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I know there's already a thread for computer builds, and I posted my build in it already, but there's hardly any pitchers! Also, it's an anything goes thread. What I'd like to see is everyone's setup. I searched for a rig pic thread but couldn't find one. If you post your rig here, you MUST include pictures of it! Anything goes, from nice clean setups with nice cable management to motherboards sitting on a piece of wood with a nest of wires coming out of it (I've seen it before!). But it must be the system you use, or have used to run KSP. My Current build: CPU: i7 4790K overclocked at 4.5Ghz RAM: 16GB HyperX Fury ocverclocked @ 2400 Motherboard: MSI Z97-GD65 Gaming board GPU: 2x Radeon HD 5830's crossfired and overclocked PSU: Thermaltake 750W HDD #1: Three Spinpoint S4's in RAID 0 config (OSes, programs and important data) HDD #2: 1TB Western Digital Black (Storage for music, downloads and movies) Case: Coolermaster CM690II lined with sound-deadening Spire Soundpad matting on both side panels Case Cooling: 5 fans for case controlled by Scythe fan controller CPU Cooling: CPU is watercooled with Corsair H80i watercooler. CLICK PICS FOR HIGH-RES! Case: Inside: Temps and info (Too long for one screenshot, sorry): CPU temps at idle are always under 30*C and during KSP gameplay sit around 35*C with GPU at around 45-48*. Stress testing the entire system gets my CPU up to around 64* and GPU at 70*. I've never seen my CPU get close to 70* and I've never had my GPU go over 70*. Currently having fitment issues with my actual video cards which are Radeon HD 5890's. They take too much room near the front of the case so I have my 5830's installed for now until I can figure something out. They still run great so I'm not worried about it.

Not sure what you consider "lagging" or "slowing down" but I consider it being when you get the yellow clock, because then, technically, the game is not running at 100% speed anymore and it's slowing down. For me, I start getting the yellow clock flashing around the 600 part mark, but still mostly green. But as for actually noticing my computer slowing down to where it's getting annoying, I'm not sure... I can fly the B9 planes that are 1200+ parts quite well. I'll have to check what the actual game speed it running at next time I play. I can see here in all your screenshots that your computer is slowing down already because your clock is yellow. Meaning it's running slower than real-time.

No it's not that, I had my raid array setup and then upgraded my motherboard and stuff after. I have SSD's in my other systems but I wanted to keep a raid array with lots of storage in this one. And replacing these drives with 500GB Ssd's isn't really worth it for me. I can afford it for sure, but would just be a waste IMO for what I use it for.

Thanks. The case works really well with the front mesh, and there's dust filters behiind the mesh as well. The inside of my case does get dusty though because my side fan is an intake. I keep meaning to change it around to exhaust... I thought of taking the bays out but that would mean cutting that support out as well, which holds up my dvd drive and fan controller, and then I'd have to figure out some other way to mount my drives. The dual 5830s do a pretty good job for what I need so I don't feel the need to start cutting up my case. And nope, no SSD's! I wanted the larger storage space without it costing an arm and a leg. I use many huge programs that take up lots of space, so the SSD route wasn't really an option for me. The S4's in RAID 0 are almost as fast as my other system's single SSD so I'm happy with that. And I do have future plans to expand and get more hard drives in there so that I can switch it to a RAID 5 system for fault tolerance. Then I'll never have to worry about losing anything from corrupt hard drives, and I can just hot-swap them. I'm currently using an external RAID 5 bay as a vault for things like pictures and documents that we never want to lose. It's set up to run on our home network so everyone can access it. Once I have my PC's RAID 5 set up, it will then become the data vault until I set up my proper HP Server rack in the basement

My Current build: CPU: i7 4790K overclocked at 4.5Ghz RAM: 16GB HyperX Fury ocverclocked @ 2400 Motherboard: MSI Z97-GD65 Gaming board GPU: 2x Radeon HD 5830's crossfired and overclocked PSU: Thermaltake 750W HDD #1: 1TB Western Digital Black HDD #2: Three Spinpoint S4's in RAID 0 config Case: Coolermaster CM690II lined with sound-deadening Spire Soundpad matting on both side panels Case Cooling: 5 fans for case controlled by Scythe fan controller CPU Cooling: CPU is watercooled with Corsair H80i watercooler. CLICK PICS FOR HIGH-RES! Case: Inside: Temps and info (Too long for one screenshot, sorry): CPU temps at idle are always under 30*C and during KSP gameplay sit around 35*C with GPU at around 45-48*. Stress testing the entire system gets my CPU up to around 64* and GPU at 70*. I've never seen my CPU get close to 70* and I've never had my GPU go over 70*. Currently having fitment issues with my actual video cards which are Radeon HD 5890's. They take too much room near the front of the case so I have my 5830's installed for now until I can figure something out. They still run great so I'm not worried about it.

Keyboard & mouse mostly. Sometimes I break out my logitec joystick for docking and moving space station pieces around with a tug. Oh and my mouth too. It's an input device for my beer while I play KSP...

I've never had an issue going down to 11km with no heat shield using DRE, just make sure you're pointing retrograde so the engine takes the heat. Engines can handle more heat than other parts.

I was going to put Suggestion for multiple throttles here but I found this, so, I also want multiple throttle options!

Not cheating, just good design. Now if it all weighed 1 ton and had 900000 units of fuel and 300000kn of thrust, yeah, that would be cheating. But the parts are not unrealistic and fit well in the game.

Yeah I burn straight towards it as well. One of my fav moons for mining resources because a tiny engine can lift so much weight!

