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You're right; my haste in trying to get this problem figured out I ignored most of the long text posts when really that's where the answers were. If my guesstimations and general observations of the game so far are correct, 64bit support has been long in the works, so what would normally be just "used 64 and not 32 version of the game" just simply can't be the case. So, as I understand the problem, 32bit only allows me to use 4 of my 16 gb of RAM, and with the butt-load of mods, including Outer Solar System and the Ultra version of the Beautification mod, just push it right over that edge and the game shuts down before it gets past that limit. As I see it so far, solutions are both limited and not progressive; primarily, chill out on the mods, or at least prioritize what mods are necessary and what aren't, and try to keep content low so i don't run our of memory. If I'm not mistaken, this would probably be the reason why I've had multiple crashes periodically during the game when it used to work, and, just shooting from the hip here, the issues with the limited memory use that comes with the 32bit game led to the unique issue of the old thermal system that was referred to as "memory leak". I digress. In reading the bug report thread, it dawned on me that I perhaps am better off filing this issue under "32bit game cant handle what I want it to do, just chill on the mods", and while I will most likely file a report to get more closure on what exactly happened, it does not seem to be of immediate concern to me as of now as I've largely identified the root problem. Thank you for the useful links and the help, I'll be sure to read things I'm supposed to read first before I come back with an issue. EDIT: Found the Output_log.txt file and yep, right at the end it runs out of memory and dies; "failed to create vertex buffer of size 267936 [out of memory]"

So, I have a very good understanding of why my computer tends to not last more than 15 seconds in the initial loading screen before crashing with no sound, no error code, and no way to understand what happened. Of course, I figured it had to do with the 37 mods, patches and plugins I've downloaded; Interstellar, to KW and SpaceY, bunch of utility mods, the usual I suppose. They have all been downloaded via CKAN, so I don't think it has anything to do with improper installations of the mods, and I'm currently in the process of uninstalling them one by one to see when it starts working again. My question is, really, what happened? As far as I understand, the game is preparing all of the assets and lines of code for the game, and yet I wouldn't understand why the game would crash at the same time during the same part of the boot-up. So, does anyone know what's happening when you start up the game, and why having so many mods might be the reason for the crash (Keep in mind I'm not 100% sure if it's because of all of those mods). Just some closure, trying to understand why this is happening. EDIT: One time I tried it again for the sake of insanity, finally got a freeze frame of when it breaksdown and crashes. Not sure how important it is, but something nonetheless. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kck7hybgcw5ef8e/Screenshot%20%28113%29.png?dl=0

If you're talking about the satellite exploding in space suddenly, it could be the Heat-Kraken that's been attacking people since 1.0. Nothing you can do about it if that's the case

Yeah, the first time it happened to me I had a mini-freak moment and just slammed the Esc button and froze thinking ".... ... just happened". It scared the crap out of me

Grew up with my brother's copy of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Genesis. Never was a Nintendo guy, but I did eventually end up getting a Gameboy Advance

Looks like It'l be launching the WGS-7, "The Air Force's seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite", into Low-Earth orbit. Live coverage will start at 7:47pm EST for a launch window at 8:07pm. http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2015/07/23/live-delta-iv-rocket-launch-from-cape-with-wideband-global-satcom-wgs-air-force/30590289/

I say create a couple new save files (If you know what you're doing) and try out both of them with totally different versions of the game. That way you save your current saves while trying out the new mods. Scott Manley has a few good videos on stuff like this.

I know it's not the cause because I didn't use KJR up until recently and the screenshots I have in the OP are without KJR. Pretty sure it isn't the mod

Plus I don't think even a 5m Fairing from the SpaceY mod would help cover that up

If I'm not mistaken Remotetech does that already

No, actually I've never used that part because of it's buggy tendencies. The example in the imgur album is actually with a 1.25m rocket where the clamps were strapped o to the SRBs. - - - Updated - - - In the pictures above I used four around my radial SRBs; is that too much?

It seems like it's something with the type of part and not just the specific launch clamps. In the mod SpaceY Heavy Lifters pack there's a new part that act as super clamps, and I've seen them reach orbit in formation too.

I say it's far too early to come up with one now, given that they haven't playtested anything just yet.

Unless I want rapid rocket disassembly on the launch pad, I do sorta need them for the mid/late game as I'm launching 3.75 and 5m rockets with multiple stages. It's not all the time that this happens, but it's enough.

I'm interested to see how they implement this as a core feature in the game, but I agree with uglyduckling in that it wouldn't make much sense to have level 3 render any currently operating comms satellite obsolete. I can see Level 2 maybe reaching out to the edge of Kerbin SOI, but having it go substantially farther than that would be overkill. Perhaps, even, level 1 gives the network hardly any range at all outside of the atmosphere, with level 2 reaching to the Mun, and lvl 3 to Kebin SOI. Then you could have the moons set up with satellites to propagate the signal further to the system, and make contracts just for that (That will at least make use of the satellite-based contracts that aren't polar orbits and surface stations). In the end, as nalfz said, I'm still gonna stick with RemoteTech.