There is no doubt that the Chris Roberts game is one of the most complex and technically demanding games in the PC landscape. Did you know there is a way to get more FPS in Star Citizen with an NVIDIA GPU? And no, it won’t require you to do weird things with your graphics card or anything like that. Want to know? Keep reading.
There’s no doubt that Star Citizen is one of the most demanding games out there and getting a high frame rate is difficult, while achieving it is very rewarding. The problem is that we are facing a game that has very high requirements in terms of RAM memory, so if your PC has less than 32 GB of RAM in the system, then what we are going to explain is not going to help you, in In any case, if what you are looking for is an excuse to have a PC with such a large amount of memory, then you already have the perfect excuse for it.
How to get more FPS in Star Citizen with an NVIDIA GPU?
One of the improvements that NVIDIA has made to its recent drivers is the ability to adjust the size of the shader cache to the size that best suits each application. Well it was discovered that if you go into the NVIDIA control panel and set the Shader Cache to 10GB, the performance of Star Citizen increases dramatically to the point of doubling the frame rate from 30 to 60 on average in the Game.
The only downside to this is that we need a large amount of RAM, as the shader cache will need 10 GB to be located in RAM when it is generated, it is recommended to use a 32 GB configuration of memory on our PC. Normally the Shader Cache usually does not cause problems, as the data is temporarily stored in RAM and overwritten as needed in-game, but on NVIDIA GPUs the management process seems to have issues in Star Citizen. In short, this means that the driver removes precompiled shaders while they are still generated. This forces them to have to be compiled continuously from the CPU, and thus lengthens the time per frame and therefore their frame rate per second.
It should be noted that the shader cache is shared by all the games we play, so if we are going to play several games in a single session, the newer ones will displace the information of the older ones. Also, its space fills up as we play a game for hours and hours.
What if my graphics card is from AMD?
Unfortunately, since the Radeon company does not allow its Catalyst drivers to change the size of the Shader Cache, we cannot get more FPS in Star Citizen as we can with NVIDIA. It should also be noted in passing that this only applies to NVIDIA graphics drivers that appeared from the second half of 2021 and to graphics cards that are compatible with them.
