What FPS Does KSP Run For You?

[michaelsteele3]

Mine runs at 60 fps (drops down to 30 sometimes)

Is that good? :3:sticktongue:

[worir4]

Ya that is good. Any thing above 30 is fine and i think above 60 is unnoticeable. How do you measure your FPS?

[Bilfr3d]

120. All time every day. Unless I make a craft over 500 parts :\ In which case it drops down to around 35. @worir4 you use a program to measure the FPS. For example, Fraps gives a readout of the FPS in (nearly) any program you have open.

[Spartwo]

15-ish at best.

[michaelsteele3]

I use razor game booster. It helps. It also shows your FPS.

What it does is automatically closes uneeded applications until you close the game. (Works with steam, and maybe desura)

[Bilfr3d]

15-ish at best.

How do you even rocket, spartwo?

[Commissioner Tadpole]

How do you even rocket, spartwo?

15 is pretty good. My KSP runs at 13-19 FPS usually, and I only feel lag when it dips below 12.

[_Aramchek_]

In the 30's with huge ships, or multiple large ships, or planes with particularly complex wing surfaces/etc. because I run far, usually it's in the 100-120 fps region and can go as high as the frame limiter allows, 180 iirc.

Edited November 8, 2014 by _Aramchek_

[Rainbowtrout]

I've never bothered to count, but not so high. Part count doesn't matter, really bad lag at all times.

[Hidden Gunman]

Anywhere from 24 to 60, if I limit fps to 60...if not it generally clicks along at 54 on average.

As someone posted earlier - use Razor Gamesbooster. Not just for KSP, but most games. On top of that, experiment and adjust settings via your graphics card operating menu, and balance that with the ingame menu...that makes a major difference.

One thing I found out yesterday was that I installed KerbalModManager, and launched the game through that...it launched in 64bit, and gave me warnings, and the game was a bit of a lottery when it ran (but it did run, sometimes)...however, booting out of Gamesbooster, it launches in 32bit - probably something to do with the launch path I set for it.

[WWEdeadman]

Totaly depends. On the menue anywhere between 80 and 120, on the KSC screen between 30 and 60, and on a ship between 40 and anything lower than that, down to like 4-7 on really big ships. Usually about 25-30 on standard size ships.

[zekes]

about 100+ when i have really tiny ships (<100 parts)... from about 200-300 it's probably 40ish, 300-600 is 20, 700+ is about 10 (but that's where time begins slowing down A LOT)

[kStrout]

20 when I don't need it to be very fast 5 otherwise:wink:

[Wjolcz]

About 15 or 20? But it seems to get lower with every game launch. The more times I launch and quit it the less FPSs I seem to have. I don't know why and I don't like it. I really don't get it. The first time with fresh install everything works fine on medium terrain details, and then after some launches (and I mean game launches, not rocket launches) it starts to drop for no reason. It's not like I have more and more debris scattered around the KSC, or anything. I try to keep it clean.

Edited November 8, 2014 by Veeltch

[numerobis]

When I build really big things, about .5-2.

Normally, if I stare at the sky, about 30.

[Starwhip]

When I build really big things, about .5-2.

Normally, if I stare at the sky, about 30.

Because you can do half a frame per second!

I'm not so sure, but it's good enough (probably 13-30) until I get upwards of 550-600 parts, such as when I'm doing Naval Battle Club stuff, capital ship vs. capital ship. De lag, she iz real!

And my computer's a 3-year-old ASUS laptop, with a Pentium, as I'm sure many people have heard before. I've got like one gigabyte of RAM...

Me need new 'puter.

[Boomerang]

If I've babied my rig a bit and it's a good day, I can pull ~20fps as long as my camera is focused mostly into the sky/away from whatever celestial body I'm on/orbiting, or in the editors.

If it's a slow day or my camera's focused towards the ground a lot... eh. 8-12.

[Jon Tash]

About 20 or so, sometimes even less. Interesting enough I loose some FPS at every new update and I can use less and less parts too. I guess it's just because I'm using the same PC since I started playing KSP.

[numerobis]

1500 parts, a couple hundred jet engines drawing fuel and air, and MechJeb. To make it even better, I was running at a low delta t (at low altitude, air intakes produce more air per second with a low delta t). It was for a challenge a year or more ago.

All this on a MacBook Air.

So yeah, sometimes it was less than one FPS. The frame where I released the clamps was particularly bad.

[gamowin]

I get around 200 fps with small to medium sized ships, custom built desktops are the way to go for gaming.

[ZedNova]

100ish FPS for small craft. ( <100 parts)

drops down to 45Fps when i have 400ish parts.

[FleshJeb]

0.5-15, but I'm on a seven year old laptop. Any partcount above 120 gets bad, but I'll build up to 400.