Stutter on launch - Clean KSP install with RS&RO

[sjsninetrys]

Hi,

This is my first post here, been googling for a solution for ages and cant seem to find the exact problem.. Ive installed a clean version of KSP to play with RO and RS. The problem Im having is during launch of any rocket, big or small, i get a stutter ever second or so.. This isnt like the lag that you normally get with larger rockets, its more like a clockwork stutter every second, maybe more like a physics issue?

I did some trouble shooting and i think ive routed the problem to RealPlume, when i remove this part of RO the effect has gone.

Ive never had performance issues before, even with my heavily modded main version of the game.. Anyone else had this issue? Ive checked on youtube and others seem to run RO/RS fine..

Im running:

MacBook Pro OSX Lion

2.6 GHz Intel i7

8GB 1600 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB

KSP 1.0.4

with:

RO

RS (Smallest Textures)

Procedural parts/fairings (Non procedural parts deleted)

ATM

KWRocketry

Mechjeb

And all required supporting mods for RO and RS.

Cheers!

[sjsninetrys]

Partially solved by removing all of the 'Smoke' elements from RealPlume. Not a fantastic improvement but noticeable. Maybe this is a performance issue.

Could anyone give me an idea of the 'Ideal' specs for running RO and RS?

Thankyou

[NathanKell]

Smokescreen has some serious performance issues right now. When Sarbian has a chance hopefully he can improve it a good amount.

As for the ideal specs, there really aren't any, other than moar CPU >.> (and a godly nvidia GPU on linux x64)