Raise Your Hand if You Play KSP on a Below-Spec Computer!

[bigyihsuan]

I do. I want to know who else plays KSP on a below-spec computer.

What I mean is that your computer specs are under the recommended specs on the main site.

[NeoMorph]

Dude, even on a Cray this game would run like a dog lol.... So by that case EVERY computer is below spec.

I think the day Squad release an optimised build everyone is going to scream their heads off with delight.

[swiftgates24]

*All of KSP Community raises their hand*

Yeah, this game is rough. The specs they list aren't for KSP, they're if you want to view photos of it

[bigyihsuan]

Do you mean a version that lowers the recommended specs? Then yes.

[Kerbface]

Well I haven't checked the specs BUUT if I have anything else running it's about 95% likely to crash on my second launch attempt after editing something in the SPH and I have to restart the game every time, so... maybe?

[Wait- Was That Important?]

I think I'm right at the recommended specs- 4gb RAM, Windows 7. My graphics card is terrible though- I get more GPU lag then CPU most of the time, I kid you not. It's just stock Toshiba graphics on this Satellite A660 laptop, so KSP is one of the few games I can play and still (most of the time) get 20 FPS.

[Francesco]

*All of KSP Community raises their hand*

lol

I'm playing on a 13" macbook pro which technically doesn't even have a GPU, but I'm still impressed by the performance this game can squeeze out of a Core i5.

Well I haven't checked the specs BUUT if I have anything else running it's about 95% likely to crash on my second launch attempt after editing something in the SPH and I have to restart the game every time, so... maybe?

you may want to take a look at this: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/24539-Public-Service-Announcement-KSP-crashes-on-second-launch

[UmbralRaptor]

::raises a talon::

The recommended specs are more of a rough guideline. Actual minimums are subject to change during development.

[cristof12]

Even with a decent gaming rig I lag a lot (877 rocket parts and I have 2 FPS while launching). Okay, I know 877 is a lot but dude, I need to probe every Jool's moons !

[Hrdina]

Well I haven't checked the specs BUUT if I have anything else running it's about 95% likely to crash on my second launch attempt after editing something in the SPH and I have to restart the game every time, so... maybe?

you may want to take a look at this: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/24539-Public-Service-Announcement-KSP-crashes-on-second-launch

Well, that is interesting. I see this issue all the time, so I'll definitely have to sit down with that thread.

I'm running on a single-core AMD Athlon64 3800+ that I bought in April 2005. I upgraded it to 2 GB RAM at some point, and recently bought a new GPU (GeForce 610) because my older card (GeForce 7600GT) went kaput.

I knew my computer was not up to speed for KSP, but since the demo ran OK I bought in (and I'm glad I did). A new machine is on my shopping list, but finances don't permit that at the moment.

[ThatBum]

I tried to play it on my work machine, a Pentium D with 2GB of RAM and a 8500GT. Not a good idea. It literally consumes every drop of available memory and runs at about 5 seconds per second. If it even starts at all.

It runs much better on my main machine, though

[SalmonellaDingDong]

Does it really matter at this point? I have an i7, a gtx 680, and plenty of ram and it still runs like crap.

MULTITHREADING PLEASE.

Please don't reply with "but unity doesn't support that!" since thats something that should have been figured out before they started making the game in the first place.

[Flixxbeatz]

Windows 7 32 bit.

4GB RAM.

Intel i3 quad-core

NVIDIA GeForce 310M (Drivers Updated).

I have to enable RAM switch to make the game playable and I get thermal shutdowns sometime. How's about that?

[SalmonellaDingDong]

Thermal shutdowns? Clean your heatsinks.

Also, there are no quad core i3s.

[ThatBum]

Mine's liquid cooled and overclocked to nearly 4GHz, so HAH! It's getting a bit old though.

[KD3]

I used to play it on a low spec computer but then I built my current computer.

[Flixxbeatz]

Also, there are no quad core i3s.

Then my dxdiag must be lying to me.

or is there something I don't know?

[SalmonellaDingDong]

Hyperthreading. i3s are core2duos. You have 2 physical cores and 2 virtual ones.

same reason DxDiag tells me I have 8.

[Whirligig Girl]

I try to play it on my media PC, but I usually just use my desktop comp.

[ROFLCopter64bit]

I used to play this on a very old computer (AMD Athlon X2, anyone?) but it kept giving me BSODs.

I then got a custom built computer 18 months ago (Intel i7-something @ 3.65GHz quad-core with hyperthreading, other things i cant remember) which made it run smoothly. It's still future-proof, but every computer needs a slash-and-burn reinstall every what, 8 months? 10 months? anyway, mine is still overdue. 6 months ago I used to have 10% better fps on everything than I do now. So, if your computer is suffering, slash-and-burn. Complete OS reinstall. It also helps if you are on a SSD with only 120gb of space (and it doesn't help as 60gb is used by my steam games), it removes big files that your computer leaves behind that it never deletes. Windows is very clunky in the terms of diskspace.

[rolandh]

I'm running it on a Toshiba C660-15R Notebook:

Intel Celeron 900 2.20GHZ CPU, Mobile Intel GM45 Express Graphics Card, 4GB of RAM 3.7GB available to System rest used by Graphics & Ubuntu 13.04 x64 and it runs perfectly fine (in fact the paid version runs faster & smoother than what the demo did)

Roland

[shand]

im NOT running it on a eeePC with 2 gig ram intel atom N280 @1.66GHz (2 CPU's)

i tried, got bored waiting for the first splash screen.

other then that i run a desktop which is moderately ok and above spec and a laptop with i3, intergrated HD graphics. 6 gig of ram. really struggles with physics calcs and kerbin terran graphics but otherwise all is good. i use it for my ship design.

[sgtscuba]

Playing on a HP G62, and I try to avoid looking at Kerbin as it lagggs.

[spikeyhat09]

i run it in between the minimum and recommended specs (at least what the website says, idk bout steam) and it runs fairly well. i dont ramp up the graphics settings (since tbh i could care less about the eye candy). the great thing about ksp is that its still very playable even at low framerates.

[rex22mm]

My KSP can only run with 150 parts or less, or else it freezes my entire computer. It's a nice challenge to build interplanetary rockets with less parts possible.