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KSP 1.12.x crashes BEFOR start
steuben replied to Leo0806-studios's topic in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, unmodded installs)
The magic word in that sentence is should. Computers are futzing weird beasts, and the shouldn't does, and the should won't. Two more things to try - reinstall steam. the logs seem to indicate that part of steam is barfing. - move ksp out of the steam folder to somewhere else and give it a try. -
KSP 1.12.x crashes BEFOR start
steuben replied to Leo0806-studios's topic in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, unmodded installs)
Graphics drivers up todate? -
Actually it's more an issue of raw data volume. This suggestion and its kin are an artefact of the failure of the human mind to judge scales. Planets are large... almost eldritchly large. Let's assume that we are using a surface resolution of one square meter. The surface area of Kerbin is 4.5238934×1012 m2, 4.5 trillion square meters. Assuming that the data required for each point can be packed into one byte, that means it will take about 4.5 TiB to store Kerbin. And it gets worse with the the square of the radius. Assuming it compresses well you are still looking at around 2 TiB to store _one_ planet let alone any others.
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Saves instantly corrupted 1.12.1
steuben replied to TsaarPjotr's topic in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, unmodded installs)
All works for me... Have you tried a clean install, vs checking the files through Steam or copying over top of an existing install? -
Saves instantly corrupted 1.12.1
steuben replied to TsaarPjotr's topic in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, unmodded installs)
Well, d'eres yer pra'blem. Use the built in "save state" feature instead, it has a real name I just can't recall what it is. It should be available from the "esc" menu when you're at the KSC, and else where. But, if you really want to do it your way try a copy-paste instead. edit: now that I'm in front of the game. The "Game Paused" menu which is available everywhere is what you are after. It will allow you to both save and load the game state. -
Saves instantly corrupted 1.12.1
steuben replied to TsaarPjotr's topic in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, unmodded installs)
how are you renaming them? -
Saves instantly corrupted 1.12.1
steuben replied to TsaarPjotr's topic in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, unmodded installs)
What are you renaming it from? Any mods? -
Yes. You have to be "riding" them for aero-frictive effects to be seen. If they get below 20 km, on Kerbin I think the other planets have different magic lines, the sofware will assume that they succussfully burn up.
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A Thread for Writers to talk about Writing
steuben replied to Mister Dilsby's topic in KSP Fan Works
It might sound odd. But try taking the bus, rather than driving to work... assuming a couple of things of course. I know my motivation and producivity dropped off when I had to start driving in, <Alec Guinness!Obi-wan voice>before the dark times... before the covid</Alec Guinness!Obi-wan voice>. Something about that thirty odd minutes put in the right frame to get something done. And to echo what Philae said. Just get it down. Don't worry about getting it right, or it looking good. Momentum is your friend. -
Saving a rocket file
steuben replied to MetricKerbalist's topic in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
If you look in the saves folder and then what ever you named your particular run of the game, there will be a pair of folders VAB and SPH. It should be in one of the two. If it is the apostrophe might be giving KSP fits on the files name at least. Try a rename and run from there. -
A Thread for Writers to talk about Writing
steuben replied to Mister Dilsby's topic in KSP Fan Works
Chicago Manual of Style appears to say no, section 7.28 in the 16th edition and rummaging on stackexhange points to CMOS 8.170 that actively says no. -
All parts, in stock, suffer from Critical Existence Failure and silly fast Regenerating Health As long as you don't go past the thermal or impact speed limits the parts will last until the heat death of the universe.
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A Thread for Writers to talk about Writing
steuben replied to Mister Dilsby's topic in KSP Fan Works
It feels a bit long for a sentence. Perhaps something along the lines of: All Mosenbly needed was to wait forty days till him and his unit were rotated back to the capital, Heisenburg. Steven King once said, "the second draft should be ninety percent of the length of the first draft." Try to cut out extra words and rework things along those lines. You don't need to be sparse with words, but we aren't paid by the word here either. Not so much code as message. And you can't decode static, by rough definition. But, you can clean it up, though it does depend a bit on the tech being used. How did the message come in? Coded vs. Plaintext, priority channel vs. regular vs, emergency, etc. Have Mosenbly probe a bit to either feed or quell is unease. As a stylistic thing maybe place a random character before and after each break. Though again it depends on the comm-tech being used. It's dusting their farm with pesticides. Which brings us to... A chopper and a prop plane, especially a low and slow duster, have different sounds. A whine/buzz for the duster which is only heard closer in. A deeper heard/felt beat that's heard for a while first. -
Main Game Won't Load
steuben replied to MacGregor's topic in KSP1 Technical Support (PC, unmodded installs)
the thumbs are the little pics you get when you are choosing which craft to launch/load. Been around a while. Usually they get generated when you save a craft. -
Quick answer: you're hosed. It's gone. Less quick answer: try the previous versions tab in the folder properties. Long shot, but if that weird back-up thing that windows can do is turned on,.. Longer answer: you're going to need a greater degree of magic to bring it back than many will feel comfortable providing over the fora. Mostly because you can _really_ foul things up if you have to go rooting around at that level of the file system manually. There are some third party utils out there that will let you undelete files. But, the longer you take to get them in the less likely it is you'll get it back, and putting them in place risks being unable to recover the file in the first place. I'm not going to recommend it however, if you don't know/understand what you're going to end up doing and why. The rather graphic metaphor is you're sticking you hand in the sink dispos-all trying to clean it out.
