Laggy VAB - Space Center Crew Option

[Immashift]

Hey!

Edit down below.

So I've run KSP for years on this particular system and had zero issues with my FPS unless I exceed maybe 300 parts or so, but with the release of 1.0, my framerates inside the VAB and SPH only have tanked. In literally every other screen, be it the map, launchpad, in spaaaaaaace, or whatever, I get a consistent ~150 fps. I go to the VAB, and it tanks down to 10-15 FPS. I have no idea what's causing it, but it makes dragging parts around a gigantic pain in the backside.

This occurs whether I run the game in a window, fullscreen, or borderless windowed as I prefer.

I generally launch the game via a shortcut with the -popupwindow flag to get borderless windowed, but as I said, this happens regardless of that flag or not.

It's not a performance issue, since this rig is well beefy enough to handle anything KSP can throw at it.

I'll detail my setup here. Perhaps something will catch someone's eye and I can solve this.

My comp:

CPU: AMD FX 8320 8-core

RAM: 8 GB

GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX960 SSC

GPU Driver: 350.12

OS: 64-bit Win7 Ultimate

Think that's about all that matters. GPU is outputting to 2 monitors and is in multiple display performance mode. In the VAB, the GPU runs cool, is barely under any load, and has plenty of VRAM to spare. CPU isn't under load, and have tons of RAM free. So again, I really don't think it's a performance thing.

Game-wise I have settings as such:

I've also tried with zero AA, no difference, so believe me, the 8x AA makes no difference on this issue. And before you ask, in my drivers, it's set to let the game decide what graphics settings to use. I've also tried at half res textures and no difference.

As stated, with these options I get ~150 FPS everywhere except the VAB and SPH, where it crawls along at 10-15.

I tested KSP .90 as well, and the VAB/SPH were completely lag-free on it. So something with the 1.0 update is tanking it.

If I can provide any more info that could help, I'll be happy to.

EDIT: After some poking around, I turned off "Space Center Crew" in main settings before resuming a game, and that has taken the lag away. I'm back up to my usual 150FPS.

I would like to see the little dudes walking around though, so if anyone knows why that option causes lag with my system, please do tell.

Edited May 1, 2015 by Immashift