Fresh Stock Install Crashing

[Saphira]

I haven't played in well over 2 years at this point, and have gotten new hardware since I last played. I installed it brand new today to get back into playing, but it has been consistently crashing before I can even get to (or past, in some cases) the main menu. if I'm focussed in on the screen, it'll crash during the loading process of assets, otherwise it'll crash once I focus in on it on the main menu.

I've tried verifying game cache, reinstalling the game multiple times and such, to no effect.

My specs and KSP Ver are below:

Kerbal Space Program - 1.11.1 en-us on Steam

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 19042) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz (12 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
RAM: 32768MB (32 GB)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

Since I know it'll be needed, here's all logs, including the Unity Crashdump created at the time of my most recent attempt at launching the game, as well as the DXDiag:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gfmvpAqEcBHdgCdmAiXMGQ25FA5yiL8_?usp=sharing

Thanks; any help would be appreciated. It wasn't very pleasant to come back from a 2-year lapse of playing this game, to find out this was being a problem.

 

Edited January 30, 2021 by Saphira

[linuxgurugamer]

You said you got new hardware, but is it possible that the drives are from the older hardware?

 If so, then you should manuallybdelete the entire game directory from Steam and reinstall.

[Saphira]

Just now, linuxgurugamer said:

You said you got new hardware, but is it possible that the drives are from the older hardware?

 If so, then you should manuallybdelete the entire game directory from Steam and reinstall.

I wouldn't think that it's possible, no; the entire PC's new, and has had no new hardware itself since I got it, plus KSP has never been installed on this PC before now.

I've gone through two separate PCs (this is my 2nd one) since I last played KSP, and this was installed from scratch anyway; I haven't had the game installed for over a year (I got the PC in October 2019, and last played KSP in July of 2019).

[Anth]

Your log file is nearly identical to mine up to a point where its loading different information. I will try a few things to see if I can force KSP to do the same thing on my computer

[Anth]

@Saphira

I moved my steam KSP to the same location as yours and my log file doesnt load the files within the folders in the same order.

I recommend doing the following:

1. Uninstall KSP via Stream

2. Delete the KSP folder which in your case is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program\"

3. Reinstall Kerbal Space Program

 

Mine

[LOG 21:12:48.921] ExpansionsLoader: Expansions loaded in 23.515s
[LOG 21:12:48.921] Loading Systems: Elapsed time is 62.08627s

Yours

[LOG 21:28:18.794] ExpansionsLoader: Expansions loaded in 24.903s
[LOG 21:28:18.795] Loading Systems: Elapsed time is 48.292s

This makes me think you have a corrupted installation. But I cant be sure because it depends on different peoples computers and what they are doing at the same time as loading in the game.

Reinstalled KSP and now mine is loading at about the same speed as yours

But my KSP loads perfectly fine

Edited February 1, 2021 by Anth12

[Anth]

I found someone who gave me their KSP.log for KSP 1.11.1 with DLC and no mods.

Their log is identical to mine and their KSP works and mine works. so your KSP install has to be corrupted.

Uninstalling, deleting ksp folder, reinstalling should correct the problem

 

[Saphira]

3 minutes ago, Anth12 said:

I found someone who gave me their KSP.log for KSP 1.11.1 with DLC and no mods.

Their log is identical to mine and their KSP works and mine works. so your KSP install has to be corrupted.

Uninstalling, deleting ksp folder, reinstalling should correct the problem

 

I've done that rigmarole at least 7 or 8 times by this point, which didn't fix it.

Incidentally, it works when not launched via Steam (discovered last night); no matter what steam settings I set (I disabled steam overlay and such to try and fix it) launching via Steam causes a crash. Launching via the actual executable (or CKAN, which uses the actual executable) doesn't crash, so in a roundabout way, I suppose it's fine now.

[Anth]

Its a new computer right? which means a new Steam install.

I wonder if thats got anything to do with it.

Good that you figured out a way around it though.

[Serenity]

11 hours ago, Saphira said:

I've done that rigmarole at least 7 or 8 times by this point, which didn't fix it.

Incidentally, it works when not launched via Steam (discovered last night); no matter what steam settings I set (I disabled steam overlay and such to try and fix it) launching via Steam causes a crash. Launching via the actual executable (or CKAN, which uses the actual executable) doesn't crash, so in a roundabout way, I suppose it's fine now.

Do you have steam cloud saving enabled? Probably not the problem but you never know, those type of problems make some sense that come back from nowhere.