Max Ram usage with RP-1 ?

[John Sheppard]

Hi guys i'm running KPS 1.6 with the full RP-1 RSS RO etc package on a fairly low end cpu with 16 gigs of DDR4 which seems to not be enough for the game, if i disable the page file i get the windows 7 error message that it's out of ram after playing a while 
I'm gonna be buying another 16gigs to solve this issue and hoping it will be enough? Can someone with 32gigs or more say what's the max usage with no page/swap file? 

Also i noticed that RO and Kopernicus has been released for 1.7 (Great thanks to the developers of those awesome mods) so i'm assuming that RP-1 might work too (haven't tried it) . Is it worth switching over to ksp 1.7 from 1.6 perforamce wise? or should i just wait for when those mods get released for ksp 1.8 as there is allegedly significant performance improvements in that version?
 

Thanks

 

Edit : Also , stupid question but how does KSP end up eating 15 gigs of ram if the whole instalation folder is under 6 gigs? is it because the models etc are packed ? but wouldn't that go the GPU's ram?

[FreeThinker]

Make  sure you run in DirectX 11 mode and you will use a lot less ram

Edited December 30, 2019 by FreeThinker

[hypervelocity]

correct, as FreeThinker said, use the following command to force DX11:

-force-d3d11

In regards to your second question, I definitely recommend switching over to 1.7.3. RSS, RO and RP-1 are all available for 1.7.3 and there is a significant performance increase.