How to speed up 1.0.5 KSP startup without removing mods?

[Turf]

See title. I think it's the part loading that consumes time, but hey there are always one or more rooms or tricks to speed up!

Edited April 19, 2016 by Anbang11
Forgot to add version: It's 1.0.5

[Fury1SOG]

I think it is very rare that you would use every part contained in a part pack. You can remove unused cfg, mu, and dds/png files to reduce the load times a little. Just make sure that you don't end up breaking dependencies. 

[MainSailor]

Also, make sure that your mod textures are all converted over to DDS format. The older mods uses TGA, PNG, MBM, etc, which take time to convert on load. DDS uses DXT compression which can be written to memory directly without conversion.

 

Using this tool: https://github.com/Telanor/DDS4KSP/releases

Edited April 18, 2016 by MainSailor
Added link