Not Using These Settings Limits You In Star Citizen (Best 4.0 Settings)

[@JohnathanWinters]

Forgot to mention one important thing about Defaults Weapons- Magnified UI On at 3:47. You actually want that setting Off. It makes the pip bigger which gives you a false sense of accuracy. Set Defaults Weapons- Magnified UI Off, for better accuracy.

[@aronmangaming]

JW officially back! Love that you've been posting again, was missing your educational videos!

[@BobWobbles]

I've finally learned what Gravity compensation does !! I've been flying decoupled in Atmo with it turned off and don't actually mind it when not in combat but now that I know what it does I'll turn it back on. One less thing to worry about when fighting is fine by me. Thanks for the info.

[@roshallock5747]

Love your vids as always. Also appreciate you responding to comments and no baggage (complaining about MM) in your tutorial vids. Your tutorials are required viewing for my Corps' rookie pilots.

[@asiftalpur3758]

your cinematography is like, seriously amazing.

[@kevinfink280]

I found this video last night and went to work on it today. I followed your settings exactly and I have to say that the graphics look just as good to me as well I had mostly defaults. With the old settings I was usually hovering around 30fps but after your changes, I’m running around 50-60fps. THANK YOU!!!!!

[@JohnathanWinters]

Big jump man, glad it helped!

[@kevinfink280]

@ I’m watching all your videos now. This one was an absolutely huge step up for me. And I’m running a 4 years old AMD processor and a 2080xt video card.

[@Bones1877]

You have been smashing it JW. Keep it up

[@FreeFragUK]

Coming back after having not played for a while this video was a big help. Now I just need to wrestle with the control configuration.

[@mikecich]

@@FreeFragUK o7 I think I saw you last night in free flight

[@VegaMcGrath]

Good to see you and a couple others like Vergil back. You peeps make a difference, few folks have the knowledge + the didactics AND willingness to do what you dudes do.

[@essentialasa]

In my experience the speed limiter is basically manually set now. You set the speed maximum (apparently by percentage) and it keeps that level across all modes. Very useful when you dont have analog speed control.

[@_ZenMF]

Thanks for the content

[@Korvorkian1]

Awww yeah been looking forward to this

[@deadfrag658]

Holy! Another JW video drop.

[@ShinigamiZone]

I was not aware that you can set defaults, thx a lot

[@schrottiyhd6776]

Screen space shadows, is a bit ambiguous, they can be both or one of screen space Ambient occlusion, or screen space contact shadows, which internally are computed similarly, and can be combined in one render pass, but visually they are different and complement each other, star citizen uses both afaik, but i have not tested which of both exactly the setting affects

[@tonewisecartridges4689]

Hey! Amazing video. Do you have one that focuses on the HOSAS settings that you prefer to use?

[@Hugh-Janis-EMP]

Welcome back John missed your content

[@thorraven1429]

Gravity compensation also affects you in coupled mode. Just a small correction 😊

[@mikecich]

My b for the BM on the free flight brotha. Heres a sub

[@JohnathanWinters]

Mikkkkeee, it's all good man, game can get frustrating.

[@AW-po7jr]

Amazing, thank you very much!

[@dalarast]

Pico be praised!

[@j.d.4697]

BTW "Decoupled On" needs to be set to Yes if you want decoupled off by default because they reversed it.

[@bobbynova7417]

I don't understand what's up with my UI. Instead of seeing what you're showing, I'm seeing all these options as bizarre strings like "@pause_options_flight_options_gsafe_disabled_by_boost." That's just one example. A bunch of my options are formatted like that. What gives? Makes it really hard to follow you sometimes as they are sometimes quite different from what I see in your video. Something must be corrupted on my end. Also, I don't even have the 4 options you mention at 2:36 (the HUD options).

[@alexbarber9885]

@@bobbynova7417 I have the same issue, idk what's up

[@bobbynova7417]

@@alexbarber9885 I submitted an IC ticket for it, but no one's upvoted it, so it'll probably just be archived. It'll probably get fixed with the rollout of 4.0

[@SandmanJr90]

Hey, did I miss another settings video or did the title change, or am I tripping?

