Graphic settings

[Scarecrow88]

When away from home I am trying to run KSP on a low end laptop that suffers horribly from lag even with fairly small ships. To minimise the lag I can turn all the graphic settings down to minimal but I would like to know which slider controls shadows as I find it difficult to judge my landing without a shadow to warn me when I am getting close to the ground.

Edited June 10, 2013 by Scarecrow88

[thes50]

Pretty sure it's called Shadow Cascades or something similar.

[Scarecrow88]

I thought so too as it seemed obvious but it isn't. I have had time to methodically go through each if the settings to see what each one affects. Turns out I need the Render Quality Level to be set at Good or higher to retain shadows. Anything below that and they disappear.

[Guest]

Ant aliasing is the killer graphics-wise. But seriously, KSP isn't graphically intensive, for example a low/mid range 6670 doesn't even run at 70% playing KSP, it's all in the processor. So even with your low end laptop, it's probably your CPU lagging behind, try lowering lagsbane settings

[Scarecrow88]

I don't even know what those settings are, let alone try to lower them.

[ZedNova]

It's in the general tab in settings:

It basically slows the game down slightly so the CPU can catch up with the physics calculations. The lower the number the more it slows it down. ( But you get more frames, and the game plays smoother.)

Try settings it on .10 like i have and jack it down until you think it feels right.