Some great tips and material for improving the way the game performs.
For those who want information by youtube:
For those who like a read:
And the TLDR:
Settings Recommendations
Make sure you've installed Star Citizen on SSD, ideally M.2
If you haven't do this now!
Increase Shader Cache For GeForce users go to NVIDIA Control Panel
Manage 3D Settings
Shader Cache Size.
Change to 10GB
Create a pagefile
Open start menu type advanced
Select View Advanced System Settings
Under Advanced Performance click Settings
Click Advanced, at the bottom Virtual Memory click Change
Unclick automatically manage
Click Custom Size -Input 16000 or 32000 (depending on SSD space free)
Set. Ok. Apply.
In Game Options
Game Settings
G-Force Induced Head Movement, Global Camera Shake set to 0
Graphics
Window mode Borderless
Quality set to High or Very High (Medium and Low put all the load onto the CPU, don't use them!)
Scattered Object Distance Medium
Terrain Tesselation Distance Medium
Planet Volumetric Clouds Medium or Off
Turn off Motion Blur
Sharpening 60-100
Chromatic Aberration 0
Turn Off Film Grain
In conjunction with the videos above and if you are feeling brave you can make a more lightweight build of windows 10/11 by following this guide to 32 windows services you can deactivate safely. Not only can it help frames in star citizen but also gets rid of some of the bloat in windows 10/11 What Windows 11 Services to Disable Safely and How? (nerdschalk.com)