How can I decrease crashes in my game?

[SlabGizor117]

I have only 4gb of RAM, I think that's the problem.  I tried the "-force-opengl" idea at the top, but it says the name is invalid, which I asked about on that thread too.  What else could I do?  I don't wanna delete any mods, I use almost all of them.  Let me know also if you want a list of my mods.

[Torih]

You need a space before the -force-opengl

i.e. "C:\Games\Kerbal Space Program Interstellar\KSP.exe" -force-opengl

Also you can try the -force-d3d11 switch instead as that can save more, but it can cause issues for some people.

Edited January 27, 2016 by Torih

[SlabGizor117]

Sweet, thanks! I'll try it.

[SlabGizor117]

By the way, is there anything else I could do if that doesn't help much, or at all? or even if it does, I'd like to do everything I can to keep my crashes down, because it take 20 minutes to test a craft and make my tweaks because I crash every time between the SPH(or VAB) and the runway/launch pad

[Benoit Hage]

It seems to me that you are running out of RAM. Those pesky crashes are usually caused by that. The two main solutions are:

 

And the use of OpenGL. To do so, create a shortcut of KSP.exe and add this in the "Target" section. (First line)

"c:\path-to-you-game-folder\KSP.exe" -force-opengl      Example on this image

Note that the -force-opengl is NOT included in the " ". Launch the game via the shortcut.

This should lower the RAM usage by a 1GB.

If you are still having crashes, you will need to upload logs so we can see what is wrong.

Edited January 28, 2016 by Benoit Hage
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[SlabGizor117]

Yeah, I did the OpenGL thing.  It says Active Texture Management is for 1.0 though, will it still work correctly for 1.0.5 or will it ignore the new parts, or retextured parts?

[Guest]

Fly better?  Just kidding.

Seriously though you could look into getting a memory freeing program and look into closing out any background tasks using Task Manager, and you can also install Linux on a dual boot, as it is much better with managing memory and has less background tasks than Windows.

Edited January 29, 2016 by Guest

[Gaarst]

ATM is getting more and more useless as mods and the game now include [insert-texture-format-here] textures which are already converted to the "memory-friendly" format ATM uses.

On the other hand, you could use Dynamic Texture Loader (sticky on Add-ons releases page) which significantly decreases the memory used, at the cost of slower performance and longer loading times. (I don't use it myself, just reporting what I read)

[micr0wave]

Can only speak from my experiece, but the openGL mode plus TextureReplacer seems to do some magic. My game never goes above 2gig according to task manager, after hours of play.

[Benoit Hage]

16 hours ago, SlabGizor117 said:

Yeah, I did the OpenGL thing.  It says Active Texture Management is for 1.0 though, will it still work correctly for 1.0.5 or will it ignore the new parts, or retextured parts?

I hadn't read that thread in a while. Some people were indeed complaining about its obsolescence.

Try this mod instead:

Dynamic Texture Loader

 

[SlabGizor117]

Ok, thanks.  OpenGL didn't seem to help much, by the way.. :/

[sal_vager]

This may help with memory.

Other than that, lowering texture quality helps reduce RAM used.