cswancmu Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. I don't think that's relevant, it's just here for completeness.Tried playing KSP after upgrading, and framerate was in the dumps. Factor of four or five decrease. This was only when looking at the ground, however. Looking at the sky fixed all that."So what," you say, "you were just using too high terrain detail for your hardware and should either upgrade your PC or knock down the settings."Not so. See, playing around with terrain detail sliders and more fine controls in the settings.cfg file did not help my framerate issues. One thing, however, did. That was the EVA_ROTATE_ON_MOVE = False line in settings.cfg. Suddenly my lag was gone and I could play smoothly again.But there was another weird effect. The south pole of Kerbin now looks like grey ice. It's very different from the previous ice texture that was there.So just to summarize: EVA_ROTATE_ON_MOVE = True: Low framerate, almost unplayableEVA_ROTATE_ON_MOVE = False: My accustomed high framerate, all ice is now grey rockSo I suppose my support question is... what the deuce? How can I have both my previous, accustomed performance AND have ice look like ice? And, almost more importantly for my curiosity, how in the world did this unrelated flag have any impact whatsoever on the terrain and how did it knock my performance back up to its correct level?BTW I've tried this with a couple of repeated trials. Flag off, ice gone. Flag on, ice back and slow. It's a pretty clear correlation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vexx32 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Just to be absolutely sure, you are playing a stock installation? You're quite right, though; that flag shouldn't change any graphics settings whatsoever. I suppose all I can ask is if another setting was perhaps modified unintentionally, or if perhaps editing the file mucked up its read/write permissions and KSP was unable to read the file for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cswancmu Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Indeed I am playing a stock installation. I've done this several times now. Start KSP. Load a craft on the ground in the Southern continent to check the status of both ice and framerate. Quit KSP. Open settings.cfg with a text editor. Change the True/False value of the above flag. Start over again.There's really nothing else I've changed each time. Is there some sort of logfile or report that I could attach which would be useful? What's step 1 in diagnosing this problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernovy Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Does this also happen when you change it from the settings menu? (Under controls -> misc)The stickies of this forum tell you what information is useful in these cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cswancmu Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 AHA, I was premature in my post. Please ignore this. In fact, is there any way I can delete this thread so people don't get distracted by it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenbobo Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Edit first post, there should be a Delete Thread checkbox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vexx32 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 No, there isn't. You can delete your own posts, but you can't delete your own threads; you're not allowed to, because you'd be deleting other people's posts too, and that's not nice. I'll lock it for you, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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