My computer is at its limit...

[kiwi1960]

Loaded KSP today, and I was playing with 250 megs to spare.

Its time I upgraded with a new video card AND more RAM! (within the next few weeks I hope)

Towards the end of the year, I'll be upgrading and relegating my humble quad core to other tasks... or at least, I hope its towards the end of the year.

First thing is first... the car needs a new cam belt... this one has about 5000Km left on it... its booked in on Thursday to have it done...

Then, my wife (Rianne) wants a pool..... and then we both want a camper van... Diesel of course....

and then... all going well... my new computer... and the only reason I want it is for KSP... yes, I am addicted.

I'm currently planning to build ICE BASE "Sir Edmund Hillary" and then an Island Base (yet to be named) ... then, of course, bases on other planets.

I have a feeling that the new computer will be essential for my plans.

In the meantime, I shall look to dumping a few... unused.... mods.

[SyzygyΣE]

I feel your pain. I only have a laptop to play the game and with these 180 mods loaded, the framerate drops to 8 FPS. Not mentioning the fact that I run KSP alongside a memory cleaning application that tries to automatically free up space every 3 minutes. Without it, the game would crash less than 1 hour after booting it up.

Mods are just too damn addictive. You start off with a few basic ones you think are necessities—for me the RO and RP-0 mods, find another interesting mod, download it, think "oh it's just one more mod it'll be totally fine." Next thing you know you have somehow installed over 100 "necessary" mods with the game and computer on the brink of collapse.

"Oh wow this new one looks amazing. Please just one . . . more . . . mod. It'll be ok."

[Red Iron Crown]

Moved over to the Lounge.

I know the feeling. I played KSP on a laptop from the Core 2 Duo era for years, I could only look at the VFX mods and high part count ships with envy. And there always seemed to be other, more important expenses to deal with before buying a new PC mostly for one game, adulthood is not all it's cracked up to be. I finally upgraded to a modern Haswell system in January of last year, the difference was night and day. Visual mods! Green mission timer! High part counts!

[adsii1970]

20 minutes ago, Red Iron Crown said:

I finally upgraded to a modern Haswell system in January of last year, the difference was night and day. Visual mods! Green mission timer! High part counts!

[edited by adsii1970 for relevant content]

Is this a laptop?

Edited July 19, 2016 by adsii1970

[Red Iron Crown]

Just now, adsii1970 said:

Is this a laptop?

No, the new machine is a desktop. I would have preferred a laptop for convenience reasons but it's absurdly expensive to get a decent GPU in one compared to a desktop.

[adsii1970]

1 minute ago, Red Iron Crown said:

No, the new machine is a desktop. I would have preferred a laptop for convenience reasons but it's absurdly expensive to get a decent GPU in one compared to a desktop.

I hear you. It is just that I hesitate to buy a new desktop with the type of work that I do. I guess I will have to go to a desktop solely for KSP. Did you buy it in a box store or online?

[Red Iron Crown]

13 minutes ago, adsii1970 said:

I hear you. It is just that I hesitate to buy a new desktop with the type of work that I do. I guess I will have to go to a desktop solely for KSP. Did you buy it in a box store or online?

I bought parts from newegg.ca and assembled it myself. I don't think that's all that much cheaper than prebuilt these days if at all, but I like choosing all the components and I enjoy assembling them.

[severedsolo]

8 minutes ago, Red Iron Crown said:

I bought parts from newegg.ca and assembled it myself. I don't think that's all that much cheaper than prebuilt these days if at all, but I like choosing all the components and I enjoy assembling them.

No, it's not cheaper, but you get the satisfaction of knowing exactly what's in there

 OEM's tend to skimp on quality somewhere, usually somewhere important like the power supply. Not to mention that standard drivers are so much easier than using the OEM's website.

[T-Bouw]

Also, should go without saying, dump some programs (temporarily) while you're at it.

Really, I have two tabs of KSP-forum opened in Firefox and the thing is already eating over 300 MB's.
The half a dozen updaters running in the background can't be good either...