Curious if there's a Kerbal Minimalist mod or something

[Chronogamer]

Hi!

Finally got the whole "docking in orbit" thing down, thanks to watching tutorials on the subject over and over and over.

Now I'm starting to build hideous orbiting monstrosities. However, I know where this leads: This leads to the madness of really low frame rates like 4 frames per second or 4 seconds per frame or something.

Yes, there are graphics options I can turn down, but since I haven't actually hit this issue yet this is more of a "I was wondering and I haven't seen anything in the mods like it" question:

Are there any mods out there or in development that reduces all of the graphics elements to simple geometric shapes? Like cylinders, cones and spheres or is that not even a feasible pipe dream given the way the way the program is set up? Would that even affect the frame rate for really large orbiting structures?

Sorry, if this is a really newbie-modder question. I'm not even a noob-modder, I'm pre-noob.

Okay, I hope I've gotten my stupid question out of my system. I'll start lurking now. xD

[Vanamonde]

Post moved to its own thread, in a better location for people to see it. (Welcome to the forum, by the way.)

[EuSouONumero345]

Welcome to the forums!

I don't think there's any mod like that, but sure there are some mods that help reduce lag a bit.

Like Active Memory Management

Also, searched for a bit and found this

[Chronogamer]

Thanks for the welcome and for the links!

[joshuadery]

Isn't there also a welding mod or something that can help with frame rates?

[keeper]

I replaced all my textures and noticed minimal difference of fps with lower quality textures :/

reverted & tried the welding mod, seemed not to work for some reason (it was made for v.23 & i had loads of mods) + Iwas on .25.

TBH thinking to buy a better graphics card :/ cant think what else would make the game perform so bad with large part counts. :/

and all those mods...