How Many Parts Before YOU Lag?

[RazorWolf19]

Well, the first thing I did when 0.20 came out was check if my station still runs like a dead turtle.

Turns out it does.

Anyway, with the new Kerbal Knowledge Base (Awesome, BTW!), I was able to find out that this station is only 334 parts... yet unplayable for me.

I would like to know how large your stations are before they begin lagging, because I personally would like to know JUST how bad my computer is.

Please don't take this as complaining about the patch, really, I'm not. Don't get me wrong, there is a definite improvement, however my station is just too much for my CPU to handle.

[cesarcurado]

about 100-150

[Dasemay]

600 to 700 with out getting to many CPU farts

[Streetlamp]

I am currently running a computer built and maintained by the brightest scientific minds of all Kerbal kind. I will now answer your question based on the data I have available to me at this time.

My FPS drops when I load this many parts:

Short answer- 1.0

Long answer - One point zero

[Conarr]

Since .20, I'm up around 750(ish) before I get annoyed

[duncan1297]

for me about 100 for space planes and 200 for rockets, for some reason the type of vehicle makes a difference.

[Malachai]

Haven't messed with .20 yet, but back before the patch I would be around 450 at max settings before my rocket launches started sounding like the old Transformers sound.

[RocketPilot573]

250-300 parts before the timer turns yellow. I'm have pretty much all the setting on max.

[erkha343]

~400 parts get's me the timer on yellow. using an i5-2500k 8gb ram and SLI gtx460 and all settings maxed except fallback.

[IllicitMedic]

I don't lag...i-5-2500k, 16GB Ram, Radeon 7550 2GB. Full settings.

[Malachai]

Wait, the color of the timer indicates how well the game is running?

[Kerbol Prime]

About 350 on minimim graphics, 300 on medium. I have an i-5 8gb RAM laptop.

[Kerbol Prime]

Wait, the color of the timer indicates how well the game is running?

I believe so. Green is good, yellow is laggy.

[AmpsterMan]

200 for me.

[lobsterbark]

2, and the lag makes the game unplayable. Luckily, this saturday, the ram for my new computer comes in, and I will be able to play at max.

[M5000]

My Soyuz replica has 345 parts, and it turns the timer yellow and causes significant slowdowns. However, I still consider the game playable and it's not a horrible framerate in my eyes.

[dharak1]

I always get a tad bit of lag around 50 FPS because I can't live without 6 chrome tabs minecraft steam skype fraps hamachi and inevitably a few folders running in the background. I start getting unusual lag around 600-750 parts but im sure i could double that if i closed most of my stuff.

[christheman200]

Before the patch, about 300 plus, and since I have started with 0.20, about 10 parts. I have no clue why, I've checked all my processes, and I've lowered my settings to minimal, but it's terrible.

[CozmikR5]

I've never built something supermassive but at 250ish parts my 'puter is still twiddling its thumbs and not batting an eyelash. Gfx are maxed. Maybe I should try someone else's crazy build

[Technical Ben]

about 100-150

Was this. Seems worse though sadly. Now about 50-100. :/

Might have a look at my overclock of running programs. But it might be some changes in 0.20.

I'm chuffed though, as my mega project comes in at 150 parts.

[Nullspace250]

1 part: 15 fps. 200 parts: 15 fps.

Wut?

[Wolfos31]

I run full graphics and can manage up to about 800 parts in space before it gets annoying. I have flown something with 986 parts called "The Jellyfish" from launch that my brother came up with. Amazingly it works but at that point I'm doing something like 2-4 fps.

At launch my comfort limit seems to be about 500 parts.

[Stealth2668]

I believe so. Green is good, yellow is laggy.

What's this timer we're talking about?

[MacDuckenstein]

What's this timer we're talking about?

It's the MET (Mission Elapsed Time), below the timewarp.

[Scotius]

300 parts is lagging a bit. But i can still play well over 400 or so.