How slow is too slow for your ksp?

[omelaw]

Am I only person who can't allow yellow timer in my ksp?

one of my station near mun in 1.0.5 has 160ish parts and start to slow down (12s per in game 10s) and it really annoy me... but it looks like other KSP players won't mind about yellow timer...

[Hobbes Novakoff]

I'm used to it. Playing on a laptop means that even if your CPU is handling the action just fine, the GPU only gives about 20 FPS and thus slows the game down massively.

[razark]

Isn't the timer supposed to be yellow?

[Superfluous J]

I'd say somewhere around half speed. Once it gets down to 2 in-game seconds per 1 my-time seconds, I start to really feel the weight of my 500+ part ship.

Hopefully this will change in 1.1, and I'll then be able to complain about 800 part ships

[Mjp1050]

When I can count the frames per second, I call that slow.

And I have never seen my timer anything but yellow, (and red when physics warp is active.) Is that normal?

[WooDzor]

691 parts ISS around Kerbin on a laptop.. I count seconds/frame :-D

[Vectura]

For me too slow is when I cannot control my craft due to low framerates- generally anything below 10fps is too slow for me. The timer goes to red quite regularly.

[KerikBalm]

When it start to be hard to tell if its seconds per frame, or frames per second, its too slow... in general, playing on my old 2009 laptop, the game's always too slow, I'm looking forward to getting a much better machine as soon as I get a new job.

[bncrock]

I don't usually have to worry about this. I'm not trying to toot my own horn, but since I play a lot more than KSP (WoT, CS:GO, etc) I custom built my own gaming rig and it handles ksp like a charm.

[Dfthu]

The highest FPS I ever saw is 18, never goes higher than that. Hopefully 1.1 will help with that.

 

[cantab]

SIngle-digit fps starts to pee me off. Seconds per frame has me vowing Never Again.

[theend3r]

I have horrible framerate even with small craft. I think it's because of Scatterer but I can't play without it.

[Matt77]

I'm surprised at the results so far but maybe it's because of the wording?  The forum is full of people complaining about performance so it's weird that over half the respondents are happy with a slideshow...

I allow whatever frame rates are necessary, for example docking at my LKO waystation to refuel can be single digits if there are other missions waiting there.

I try to limit my designs to a flickering clock, so that's what I voted for.

Edited March 30, 2016 by Matt77
Weird demographic?

[razark]

6 minutes ago, Matt77 said:

I'm surprised at the results so far but maybe it's because of the wording?  The forum is full of people complaining about performance so it's weird that over half the respondents are happy with a slideshow...

Just because people are willing to play it with low performance doesn't mean they like the performance and have no desire to see improvements.

[CaelumEtAstra]

My game usually flickers between green and yellow for crafts with low part counts (~10-20 parts). Most of my crafts don't get much higher than 150-200 parts, and usually that's a rocket on the pad plus payload. My ever faithful Apollo style capsule in an "LKO Taxi" configuration (a la Eyes Turned Skyward Apollo Block III) is about 30 parts, and in orbit the clock is solid yellow, at about half speed. Even when docking to a ~150 part station, the clock is still yellow.

I think it's just because I prefer smaller crafts that just so happen to have such a low part count that I never needed to worry about single digit fps. 

[Matt77]

18 minutes ago, razark said:

Just because people are willing to play it with low performance doesn't mean they like the performance and have no desire to see improvements.

Which is why I questioned the wording of the topic.  It's all massively subjective.

[Curveball Anders]

I'm ok as long as fps stay double digit outside the VAB (need a bit more when building stuff).

Then I use the fps limiter at 30 to keep my GPU fans from having my computer shuffling away from me.

 

[322997am]

My machine handles Ksp extremely well because I have 16 gigs of ram and a 3.5ghz i5. Have a HORRIBLE graphics card, GT 730 for $30. I am going to get a GTX 750 ti.

[_Aramchek_]

Anything under 30fps average is generally unacceptable to me.

[Bubbadevlin]

When I am actually trying to go places, I prefer over 30 fps, however when building, (especially on my old computer) I will sometimes allow nearly 10 seconds per frame, but those are usually special case replicas  (life sized saturn V

[cantab]

3 hours ago, Matt77 said:

I'm surprised at the results so far but maybe it's because of the wording?  The forum is full of people complaining about performance so it's weird that over half the respondents are happy with a slideshow...

I'm not happy with it. I just get stubborn and bloody minded when I decide to build and fly a Big Thing.