How to improve KSP Lag on Mac?

[Parbes]

Hello, i'm in desperate need of help, I just bought KSP on Steam for my mac and it is VERY VERY laggy, i've closed every thing other than Steam and KSP and it still lags, can someone please tell me how i can remove the lag so I can play properly? I'm also quiet new to this gaming steam thing as i've only every bought and played Football Manger which works fine on my mac.

Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB

Thanks in advance.

[ComradeGoat]

Hello, i'm in desperate need of help, I just bought KSP on Steam for my mac and it is VERY VERY laggy, i've closed every thing other than Steam and KSP and it still lags, can someone please tell me how i can remove the lag so I can play properly? I'm also quiet new to this gaming steam thing as i've only every bought and played Football Manger which works fine on my mac.

Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB

Thanks in advance.

Have you turned the graphics down? It runs pretty well on my Haswell Macbook Air. I've got 8 gigs of RAM though.

[m4rt14n]

My fix for mac lag is just dual boot windows..

I have a '09 macbook pro running on that setup. Performance for native mac games is just too underwhelming compared to windows version on the same laptop.

[Taki117]

Try This Mod It actively compresses all textures on load.

[astropapi1]

Buy a PC.

Just kidding, try turning your graphics settings down, that should help.

[Dispatcher]

My iMac is pretty old (maxed out at a whopping 2 GB RAM). With my old (and failing) 320 GB HD everything was slowing down, inc. KSP. I replaced it with a 1 TB Seagate for $80 and with its faster read/ write and through-put, its like a new computer. Everything is much faster, inc. KSP. It used to take several minutes to load the game. Now its less than a minute.

I get no lag (unless I'm launching a 700+ part craft). Of course my graphics are not maxed, but are at decent settings. I use Steam (and got KSP via that venue). I use Time Machine and an external 1 TB Seagate as well for backup (which worked out well when I replaced the internal drive). To give you an idea of time difference for me. Restoring the (failing) old drive would take 35 HOURS. Restoring to the new drive took THREE hours.

You might want to go into Apps/ Utilities/ Activity Monitor and see what might be hogging resources, besides KSP.

Good luck and I hope that helps!