can a 1050 ti play star citizen that is the question for today over the last few weeks
we've been a bit of a series trying to find out the low end spec the real minimum respect for
the game we've tried different cpus and today it's the turn of the 1050 ti i'm hopeful that
this will be what we've been looking for because spending much more money than this will be bad so
without further ado let's get into the benchmarks so here we go into space with the 1050 ti and
you can see that with the 5900x you are not bottlenecked in any way uh at 720p it's nearly
matching the 3080 you can see then when you pop it into the i5 system it does drop considerably
and then also drops again when you actually up it to 1080p so interesting results they're pretty
good if you're averaging 50 you'd be pretty happy but unfortunately it doesn't stay this positive
looking at art cop and you see quite consistent results here between the i5 and the 5900x
both at 720p and at 1080p which is basically confirming that we are gpu bottlenecks at this
point so they're pretty decent results again at 1080p you'd be pretty happy if you could play
the game all the time at 35 fps lying in bed in everest harbor there's a big difference between
the 5900x and the i5 but actually the 1080p results are fine here in either case whether
you're a bit cpu bottlenecked by the i5 or you're on the 1500x both those frames they're pretty good
louisville always throws up some interesting results and you can see the clear scaling
between the i5 and the 5900x the 5900x is doing a much better job than the i5 so
we'll ignore the i5 results for this one and really the 1050i shows quite a big difference
between 720p and 1080p which is showing that it is really being pushed and there are parts of this
run that are quite gpu intensive on the train for instance and it's borderline playable area 18 the
plaza and the picture is becoming clearer at 720p we're getting a result that matches the 3080 but
when you up the 1050 ti to 1080p it almost halves and becomes barely playable so the picture is
becoming clear it's not doing particularly well at 1080p at all quantum travel one of the more
intensive parts of the game graphically and the picture again is the same 720p pretty decent 1080p
not so great it doesn't matter if you're on the 5900x or the i5 we're not cpu bottlenecked on this
test calliope's weather effects are probably the most gpu intensive part of the game that i can
find at least and again it's hammering everything here but really 720p at 25 fps is decent
the 1080p results not great at all wally's bar the last result and the worst result it's
not fun to play this game at 16 fps which is what you get at 1080p so there we have it the
results so can the 1050 ti run the game i'm gonna say no at least not at an acceptable resolution
for me 720p on at least on a big monitor it's a mess it's a real blurry mess it looks like
you're playing some sort of playstation or n64 game it's horrible knowing that star citizen
is such a beautiful game and that's what a lot of people have drawn into i don't think i could
recommend you dropping down 720p you'd lose so much of the experience so i don't think that's
good enough and that's a shame because it's cost 130 pounds this graphics card it's very popular
on the steam hardware list it's kind of just below the 1060 ti at 1060. and also it's so popular that
nvidia have just started reselling them making them again because they can't make enough of the
new gpus so it i was hopeful my hope was in this one i thought this was the chosen one turns out
it was not so where do we take this minimum spec pc series from here well the only real
option is to get another graphics card as much as my wife doesn't understand why i keep buying lots
of graphics cards we've got to try and find one that will play the game at 1080p i think that is
the mirror i don't think we can recommend anything lower than that so i've been on ebay i've actually
i've done what you shouldn't do i panicked i saw one that i thought was a good deal turns out it
wasn't good deal i paid 160 pounds for an rx 570 which if it's arrived by the time i put this video
out it might appear here but that is the next hope it's considerably quicker than the 1050 ti in most
benchmarks that i've looked at online so we'll hope that that will be the one the one that we can
recommend as the low end minimum spec gpu for star citizen so that will be next week but if you're
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