What is your part limit?

[rkman]

With 150 parts (and mechjeb) the game runs already runs at half speed.

That's on a Q9300 2.5GHz.

[HafCoJoe]

Oh WHAAAAAACKJOB! Where is that fellow... Oh well. I usually build my rockets about 400-500 parts on launch and 200 or so when in orbit. This means my stations are about 600 parts when I build then but I wouldn't dare higher. Planes are about 150 ish parts (unless it's a cargo plan in which case 250). Rovers are usually about 50. Part count isn't always correlated to computer status though.

I actually stream and run mu own YouTube channel though so... You don't necessarily need a high end computer to stream.

[Aragosnat]

600 parts it seems to be before I start to notice a slight lag at my highish settings.

[prophet_01]

I have many mods installed (including astronomers pack at the push it to the limit settings ). I usually don't build cdafts bigger than 300 parts anymore. The exeption are manned interplanetary missions or very crowded space stations. It starts to lag a little at about 500 parts. I'm a performance junky and I hate fps drops. Recently I've been building smaller and smaller anyway so I barely reach that limit. I once build a jool 5 ship with abou 800 parts, it was soo damn laggy during the transfer burn it scared me

now I only get noticeable slowdowns if the trajectories mod has to calculate multiple atmospheric encounters or if I pancake bigger crafts onto the surface

[Navy2k]

One of my first builds. I had no idea about partcount and lag. With the Shuttle docked it had about 1400 Parts, was really slow but manageable.

[Dman979]

I can't even get one part to work without lag! And when I look at the ocean, things go to Kraken.

[Seanoog]

Selected 1000+ parts.

With my i5 its possible, but I rarely ever build craft that big.

I prefare small and functional with 50-250 been a typical craft size.

Typical heavy lifter is 500+ parts.