Totally embarrassed

[Boba Kerman Fett]

Hey there.  I DONT KNOW SHOOT ABOUT COMPUTERS...having said that I became hooked on this game through PS4. What a disaster! Im current looking for a computer to just play this game. Please can anyone tell me if these specs will be good enough to run KSP.

Thanks in advance. 

System: AMD FX-4300 3.80GHZ Quad-Core | AMD 760G Chipset | 8GB DDR3 | 1TB HDD | Genuine Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB Video Card | 24X DVD±RW Dual-Layer Drive | Audio: 7.1 Channel | Gigabit LAN | Keyboard and Mouse

Connectivity: 6x USB 2.0 | 1x RJ-45 Network Ethernet 10/100/1000 | Audio | 1x HDMI | 1x DVI | 1x VGA

[Guest]

From the KSP store:

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Recommended System Specs:
* 2.0Ghz Dual Core CPU or higher (preferably higher)
* 4GB RAM
* 512MB Video Card, Shader Model 3.0
* 4GB Free HD space
* Windows Vista, 7, 8 or 10
* An Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.8 or higher
* A Debian based Linux distro
* Chromebooks are NOT SUPPORTED

 

[legoclone09]

Personally, I'd look on PC Part Picker at some of the build guides they have there. Personally, I run an Intel i5 4760k, 8GB DDR3 RAM, and a GTX 760 w/ 4GB DDR5 vRAM. It runs great with lots of visual mods.

[Kerbal101]

The machine you listed will do just nicely sir.
FX-43xx is reasonably fast quad-module cpu (but might also look at i3-3220 as a better alternative for about same money though) the video card is somewhat weak - I suggest either RX 470 (or half weaker RX 460) from AMD cards, or GTX 1060 (or half weaker GTX 960).
Also I would make sure that Power Supply is not a "no-name" one, but one of Corsair, FSP, Seasonic, Cooler Master, Enermax or similar.

I prefer Debian Linux (SolydK) , but Windows might do fine.

Edited September 16, 2016 by Kerbal101

[ZooNamedGames]

Criminey your machine makes mine look like a TI-83 calculator!

[Ultimate Steve]

34 minutes ago, ZooNamedGames said:

Criminey your machine makes mine look like a TI-83 calculator!

 

Hmm. This might actually work.

[ZooNamedGames]

1 minute ago, Ultimate Steve said:

 

Hmm. This might actually work.

I want that calculator.

[sal_vager]

I'll just leave this here...

But I will recommend that if you can, try KSP on a memory stick on the computer you want to buy

[MachTurtle]

21 hours ago, Ultimate Steve said:

 

Hmm. This might actually work.

Does anyone else here remember keying a lunar lander game into their programmable calculator? I'm talking about one with numeric display only (I had an HP-33C) where you input a thrust setting and it calculates a new velocity, altitude, and remaining fuel. It was like a one-D KSP, though the sim speed was around 30 seconds per frame rather than 30 frames per second. I hadn't thought about that in 35 years!  Does that make me geezer?

I found the source code!

 

Edited September 30, 2016 by MachTurtle
Added historical source code and photo.

[Green Baron]

*sigh* rpn ... that reminds me of several versions of shooting oneself in the foot in various programming languages ... :-)

The PC-config is fine. If you plan to run Linux i'd take a nvidia graphics card. Windows.

 

Edited October 1, 2016 by Green Baron