KerbPaint + 30-minute loading times

[Detroit12]

Game takes half an hour to load when I have KerbPaint installed . I was really looking forward to using it too.

On researching this (trying to anyways, seems like I might be the only one with this problem), I came across the issue KSP had with Network Adapters. With KerbPaint in the GameData folder, I disabled everything under Network Adapters in Windows' Device Manager, and it was still slow. But, then I removed KerbPaint (my most-recently installed mod) from the GameData folder, and even after re-enabling all of the network stuff, loading takes about 12 seconds. It's definitely KerbPaint.

Has anyone heard of this happening, even with other specific mods, unrelated to the network adapter issue? I didn't see anything about KerbPaint causing this when I hit Google. PageFile and RAM usage didn't seem to go much higher at all when the game was trying to load with KerbPaint installed, so I don't think it's mods. I have about 10 others and never had this problem after installing each of them. I have the latest version and the latest ModuleManager as well.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, was pretty excited when I came across this mod.

[MKellerBR]

Try this mod: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/59005-1-0-Release-5-0-April-28-2015-Active-Texture-Management-Save-RAM!

It "compact" images/Testures of mods, reducing their size, consequently, reduces the memory used and the game load time!

Today, I'm over 40 installed mods and Kerbal takes between 3 and 5 minutes, depending on the applications I am using at the same time (Steam, Skype, etc).

The first time I loaded it took almost 1 hour to compress the textures.

But now the load time as well fast!

[Detroit12]

Doesn't it noticeably affect the quality though?

I don't know if this would work for KerbPaint, but I just came across the Near-Future parts pack that I wanted to try and I can't even get to the main menu without the game crashing when it hits 3.2GBs of RAM during loading (Kerbal alone, not total-system). KerbPaint and KSP in general worked fine after I waited the half-hour for it to load, just to see if maybe it was a first-time thing or not, which it wasn't, unfortunately. But yeah I'll try that so I can install some more parts packs, if it doesn't hurt image-quality too badly.

[MKellerBR]

In principle it does not change the quality of the texture, just do the correct compression of the same.

Personally I did not notice any difference between images with and without compression.

Did tests with EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements and Astronomer's Visual Pack, was all the same, and memory reduction is amazing!