Gaarst Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Since a few days, I have had some lag while playing KSP, even when the game was not doing anything that consumed too much resources (ie: stacking stuff in the VAB or flying a 40 part upper stage + payload outside atmosphere). And by lag I mean 5fps. I originally thought that my install was broken and used too much of my CPU so I checked my CPU usage: overall, it was around 15-20%. The problem is that this stupid CPU said: "Hey, no one's using me, so I'm going to get to sleep and clock at 770 MHz, the things running should have no problem keeping up". And we all know that KSP asks a lot from the CPU, and especially clock speed for processing physics; so the result: KSP is slower when not doing anything than when flying hundred parts ships. I ended up loading some programs in the background to increase CPU usage to get better fps in KSP... And now it's there running nothing but Chrome and iTunes, Turbo Boosting itself at 2.9 GHz for 6% of usage... Any suggestions ? Config: Spoiler Intel i7-5500U, 2.4GHz GeForce GTX 950M (3GB) 8GB RAM Windows 10 64bit (Not sure this is the right place to ask this, please move the thread if not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icemanau Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 There may be a setting in your BIOS to turn the throttling off. Check the documentation you got with your PC or Motherboard. Regards Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FancyMouse Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 Check if you have high disk IO. One biggest reason CPU becomes idle when a workload is expected is because it's waiting for some slow devices, and that's usually disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4ooo Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Just a shot in the dark, but have you made sure that windows is set to "high performance", not "balanced" power saving mode? Sidenote: we have matching avatars lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaarst Posted January 12, 2017 Author Share Posted January 12, 2017 2 hours ago, c4ooo said: Just a shot in the dark, but have you made sure that windows is set to "high performance", not "balanced" power saving mode? Sidenote: we have matching avatars lol. Yeah, I'm using a custom power setting with more or less everything at 100%. Since then I've updated to 1.1.3 and the performance increases seem to have solved the issue. This thread is almost a year old, so I'll ask for it to be locked. PS: love your avatar too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c4ooo Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 (edited) @Gaarst sorry for the the necropost It said 'january' so i thought it was recent. (stumbled on this thread through google search) Edited January 12, 2017 by c4ooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaarst Posted January 12, 2017 Author Share Posted January 12, 2017 29 minutes ago, c4ooo said: @Gaarst sorry for the the necropost It said 'january' so i thought it was recent. (stumbled on this thread through google search) No worries mate. Necroing is alright when people actually contribute to the discussion, which you did. (Also seems like my locking request didn't go through, stupid mobile software) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snark Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Aaaand that's a wrap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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