Turn off dust

[War Eagle 1]

So we all know about this dust affect caused by engines near the ground. However when I use VTOL's they cause my games FPS to slow way down. Is there a way to turn off dust affects?

Edit: It is the Surface FX option that fixes this? If so I click on it, restart KSP, but it is still set to true.

Oh and I'm on Macbook but figured I would get a faster response with windows

Edited September 17, 2015 by War Eagle 1

[sal_vager]

Actually the OSX tags are just as valid as any other, but misreporting will confuse people trying to help.

It looks like SURFACE_FX = False in the settings.cfg is what you need, not sure why the settings screen option failed for you, there is a bug with settings being reset if a bound controller is not attached when KSP is started though, that may be why you lost the setting.

Changing the settings.cfg changes it in the settings screen as well and it persists across restarts, and I didn't have any ground smoke effect with it disabled.

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Hope this helps

[War Eagle 1]

Actually the OSX tags are just as valid as any other, but misreporting will confuse people trying to help.

It looks like SURFACE_FX = False in the settings.cfg is what you need, not sure why the settings screen option failed for you, there is a bug with settings being reset if a bound controller is not attached when KSP is started though, that may be why you lost the setting.

Changing the settings.cfg changes it in the settings screen as well and it persists across restarts, and I didn't have any ground smoke effect with it disabled.

http://imgur.com/a/uTa9n

Hope this helps

It does. However I need to find a program that will let me change the cfg. File. Any known programs for Mac that do that?

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

It does. However I need to find a program that will let me change the cfg. File. Any known programs for Mac that do that?

A .cfg is just a .txt file, just open it in notepad or the mac equivalent.

[Whovian]

It does. However I need to find a program that will let me change the cfg. File. Any known programs for Mac that do that?

Just right-click it, hit "open with," and select TextEdit. Use TextEdit's "find" feature if it's too daunting a file to poke through.

[War Eagle 1]

I ll give it a try.

Sorry for setting it as wndows instead of OSX. It just seems every time I have a question and set it as OSX I'm ignored like the plague

Edit: HOLY CRAP THAT DID IT!!! That was my first time editing coding like that so I'm really proud of myself. Thank you all for the help. Very Much appreciated

Edited September 17, 2015 by War Eagle 1

[sal_vager]

Don't worry about it, though I'm not an OSX user so if I can't help with an issue on OSX I'd rather not post, I'd just be confusing rather than helping.