Parachutes deploying but no drag

[RA3236]

Ever since I've gotten 1.0.4 the parachutes do not slow my craft down but the craft speeds up. This is even with a probe core with a mk16xl parachute. Could anyone help?

Edited October 17, 2015 by RA3236

[jhousen]

what altitude have you been opening them at?

what speed were you travelling?

[RA3236]

1500m altitude, about 100m/s. Problem is fixed with RealChute but that's because it replaces everything to do with it.

[KerikBalm]

Is it possible that your .cfg file was screwed up?

[RA3236]

Nope it started the second I opened up this version for the first time with a fresh install and no mods.

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I even checked for that matter after I noticed: Kerbal 2, standard Career starting rocket, probe with a small tank with a Mammoth and MK16XL Parachute

[Claw]

Sounds to me like your Physics.cfg has been modified in some way. If you are using steam, you can delete/rename/move the physics.cfg file and verify your game cache. That will download a new one.

Alternatively, you can download the stock physics.cfg here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ddxz1gi4r6zvzky/Physics.cfg?dl=0

If that doesn't work out for you, we might need some example craft files with pictures, and maybe even a log file to see if there is some other error going on.

Cheers,

~Claw

[RA3236]

It didn't look like my cfg had been modified since I don't think I've touched it but I will give it a try.

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Before I test it, By the way, it happened to the stock Kerbal X.

[Gaarst]

You said this occured after installing KSP 1.0.4, did you install 1.0.4 in a new folder, or did you overwrite a previous version.

When overwriting, some old files may remain and mess up things.

Also, check that deployment altitude is 1000m.

Before 1.0.Idon'trememberwhichversion parachute deployed quite fast, and the defalut setting for deployment was 500m. But this was changed: parachutes now deploy slower, and 500m is not enough to slow down your craft enough. Default setting has been changed to 1000m but on crafts from previous versions it stays at 500m.

This may be your issue.

[RA3236]

And it worked! With my modded install that previously had RealChute (I blame you for this). Testing on a stock install now.

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You said this occured after installing KSP 1.0.4, did you install 1.0.4 in a new folder, or did you overwrite a previous version.

When overwriting, some old files may remain and mess up things.

Also, check that deployment altitude is 1000m.

Before 1.0.Idon'trememberwhichversion parachute deployed quite fast, and the defalut setting for deployment was 500m. But this was changed: parachutes now deploy slower, and 500m is not enough to slow down your craft enough. Default setting has been changed to 1000m but on crafts from previous versions it stays at 500m.

This may be your issue.

Nope happened when deployment altitude was anywhere between min and max range and I know that the parachutes deploy slowly over six seconds, but I let it deploy fully and it happened. I didn't overwrite my 0.90.0 before I installed this, so I'm blaming the computer transfer to download the new version or somehow a bad install. But it's just proven to be the physics.cfg file being destroyed by something.

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And it worked in my stock install too! Thank you Claw!