As i have seen a lot of people asking lately, Can i run KSP on my potato, I thought i would throw a potato at it for a real world test.

The Potato: Dell Latitude E5430  
Core I5 3230M  
16GB DDR3  
Intel HD4000 iGPU  
750GB very very slow SATA HDD (did i mention very slow?)  
Circa 2014, lower end business class laptop, the word gaming is unknown to it.

1st, I installed vanilla KSP and both DLC  
Results, perfectly playable.

Running an external monitor so i tested at its native resolution of 1440x900 and 1280X768 as that is a commonly accessible laptop resolution in the 720p range.  
Better FPS in the 1280 rez and still looked well, but still very playable at 1440x900 and also 1360/1366x768 (also common potato resolutions)

You don't need mad rez to play KSP, it may be nice but it is NOT necessary to play and have it be fun.

Load time was not bad overall.

This is 100% Totally playable and enjoyable.

"But i want mods, other people have mods"  
1) Mods are NOT required to play KSP and it be fun.  
2) Yes, potato CAN do mods, but be **reasonable** and use common sense.

Shy away from graphics enhancing mods if you have no discrete GPU at all and even if you do have one, Watch what you are loading.

If you have an old iGPU or even an old discrete GPU with limited VRAM, don't go get things that use 4K+ textures (like Kcalbeloh for example)  
Dont get things that attempt to boost graphics, ass shadows, add scatter, create realistic light, add shaders etc.

  
I tested WITH mods, because what good is a test unless we try breaking it.  
Some graphics things are ok, mainly texture replacers, long as they just use normal texture sizes, no high rez stuff.  
But anything that ups the real graphics abilities of the game is probably a no go.

Mods List:  
\- ASET-PRC [0.1.0.6](http://0.1.0.6)  
\- BetterTimeWarpCont [2.3.13.1](http://2.3.13.1)  
\- BreakingGround-DLC 1.7.1  
\+ ClickThroughBlocker 1:2.1.10.22  
\- CommunityDeltaVMaps 3:1.7.3  
\- CommunityDeltaVMaps-OPM 1.8.1  
\- CommunityResourcePack v112.0.1  
\+ CommunityTerrainTexturePack 1:1.0.5  
\+ ContractConfigurator v2.11.2.0  
\- ContractConfigurator-FieldResearch 1.2.2  
\- CrowdSourcedScience v6.1  
\- Deferred [1.2.6.0](http://1.2.6.0)  
\- ExplorationRoverSystembyASET [0.4.0.7](http://0.4.0.7)  
\- FinalFrontier 1.10.0-3485  
\+ Harmony2 [2.2.1.0](http://2.2.1.0)  
\+ HUDReplacer 1.2.12-beta  
\+ IndicatorLights 1.8.3  
\- IndicatorLightsCommunityExtensions 1.6.2  
\+ JSIPartUtilities [0.5.0.5](http://0.5.0.5)  
\+ Kopernicus 2:release-1.12.1-226  
\- KRnD [1.16.0.14](http://1.16.0.14)  
\- KSP2PreAlphaStyleNavBall 1.0  
\- KSPCommunityFixes 1.38.1  
\- KSPCommunityPartModules v0.4.0  
\- MakingHistory-DLC 1.12.1  
\- MechJeb2 [2.14.3.0](http://2.14.3.0)  
\+ ModularFlightIntegrator [1.2.10.0](http://1.2.10.0)  
\+ ModuleManager 4.2.3  
\+ NavBallTextureChangerUpdated [2.0.0.11](http://2.0.0.11)  
\- OuterPlanetsMod 2:2.2.11  
\- RasterPropMonitor 1:v1.0.2  
\+ RasterPropMonitor-Core 1:v1.0.2  
\- SCANsat v20.4  
\- ScienceAlert [1.9.20.5](http://1.9.20.5)  
\- Science-Full-Transmit v1.1  
\- ScienceSituationInfo 1:1.3.5  
\+ Shabby 0.4.2  
\+ SpaceTuxLibrary 0.0.9  
\- Toolbar 1:1.8.1.2  
\+ ToolbarController 1:0.1.9.14  
\- ZTheme v1.2.0

No special reason for mods chosen, they just seemed like fun ones to have in a simple KSP install  
and seemed to have a chance of running reasonably.  
Some are simply dependencies.  


Aside from 1st load, because CKAN needs to go through and cache everything, the loading was not terrible, and this HDD is very very slow.

Game ran fine.  
This thing has more potato than all of Ireland, but it could still run mods, just be realistic and reasonable.  
Game was fully playable KSP does not need to be the epitome of 4K interstellar madness to be playable and enjoyable (does not even need be none stock to be honest)  
Just use common sense, you're not making a 900+ part Corillian battle cruiser or an Interdictor Battleship from TW2002 etc, even a good desktop does that stuff slow so.

Threw up some screenies.

Smile of keepers of the potato, the Kraken says  
Kerbalbaut, come out and playay.





PSA: Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Kermin, and he says your potato can damned well run KSP