How to stop Space Station Framerate drop?

[HeadHunter67]

Time for you to build your Station Mark 2. Just pretend you're Tony Stark. Always building a better suit.

I will, I do, and I am.

I mean, aside from my resemblance to him, I'm driven to continually invent new stations. While the next design is incubating in my mind, I'm constantly trying out new ways to do things so that I can implement them in the next design - be it a better construction tug, more compact crew escape systems, etc.

[Amphiprion]

what mod are those dark modules on ur station from?

Edited August 15, 2013 by Amphiprion

[Rahxephon231]

I finally managed to get a functional station put together that I've been using as a fuel depot. Unfortunately, I built it at 100km. I tried to use a docked ship to raise its orbit but it started flying out of control and I had to reload.

[Camelotking524]

You could always lower the physic calculations in the settings.cfg file. I have it set to .0009 at the moment, while getting a small bump in frames, I haven't noticed anything breaking physics yet.

[captainreynolds]

what mod are those dark modules on ur station from?

Spacejunk cargo bays. http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/lsi-spacejunk-cargo-bay/

[Starwaster]

Am I the only one that thinks they should be focusing on optimizing the physics engine here rather than adding silly stuff like a crew hiring facility? For me personally at least, the game is all about building really big crazy things, like you would see in minecraft or other places. Don't see how I can manage doing that if the fps drops with even stuff like this on a fast computer. Little disappointed here, I see no reason to limit my designs because of part counts.

Maybe when the game moves out of alpha testing and into beta testing.... then maybe you can be forgiven thinking like that. (or maybe even not until we move to the end of beta) Even if you paid, even if you're a customer, this is still very much alpha and you are an alpha tester.

Congratulations.

[Amoun]

Yeah I was in the same situation (actually started a thread........without doing the proper digging I guess).

I built a space-station that I was so happy with, but alas....almost 500 parts, so the laptop started freaking out and FPS went waaay down. I was sad

To be honest I had no idea that the game uses only 1 core O__o I can't wait for optimization. So much more will be possible *drools*

[Herbert McCheese-Wang]

Grrr... Stupid game being so good and so bad simultaniously

[MrPopcup]

I think making the game 64 bit will fix some FPS issues, pretty sure it will actually.

[Zerro]

Yeah I was in the same situation (actually started a thread........without doing the proper digging I guess).

I built a space-station that I was so happy with, but alas....almost 500 parts, so the laptop started freaking out and FPS went waaay down. I was sad

To be honest I had no idea that the game uses only 1 core O__o I can't wait for optimization. So much more will be possible *drools*

I doubt my station had 500 parts and it was running at 5fps. Annoyed me so much because I just started working on it and there was so much more I wanted to add My computer is also pretty good.

So what should I do? Anyway to mess around with the settings or is the only solution to use less parts?

On that note, any suggestions on omitting parts but maintaining a cool looking design?

[Monkeh]

I get 2 FPS visiting my Munbase:

"Poo happens", I think is the (censored), appropriate phrase.

To op: Way too many solar panels. They may look awesome, but more parts = more lag.