Instant Performance Boost

[Captain_Brian]

Change Persistent Debris to 25 or 0 in the general settings.

My FPS went from 5 to 60.

I had 250 leftover rocket debris from prior launches being tracked and it was dragging my machine down. Figured I'd share the tip in case it helps anyone else.

[Mischief]

You know you can clear though out from the command center, right? I do it after every mission.

[Captain_Brian]

I know, it's just tedious and i didn't think that over time it would cause a performance issue. Don't really see a reason to keep over 25 around anyway so it works out for me either way.

[timsfitz]

If you turned it from 25 to 0, why was there 250 previous rockets around? Should've only been 25 right?

[lammatt]

persistent debris is not that bad, each debris is just counted as 1 part unless it's in the 2.5km rendering range.

[Klingon Admiral]

Who leaves debris, anyway?

Some retrorockets and that upper stages won't bother you any more.

[Mischief]

I find it does give me a significant performance whack, where part count doesn't. I'd absolutely agree with the OP; especially when you have, say, a bad 'accident' on the Mun or the like and you've suddenly got 200 debris.

Setting it to 25 or so isn't a bad idea at all. It's few enough that it's easy to clean up.

After the next release though, recovering stuff saves you kredits! No parts ejected anywhere but on Kerbin, with chutes Cuz I'm a cheapskate.

[Superfluous J]

I endeavor to not leave any debris, and I do manually delete the anything landed.

But letting the game just delete it seems wrong to me

[_Aramchek_]

*pets his i5* Persistent debris never really affected my game. mwuahahahah

[Epthelyn]

*pets his i5* Persistent debris never really affected my game. mwuahahahah

Out-of-physics-range orbital debris had an impact on the performance of my i7 laptop. The 3/5/7 by itself is meaningless without a clock speed

That thing was 2.4Ghz, so not exactly brilliant.

[John FX]

Out-of-physics-range orbital debris had an impact on the performance of my i7 laptop. The 3/5/7 by itself is meaningless without a clock speed

That thing was 2.4Ghz, so not exactly brilliant.

I have an I7@4Ghz, 24Gb RAM@1600 and a GTX 570 and debris slows down my game. I just need a couple of hundred debris parts and it`s like I have a few hundred more parts on my craft...

[_Aramchek_]

Out-of-physics-range orbital debris had an impact on the performance of my i7 laptop. The 3/5/7 by itself is meaningless without a clock speed

That thing was 2.4Ghz, so not exactly brilliant.

Laptops are never as fast as desktop hardware..anyway my 4.7 ghz i5 has no problem with persistent debris. :v

[Captain_Brian]

Funny thing is my laptop helped me figure out that the persistent debris was causing the problem.

I installed the game fresh on that laptop and copied over my large 600+ part spaceship and was amazed/perplexed at the fact that it actually performed better than my better desktop pc. After looking into it I realized the only difference was all the persistent debris. (I only have a couple of satellites and bases.)

25 is great for me, cleaned it up and I still get post launch debris I can either recover or ignore. (I figure I'll be doing a lot more recovering when the budget update comes out.)