Is 0.20 faster?

[katyjsst]

The Dev team mentioned a 30% reduction in memory usage.

But does it?

In fact many said performance dropped, frame rates slowed.

For me, I observe no noticeable changes though ever since 0.19.

[Rainbowtrout]

Nonononono!

[Kerbface]

Mine is much faster personally. Especially loading times from the VAB to the launch pad and whatnot.

[TheLowestBidder]

Yes, undoubtably in my case. I have recurring and well known lag problem when looking at Kerbin which is still fixed by editing the settings file for kerbin or something, but once that is complete, my game loads physics faster than 19.x. The framerate during 200+ part launches is significantly higher than before (not quantified). Furthermore, reccurring crashes on loading the launch tower/changing scene appear to have been fixed.

Edited May 28, 2013 by TheLowestBidder
Too many damned commas.

[nats]

My game loads faster and plays faster but that could well be because I hardly have any mods back in yet. Once I get back Novacore and KW Rocketry mods I will be able to make a more reasonable comparison. But certainly at the moment changing to the map view is very fast compared to before.

[Guest]

Without a doubt, yes. Significantly faster and more stable.

[gmpd2000]

well, i tested the same rocket in my stock 0.19 install and in my stock 0.20, Results:

0.19: 20-35 FPS

0.20: 10-20 FPS

And they are the same graphics settings.

So, its worse for me.

[Mihara]

Faster as such, I wouldn't say.

However, it very definitely lags less on higher part counts and low Kerbin orbits, and it takes far more to get it to crash on out-of-memory.

[legoheli]

Load times are much faster, memory useage is noticeably down, and it's not as hard on my temperatures as before. So definitely an improvement.

[dr_jt]

Kerbals fall out of chairs.

Edited June 6, 2013 by dr_jt

[Wait- Was That Important?]

Using half the parts than my 0.19 game, the loading time is the same and FPS while playing is almost halved. At the same time, the texture changes made did nothing to fix the issue of frame rate drops when looking at Kerbin.

[Fourjays]

I voted slight improvement, but for me it has gone in two directions. The game itself seems a little smoother (although I never built anything big enough to lag it like others). But the game loading is noticeably slower - and that is with fewer mods than before (I'm now almost entirely stock).

[Johno]

Load times are massively improved. The FPS rate is a little lower in flight (not enormously, but slightly), but since most of my frustration with 0.19 tended to be lag in the hangars and when waiting for Physics to switch on, I'm happy with that exchange. Despite the slightly lower FPS in flight, overall the game is much faster.

[Francesco]

Yes, undoubtably in my case. I have recurring and well known lag problem when looking at Kerbin which is still fixed by editing the settings file for kerbin or something, but once that is complete, my game loads physics faster than 19.x. The framerate during 200+ part launches is significantly higher than before (not quantified). Furthermore, reccurring crashes on loading the launch tower/changing scene appear to have been fixed.

could you explain better what that settings file fix is? I've been looking for that for a while.

[Uberick]

I've noticed general improvements, but I still can't wait for some serious optimization. I dream of the day I can launch a proper 500 part rocket without having to go take a coffee break mid ascent cuz it's running so slow:) Or when I can view my spacestation in double digit FPS. I'll buy as many t-shirts and coffee mugs as I can if the devs will make this happen:)

[Moustachauve]

Maybe it is because I didn't play enough with the new version, but I saw no difference at all

[RocketPilot573]

Nope, no change at all. Unity 4 didn't speed anything up either. But I guess that's because I can already run KSP on max settings.

[Windchild]

Major drop in the number of playable parts for me....

I went from being able to fly 1000 part rockets off the launch pad to having to use mechjeb [first mod/plugin I have installed, and I only installed it in .20] to launch if the part count goes above 500.

It also takes longer to load everything

Edited May 28, 2013 by Windchild

[rodion_herrera]

Since I installed it, no weird behavior, no crashes, and faster loading times and faster rendering for me, less stutter. I don't know if I've just been extremely lucky, but life in the Kerbol system has never been this smooth as glass. Maybe perhaps it's because I never use mods. I was going to install MechJeb and KAS today, but will push it back until I've finished my current Eve/Gilly missions.

[astropapi1]

Well, it loads faster and lags less when I load rockets on the launchpad; but as soon as I look at Kerbin, it drops to ~5 FPS, which is extremely annoying. Doing stuff in LKO is almost impossible because the lag, I have to keep pointing the camera away from kerbin, and when I EVA someone in LKO my FPS drop to ~3. This didn't happen in 0.19

I'm currently using:

-mechjeb 2

-The 0.20 version of KAS

-A fixed version of KW Rocketry

-A rescaled version of the new wheels for small manned rovers

I did a completely fresh install and noticed this before installing the mods.

It only happens on kerbin. Last night I did a landing on the Mun and all LMO ops went perfectly smooth.

[kahlzun]

Previously I had to run everything on 'low' graphics to keep performance up.

Now i have it on 'high' graphics and it is running just as well as before, so yeah: noticeable change.

[ammonia_ocean]

I added the HOME and Lazor System mods, and it loads at about the same speed it did in .19, so loading times have slightly improved. I'm definitely seeing less lag, but the time it takes to load from, say, the VAB to the launchpad feels like it's almost doubled. Also, the Kraken's shown up in full force now, while I used to be able to do pretty much whatever I wanted and still slip through its grasp. My space station at 1000km requires great care to operate...

[lyndonguitar]

Mine is much faster, might be just placebo effect. but it works for me at least

[Plur303]

My game loads faster and moves into the VAB faster but gameplay is much lower FPS and the textures currently look like crap. So I am saying performance is worse. I care more about gameplay experience than loading times.

[Morzak]

Hard to say since my current 0.20 install is mod free, but I feel like big ships with a lot of parts are handled way better and I don't see as big of a drop off as in 0.19 . But really I didn't test that enough to make a definitive comment on it.