If KSP had been created in 1985, Whackjob would of had to.....

[pslytely psycho]

....build this! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2

Of course it would of had pong-like graphics......

And major lag....

cost millions....

require a warehouse....

it's own power station....

And Whackjob would of melted it....

Hmmm...sounds rather Whackjovian now that I think about it....

Glad to hear your new 'puter is up and running. Your posts are some of the most entertaining. You don't think inside the box, you compress it to a tiny submolecular space....and cause 'sposions.......

This is the closest to a Whackjob I have pulled off....or rather....blowed up.....

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[merendel]

And the funny thing is as powerful as it was in its day, the cray2 does not even hold a candle to a PS4 in computing power.

[pslytely psycho]

And the funny thing is as powerful as it was in its day, the cray2 does not even hold a candle to a PS4 in computing power.

Or your PHONE!

Funnier yet to think a modern smartphone has more total memory and processing power than the entire space program in 1969!

[Ruedii]

Your modern smart phone has more processing power than most super computers from the 80s even.

Too add to that, the average gaming rig has more computation power in it's graphics card than a cutting edge supercomputer from the turn of the millennium.

[Pecan]

Building your own (super-computer) rig is cool and all that but if you want to you can buy one second-hand (link is just an example).

Yes, it's amazing how much more powerful computers are these days. First one I worked on professionally was a 32KB water-cooled English Electric Company 'mainframe' (KDF9, possibly). The Apple IIe I switched to, with 128K expansion, took up a lot less room!

[Moar Boosters]

Whackjob's computer isn't the key, it's the fact he's got the patience of a saint.

[Red Iron Crown]

My first x86 PC had a "Turbo" button to slow it down if 12MHz was too much for a program. Laughable now.

Storage is nuts, too. I splurged a bit on that first PC by upgrading to a 40 megabyte hard disk and wasn't sure I'd ever fill it. Now I can buy 64GB in a package the size of a fingernail for about $50.

[AustralianFries]

Those last two screenshots are awesome.

I don't know why, but I've always liked pictures (in KSP) of vehicular breakup.

[Commissioner Tadpole]

Fireworks!

Also, how you got smoke effects to appear in the cloud layers?

[XyllyX]

Whack could play KSP on a Nokia 3310, and sit there for days waiting for the rocket to load

[Whackjob]

Whackjob's computer isn't the key, it's the fact he's got the patience of a saint.

Patience, or stupidity?

[Moar Boosters]

Patience, or stupidity?

http://i.imgur.com/ms9KsKc.jpg

Even NASA themselves have been known to build the occasional stupid design.

All throughout building this thing, I couldn't help thinking what kind of whack job came up with the design and how on earth they got it to work first try, using worse computers than I used to build this.

And my one doesn't even use the giant fireworks for main engines that the real one had.

[Whackjob]

Argh. Ran into a technical issue with the new Whackputer. For whatever reason, mouse suddenly doesn't work. I'd unhooked everything to relocate it to its final home (under desk in ventilation cabinet thing) and boom! Mouse no worky. Did a windows refresh, then a reinstall. That's going now while I'm at office.

From what I could dig up from what limited browsing I could do just with windows hotkeys, it seems it's a known issue where Windows decides its own generic drivers are fine and it refuses to recognize there's anything there but a generic mouse.

Gonna research this while office and on break, then go home tonight and fix.

[merendel]

Did you change the USB port the mouse was pluged into? I had a similar issue on my rig when I built it last year. Turns out for whatever reason 1 pair of the USB ports hates my mouse. They've got power, most peripherals work when pluged into those 2 but for whatever reason those 2 wont recognize my razer naga. Any of the other 6 ports and the mouse works just fine. Wasnt even a USB2 vs USB3 issue, buggy ports were usb3 but the mouse works in the other usb3 ports. Never did fix the problem just accepted the fact that I need to plug the mouse in elsewhere.

[zouwi]

(My first post to forums! Yay!)

I have had that same problem sometimes. Win+pause shortcut gets you to controlpanel/system, from there it is possible to navigate with tab to device manager and there to disable and enable (or change drivers) for mouse. Usually that has done the trick.

I have found myself building rockets with alarming resemblance to whackjob's creations when not having patience for several launches.

[Whackjob]

I've tried that, but the system does even recognize the Rat 3 mouse.

I did a little digging in the time I could during my breaks, and it seems the issue is the windows 8 fast-boot mode doesn't necessarily load everything when it comes up... including some USB devices. Gonna toggle that off when I de-office later tonight. Give that a whirl.

If all else fails... there's always Ubuntu.

[Hans Dorn]

Protip: You know your rocket is big enough when half a dozen engines can fall off during ascent without disturbing the mission.

[6.forty]

If all else fails... there's always Ubuntu.

This, if only for some 64bit goodness. There's always dual boot, too.

[zouwi]

I've tried that, but the system does even recognize the Rat 3 mouse.

That's odd. Have you tried to search for new hardware? Another thing that usually helps is to disable and enable the usb-controller, that way it rediscovers everything attached to those ports.

If that doesn't work, here is link to how to view non-present devices in device manager. That way it is possible to fix or remove drivers that associate to hardware that is not recognized.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff553955%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[pslytely psycho]

Fireworks!

Also, how you got smoke effects to appear in the cloud layers?

It's the high resolution Clouds and City lights. I just updated it after 0.23.5 and discovered it had volumetric clouds. I hadn't updated it in quite a while since it worked so well, so I don't know how long its been that way. Rbray89 is a genius. Saw a couple vids of some people experimenting with auroras. Thats gonna be cool. Need to track down those threads when I get some time tomorrow.

That rocket did end up being some cool fireworks though. One of the nicest looking endings to an unplanned rapid disassembly I have ever had.

Edited April 6, 2014 by pslytely psycho

[pslytely psycho]

Argh. Ran into a technical issue with the new Whackputer. For whatever reason, mouse suddenly doesn't work. I'd unhooked everything to relocate it to its final home (under desk in ventilation cabinet thing) and boom! Mouse no worky. Did a windows refresh, then a reinstall. That's going now while I'm at office.

From what I could dig up from what limited browsing I could do just with windows hotkeys, it seems it's a known issue where Windows decides its own generic drivers are fine and it refuses to recognize there's anything there but a generic mouse.

Gonna research this while office and on break, then go home tonight and fix.

Yeah, my logitech trackball did the same thing (I just built a similar computer to yours 3 weeks ago) I had to update the drivers manually. I turn off automatic updates, download but let me choose what to install. Otherwise it replaces my driver and the trackball becomes paperweight.

It's also good to wait a few days after a windows update anyway. Just to check the forums and make sure it didn't break anything. I missed the Win7 update that broke so many computers that way. A few days later they had it patched and I installed it. Would it of broken my computer? I don't know, but by delaying the installation of the patches until they are proven I never had to find out.

Good Luck Whackjob! ....