How To Uninstall Star Citizen (and Save Your Custom Files)

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Remove Star Citizen and the RSI Launcher from your system
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Uninstalling Star Citizen can be especially helpful if it has stopped running unexpectedly for you, or if you are trying to troubleshoot a variety of other game-related issues. No matter your reason for uninstalling Star Citizen, this wikiHow has you covered. Follow along as we guide you through uninstalling Star Citizen, helping you to remove all files in their entirety, or save your custom files for later use.

Things You Should Know

  • Save your custom files before deleting Star Citizen by navigating to (install drive)\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\StarCitizen\LIVE\USER\Controls\Mappings and copying your desired files to a new folder on your desktop.
  • To fully delete Star Citizen from your system, you must remove the rsilauncher folder, the StarCitizen folder, and the Roberts Space Industries folder.
  • Uninstalling and reinstalling Star Citizen is the best course of action when the game continues to crash unexpectedly on you.
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Part 1 of 3:

Save Custom Files

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    Before uninstalling Star Citizen, you may want to save any custom settings, controls, or configurations you had set up previously for the game. This allows you to access them if you ever decide to reinstall the game. Start by creating an easily accessible folder on your computer.
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    Open a separate File Explorer tab and find your saved custom files in Star Citizen's Mappings folder.
    • Your Mappings folder should be found at: (install drive)\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\StarCitizen\LIVE\USER\Controls\Mappings . [1]
      • You likely set an install drive when you first downloaded Star Citizen. If you did not change the install drive, the game likely defaulted to your "C:" drive.
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    to the newly created folder. Highlight all the custom files you want to save for future use, and copy them to the folder you created earlier. These will all be removed when you uninstall the game and the RSI launcher, but now they can easily be restored if you ever decide to play Star Citizen again.
    • Note that any saved configuration files will use the .cfg file name.
      • If you created your own .cfg file at any point, it will instead be saved at: (install drive)\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\StarCitizen\LIVE\ .
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Part 2
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Uninstall Game and Launcher

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    Using the Run client is the quickest way for us to navigate to the folder where our RSI Launcher data is located.
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    This opens Users\CurrentProfile\Appdata\Roaming .
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    You can delete the full folder, as we are trying to remove Star Citizen and all of its associated files from our system.
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    Now we need to delete the Star Citizen game itself.
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    This opens "Users\CurrentProfile\Appdata\Local".
    • Note that we are navigating to the local app data this time, as opposed to the roaming folder.
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    Be sure to delete the entire folder, ensuring we have removed Star Citizen entirely from our system.
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    This folder should be the last bit of saved data for Star Citizen on our computer.
    • You likely set an install drive when you first downloaded Star Citizen. If you did not change the install drive, the game likely defaulted to your "C:" drive.
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    Star Citizen includes several large files, and they will continue to take up space until they are completely removed from your system. Empty your Trash/Recycle Bin to truly delete the files from your system and open up that space for other games and apps!
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Troubleshooting

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    If Star Citizen keeps crashing for you unexpectedly, uninstalling the game using the steps above is your best bet. Then, you can reinstall a fresh copy of the game and get back to exploring all that space has to offer!
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    If uninstalling and reinstalling the game does not fix your issues with Star Citizen, make sure your computer has enough RAM to run the game. Star Citizen is a very demanding game, so it requires 16GB of RAM at the very least (and likely even more to be on the safe side).
    • Check to see if Star Citizen is chewing up too much of your RAM by navigating to: (install drive)\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries\StarCitizen\LIVE\logs/trace .
      • Check the logs within this "trace" folder and examine the "Is out of system memory" prompt. If it says "Yes", then Star Citizen cannot handle the amount of RAM on your computer. [2]
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      References

      1. ↑ https://support.robertsspaceindustries.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000161747-Troubleshoot-the-RSI-Launcher
      2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/wy0a1u/star_citizen_has_stopped_running_unexpectedly/

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