[@Power5]

Very good video explaining what the settings do. Curious to know your Gamma, Brightness, Contrast settings as well. Looked like you just had everything at 50/50/50. With clouds, I notice a lot of pixelation, black dots in the clouds at anything below very high. I run a 4070s so I am still above 60fps in places like Bloom even at 1440p. I am not sure what is causing the black static noise in the clouds though. I see a lot of odd artifacting in shadows as well though and have those on very high. Still not sure what the water regions does though. Also not sure what screen space shadows refers to.

[@JohnathanWinters]

For screen space shadow just look up ssao. The cloud pixelation is just an issue with how cig makes clouds. Unless you use photo mode you'll always have some pixelation. Correct on my color setup. My game looks better the average though since I use reshade to dial in my colors.

[@FrazzleCat]

Thanks, appreciate the info.

[@Maglouk]

lead/Lag pip is personal preference? or is one objectively better atm?

[@JohnathanWinters]

Lead is Better, easier to predict and control. Lag is better for shooting at big ships.

[@operator9858]

And i used to try and fly either in decoupled or not decoupled but now? I toggle it on and off manually all the time for both technical turns im trying to slow for and reducing my speed from high scm. Seems to work pretty well.

[@StrikerWolf91]

What is E.S.P. (Acronym)?

[@vanguardgaming704]

You doing any live streams yet? As always, great informational video.

[@JohnathanWinters]

Soon TM

[@BKilouco]

Planet Volumetric Clouds to best quality of the clouds you need to put on "Photo Mode"

[@RhondaFizzleflint]

The SC options menu is in dire need of useful tooltips for all the available settings.

[@UltimateAssetoRaces]

When referring to scattered object distance what do you mean by "random objects"?

[@JohnathanWinters]

Buckets, Fences, Poles, things like that. Anything that is considered "Scatter."

[@UltimateAssetoRaces]

@ it improves performance a good amount or bad by removing this?

[@JohnathanWinters]

@UltimateAssetoRaces Less Items at a distance = More performance, how much depends on your specs. But everyone would gain FPS from this.

[@Limestoneredneck]

V-sync actually lowers your CPU usage in Star citizen I have tested it and I went from 80% CPU usage when v-sync is off to 30% CPU usage when v-sync is on

[@LongusDongus03]

@@Limestoneredneck sure thats not just because of your fps being capped to 60?

[@operator9858]

Is this finally saving? Everything was resorting to default all the time when the patch came out :(

[@TANIL-X]

Is that possible to share tobii settings??

[@JohnathanWinters]

@@TANIL-X I have them in the discord

[@TANIL-X]

@@JohnathanWinters but those settings from 2022 didn't you change anything?

[@RicoZaid_]

the screen at the end for settings: scrolling too fast to see or screen capture and their are video links blocking the settings :(

[@JohnathanWinters]

Pause the video and or lower the playbackspeed =P Fixed the links though.

[@8-bitbenzu529]

What does the decoupling do?

[@majboomer1285]

Coupled vs. Decoupled. When in coupled flight mode your ship automatically uses thrusters to keep your position and momentum in check. The biggest thing you will notice is that when you apply forward throttle and then let off of forward, coupled will bring your ship to a stop automatically, in Decoupled mode it will keep moving until you manually apply reverse throttle to counter the forward momentum. This applies to all of your strafe and thruster inputs as well. I fly coupled when landing, taking off or where precision is needed, decoupled for combat and cruising. Both have their pluses and minuses in different situations.

[@gmr2510]

I know a lot of people are reporting much improved fps in game since 4.0 preview but i am having the opposite experience. I have a ASUS 4090 TUF 24gb, Intel 14700k, 32GB of corsair Dominator 7200mhz and I have it on a Samsung EVO gen 4 SSD and I am not experiencing the FPS I expect from my rig. If I am flying around Bloom or most planets surface I can barely push past 30fps. and In game in my cockpit I can barely get 40-70

[@warren3174]

Thank you.

[@seraph8672]

What do you mean don't use space brake in combat? maybe in Fighters.... But in anything Connie size or larger, space brake with boost is CRITICAL to landing shots on smaller ships, and getting to correct combat speed when gliding into a mission area hot out of decoupled Nav mode at close range. I'm with you on everything else though.

[@JohnathanWinters]

You def don't want to space break on a big ship the more you slow yourself the easier it is to close on you. You can steady your shot with a big ship by just pushing the pip away.

