How long is your initial load time ?

[BDelacroix]

Long enough that windows complains a few times that the task is not responding. I get up and do other things until I hear the music start.

[LordFerret]

1 minute 4 seconds here (on a laptop, with 2 mods loading, 95 patches applied). It's actually quicker now than previous versions, but I'm down a mod (docking cam).

[Robotengineer]

Stock loads so fast that I barely have time to alt-tab and glance at the forum before it's loaded.

[Windspren]

For me, it's like 45 seconds. Which is surprising, considering my 30+ mods.

[Josson K.]

Is guess it mainly bigger part packs that take their time (because I have a few of those - KWRocketry, FASA, USI UKS(OKS+MKS), Karbonite+, KSO, Infernal Robotics. Plus the OuterPlanetsMod, EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements......

[Geschosskopf]

57.51 seconds.

4-year old system

Win7-64

i7-2600K at 3.7 GHz

8GB RAM

GeForece GTX 500

Mods:

ATM aggressive, AntennaRange, CRP, CustomBarnKit, DMagic Orbital Science, Field Experience, Firespitter (pruned to only about 10 parts I really use), FlagRotate, RPM, KAS, KJR, HyperEdit, KIS, MJ, Mk2Expansion, NavyFish, RSCBA, SCANsat, Space-Y, SurfaceLights, KAC, US

[Linear]

26s, spacey parts, ker, eve.

[livefree75]

Around 1 min with stock game, about 1.5-2 mins with KW Rocketry and a couple other mods. I have 4 GB ram (not sure of other system specs.)

I have noticed that, since the release of 1.0, loading time was decreased dramatically for me.

[mrclucks]

About 30seconds vanilla

With all the different mods I downloaded since 1.0 running on version 1.0.4 took about 2 minutes

Both on a laptop

[LABHOUSE]

Ten seconds with some mods, only start timing when the window loads.

[G'th]

About 3 minutes. Close to 100 different mods now (and room for more, despite my kitbash of Astronomer's Interstellar VP, Endraxiels Planet textures, KSPRC, and Ven's Revamp) with most of the big part packs (KW, Tantares, Near Future, KSOS, HGR, UKS, etc. Really only missing FASA because this is a stockalike install) and a TON of gameplay mods.

Edited June 29, 2015 by G'th

[zhollett]

0:00 starting KSP in Steam

0:11 loading screen appears

1:03 main menu appears

240 MB mods (585 MB GameData), KSP memory usage ~2.6-2.7 GB

AMD Phenom II X4 955

8 GB RAM

1.5 TB HDD @ 5.400 rpm

Windows 8.1 Pro x64

That's pretty much my exact same system, and my exact same results, but I was 2 seconds slower loading.

[*Aqua*]

2 seconds isn't much. You should only be worried if your system took much longer.

[Guest]

Stock: About 30 seconds.

My maxed out modded installation: About 2 minutes.

[Temeriki]

With Open gl enabled on windows 7 less than 30 seconds with a bunch of mods loaded (most have been converted to DXT). i5 unlocked and slightly occ'ed, 12 gb of ram.

[ChrisSpace]

5-10 minutes.

[Camaron]

No mods, good SSD: about 14 seconds.

256GB SSD

16GB DDR4 at stock speeds.

i7 5820K at stock speeds.

1x GTX 660Ti

My best friend probably loads considerably faster.

His Rig:

Xeon 2680V2 prototype - Ten cores, sustaining 3.3GHz forced clock speed. I gave him that!

2x 256GB SSD in Raid 0

16GB DDR3

1x GTX 760 4GB

Edited June 29, 2015 by Camaron

[LABHOUSE]

It is now 6 minutes 55 seconds.

[sal_vager]

24 seconds on a reasonable hard drive, one addon (NoOfsetLimits), Linux 64bit, v-sync off, it's noticeably longer if v-sync is enabled at 36 seconds.

[Starwhip]

Not Unreasonably Long

Rough guestimation of 2 minutes, HDD, a few mods, Intel i7-4510U, 2.00GHz HP Pavilion laptop.

[monstah]

Unreasonably Long (tm Starwhip), around 60 mods on a budget laptop. Couldn't get OpenGL to work for my life, can't find possible updated drivers for my video card either.

[Bev7787]

3 minutes, 500 patches on a MacBook air

[keeper]

I remember my .25 save being about 3 mins with a bunch of mods.

Now it took 33 seconds! A notable improvement.

I have around 25 mods installed. Total its 1.6gb on the hard disk running windows 7, its got 1.3GB memory usage on task manager. Its been about 60 seconds now on cue graphics card or cpu fan is on full whack now wahay

I'm on and off the game twice or sometimes three times when im on the computer, i end up joining other games online for short periods, so sometimes i minimise it others I close it altogether, depends on teh game.

Its not just the loading screen though, its the xx seconds wait between the VAB to KSC then another xx seconds wait to the SPH and back again another wait to get to the research screen, then another xx seconds back to KSC and another xx seconds to the contract place, which is more annoying, because I'm all over the place.

AMD 8350 8 core processor

120gb ssd hard drive mid range its a beast i cannot bare waiting MINUTES, that has always been the worst in gaming untill SSD hard drive. Even the crap ones are sooo much faster than normal hard disk drives. I highly recommend.

8gb ram

windows 7

nvidia gt 650ti boost 2gb

[linuxgurugamer]

With about 112 mods installed, loading from a RAMDRIVE, time was: 2:45 minutes

While I'm not sure it's relevent, I am starting it with OpenGL and -popupwindow

ModuleManager has about 10396 patches

Intel i5-4670K, overclocked to 4.3 Ghz (quad core)

32 gig of memory, 8 gig allocated to a ramdrive

C drive is 256gig SSD, D drive is a RAID 10, consisting of 8 512 gig drives

nVidia GTX 760 overclocked

Windows 7, 64 bit

LGG

[Captain Sierra]

About 90 seconds with a crapton of mods (that will memory crash in under 90 minutes normally) with forced DirectX 11.