KSP 1 not loading

[macrotron78]

can anyone help me fix my game, so i turned my pc off and went to bed but, in the morning when i try to load up KSP 1 it wont finish loading because it says TurboFanIcon not found. it tried uninstalling and reinstalling but i cant seem to fix it. i use steam to play

[Lisias]

Are you using steam? If yes, do a Install Verify.

Are you using spinning disks or SSDSs?

If using magnetic media, you should do a media verify because parts of disk may be dying on you and you need to block them before more damage happens.

SSDs also suffers from dying macro-cells too, but the mitigation is automatic- other than having some files corrupted in the process.

In a way or another,  do full backups of everything and be prepared for a disk replacement in the near future - better safer than sorry!

[macrotron78]

i did an install verify but that didnt help anything and it wont load past this part https://ibb.co/w6X0Y05. that link is a screenshot

and also when i looked in the game files it said the icon was corrupted and i dont know how to fix it

[Lisias]

1 hour ago, macrotron78 said:

i did an install verify but that didnt help anything and it wont load past this part https://ibb.co/w6X0Y05. that link is a screenshot

and also when i looked in the game files it said the icon was corrupted and i dont know how to fix it

Ah!!! Things are way less problematic than I was fearing!   It's a silly problem, to tell you the true...

Fix is simple: look for and remove every directory called @thumbs inside your KSP's directories. You should find a bunch - remove everything, they will be regenerated next time you fire up KSP.

What's happening is that KSP caches thumbnails of images so it doesn't need to recreated the little images all the time, but the code that preloads them inside KSP is less than ideally coded, and it shameless fail when anything goes wrong while loading a precomputed thumbnail - halting the game loading. Removing all thumbnails will guarantee this code will not bite you again - until something happens and another thumbnail gets corrupt again (by any reason, from filesystems trying to recover from a bad block to energy going out while writing the file into disk).

Every time your KSP locks up while loading anything having @thumbs in the pathname, you just remove all of them and restart KSP and everything will be fine (assuming the KSP files are intact, what you already had assured by doing a Steam verify).

Cheers!

[macrotron78]

thank you so much!! this worked. you were very helpful