Curveball Anders

There's another thing to remember when it's comes to RAM. The game (or rather Unity) doesn't release allocated structures until it has to (that's why we have issues with GC). That's why the memory footprint appears to increase to longer you play, or rather the more you jump around and create or un-pack more stuff. This is normally a smart move since it means that the unpacked stuff isn't repacked and reunpacked over and over again. It becomes a bad move since Unity is quite bad at understanding and differentiating physical and virtual memory ... I've actually added a little memory watchdog that I start with KSP (included in my Start_KSP script). It starts beeping when KSP has allocated more memory that a set value. At which times I restart But in short, a KSP-box can't have too much RAM ...

Open a terminal and start KSP from the CLI. It should give you some better error codes

Holy necro Batman. There's a nice tool since several years back. https://meyerweb.com/eric/ksp/resonant-orbits/

I usually design the upper stage (or payload) to do it's job just shy of orbit, then I design a lifter that burns out just before achieving orbit.

I normally send a robust robotic rover with an ore scanner as soon as I have comms secured. Then I can prospect for a good (and flat) site, and use the rover as marker.

That's a Kerbal standard mission

Impossible to answer, since it depends on what mods and what performance you expect. In general terms, any one over 1.2 GHz, with 4GB RAM and something better than integrated graphics.

That's why I start every new session of KSP by doing an external backup ...

I'm involved when we buy new or upgrade the laptops used by our employees who need them. While my main concern is about content protection (built-in encryption and such) my second wish is for as crappy 3D performance as possible. Because I don't want people to be tempted to install software not on the Corporate List (yes, with capital letters). ps. I should add that we have very nice programs for employees to buy their own computers from the same vendors as we use for internal use and using our seriously reduced prices. Partly for the same reasons ds.

I (ab)use Alt+F12 often to test landers or EDL parts. I don't call it cheating, I call it simulations

56.InfoSec Analysist. NetHack Civ 3 X-Plane EvE KSP

emacs is an acronym of "eight megabytes (of ram) and constantly swapping". Which might indicate how old the emacs vs vi flamewar is ...

I did me first mining expedition, never bothered before but w.t.f. Worked kind of wonderful except that my miner was to light, or my excavators was mounted too low. Once I activated the excavators the entire mining, converting, storing gadget starter to hop. The ground was actually checked and had a gradient of 1.2 degres, which didn't stop the hopping mining gerät from walking across the flat plain ... (Bill EVA'd to plant a flag and had to run to catch the dancing miner) Later I rescued the engineers from the dancing miner, then it suddenly exploded ... I think I'll try for more solid miners now on ...

Blaspemy! You surely meany vi ...

A river of Kir! Oh that takes me back to my merry youth

You must be looking in the wrong column if it says 550MB ram. Stock KSP allocates > 3GB ram at minimun. With my settings my stock ksp_64 allocates 4.2 GB. It can run with 4GB if you have enough swap, but it will stutter and hang now and then.

It's in the stack dump actually

12 mods 30 sec to menu 40 sec to loaded career

I fixed it by always install any new version in a new directory, playing around a little waiting until my wanted mods are updated. Continuing to play my 'real' save in the 'stable' version. Then swapping when the new becomes 'stable'.

I'd call that borderline of running KSP alone, recording would be to ask too much. Note that the 2.4GHz max boost is only valid when running with 3 cores locked out: Frequency 1600 MHz Turbo Frequency Yes Turbo Frequency 2400 MHz (1 core)

I just erase all miniAVC.dll files

I've mangled a return from Mun and sent a rescue craft to save them, only to find Jeb and Bob already in the craft ... I then had to send a bigger rescue craft to save the original 2 and the later morons ...

Left most on the offline backup disk.

There's one exception. Long, dull and often pointless tele conferences ....

There's also the minor detail that the glorified garden hose used to transfer insane amount of both LF and oxidiser hasn't shown up in RL yet ...