Frame Rate Problems!

[AceGamer]

Hi am quite new to Kerbal Space Program and just recently brought the game and i am having mega frame rate problems i haven't really seen to many helpful posts about it.

My PC Specs:

Intel I.5 2.40ghz

RAM: 6GB

Graphics Card: NVIDIA Geforce GT 525M

I have tried putting it on lowest graphical settings and it is still lagging quite a bit.

Please leave your suggestions.

[EndlessWaves]

What size rockets are you making?

There's currently no mechanism to stop you building really big rockets so you can easily go to hundreds of parts, the physics calculations of which cause any computer to grind to a halt.

If this happens even on rockets with 20-30 parts then it sounds like a bug of some sort, try the support forum.

[Seanoog]

Hi am quite new to Kerbal Space Program and just recently brought the game and i am having mega frame rate problems i haven't really seen to many helpful posts about it.

My PC Specs:

Intel I.5 2.40ghz

RAM: 6GB

Graphics Card: NVIDIA Geforce GT 525M

I have tried putting it on lowest graphical settings and it is still lagging quite a bit.

Please leave your suggestions.

Hello AceGamer.

An welcome to Kerbal Space Program, young explorer.

As Endlesswaves, has correctly pointed out KSP, can be an incredibly demanding game.

I am assuming by your Specification, that your playing on a modern-ish laptop, truthfully there is little if anything Hardware wise you can change to improve your experiance.

But I can recommend the following changes:

1. Lower games resolution? From 1920x1080 to 1280x720 (Maintaining same 16:9 aspect ratio for screen)

2. Reduce + Priorities small efficient craft designs (100-200 Parts).

(KSP is very CPU intensive, an each part (Fuel Tank, RCS Thruster, Lander Leg, Battery) Has to be accounted for an physics calculated in real time by the CPU.

3. Launch Task Manager, an Terminate ALL unused programs (Internet explorer, iTunes, Word) Any thing that requires precious CPU Cycles + Ram.

If it makes you feel any better.

Even my system struggles with 400 Part crafts, with the game at 2560x1600 Max Detail settings...

[AceGamer]

I will try what you are saying. Also i rarely build 100+ Part Craft!

[NeoMorph]

It's also known not to like multiple cores so prioritising a single core does seem to help.

[Exal]

Hey just wondering guys how do u check ur frame rate in game?

[AceGamer]

I use fraps but you can easily tell when it drops below 15 by the jerkiness.

[AceGamer]

Also thank you SeaNoog for the advice it has really helped my FPS is fine now!

[KAO]

does the game lag for you overall? or only when you look at the Kerbin horizon?

that's what was happening to me, my machine had trouble handling the ocean but was fine with everything else.

In the config there is a setting that goes something like KerbinOceanMaxSubdivision, if you want smooth gameplay change the values for all three of those to 1

[electronicfox]

Do you happen to have a Dell Inspirion? My laptop has this exact hardware and I have no lag outside complex craft flights.

Some things that may make a difference: Overheating, my laptop will stutter to a crawl when it gets hot in KSP, allow some airflow to the underside (I prop mine up on books for a while), and full HDD, ensure you have a decent amount of space in your hard drive.

[EndlessWaves]

It's also known not to like multiple cores so prioritising a single core does seem to help.

There's a big gap between not using multiple cores and not liking them. KSP has no problems running on multi-core processors (obviously, since they're ubiquitous these days).

[AceGamer]

Yup i do hopefully soon to upgrade and my hard drive isn't half full and my frames are fine now only a little tiny bit when inside the Kerbin Atmosphere but nothing i cant live with. Thanks for all your help and support!

[ThatBum]

You can increase your framerate at the cost of the simulation slowing down/not running in real time. Go into settings and put your max physics delta time slider to the right.