Bad performance in 0.20?

[Stealth2668]

For some reason, even if I'm sitting on the launch pad with a tiny stock ship (less than 100 parts) I'm getting a bad FPS. Anyone else having bad performance with the new patch?

[Godot]

The absolute contrary ... my game runs considerably faster

[Kerbin Von Braun]

I'm having the same slow-down problem, I tried reducing the graphics settings to just about zero and that didn't help noticeably, adjusting the physics tick rate didn't improve my fps but it did kinda help me get rockets up in a reasonable time. Is it possible that I didn't remove my mods correctly? Or maybe its something to do with the OS im using? (Win 7, i think its 64 bit).

For a little more detail, it was only when flying the rocket, the VAB was fine and once I got into orbit it got a bit better, perhaps its something with the aerodynamics or physics systems? I don't really know XD I'm pretty newb-y with computers.

[cesarcurado]

Not for me, it is faster.

maybe you should try reducing the level of some settings?

[Stealth2668]

it wasn't like this before so it's not my settings.

[Orenen]

I'm having the same issue and my settings are bumped down to lowest possible.

[Sir Nahme]

I've been getting spotty performance on eva, even a few crashes, my first ever in this game

[iRommel]

its pretty bad for me... reduced all settings. happens when im at the launchpad and i swivel camera around. probably has something to do with loading textures.

seems okish in space.

[Kerbin Von Braun]

Well i dunno if it was my save files, ships in orbit with mod parts, or what, but after i uninstalled the game, then backed up and deleted the originals of the rest of the data left by the uninstaller, and reinstalled i got better performance than before the patch.

Any ideas how to get my save data back?

Help is appreciated,

Dr. K. Von Braun

[TheUndeadFish]

If you have the Subassembly Loader mod, it's probably causing a performance problem because KSP 0.20 is no longer loading it properly (and so the game ends up trying to reload it incessantly which you're trying to play). If that's the case, then you can either remove that mod or try out the compatibility patch I've made - http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/30696-0-20-Subassembly-Loader-0-20-Compatibility-Patch

[Carthaginian]

Same-same gents... the slowdown is MASSIVE, to the point of interfering with my ability to fly on occasion.

Quad Core Athlon 620

Radeon 5700 x2 Crossfire

It's not the system- KSP 0.19 worked fine.

[NeoMorph]

WAY faster for me. Loads amazingly quick (although I am using stock until the mods are updated).

[jshier]

Seems better in some areas, worse in other. Looking toward the horizon in atmosphere or a bit above it still lags for me. It can be avoided by facing the camera straight up. Facing straight down helps too, though not as much, likely due to rendering the ground. None of the graphics options seem to have an affect on it either.

[8bitbeard]

Running all stock. Game ran gloriously before. It now runs gloriously-er. Looks a bit nicer too. Also, loading at the launch pad seems to have been improved.

[iRommel]

i had turned on fallback models or something in the settings before first try of .2 i just turned it off and the game is running much better for me.

[phatm0n]

Well, it's nice to know I'm not the only one. However, I have a sneaking suspicion it's all the plug-in related mods I have. I'll probably reinstall the game without them and try again in the morning.

[Levelord]

If you have the Subassembly Loader mod, it's probably causing a performance problem because KSP 0.20 is no longer loading it properly (and so the game ends up trying to reload it incessantly which you're trying to play). If that's the case, then you can either remove that mod or try out the compatibility patch I've made - http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/30696-0-20-Subassembly-Loader-0-20-Compatibility-Patch

THIS.

I removed Subassembly loader and now the game works really smooth. Seems that KSP goes into an infinite loop trying to run this mod, once you remove it, the game runs fine. You can switch out command pods in 0.20 anyway, so subassembly loader is quite obsolete.

[erGo]

If you have the Subassembly Loader mod, it's probably causing a performance problem because KSP 0.20 is no longer loading it properly (and so the game ends up trying to reload it incessantly which you're trying to play). If that's the case, then you can either remove that mod or try out the compatibility patch I've made - http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/30696-0-20-Subassembly-Loader-0-20-Compatibility-Patch

Thanks so much! removing subassembly loader fixed the issue for me!

[Rareden]

did you delete every thing in your game folder? i had the same issue but i cleared local content and redownloaded and its faster than it was in 0.19, must be incompatible mods/plugins slowing it down

[wired2thenet]

How many of you experiencing this issue are also on a laptop with an integrated GFX Card? That's my issue, which can't be readily fixed.

.19 performed okay, and I'm seeing *slightly* better results with .20 (load times most specifically, which was my biggest gripe), but still have to dumb down things tremendously to get something playable. I suffer through it with a quick camera swivel to the sky to avoid Kerbin lag

[jwenting]

wired, the Intel chipset of those laptops was never designed for gaming, it sucks at anything 3D and especially OpenGL. This is in large part because it offloads all those calculations on the CPU (it has no real GPU) and uses main RAM instead of video RAM which means less RAM for everything else and worse, main RAM is a lot slower than dedicated video RAM.

There's sadly for you no way to resolve that beyond getting another computer with its dedicated graphics chipset and video RAM.

[Rickenbacker]

i5-3570, 16 GB RAM, Geforce GTX 660Ti here. And I experience extreme slowdowns all the time. The only reproducible things I can think of are RCS bursts (which always seem to cause slowdowns), and possibly when parts of my rockets clip into the ground.

This is with even the tiniest ship, I get massive slowdowns no matter what. The previous patch version ran smooth as glass for me.

[Stealth2668]

did you delete every thing in your game folder? i had the same issue but i cleared local content and redownloaded and its faster than it was in 0.19, must be incompatible mods/plugins slowing it down

Ya I did a clean install, seems to fix the problem. I also had sub assembly loader which even caused lag in the VAB so I knew shortly afterwards it must be the mods.

[Rickenbacker]

Ya I did a clean install, seems to fix the problem. I also had sub assembly loader which even caused lag in the VAB so I knew shortly afterwards it must be the mods.

Same here. I got framerate dips even with rockets that didn't have any mods installed, but deleting all mod folders still fixed the problem. Runs like a dream now.

[Neomatt]

Don't forget that the mod-loading mechanism changed in this update (it was in one of C7's blogs).

Good for testing/developing a mod (you don't have to reload the whole game to reload your mod part), bad if a mod does a lot of stuff at loading/startup (probably SubAssembly's case).