How to turn on overheat "progress bars"?

[SlabGizor117]

I've seen in gifs and videos of overheating where each part has a little green to red colored bar that fills up as that part overheats until it explodes. How do I turn that on? All I can find in the debug menu is the one that turns all the parts orange, and then as they heat up, yellow.

Thanks for the help!

-Slab

[ghostbuzzer7]

F10 simple shortcut keys It should say temperature gauges enabled

[Vectura]

Beware though, I believe it causes a huge memory leak that crashes the game a ton.

[Streetwind]

But even then they only appear after a certain minimum heat threshold is exceeded.

In fact, the game always turns them on by default. You just don't see them because your parts aren't hot enough.

[Murph]

Beware though, I believe it causes a huge memory leak that crashes the game a ton.

Or not. I've yet to see a single sign of any problem with them. No obvious unreasonable memory growth, no crashes whatsoever, despite long periods of flying mach 2–3 at 20km with plenty of heating and a number of the bars showing for long periods.

That doesn't mean that the problem doesn't exist for some people, only that it doesn't seem to hit everyone. I have no idea what makes the difference â€â€.it might be Windows only (I'm on OS X), it might have something to do with mods, it could have something to do with graphics settings, it could be something else, it's impossible for me to say since there seems to be no bug to observe for me.

[SlabGizor117]

Thanks guys, but I don't think they've been on by default, I've already had a nuke explode and I didn't see any gauge. But thank you!

[Chaia]

there is also a temperature overlay which shows the heat of every part as a color. It goes from red as cold to white as glowing hot. Should be F11

[n0xiety]

My high altitude fast planes generally crashes my game after flying 1400m/s for 5 minutes at 25k altitude so i wouldn't recommend enabling it if you are using a plane. It should be such an easy fix does anyone knows if there is a fix mod for it? I noticed that you need large number of parts overheating and bars showing up to crash the game. Well while im going that fast that high it doesn't destroys the parts but it gradually heats the whole plane and every part i have starts to show bars then it obviously crashes.

[Alshain]

Thanks guys, but I don't think they've been on by default, I've already had a nuke explode and I didn't see any gauge. But thank you!

They are are on by default. In fact Squad decided it would be a good idea to ram them down our throats. They turn back on with every launch even if you turn them off, so those that don't want them even without the memory leak have to be annoyed.

However, if you're graphic settings are too low they may not appear.

[Claw]

On that note, it's not actually the temperature bars that leaks memory, it is the highlighting overlay that accompanies the temperature bars. If I turn off PPFX highlighting, the memory leak appears not to happen, even with the thermometers on. (This probably explains why some people haven't experienced the memory leak.)

Also, I've recently discovered that the ALT+F12 debug menu itself leaks memory. So exercise caution when labeling things as "memory leakers" if using the debug menu's performance page memory consumption indicators.

Cheers,

-Claw

[Capt. Hunt]

speaking of which, is there a way to turn off the highlighting, I'm not a fan of the glowing red parts, especially since a lot of mod parts seem to trigger it on the launch pad for some reason.

[Claw]

Yes, in the Main menu settings options under graphics...or while in flight in the Escape settings menu. There is a "PPFX Enable" radio button that will disable the the thermal and outline highlighting, but not the mouseover highlights.

Cheers,

-Claw