I'm either building or buying a new PC just for this game.

[Hale1320]

I'm trying to decide what to do here, and I get alot of conflicting information. I understand what the minimum specs are so don't quote them. From what I understand (What I've been told most), is that this game is easy on the gpu and hard on the cpu. (The rest of this post is based on that information, so if I'm wrong just disregard everything else) so when it comes to the CPU's, are we looking for 16 core 3ghz type cpu's or 4+ghz 4 cores? And with that said, what's the minimum gpu that will work pretty Good? Not looking to build the best thing the world has ever seen. Just something that is playable, say 30fps with a goog sized ship. It would be cool if i could spend $100-$200 on a gpu and the upgrade in 3 months or so(that wait will put me in titan territory, but I don't want to wait that long) 

And basically everyone I've talked to have said 8gb of ram is plenty. Seems that's about the only thing everyone agrees on. I've been trying to figure out what to do for 2 months, and I'm getting close to just buying a new console. But that's not what I really want to do. 

Again, the only thing this pc will be used for is playing ksp, it doesn't need to do anything else. I don't even need it for email, lol.

Help me 

[steuben]

The general rule is speed over cores, and a mid line card. 

KSP doesn't do the multi-core thing so most of the time it will use one core over many. Though I have heard if you have multiple craft on screen at once it will try to split the craft calculations up between the cores.

As for graphics same thing KSP isn't the graphics horse that some other games are. 

The one place to splash out for is RAM more is better.

This thread will be able to guide you better. https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/167748-ksp-unofficial-official-computer-buildingbuying-megathread-all-questions-acceptable/

 

[Hale1320]

29 minutes ago, steuben said:

The general rule is speed over cores, and a mid line card. 

KSP doesn't do the multi-core thing so most of the time it will use one core over many. Though I have heard if you have multiple craft on screen at once it will try to split the craft calculations up between the cores.

As for graphics same thing KSP isn't the graphics horse that some other games are. 

The one place to splash out for is RAM more is better.

This thread will be able to guide you better. https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/167748-ksp-unofficial-official-computer-buildingbuying-megathread-all-questions-acceptable/

 

Thank you for the response. I've been through that thread a few times but it seems like everyone is making a machine that will do the game well, And also video edit and stream. And I really don't care about that. Yes I would like to upgrade in the future, but just to make KSP better. Is a ryzen 3 1300x a good cpu? The clock speed seems good but it's also cheap enough to make me not sure. 

[Shanrak]

One thing to keep in mind, with cryptocurrency mining driving up GPU prices, its more cost effective right now to buy a pre built than to piece together your own, especially if you want even a half decent card to play other games with.  I haven't upgraded my GPU in 3 years due to inflated prices and its very aggravating.

 

 

Edited March 15, 2018 by Shanrak

[MechBFP]

For your reference, I have a Dell Alienware 15 R1 laptop with a Core i7-4710HQ and a Gefore 970M video card. 

16GB of DIMM DDR3-RAM PC3-12800 (1600 MHz) system RAM.

Unless I build a giant beast of a rocket, the performance is usually around 45 FPS or more. I have never had issues personally, and it is a 3 or 4 year old gaming laptop.

 

[Shadowmage]

KSP is highly CPU dependent (and thus IPC*clock-speed are the biggest influences).  You want as much single-threaded CPU horsepower as you can throw at it.  The video card is almost irrelevant; any semi-recent card in the $200 range will be overkill for KSP.  8gb of ram should be plenty for even a decently modded game (16gb if you plan on going insane with part + planet + visual mods).

Any of the newer Intel chips with 2+ cores, and a 4ghz+ clock speed will be sufficient (i3/i5 are plenty).  The newer AMD chips are likely competitive as well, but I'm not personally familiar with their specs (just get a recent-gen chip with the highest clock speed and at least 2 cores).