No splash screen loading hints

[SingABrightSong]

Hello. I purchased KSP through Steam and had it installed on a laptop. During startup, it would have such "loading hints" as "Adding K to every word" "Locating Jebediah Kerman" "Adding more boosters" and "Inventing witty loading hints." I later built a proper desktop gaming rig, and instead of redownloading KSP, copied the game files over and verified the installation through Steam. The loading hints no longer appear, but the initial "Loading..." text does. I assumed it would be fixed when I updated the game to 1.1, but no such luck. I run a modded install, but the issue persists even with any plugin files removed, and Steam's option to "Verify integrity of game cache" does not fix the issue, leaving me wondering if I've run afoul of some sort of anti-piracy trigger.

 

Update: Uninstalling and reinstalling KSP did not fix the issue, somehow. The impact is minor, but I am amazed that a reinstallation did not work.

 

Output log: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4SyhB7yCOn4dUlCakJuUk1TTnc/view?usp=sharing

Edited July 16, 2016 by SingABrightSong
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