Star Wars: Squadrons PC Performance Review and Optimisation Guide

CPU Performance – Core Scaling – More Cores = Better
  
When it comes to CPU performance, Star Wars: Squadrons doesn’t ask for much. In most situations, our Ryzen 9 3950X was able to maintain framerates of over 200 FPS at 1080p under most circumstances, and even our quad-core Ryzen configuration boasted the same feat. 

As a game that targets 60 FPS framerates on consoles and supports both PSVR, SteamVR and Oculus VR platforms, Star Wars Squadrons is a game that was designed to run at high framerates, and as such the game can operate at high framerates on any modern gaming systems with a quad-core processor.

While Squadrons can run well on quad-core systems, it is worth noting that higher core/thread counts do increase the 1st percentile and 5th percentile framerates in our CPU testing sequence. Even our 12-core Zen 2 setup offers us a notable performance boost over our 8-core setup. Not bad for a DirectX 11 title. 

If you want to play Star Wars Squadrons at high framerates, you will need a system with a relatively new quad-core processor or better. 60 FPS will be an easy performance target to reach for any modern gaming CPU. Those with 144Hz screens will be best served with an SMT enabled quad-core or a 6-core processor.