How long does your game take to load?

[rodion_herrera]

Without mods (and I don't much), about 45 seconds. With MechJEB and Sub-Assembly Loader, around 55 seconds. Core i7-2630QM 2Ghz laptop with 6gig DDR3RAM, GeForce Gt540M 2GIG

[TriggerAu]

1-2 mins for me with 10 Mods.

[ZedNova]

45 seconds with various pieces from 8 mods or so.

[Windchild]

15 seconds with stock plus 3 parts (Mechjeb and the massive spherical tank)

[Blinkin]

62 seconds with 6 mods in 0.20.2. Launching from a SSD tough... in 0.19 it was way shorter while I had around 10 mods. I think it took ~25 seconds to launch 0.19.

[sal_vager]

I have Kerbal Engineer installed, and KSP loads in about 35 to 45 seconds for me, on Linux.

The excessive load times were traced back to unconnected network adapters (even virtual ones) on Windows, this issue does not affect Linux or OSX or it has not been reported to as far as I know.

Load times on Windows are similarly fast if unused/unconnected network cards are disabled

[Kerbal01]

2-3 minutes with bobcats soviet American and ISS packs, kerbx FASA gemini Sasquatch M's pulse det engines and Bussard ramjet, and the ESA pack, and crew manifest but ill be removing that as I don't need it

[Spooks]

+-50 sec 1.10 GB gamedata map running in window and from ssd

[Pixel of Life]

1 minute 34 seconds.

[DerekL1963]

Just a general curiosity thread...mine takes 45 minutes. I have ALOT of addons and mods.

I dunno... less time than it takes to step outside and have a smoke and then go into the kitchen and get a cup of coffee from the Keurig or some ice water from the frig.

[7499275]

My game with all the mods takes just over 8 minutes!

[Aqua667]

About 3 or 4 minutes with Mechjeb, Lazors, B9, and KSPX. Used to be nearly 10 minutes in 1.8.3!

[Agent30632]

About 1 min.

[Kelvin Kerbin]

These extreme loading times appear to be caused by a new unity bug (introduced on the latest version and exposed by a tweak on 20.2). There is a known workaround, which is to disable any unconnected network adapters you may have.

I can't guarantee it'll work for everyone, but it appears to have been effective for many.

Cheers

When I click on the link it says I do not have permission to view the page. Anyone have a link to the post on how to disable unconnected network adapters?

Thank You

[tater]

1 min, 36 sec with an RSS config and several mods (FAR, etc). Stock is much shorter.

[Jon Tash]

Last time I checked it was 5 min,43 sec with a little over 45 mods and my own customization parts/modules.

EDIT: Oh boy... necro alert.

[Skorpychan]

A couple of minutes. Just a few small mods.

[NecroBones]

I decided to time it. I haven't run my "play" copy (the one in the SteamApps folder) for several days, so none of it was cached (a worst-case test). I have 26 mods installed, and it took 1 minute and 27 seconds from hitting "play" in Steam, to when I got the first main menu in KSP.

Conducted a similar test with my "dev" copy (fewer general mods, plus the working/test copies of all of my mods, 18 in total at the moment). 1 minute, 23 seconds.

EDIT: Some specs: Intel Core i7-4770k @ 4GHz, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX-760, Western Digital 2TB hard disk.

Edited February 1, 2015 by NecroBones

[harald705]

About 1 minute and 30 seconds fully stock.

[Finnan]

Nearly 3½ minutes with mods.

[rynak]

About 35secs

5 Years old machine, but running from an SSD. 50 Mods, but most of them usability and mechanics. Total partcount is probably lower than stock, because my mods do not add many parts, and i replaced various stock parts with procedurals. All textures (stock and mods) handoptimized.

In short, overly long loadtimes are usually a texture problem. Half of the RAM problem however isn't - KSP 0.90 itself uses more RAM than before, and there are memory leaks (about half a gigabyte here, over a timespan of 20mins).

[Rune]

About 35secs

5 Years old machine, but running from an SSD. 50 Mods, but most of them usability and mechanics. Total partcount is probably lower than stock, because my mods do not add many parts, and i replaced various stock parts with procedurals. All textures (stock and mods) handoptimized.

In short, overly long loadtimes are usually a texture problem. Half of the RAM problem however isn't - KSP 0.90 itself uses more RAM than before, and there are memory leaks (about half a gigabyte here, over a timespan of 20mins).

Yup, I'm forced to load in OpenGL because of the memory leakage. So as long as I had to redo all my textures to make them work there, I went full Active Texture Management and added a ton of visual fluff (EVE and Astronomer's pack) to make up for the lack of anti-aliasing. BTW, does anybody know how to fix that? Really pixelated lines under OpenGL.

Of course, it still crashes every couple of hours due to RAM leakage. But it crashes just like a stock install would, and it looks MUCH better. Goes to show KSP still has a looong road to go in the stability department. The last two versions really brought the engine to its limits in its un-optimized state.

Oh, and my copy loads in under one minute or so, the usual. I do have about 30 extra parts from various places, and more than a few partless mods.

Rune. This all makes me fear for an unoptimized 1.0.

[Majorjim!]

EDIT: Some specs: Intel Core i7-4770k @ 4GHz, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX-760, Western Digital 2TB hard disk.

Ooh, very similar to my PC except the 970 I installed yesterday.

[Robotengineer]

Running 50+ mods, (not on my KSP Linux right now, so can't get exact numbers). RSS, RO, EVE, KW, FASA, the most memory intensive mods. It loads in about 30secs. ATM is a life saver, it took about 30mins to load and convert textures the first time, but now loads extremely quickly. Stock KSP on my OS X partition, takes about twice as long.

Specs. Processor: Intel i7 3770 @ 3.4GHz, 8 cores. RAM: 16GB DDR. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2048MB.

[eddiew]

With 70-some mods, about as long as it takes to get a cuppa; 2-3 minutes. I like to think of KSP's memory leak as the game's way of keeping me hydrated Without mods, very fast.

SSDs are your friend if you like mods