Because they were still trying to get the Eva jetpacks to work properly and kerbals kept getting launched into space

Hmm, it would be interesting to play around in deep space without having to worry about orbits. You could build stations and just travel from one to another directly. It would be like playing Eve

Well the 4770 and 4790k are both LGA1150 so you could upgrade it using the same motherboard...

Impressive, however,I do find the use of only a command seat for these things to be a cheat. Might as well just use a probe... I'd like to see him do it with a proper lander can or pod

Perhaps he's running a dual core system... Or, even if not running that, could be the processor is running hot and clocking down.

To plant flags and return from all moons and planets, I did multiple launches, total of 21 stages.

Intel i7 4790k @ 4.5Ghz. Runs smooth even with all graphics options maxed.

Also, if you use any mods that show you info, that will also slow it down on a slower pc. For example, if you use mechjeb, don't keep the delta v window open. And edit the other windows to show you only what you really need to know. OR, just upgrade your PC. My mission clock doesn't start flashing between yellow and green until I get to 650+ part ships

Can't see an i7 4790k on your chart so here's mine: My csv file here https://www.dropbox.com/s/u20hoynqjomhj7b/KSP%202014-10-20%2010-28-06-58%20fps.csv?dl=0 Specs for my Windows box: CPU Intel i7 4790k @ 4.5Ghz, watercooled MSI Z97-GD65 mobo 16GB HyperX Fury RAM @2400 2x Crossfired Radeon HD 5890 graphics cards 3x Seagate S4 hard drives in RAID0 All graphics settings were maxed out, resolution at 1920x1080. VAB with ship loaded was solid 60FPS. Using the 600-part benchmark rocket, the game started at 25FPS on the launchpad and was still quite smooth, but by stage 6-7 was already well over 100+FPS. CPU temp never went above 40*C and GPU never went above 50*C

Not exactly sure but definitely before .17 because that's when I started keeping copies of the games. Probably close to .13 I think

@skeevy Good point on the system specs... I've got a beast of a machine so I never worry... i7 4790k @4.55 Ghz, 16GB FURY RAM @2400, three SSD drives in RAID0, Crossfired 6990's... So I use what I want

Oh I don't know how the whole steam thing works, never liked it. Can you not log into the ksp site and download whatever version you want? If not, are you able to download your games from the steam website and maybe choose the Linux version there? There is also a linux version of steam...

No there's no bug, at least not since .23.5... At least not for me anyways...

There's 2 options for installing depending on how many hard drives you have. How to video here: First, download the newest Kubuntu 64-bit http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu Make sure to chose the 64-bit Burn the image to a disk and then boot from it. OPTION 1> If you only have one disk in your computer, it will ask you to shrink your windows partition so make sure you have at least 30GB of free space on your windows C:\ drive. If you're really just installing it for KSP then give yourself about 20-25GB for your root drive. It's pretty easy when you see it during the install... OPTION 2> Best way to do this through is to get yourself a cheap second hard drive. The smallest you can find is fine. Install it in your PC as a second drive and then boot from the install CD. Then just tell it to install on the empty drive and it will take up the whole disk. During the install for either option, it will ask you if you want to install a bootloader. You do. Install it on the active drive, usually called SDA or HD0. It's the drive with windows on it that your computer boots from. Linux will detect all your devices for you so you don't have to worry about that stuff. It will only ask you things like timezones and what username and password you want for your account. It will also connect you to your WiFi and ask for that password as well so that it can get updates as it installs. Now after the install, when you boot up, you'll be given the option of either booting into windows or linux. Assuming you have an ATI/AMD video card, hit the "start" button, click on Applications > Settings > System Settings and at the bottom is an option "Driver Manager". Here you can pick what video card drivers you want to use. Select "Using video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators from fglrx-updates". Then restart Linux. If you have an nVidia card, you'll have to google or wait for someone else to chime in because I've never used nVidia cards in Linux. Finally, download the Linux version of KSP from the KSP site, and extract it into your Home folder using Dolphin, it's a file browser which you can find by hitting the "start" button and start typing "Dolphin". Don't bother with the KSP launcher, just run KSP.x86_64 directly. You can also copy all your mods and save files from your windows game and dump it into the Linux KSP folder and it will work fine. To get to it, use Dolphin again. On the bottom left of Dolphin, you'll see your Windows partition under "Devices". Go find your Windows KSP folder and copy your mods and save files from there to your Linux KSP folders. Just right-click and copy and paste like you would in windows. Hints: If you click the "start button" (called Kickoff in Linux btw) and just start typing "Dophin" or "System Settings" it will find the application just like in windows. When you find the app you're looking for, you can right click on it and select "Add to favorites" so that it shows up pinned to the start menu. Also, you'll notice that in Dolphin, everything is single-click to open. You can change it to be more like Windows. On top of the Dolphin window, there's a menu called "Control", click on that, and then "Configure Dolphin". A screen will come up with options. On the left, click on "Navigation", and under Mouse, chose "Double-click to open files and folders". Then click the OK button. Dolphin will now behave like Windows Explorer does.

First, a few things to reply to both here is that partitioning during a Linux install is dead simple and it does it for you. All you need to tell it is how much space you want Linux to have, and it shrinks your windows partition down and creates the linux ones automagically. Gone are the early days of Linux where everything you wanted to do was command-line, and compiling programs yourself etc... Funny, I've been using Linux for 20 years and I've never had it wipe the windows partition unless I purposely did it myself. Can't confirm for sure that it's a false statement about Ubuntu because I use Kubuntu. But Kubuntu is pretty much the same as Ubuntu at the core of it, but it uses a GUI that I like much better. IMO Kubuntu using the KDE gui is more like Windows and Ubuntu using the Gnome gui is more like a Mac. I prefer the former.