RSS/RP-1/RO system requeriments

[Kapitalizing Every Word]

So for a long time I considered giving a shot to RSS the problem is that my pc is pretty bad I have this
CPU: A6 7480
GPU: RX 550
RAM: 8 GB DDR3 
I don't think I will be able to run RSS comfortably but I don't know the system requeriments so I don't know

[jimmymcgoochie]

I think you need more RAM- running RSS/RO/RP-1 usually uses anywhere from 20 to 30GB RAM for me, if you skip the really intensive stuff (easy on the graphics mods and be ruthless when picking your parts mods or trimming out parts you don’t need) you might get away with 16GB. RAM tends to be fairly cheap compared to other PC components and is really easy to install, however it’s worth checking if your motherboard can actually cope with a larger amount- I once bought a load of RAM to upgrade my old PC only to discover that it could only use a maximum of 8GB and I’d just installed 16GB on top of the 4GB it had before (it didn’t like that…).

If you’re going to jump from stock scale to RSS, I’d suggest trying an intermediate scale to start with: you could try JNSQ which is built at 2.7x stock scale (around 1/4 real scale), or rescale another planet pack- Grannus has a 2.5/2.7x scaled config which can be used separately or with JNSQ, or you could use the Rescale! mod with the stock system, stock + OPM or try a config for a different planet pack altogether e.g. Beyond Home. There are also plenty of mods to make the game more realistic than stock, but less real than reality e.g. life support, construction time for rockets, part failures, crew health and more; many of the mods used by RO/RP-1 have stock-alike options too e.g. Kerbal Construction Time (makes rockets take time to build and research take time to complete), Kerbalism (science experiments take time, life support, crew radiation and stress, part failures and all are adjustable), tech tree rearrangement mods like Probes Before Crew (because in reality probes were before crew at pretty much everything), budget management mods, different fuel types (hyperbolic and cryogenic, both of which are key parts of RO) and so on.

If you want to jump in at the deep end, go straight for RSS/RO/RP-1, but personally I found it a lot easier to make the transition via an upscaled system and learning some of the mods beforehand. There are a few good RP-1 based video series about, most are now a bit outdated due to recent additions to RO and RP-1 but they’re still good to give you a flavour of what to expect.

 

[Kapitalizing Every Word]

Thank you very much! I think that if I need more RAM I won't be able to play RSS/RO/RP-1 until I upgrade the motherboard (with an outdated socket and the memory being DDR3  it would be a waste of money to buy more RAM) 

^{as a side note it was your series that inspired me to try RSS}