Game grows slow as you populate Kerbol System

[seyss]

Hello,

I created a new game to test and it runs MUCH faster than my 170-flight game.

Is there anything we can do? I have landed ships in every body in the system. Should I put all Kerbals inside the Command Pods and destroy all debris to decrease the amount of objects in the simulation?

Thanks.

Edited April 21, 2015 by seyss

[PlonioFludrasco]

Yes, destroying debris and keep kerbals into pods is a good idea. Less things to load at startup.

[Eric S]

I haven't heard any reason for craft outside the physics range to have this much of an impact, but it's hard to dispute, you're not the first to mention it. Nuking debris and getting kerbals inside something should help. When I ran into this issue, I went so far as to create Mun bases that were all docked up so it was only a single craft.

[Hodo]

I haven't heard any reason for craft outside the physics range to have this much of an impact, but it's hard to dispute, you're not the first to mention it. Nuking debris and getting kerbals inside something should help. When I ran into this issue, I went so far as to create Mun bases that were all docked up so it was only a single craft.

This also depends if there are any mods involved. But getting rid of debris will help especially on lower end systems.

[seyss]

This also depends if there are any mods involved. But getting rid of debris will help especially on lower end systems.

All I use is MechJeb, KerbalEngineer, and HyperEdit (for testing)

[NoMrBond]

If you have a lot of debris (and I mean a LOT) it may be easier to set your debris amount to zero to get it all cleared up than manually deleting it in the tracking station

Just remember to change it back up from zero afterwards (maybe something like 25-50 rather than unlimited depending on computer specs?)

[eddiew]

Is it that the flight scene runs faster, or that switching between facilities at KSC takes an age with the older game?

(I have my persistent debris set to zero, and I like it that way I just make sure that if I want to keep it, it has a probe core.)

[seyss]

after removing debris and housing all kerbals game runs much faster.

[AlexinTokyo]

For every object extant in the game, checks are made for (at least):

• SoI change
  
• Planet surface intersection
  
• 10%-surface-pressure atmospheric entry (i.e. the notorious delete-your-boosters altitude of 23 km on Kerbin)
  

These checks are made every tick (AFAIK) and are not computationally free. So large numbers of ships and debris will definitely slow down performance.

I do not know whether (but certainly hope that) having an object's status set to 'Landed' skips these checks so bases and Kerbals EVAing on the surface are 'free'.

And yes, this is an area where optimisations could be (and hopefully have been, in 1.0) made.

[Feradose]

I dont understand how this works, my computer handles 1000-+200 part craft, but starts lagging after 30 simple satellites in orbit, frustrating.