How To Get a Higher Framerate?

[cameronpalte]

Hello Everyone,

I currently play KSP on my laptop with 16 gb of ram a i7-4770k and a Nvidia 765m graphics card. For normal KSP play on max settings the computer works great. However, I have an 1800 part aircraft carrier that I am trying to run and even with lower settings it slows the game down to 1-5 fps. If I wanted the game to run ~50-60 fps with the aircraft carrier on high settings, what kind of hardware would I need?

[worir4]

In the settings you can chane the delta time (Something like that) I think if you slide that all the way to the right then each second will be slower in game but FPS will be higher.

[Starman4308]

Hello Everyone,

I currently play KSP on my laptop with 16 gb of ram a i7-4770k and a Nvidia 765m graphics card. For normal KSP play on max settings the computer works great. However, I have an 1800 part aircraft carrier that I am trying to run and even with lower settings it slows the game down to 1-5 fps. If I wanted the game to run ~50-60 fps with the aircraft carrier on high settings, what kind of hardware would I need?

I'm not sure that can even be done. KSP is one of those rare CPU-limited games, the physics is single-threaded, and physics time is super-linear with respect to part count (physics calculation time increases faster than the number of parts you add). Many people start to see lag in the 250-400 part range, and a 1700-part vehicle is probably going to cause any CPU to grind to a near-halt.

I would suggest moving your delta-time slider all the way to large time steps: it reduces the accuracy of KSP simulation, but will increase framerate. Even still, I suspect you won't see a crisp framerate.

[Darren9]

Unfortunately there's not much that can be done, the only way to run more parts is increase single-threaded CPU performance (higher clock speed or better CPU). You should probably look at Ubizor's part welding mod, it's in the most recent video Wednesday with a short tutorial up in the Daily Kerbal section. You'll be able to weld large sections to be single pieces and get the part count much lower.

Edited November 23, 2014 by Darren9

[Bilfr3d]

All the 3 above posters ^^^ combine their posts, and you basically have the answer. Unfortunately not much can be done with a craft with such a huge amount of parts

[SpaceJuice]

I'm think you use a windows 7. My answer, did you set your anti-ansing at x8? And do you use a external screen?

Edited December 11, 2014 by Spacejuice
Speling

[Motokid600]

Question I've been meaning to ask if I may. Is it better to use the in game anti aliasing or the gpu's?

[SpaceJuice]

Anti aliasing makes the part polygons smother. Turning it off helps. And using the games is better

Edited December 11, 2014 by Spacejuice
SPEELING!

[michaelsteele3]

Get Razor Game Booster. (Search it on google)

What it does is automatically close background processes (ones you can't see and are just completely unimportant) and it boosts your FPS a little, but it's still worth it. (It's Free)