Squadcast Summary 2015/08/21 - Short Show, Long Summary

[vitekc45c]

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U5 means:

New PhysX. Now you can only use 1 core for your vessel. New PhysX can split your ship over multiple cores.

"You can expect the game to run way better."

Great for "Whackjob kind of ships"

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[GluttonyReaper]

My machine is 4MB RAM

I assume you mean 4GB RAM. It'd be very impressive if you'd managed to get KSP to run entirely on 4MB of RAM.

[Rune]

Yeah, I noticed that too. My machine is 4MB RAM, so while I'm happy for others I don't get a boost from 64. Multicore, however...

Actually, you will still benefit from the 64 bit memory availability, even if you only have 4GB of RAM. The 64 bit part will allow KSP to offload assets into your temporary paging file (virtual RAM on your hard drive), meaning instead of crashing it will just slow down the loading when you hit the RAM ceiling.

Rune. So you will have to remember to restart KSP manually to keep your game smooth... which still counts as an improvement.

[cantab]

Perhaps more significantly, textures in video RAM count towards the 4 GB limit for a 32-bit program. My modded KSP requires 64-bit (on Linux) to be stable despite me only having 4 GB of physical RAM.

[monstah]

I assume you mean 4GB RAM. It'd be very impressive if you'd managed to get KSP to run entirely on 4MB of RAM.

Actually, you will still benefit from the 64 bit memory availability, even if you only have 4GB of RAM. The 64 bit part will allow KSP to offload assets into your temporary paging file (virtual RAM on your hard drive), meaning instead of crashing it will just slow down the loading when you hit the RAM ceiling.

Rune. So you will have to remember to restart KSP manually to keep your game smooth... which still counts as an improvement.

GIGAbytes, yeah, Gigabytes! Corrected above. Rune's point made me happier.