No more ocean lag?!

[stupid_chris]

Am I the only one who noticed that?

I used to have terrible lag if I would look horizontally during my launches, or in the Space Center/RND Building (since it's overlayed over the Space Center). I'd usually end up looking straight down or straight up to minimize the lag, and it would make for boring launches to watch. It would also show up when looking at a planet that has an ocean from low orbit. Now it's literally gone. Nothing at all. My framerate stays well above 30 during my launches on rockets with a decent amount of parts no matter where I look, same when in orbit.

I can't really be the only one who noticed that right?? :/

[Dizzle]

I noticed it too. THIS is the best part of the update.

[SkyRender]

That was the first thing I noticed upon launching a rocket, actually. It's nice to be able to survey sea, sky, and land all at once again instead of two out of three.

[stupid_chris]

This bundled with the potential heavy optimizations with Unity 5 such as better multithreading support and 64bit stability is pointing towards a much better future for KSP

[Vanamonde]

No, you're not the only who noticed that I can look out of the windows of my ships for the first time in 2 or 3 versions! I too discovered that I can watch my launches without having to pan all the way up or down! Furthermore, I can look around in IVA view without trashing my framerate! Sorry about all the italics but, I am extremely excited about this!

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

I think I heard it somewhere that they were improving the perfomance while you are looking at the water-Rendering. But I cant recall where I got this from....

Probably the last Squadcast with Mu on Twitch.

[Cydonian Monk]

The meagre Intel HD4000 on-die "GPU" in my MacBook thanks Squad for this improvement. And I guess I do too.

[stupid_chris]

I think I heard it somewhere that they were improving the perfomance while you are looking at the water-Rendering. But I cant recall where I got this from....

Probably the last Squadcast with Mu on Twitch.

When I asked Mu about it he said it wasn't his doing as he hasn't participated at the creation of the ARM patch :/ Apparently it would be Unity 4.3

[Deathsoul097]

Last update made it slightly better for me, so hopefully this bodes well. (Haven't played yet. Too much planning and configuration.)

[The Destroyer]

I didn't know it was the ocean, but it seems like my KSP is smooth as butter! Or silk. Or... uhh...

smooth stuff.

[regex]

I didn't know it was the ocean, but it seems like my KSP is smooth as butter! Or silk. Or... uhh...

smooth stuff.

Yeah, it's amazingly smooth. I can't wait to see how it handles my mod list, hoping to squeeze a few more FPS out of it.

[AmpsterMan]

For the first time in ages I can actually enjoy Kerbin again xD. It's by far my favorite part of the update!

[The Silent Majority]

Yes, finally have playable framerates, on kerbin and off.

THANK YOU SQUAD

[The-Bean]

23 months and finally it's fixed! I can't believe it took so long. Thank you.

[Doozler]

This IS exciting!

Am I correct that those of us who altered the settings.cfg file can now just delete it, and the game will generate a new one?

[vexx32]

Yep, though you will need to reconfigure your options afterwards, especially keybinds if you have any custom ones set.

[Kasuha]

Based on Scott Manley's videos, this issue might have turned much worse with ARM experimentals, bringing him to single digit FPS values. Maybe that was why the patch was postponed? If yes then it was definitely worth it!

[manskal]

Although I am enthused that 0.23.5 has arrived, I still wanted to wait for .24 before updating KSP.

BUT this reduction of water lag, as reported by all you fine gents have forced my hand.

Throw out the struts and asparagus, Jeb's going to chase an asteroid! For science!

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

When I asked Mu about it he said it wasn't his doing as he hasn't participated at the creation of the ARM patch :/ Apparently it would be Unity 4.3

Then it must have been the Dev interview at GDC Scott Manley did.

I am pretty sure I heard somewhere about it but I cant recall.

[lammatt]

O... didnt realize this...(as it didnt bother me much on my HD7850 desktop)

but i guess if it's the case, gotta give a thumb to squad.

[Mork]

I only got to do one lift-off before coming into work last night, but i noticed it too and screamed "Oh Thank You!!!!"

I love this game.

[Kialar]

Wow. I never had any probs on my desktop. But my Notebook has a dedicated Nvidia GPU and onboard Intel chips.

The graphics are configured in a way, that the OS chooses the onboard or dedicated gpu depending on demand.

Since 0.23 the notebook run hot on the Nvidia, but with 0.23.5 it remains doing the graphics on the Intel hardware without any lag at all.

This is epic. Awesome epic. Triumphal.

/me is out of words.

Squad, you did lead me into inevitable doom. Must. Play. Now.

[SSSPutnik]

ARM patch seems to have added a performance boost, but that's only my subjective view.

[FenrirWolf]

It's gone? That's pretty sweet.

I didn't even notice since the desktop I recently built handles the water far better than my laptop did, but I'm glad that problem's been attacked!

[Rainbow-Dashie]

So... We get asteroids, giant engines, huge fuel tanks, a super duper clawy grabber thingy, the ability to say "Yes, I've been using a computer program that was developed with the help of NASA" to sound all smarty, AND I CAN LOOK STRAIGHT AHEAD ON MY ROCKETS LAUNCHES AGAIN!!!???

I have buyers remorse... remorse that I stole this wonderful game for only 23 dollars...