when have you over done it with the part count?

[Archgeek]

I believe his new computer is pretty good, being as it's new and built with KSP in mind.

In any case, there's more to Whackjob's rockets than scale or partcount alone.

Primal terror?

I tried to steal his lander leg design for an Eve lander/return vehicle and wound up accidentally doing something simpler. His actual design takes 2 working sub-assemblies, a lot of struts, and a 3rd sub-assembly to serve as a template for how to put it together in order to get right.

[KandoKris]

For me 2500 is the largest "ship" I've ever made and put in orbit ( By hyperedit )

I Could have kept going, making it look smoother, more practicle, but I felt the fps was low enough, only just.

but I do have a few that go the normal way but due to lag I try to stay on the lower side of 1500 otherwise it is just too slow to play.

[Rainbowtrout]

My rovers. Mini "Quad Bikes" become the equivalent of an SUV

[Overfloater]

I have overdone it with that plane:

It consisted of ~1150 parts along with its payload, ~850 by itself.

I have NO idea what made put more engines on it than on my previous ships... It's just uselessly bigger than what a cargo ship should be.

Aerobraking slowed the game down to 1/3 of real time, which is why I flew it only once. (I could lower the graphics though... ._.)

[GreeningGalaxy]

Your spaceplanes are totally unreal, Overfloater. I can barely get a single FL-T800 into orbit on an SSTO these days.

[Majorjim!]

Your spaceplanes are totally unreal, Overfloater. I can barely get a single FL-T800 into orbit on an SSTO these days.

Intake spam my good man. Intake spam.

[gdkweller]

10 parts and 12 fps..

100 parts and 12 fps..

244 parts and 12 fps.. What is wrong with my computer?

[Superfluous J]

2 possibilities:

1) You have like 1000 pieces of debris, so your 244 part ship is acting like a 1,244 part ship which is lagging just about the same as your effectively 1,010 part ship.

2) You have a bottleneck somewhere that has nothing to do with part count. Super high graphics that your computer can't handle is one possibility.

[Ravenchant]

I generally start noticing slowdowns somewhere around 450-500 parts, anything over 600 lags significantly. But lowering the graphics quality? NEVAR!!one

[cantab]

Yeah, low fps even with few parts is usually a sign of either incorrect graphics drivers or a weak graphics card. The solution in that case is to either lower detail and put up, or upgrade.

[SelectHalfling0]

Around 500

[Thanny]

I routinely start with 1000+ parts, which makes for ~5fps launches.

After launch, the worst performance I got was with around 1400 parts, which I got to by attaching parachute modules to a fuel depot I wanted to de-orbit. Single-digit frame rate most of the time when flying the modules into place.

I haven't found the line, really, but one ship at 465 parts in the VAB was pegged at 60fps. Another at 1082 parts was at 30fps. Not a GPU limit, either. Since there are no physics in the VAB, that leaves draw call spam as the culprit. Seems there's a lot of room for optimization there.