Fairly Old PC help

[Fr4pp3r]

Specs:

Amd a8-7650k using Radeon R7 integrated graphics

 8gb ram

Windows 10

 

My setup is running the game at around 23fps and have been fiddling with some settings but no good, so I was wondering how many parts can this set up handle and what settings I can change to improve performance. Also can this setup handle visual enhancement mods?

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

Last year the GPU on my PC failed. Despite having the same processor and 32GB of RAM that it had before, running KSP through the integrated graphics system made it perform noticeably worse even with plain stock KSP. Looking down at terrain wrecked the frame rate most of all for some reason, something I’ve also seen when running KSP on an old potato desktop that was the cheapest in the shop a decade ago, so definitely aim the camera up as much as possible!I don’t recommend trying to use visual mods if you can barely run KSP without them.

Turn the terrain details and textures down as low as you can, disable terrain scatters, turn off anti-aliasing, turn down part details and textures, turn off aero effects, reduce the number of patched conics to 3, reduce the max persistent debris to a very small number (but above zero, just in case), disable V-sync and turn off the frame rate limiter- this last one won’t do much when the game is running but can make a huge difference to load times as for some reason KSP loading is frame limited and I’ve seen three- or even four-figure FPS numbers loading off an SSD.

Building vessels with more parts puts more pressure on the CPU and KSP is single threaded so modern multi-core, multi-thread processors can’t use their full potential.

[Stone Blue]

I turn off temperature gauges as well...

I also look to the sky, when launching... Drawing terrain has *always* been a huge hit on fps

In the editors, I also turn off the background ground crew/vehicles

[Fr4pp3r]

thank you very much for the tips! 

[adsii1970]

And as much as I hate to say it, if you are running with any mods that add clouds and other visual effects, uninstall them until you are able to get a stronger system.

We have all gone through this - or are still there.