More optimizations for low end devices

[KSPnerdiest]

Since not much people has beefy pcs, and people have a budget on how much they can spend. It would be better if the devs focus on optimizations more so it would attract people with low end pcs.

[twich22]

Agreed. Patch 2 had some nice improvements but still need a lot more before the general public will be capable of playing the game. 

Edited April 16, 2023 by twich22

[Spicat]

Patch 1 and patch 2 got their fair share of optimization (For me my fps has doubled with these two patches).

Spoiler

Patch v0.1.2.0

Optimization

•  Fixed a memory leak in tutorials
•  Changed Kerbal Crew Cam to paginated format
• Optimized cubemap rendering to reduce memory usage and improve CPU performance 
• Optimized memory usage for clouds and corrected issue in which clouds on some Celestial Bodies did not match quality settings
• Reduced GPU memory usage for surface scatter meshes (especially grass) by scaling render buffers to currently visible content
• Applied CPU optimization to SetPixel behavior
• Deactivated underwater state detection when flight camera not active
• PQS disabled when flight camera is not active
• Optimized memory usage of tree scatter by reducing texture duplication
• Implemented Ground Shading Quality settings
• Anti-tile is now disabled when low quality is  selected
• Improved cloud memory usage
• Performance improvements when using vessel configurations with lots of resource sources
• Optimization on Kerbal IVA cameras
• Improved low graphical setting visuals in some scenes
• Additional flight camera optimization
• Optimized orbital nodes in map by not processing non-visible ones
• Optimized and Improved KSC night lighting
• Fixed memory leak in terrain code
• Fixed bug preventing instanced runway light levels of detail from being rendered. Also fixed memory leak due to accumulated rendering calls associated with runway light levels of detail
• Fixed bug where game loaded in an unresponsive state due to issue with modification of master texture limit while texture mipmap streaming is running

Patch v0.1.2.0

Optimizations

• Optimizations in the engine part module to reduce per-update “not out of fuel” messaging 
• Optimized engine exhaust damage calculations to reduce CPU impact of high engine counts 
• Optimized ThrottleVFXManager to reduce CPU impact of per-frame material property updates 
• Optimizations on EVA code 
• Optimized Center of Thrust and Center of Mass marker code and fixed null shortcut failure states 
• Optimized kerbal hair compression scripts 
• Optimized loading times in PQS code 
• Optimization of unneeded cameras during loading 
• Optimized loading times for the main menu 
• Loading optimization for scatter meshes 
• Optimized fuel flow calculations to cut processing by up to 3x and reduce garbage by half 
• Optimized runway light meshes 
• Fixed various texture and mesh memory leaks 
• Updated Training Center to use texture streaming 
• Fixed performance-impacting error state triggered by Kerbin’s clouds after returning to Kerbal Space Center from another celestial body 
• Removed unnecessary log entries to improve performance 
• Removed unnecessary logs when loading a saved game 
• Reduced light source count for multi-nozzle engine parts 

 

It's still not enough for people with low end pc but I think they are pretty focused on it. They are also focusing on bringing a better "low settings" (so it will help in your case)  as said here:

I think we're in a good pace of development now, unfortunately for people with low end pc waiting is the game here.

Edited April 16, 2023 by Spicat