I. Love. This. Game.

[Jethro420]

KSP. What can I say?

I liked it straight out of the box, no mods, 32 bit.

I really liked after I got a feel for it and added mods, like FAR, Deadly Reentry, Remote Tech and SETI, to name some of my favorites.

In fact, I liked it so much (and got so tired of RAM crashing) that it tipped the scales in favor of taking the time and energy to dual boot my native Windblows 8.1 with Ubuntu so I could run KSP in all its 64 bit glory.

It was a royal pain in the backside, but...

OMG!!

It. Was. Totally. Worth. It.

So, my fellow kerbonaughts, if you have the time and the inclination, and you're sick of dealing with the RAM ceiling in the 32 bit version, install a supported linux distro, delete Active Texture Management, and pile on all the mods your wee hearts desire. It's a good time!

NOTE: If you try this at home, and you have MAJOR graphics issues in KSP, turn off Edge Highlighting (PPFX) in the graphics settings. Don't do what I did and blow up linux trying to fix your video drivers.

[Tex]

Welcome aboard! My rig is good enough I can play at full graphics regardless of RAM usage and all that other computer baloney. I hardly even know what my machine is capable of, honestly- Whenever people at school ask me what I play on, I just tell them I have a good Alienware and they're all like Woah, dude, an Alienware?! And I just nod awkwardly. Apparently it's a good machine.

You'll fit right in here!

[Specialist290]

Welcome to the forums! Glad to hear you've been enjoying the game. I'm sure the creators of the add-ons you've enjoyed would love to hear that you're enjoying their labors of love, so it might be worthwhile to find their development threads and share your appreciation for a job well-done.

Other than that, feel free to settle in. You can share tales of your favorite and most memorable missions, put up screenshots and / or files of some of your favorite designs in our showcase threads, answer questions (or even ask a few of your own, if there's still that one little issue you're having trouble getting past), or even admire some of the other users' Fan Works (or even share ones you may have made yourself).

Enjoy, and happy landings!

[Jethro420]

Welcome aboard! My rig is good enough I can play at full graphics regardless of RAM usage and all that other computer baloney. I hardly even know what my machine is capable of, honestly- Whenever people at school ask me what I play on, I just tell them I have a good Alienware and they're all like Woah, dude, an Alienware?! And I just nod awkwardly. Apparently it's a good machine.

You'll fit right in here!

Thanks, Maximus!

I have a beast I built myself. It's water-cooled, i7 quad core, 16 gigs of RAM, HDD, etc. It's pretty sweet. But, it's at a desk in my home office and I like hanging out on my couch, not at a desk. ;-)

So, I mostly play on my laptop, which is a mid-grade Toshiba with eight gigs of RAM and and integrated Intel HD4000. It's modest. But it's more than enough to run KSP, Sometimes I hook it up to the receiver and run it through the TV and stereo with a wireless mouse and keyboard. Can't do that in the office...

That's why I was so frustrated... reading logs that say I ran out of memory and crashed - with gobs of unused memory just sitting there.

I guess a lot of folks don't use many mods. But, I'm running 22 or so, I believe. So, I had to use ATM and the texture replacer and all that drama and still crashed every couple of hours.

Now, I can play for hours and hours and barely slow down, even with a lot of scene switching and the resuling memory leaks.

I'm stoked!!

Anyway, I think I'll sneak in another mission before real life comes barging back in.

Have a good one!

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Welcome to the forums! Glad to hear you've been enjoying the game. I'm sure the creators of the add-ons you've enjoyed would love to hear that you're enjoying their labors of love, so it might be worthwhile to find their development threads and share your appreciation for a job well-done.

They really have done a heck of a job. I believe I'll follow your suggestion and pass out a few attaboys. It's the least I can do, since I won't go anywhere near PayPal. They're kinda evil. *chuckle*

[Lhathron the Elf]

Welcome aboard! My rig is good enough I can play at full graphics regardless of RAM usage and all that other computer baloney. I hardly even know what my machine is capable of, honestly- Whenever people at school ask me what I play on, I just tell them I have a good Alienware and they're all like Woah, dude, an Alienware?! And I just nod awkwardly. Apparently it's a good machine.

You'll fit right in here!

I literally couldn't stop myself from thinking while reading this, "What!? He has an Alienware?" That's a hella good machine you've got there. Just saying. Don't be surprised when people say that. That's real impressive.

In other news, welcome to the forums Jethro! It seems like you'll have a great time here. There's something about this community that it different from any other anywhere, and you'll be a wonderful addition to it. Have fun! And remember, any landing you can walk away from . . . probably still ended terribly, but at least you walked away from it.

[Starwhip]

And remember, any landing you can walk away from . . . probably still ended terribly, but at least you walked away from it.

Nailed it.

Welcome to the forum, Jethro420!

[Northstar1989]

Glad to have you aboard Jethro420!

Maximus97, that's not quite what people are talking about when they discuss the 32-bit memory limit. You may have a great graphics card and processor, and be able to play at full-graphics and with huge vessels without lag, but you will *NEVER* be able to exceed the 32-bit limit on RAM usage (even if you had 2 *trillion* GB of RAM) no matter how good your rig.

You only hit this memory-limit with mods, but some mods are quite memory-intensive. ScanSat takes 1 GB alone, for instance- and IIRC, RemoteTech isn't much better for RAM usage... KSP-Interstellar (which is a great mode I use, help develop an Extension Config for, and highly recommend) also can get quite memory-intensive if you have a large Microwave Beamed Power network in place as it basically performs some of the same calculations as RemoteTech for Microwave Beamed Power...

Linus 64-bit is the way to go if you really get mod-hungry! Way to go the extra mile for Kerbal Jethro!

Regards,

Northstar

[Jethro420]

Huh... ScanSat and Remote Tech are two of my favorites. That explains a lot. No wonder I could only play a couple of hours at a time.

It would never go above 3.5 gigs, though, if the application cleaned up after itself. Obviously, this is just poor programming. Memory leaks are (almost) always human error.