Make Star Citizen High Priority for the CPU Press the windows key and type registry editor, the right click and run as administrator Open up HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SOFTWARE, MIcrosoft, WindowsNT, CurrentVersion, Image File Execution Options # Right Click Image File Execution Options and select New, Key (this make a new folder appear, name this folder this exactly - StarCitizen.exe) Right Click the new StarCitizen.exe folder and select New, Key (Rename this new folder - PerfOptions) Right Click the new PerfOptions folder and select New, DWORD (32.bit) Value which will create a new value on the right of the screen. Rename this new Value - CpuPriorityClass, Double click it and under value data change the value to 3 (make sure base is selected on hexadecimal) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Enable ultimate performance mode in windows: press the windows key and type powershell, right click and run as administrator paste this command and press enter: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 close windows powershell, press the windows key again and type power, open up power and sleep settings Select Additional power settings on the right, and choose 'Ultimate Performance' ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Creating your USER.cfg File Open notepad and past the codes below into it: r_displayinfo = 2 Con_Restricted = 0 sys_maxfps = 120 sys_maxIdleFps = 120 q_ShaderCompute = 3 q_ShaderFX = 3 q_ShaderGeneral = 3 q_ShaderGlass = 3 q_ShaderPostProcess = 3 q_ShaderShadow = 2 q_ShaderWater = 1 q_ShaderParticle = 2 q_ShaderDecal = 3 q_ShaderHDR = 2 q_ShaderIce = 3 q_ShaderMetal = 2 q_ShaderSky = 1 q_ShaderTerrain = 3 q_ShaderVegetation = 2 r_ssdo = 2 e_GsmCache 1 r_ssao = 0 e_LodRatio = 6 r_AntialiasingMode = 2 r_ColorGrading = 0 r_DetailDistance = 7 r_OpticsQuality = 2 w_planetsideScatterLevelDist = 1000 r_SSReflections = 0 e_SkyUpdateRate = 0 e_ParticlesMaxScreenFill = 100 e_ParticlesObjectCollisions = 1 e_ParticlesQuality = 1 Save the file as USER.cfg (rename it to cfg by choosing file type as all) and place it in the LIVE folder within your game installation folder (C, Program Files, Roberts Space Industries, Star Citizen, LIVE) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ In game settings Set all settings in game to High/Very High. Turn off motion blur, Film Grain and chromatic aberration. If you have a Nvidia GPU set the shader cache in 3d settings to on with a minimum of 10gb. Enable Fast Sync and triple Buffering (usually done in Nvidia Settings) Install Process Lasso Right Click StarCitizen.exe from process, cpu priority = High Right Click StarCitizen.exe, cpu affinity, turn off either SMT or Hypertheading Right Click StarCitizen.exe, cpu affinity, click top option and turn off CPU 0 core and save.