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Multiple repair kits question
steuben replied to ataman76's topic in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
Not very weird. Not everything stacks. And you can't fits some parts in some containers because of mass/volume constraints. -
What are the best navballs to use for orbit?
steuben replied to Bluecat2007's topic in KSP1 Gameplay Questions and Tutorials
Quick answer: all of them. Longer answer: Each of the SAS presets, which you are referring to, has a purpose, and a best time for use. Sure you could use one, or none, all the time. But that would make things trickier for you. -
5. Two words, IP Leak. Okay maybe that's three. But there are other aspects that make it more problematic then the proposed zeroth approximation seems to indicate. So let's break it down. - Which file share service? What accounts to they use? If you don't have one you'll have to make one. And then how do they figure out if the acount that is created is the one that should have access? - Cost. Cause this ain't gonna be free for them. Google's file share, for example, will cap out at around 500 downloads of the current version of KSP. At least for the personal use. Paid service might be higher, but I'm not finding those numbers quickly. And it will be just a little bit more than 19.95$ a month. - Yeah there's a "free"-er option. They just grab that old laptop out of the corner, drop in Apache, lift the user name and password db over, chuck it in the router's DMZ, and Robert is your mother's brother. Except to do that they need to take somebody off of fixing the problem. And depending on available resources it can slow to halt the fix. Just hire someone? See previous point. - As for what happened. It doesn't matter. Server down. Ain't nothing we can do, but like good little boys, girls, and kerb-itos, sit on our hands and wait. 4. Yeah. I used to imagine that too. I also used to imagine that those call centers look like those nice stock photos you see on that der' internet thang. And there was free coffee, tea, and soda, and a pony. Reality is that customer support is treated like mushrooms and handcuffed, at the best of times, by corporate policy. If they're lucky it's an e-mail each morning that consists of "Yeah, it's still broken. No, we don't known when it'll be fixed. Stop bugging us." As for alternatives, all other recommendations are sealed, and require authorization of [expunged] for individual release. 3. Issue: Server down. Fix: Server up. Well a very simplistic statement of the issue and the fix. But it gets the point across. Not much else that can be done to address the issue. -As for information, if there was more We. Would. Have. It. It's really that simple. Bugging KSPStar, et al. won't get it any faster. And will slow the process of recovery. Cause he/she will have to wonder over and ask. They'll have to stop what they're doing, answer, and go back to work. Many studies have shown that each mental shift in task costs about fifteen minutes of productivity. That will be on top of how every long it takes to answer the question in a work place suitable format. -The last time I had to deal with a similar situation, the server guy missed the DG's ear with the screwdriver from 15 meters away. 2. Get used to it, expect it. There are good agents out there, and better companies at it. But, the vast majority of customer service agents are making just above minimum wage, and could take a pay cut, sling coffee and burgers, and catch one third of the [redacted] that they have to take working as a customer service agent. The first half life for a customer service agent is ninety days from first call. The second is six months from first call. The third is one year from first call. You can expect to hire roughly the entire staff every eighteen months. The entire group is seen by the vast majority of companies as a cost sink to be reduced as much as possible. 1. Has there been? IANAL, but the test of such a claim is "would the average reasonable person". Say at my bodega I buy the "One Can of Cherry Sodainski a day for life" embossed laminated card. Great. Every morning I head on down grab my ice cold can of Cherry Sodainski, plop it on the counter with the card. Everything's fine until one morning, five years later, the Cherry Sodainski slot in the rack is empty. The guy behind the counter says the company stopped making it. He comps me a Coke, and I head off disappointed. Has there been a breach of trust here?