direct x implementation

[popeter45]

hey i have been using direct x 11 recently for some work related projects and found that unity support direct x as well

i first test implementation could be like what i am doing now

using the gpu to decompress many textures at once to speed up load time

this could greatly incresses the preformance of ksp as lots of tasks can be made to run via high level shader code and reduce the cpu load

Edited July 6, 2015 by popeter45

[Wolfox]

I´m using it all the time instead of OpenGL (Drops FPS, no AA etc.), take a look THERE.

[Red Iron Crown]

KSP uses DirectX 9 by default on Windows and can be made to use dx11 if desired. The CPU load in KSP is almost entirely physics calculations, I don't believe DirectX supports offloading these to the GPU.

[popeter45]

you can do almost any Mathematics or logical operation's in dx using high level shader language

and physics calculations are some of the best for gpu's

[Red Iron Crown]

Some physics calculations parallelize very well and are thus well-suited to GPU computation, unfortunately it seems that a chain of constrained rigidbodies is not one of them.

At any rate, this isn't really something that Squad has control over, the off-rails physics engine is provided by Unity so changes in the implementation would have to start there.