[@seraph8672]

@@JohnathanWinters I feel you on that, but in a connie vs a smaller ship you are not in any position to rely on your energy to get a shot, you need to force the opponent to overshoot into your firing arc. There is no point in trying to keep speed up when you are already so handicapped for speed to start with, we're not winning any rate fights in connies lol.

[@JohnathanWinters]

@@seraph8672 I'd Have to see a specific scenario. Space break wouldn't necessarily make them overshoot into your crosshair. It could have the opposite effect depending on what they are doing. You might benefit more by playing lag pip and using your strafes to push the pip to where you want it with strafes.

[@Velthus]

@JohnathanWinters My guess is what he should be doing is boosting, going decoupled (if you weren't already), face in their general direction with gimbal mode on and mouse aim them down. Once you slam people into the speed wall it's harder for them to get around you and multiple size 4's and 5's even with the RoF nerf is going to hurt a LF. Against skilled pilots it's less likely you can pull that off since once a fighter is on you, you'll never be able to out rate it even with the gimbal benefit.

[@seraph8672]

@@Velthus So generally that is what you would do. You 'best bet" in the connie is go decoupled, and gimballed and try to turn the whole ship into a turret. The problem is there is a massive geometry problem with the current flight model which makes it far too easy for smaller ships to straight up dodge the projectiles from size 5s out past 500 meters and you do not have the speed to keep the smaller ship within 500 meters. So you need to bait them into going on a full burn orbit around you and as they swing around behind you you change your rotation direction and hope to catch them while they are reversing to continue to evade. This will be your only chance for them to be moving slow enough to land some shots and the space brake boosted is very much going to help you do it. And even if you DO manage to catch them unaware and get them to orbit right into your LoS a small ships rate of acceleration means it can cover usually two to 3 of its own hull length in the time it takes your projectiles to reach their position so you need to lead the shot even more than your pips are telling you to. The actual right answer is just put scatter guns on your turrets and don't fly alone lol.

[@StrikeTeam23]

>playing star citizen in 2025 >playing star citizen at all

[@Rift_131]

Having an explanation for what the setting does separates this guide from a lot of others out there. Well done, sir! 🫡

[@raymondape]

I cannot for the life me understand what you said to set the upscaling resolution to.. it sounds like "wanted"

[@raymondape]

Ok.. I get it.. you did say wanted.. as it's user choice.

[@JohnathanWinters]

Haha

[@raymondape]

@@JohnathanWinters "laugh it up, fuzzball." -Han Solo

[@DaringDan]

What are the best settings if I'm having a repeat of 3.18 in a 4.0 that is 6 years late and still not technically here yet?

[@karmabad6287]

@@DaringDan alt f4

[@UncleBenjs]

Noice

[@j.d.4697]

DLSS does nothing for me on my 3070.

[@JohnathanWinters]

That means your bottle neck is not gpu

[@j.d.4697]

@@JohnathanWinters What would it be? My 5800x3d? I doubt that...

[@j.d.4697]

@@JohnathanWinters I wonder if it's just bugged for me because I tried all settings for it but never noticed the blurred text you mentioned. In fact I kind of have to squint to notice a difference.

[@JohnathanWinters]

@j.d.4697 You have to select the upscaling amount. Right above it.

[@j.d.4697]

@@JohnathanWinters Like I said I tried all the settings, from quality to auto.

[@V1king92]

O7

[@LOoNyTOoN1336]

o7

[@jonnycosta8304]

they need to work on basic stuff like getting trapped in various places in game. I mean come on load a ship up with cargo then you are trapped inside that ship., basic testing 101

[@slickdiggler1197]

I find it hilarious that these videos are coming out while most people can’t even play long enough to get ship out of hangar before server error or black screen. I tried all day yesterday to get off of crusader and it’s was to no avail. I’ll make sure to worry about my graphic settings though lol

[@CalabiYau-s7f]

If you're new don't buy star citizen, it's a griefers paradise that's void of content and buggy as hell.

[@setheus907]

Just don't play 4.0. Itd buggy to the point its almost unplayable

[@Ickli]

@@setheus907 except the performance/fps is WAY better than 3.24

[@AreaTera]

Background Music - Please keep it little low - I am more into hearing what you have said - rather than focusing on wow how soothing the music is. in the end - ITS KNOWLEDGE