
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Recommended System Requirements

Official RSI launcher recommended tier

CPUEight Core CPU
GPUDirectX 12 graphics card with 8 GB RAM
RAM32 GB+
OSWindows 11
StorageSSD
NotesLatest graphics card drivers recommended

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