How well does KSP work on a mac with mods?

[davidy12]

I'm gonna install KSP with about 60 mods on my 2015 macbook retina display with 8gb ram and Iris 6100 graphics. I wanna know does it crash a lot when on a mac or not?

[Alphasus]

With that many mods, it may. However, that will become much less of a problem with 64 bit unity 5, because you will have more RAM.

[davidy12]

Great to hear

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As I said earlier (misposted it) can anyone else give their opinion?

[danfarnsy]

Davidy, it's harder to use. Right now, we have a lot of speculation about how stable KSP will be under Unity 5, but as it is there isn't a separate OS X 64-bit client. That means you'll still be capped at 32-bit style RAM usage, meaning you're going to have to pick and choose which mods are important enough to you. Otherwise, if your list exceeds 3.5 GB worth, it *will* crash on loading. And forget about using Astronomer's Visual Pack or others that take the game from "cool" to "awe inspiring." I have an iMac, but I'm trial-booting with Linux and Windows too, which isn't for the feint of heart. The Windows side with Bootcamp is straightforward enough, but Linux requires a certain amount of expertise in witchcraft and modifying your partition table. Apple doesn't make it easy.

That said, if your mod list is stable in 32-bit Windows KSP, it should usually be fine in OS X.

[JPLRepo]

Davidy, it's harder to use. Right now, we have a lot of speculation about how stable KSP will be under Unity 5, but as it is there isn't a separate OS X 64-bit client. That means you'll still be capped at 32-bit style RAM usage, meaning you're going to have to pick and choose which mods are important enough to you. Otherwise, if your list exceeds 3.5 GB worth, it *will* crash on loading. And forget about using Astronomer's Visual Pack or others that take the game from "cool" to "awe inspiring." I have an iMac, but I'm trial-booting with Linux and Windows too, which isn't for the feint of heart. The Windows side with Bootcamp is straightforward enough, but Linux requires a certain amount of expertise in witchcraft and modifying your partition table. Apple doesn't make it easy.

That said, if your mod list is stable in 32-bit Windows KSP, it should usually be fine in OS X.

Actually harvester tweeted on the unity 5 1.1 release that no OS would be left behind. Which means a 64bit OS X unity 5 1.1 version. OS X is fine but for me has a lower memory cap with mods in the current version. I think because of its OpenGL implementation if I recall. So you will hit memory crashes earlier and with less mods installed than the current 32bit windows version.

[danfarnsy]

Actually harvester tweeted on the unity 5 1.1 release...

Such optimism! It's refreshing...

I come from the "don't believe anything anybody tells you until you see it, and even then only half the time" school of thought.