Carey

SSTO's have no inherent advantage other than minimizing debris or the number of parts that must be retrieved individually. The best staging design is dependent on the specific mission and the parts available. Sometimes the most efficient design is an SSTO sometimes its not.

So I seem to have resolved the issue kind of. As long as I run KSP in full screen (set in the in game settings and not with the "more actions" menu when in windowed mode) it does not happen. While this is just a work around I am no longer concerned with fixing the issue outright as I can easily avoid it and prefer full screen anyway (previously the full screen option in game would not make it full screen so I would do it through the window options instead). However, I am interested in finding out why KSP isnt updating to the newest version and is still on 0.23.5.0 even after completely re-installing the game. Although that may be a question for the steam forums. Thank you for offering your assistance though. I really appreciate it.

Recently I am no longer able to use IVA properly. Everything works fine until I try to look around. This locks up my computer forcing me to stop kdm and restart it. Normally I run 64 bit KSP and have had no issues until this. The strangest thing is that it happened in the middle of a mission that I was doing in all IVA. I was able too look around the cabin just fine until I started to land. Then it crashed. Since then it does it every time I look around the cabin in IVA mode. What I have done: Re-installed drivers and X Completely removed KSP from my system and tried with a completely fresh install (no mods) with both 32 bit and 64 bit ksp. Lots of fruitless google searching I am hoping someone has an answer because my next step is to re-install kubuntu. Info: Kubuntu 14.04 64-bit Intel Core i7 950 Samsung SSD 12 GB DDR3 RAM GTX 650 ti boost Driver Version 331.38 KSP version 0.23.5.0 Launching via Steam (I saw a forum thread mentioning a v0.23.5.464 available but when I do a search for it all I get is stuff about pirating KSP)