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The one that always gets me is I think I've learned new-things/better-ways so I start the career over at an even harder level. I do enjoy the early challenge of getting places with minimal tech etc. though occasionally I get a little board when I'm in a bit a grind...that signals time to take a brief break rather than a restart.

I was wondering if any trends might show up. But not a whole lot of overlap here. Very eclectic group us KSP fans.

I've thought about getting this. Haven't looked at in a while looks like they are keeping up on the releases. Maybe I'll treat myself after labor day. Thanks for reminding me about it.

I presume it means connect to the same set the PS4 is hooked to, so you get the benefit of being on the Mac but with a nice big screen. BTW in Windows you can change a setting to lower the max speed at which your processor runs, often by turning the max from 100% to 90% laptops run much cooler with little to no noticeable speed difference. I don't currently have a Mac but if there is a similar setting try it, you may find your heating problem greatly reduced. Edit: I've done a little searching and it looks like to underclock a MacBook you need to go into the EFI (bios). If I find anything better I'll let you know.

what games do you play instead? I see various things mentioned in passing, just thought I'd get a read on what people like to play if they feel they need for a bit of rest from playing KSP. I usually fire up Civ V or Sins of a Solar Empire. If I still need space travel (totally unrealistic of course) I go with Sins. If I want a complete change I go with Civ. Of course KSP lures me back after a short time.

Finding the game and actually buying it (around v .18). For me this is one of the few non 4x games that has consistently held my attention. Yeah I'd like some improvements, but even as is, trying to improve on how I do things and finding new ways to do things keeps me going. So really it's just playing the game and improving that leads to ever new "biggest" successes.

I thought the Kerbals worshipped and greatly feared the great-power-off-button.

Boy I remember a lot of speculation about that time of micro-singularities eating the Earth from the inside (and this was long before the LHC worries). I think this mostly came from some sci-fi books of the time. Someone should have cashed in on this by selling do it yourself micro singularity kits with manuals for the care and feeding of your pet singularity sort of like the pet rock craze. No doubt the same people afraid of that were the same ones who panicked when there was going to be a "grand alignment" of all the planets. Ummm the first black hole was discovered in 1971, so seems the author was a bit off. From Space.com: The first object considered to be a black hole is Cygnus X-1. Rockets carrying Geiger counters discovered eight new X-ray sources. In 1971, scientists detected radio emissions coming from Cygnus X-1, and a massive hidden companion was found and identified as a black hole.

I think human growth hormone may have more promise (and is simpler). But we were supposed to have the cure for baldness by now and I'm still waiting. I don't pay much attention to these things: I'll get interested when they get out of the lab and become commercially available.

Shopvac. None of those piddling little battery operated computer vacuums for me, works great and has for 35 years. Sure once in a while I accidently pull a cable out of its socket but that's easily fixed. Of course I don't eat and type at the same time. The real germ ridden piece of equipment though is the mouse...I have a feeling the human species may be wiped out by a disease mutated from someone's computer mouse.

I was just barely 8 when the first manned moon rockets were launched (specifically Apollo 11). I saw them on a small black and white TV, but wow it was so impressive. It was real. Sure I loved Star Trek, but this was real people going to the moon, it seemed to me that we would soon be going to the stars for real. So when I think rocket, I still see in my mind a Saturn 5 headed up into the vast blue sky.

One other thing. I plan on getting a steam controller hopefully in a week or two (big snafu and I didn't get paid last month and may not until sept, so I'm watching my spending just to be safe). So if the above doesn't help...what I'm thinking is when I get mine, we can do a detailed comparison of some things (assuming mine works) see if we can't get yours working...so keep hanging on. And we know it works, probably some dumb simple thing--that's usually the case when you've got it working and then it stops again. Funny story: I once got called in because "the monitor in the pharmacy is just displaying gibberish." I got there took one look and realized the brightness button had gotten bumped and only the bolded text (this was on a monochrome monitor) was showing. I made darn sure every employee knew about the brightness and contrast buttons after that .

There are a lot of advantages to 4k (and yes a few disadvantages). But on a large (55" for example) screen just a few feet away, they make a big quality difference. After breaking my 58" 4k tv/monitor I had to go back to 1080p and it's just bad. I see anti-aliasing all over the place, text, sd movies/tv, old games, new games. I miss that inheirent anti-aliasing of 4k. Anyway hopefully KSP will get full 4k support. The tweakable user interface in the main screens is a good start, but the VAB and SPH also need help in that respect (unless I've missed a setting) as the text is too small on a 4k screen. I'm moving back to 4k next month. My 1080p set (which actually isn't really too bad it's just that I've been spoiled) will become my emergency backup (it's too big to be a secondary monitor). I originally went 4k for the extra screen real-estate--especially like it when programming or researching--but it's the quality of games and video that is forcing me to go back.

