KSP ridiculous GPU usage

[kokowang]

The main in-game screen showing all the buildings at KSC maxes out the GPU. Terrain set to low, Antialiasing off, minimum settings except rendering at simple. Getting 12 fps. I get higher framerate on lower performance gpus like the intel I3 - HD graphics 4000. There is no logical reason for ksp on near minimum to use more graphics power than battlefield 4/arma 3 on full.

CPU: AMD A10 5800k OC 5ghz

GPU: MSI r7 265 OC 1050mhz

RAM: 8gb, 4gb allocated to KSP 32 bit.

OS: Windows 7 64 bit.

Stats: GPU usage - 100%

CPU usage - 6%

allocated RAM usage - 1.2 GB/4GB

Paging file usage - 0GB/32GB

Force Opengl results in lower frame-rate than default DX11.

No crafts launched, clean save.

EDIT: Switching from FSSS x4 to EDSS x12EQ seems to have increased framerate. But it still should be alot higher.

EDIT 2: It seems that Post process anti-aliasing is using alot more gpu than it should on a simple game like ksp. The ksp version of anti-aliasing is just blurring, basically unusable. I found the best combination of looks and performance is Adaptive multisampling with edge-detect 24x + EQ. It still is using a ridiculous amount considering that games like battlefield 4 uses less for much higher graphics.

If anyone knows a way to anti-alias KSP without completely killing the gpu please reply. I know its a beta and its not optimized but even ARMA 3 runs better than this.

Edited April 5, 2015 by kokowang

[wasmic]

I also once had a problem like this. On my computer, the problem was caused by a power setting causing all the load to be pushed onto the GPU (or was it the CPU? Can't remember). Anyway, check your power settings, it might be in a hyper-power-saving mode.

[rudi1291]

Noticed this, too. GPU usage on the (almost static) main screen is very high, i dont see a reason for that.... Try upgrading/changing your video card driver, that could work...

[kokowang]

Wasmic - Its on high performance.

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Noticed this, too. GPU usage on the (almost static) main screen is very high, i dont see a reason for that.... Try upgrading/changing your video card driver, that could work...

Upgrading will probably work but the problem is its on low graphics and it uses more gpu than Battlefield 4 on ultra.

My CPU almost never max out because I have it overclocked to 5ghz. It only lags when GPU maxes out. My CPU maxes out at around 1200-1500 parts, by that time im running about 1 FPS because my GPU is dying.

Edited April 5, 2015 by kokowang