Shhh, some of us do that already. Well except I've decided a flight stick is a better match than the PS4 controller (plus the annoyance of switching it back and forth though a usb switch would fix that). KSP works pretty well laid back. I might buy the PS4 version once it's caught up in version to the PC just so I can save electricity (yeah I know it'd be awhile before it caught up to my $40 but it's about the ecology too).

Let me ponder on this, but a couple of questions. It stopped working after you reset the computer so did you do anything after you left KSP and before you restarted (including playing another game) and after you restarted did you do anything before you ran KSP? And one thing to try, after starting KSP unplug the controller then plug it back in and if it still doesn't work, exit and restart KSP (ok I'm trying solutions from like the 90's but you never know ). Edit: Actually I was wondering what the steam_api64.dll version is. The csteam is the same version as mine...as we would expect . Edit again: Also could you please validate the steam cache for KSP.

Odd. That appears to be a somewhat different error message than you reported in the bug tracker. It may be the same thing or not. Do you have the following file somewhere and what is the size/date? steam_api64.dll 11/11/2015 201KB Also copy the csteam file again and replace the one in the plugins folder just so we can rule out some freak data corruption occurring. And if that doesn't work try spamming it in a couple of folders main ksp root and the ksp_data\managed folder (I'm just trying to see if it will pick it up from a different location thinking maybe some config file or something got changed when you reset the computer, something had to have changed just not sure what...I'll sleep on it though). And actually if you right click on the DLL files choose properties and then details (this may be slightly different in win 10) we can compare versions for example the above file is 3.3.47.38. And one more thing run KSP directly from the ksp_x64.exe file, right click and choose run as administrator.

Are you back to getting an error about not finding the DLL in the log file? Just to be sure we are talking about it being in the KSP_x64_data\plugins folder and you are still running the 64bit version of KSP (as Steam seems to default to the 32 bit version)? Get rid of all other copies of it in any other folders. Edit: I was just looking around I saw one reference to an antivirus checker interfering with csteamworks.dll, might be worth turning yours off see if it helps, this was for a different game a couple of years ago but given the sequence might be possible.

+ I'd be happy if the "ropes" were invisible (if they couldn't be made too look right), or just so thin they aren't going to be seen and all the tether did was limit the distance a Kerbal could go from a ship and have an option to be pulled back in (assuming a remote control or a second Kerbal to operate the winch or just pull the other one in). In space I'm not sure what rope game physics would be anyway wouldn't it just be another object floating about like an eva Kerbal (albeit a very long skinny Kerbal)? Or maybe not:

Land a rocket, of any size, on a Kerbals head. Don't know if it's possible it's too stupid for me to try.

They did mention it in the developer notes today, though it's still basically no news for those of you having to wait on the "paperwork":

Yeah from my cursory reading that dll comes from steam and should be updated from steam. You might want to contact steam and see what they say (if anything, or maybe one of the people who hang out in the steam forums will know why). Anyway glad it finally works. Don't forget to update your post in the bug tracker.

PMed you with link.

I think you should try installing a fresh copy of KSP, that that was missing makes me wonder if something else might be missing too. Also my csteamworks.dll is 140KB but I'm on windows 8.1 so it might be a different version, still might be worth checking to see if you can find a different version of that file for Win 10 (though I suspect you'd have problems with other programs and steam if it was really the problem).

Yeah when you mentioned that is when I put it right into my cart...big Hanks fan (and his son too at least from his appearance in Dexter). Actually I'd already put Apollo 13 in my cart since I hadn't seen it for years and then probably only from VHS or off a SD satellite feed. Of course one of my most favorite Frasier episodes is the one where Scott Glenn appeared (season 8 episode15) and started talking about all the strange things astronauts see (maybe they were having premonitions of KSP and it's little green people).

Maybe "think twice, burn once" as I have a bad tendency to start burns with very little delta v in the stage because I forgot to just jettison it and of course that fouls up my "perfect burn" but really I'm with snark on this one 90% of my mistakes are pre-launch (or just after when I suddenly realize I've forgotten x...which is why I do use check lists in SPH, VAB and launch pad).