Floating rocks after travelling at surface

[Telvee32]

KSP version: 1.12

Problem: This has been baffling me for months. When I travel an arbitrary distance over the surface of any celestial body, either at low altitude (such as a landing or an aircraft) or on the surface itself (such as a rover), the ground scatter (?) in the direction of travel begins to spawn above the ground instead of on the ground. This doesn't seem to affect scannable surface features. When this happens my framerate will also begin to tank. If I do a quicksave/quickload in place, then the rocks will all be on the ground in the area on load, and the framerate will also be back to normal. I had this issue on a stock-based game a while ago as well as on my current GPP-based game, though both had similar modlists. In the linked screenshot I had flown approximately 22 km from the location at which I had loaded the craft on the surface of Gratian, though this issue affects all celestial bodies, with and without atmospheres, as well as all bodies in my previous game with stock solar system.

I seem to remember reading that this may have been a Kopernicus bug, though obviously with GPP it's not a mod that I can disable.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/6YDETqG

Log: https://file.io/dNcKxkrkGCar

Modlist:

Spoiler

 Flight Manager for Reusable Stages (FMRS) Continued (FMRSContinued 1.2.9.2)
[x] Science! Continued (xScienceContinued 6.0.0.9)
AlphaMensae's Modular Launch Pads (ModularLaunchPads 2.2.2)
Animated Decouplers (AnimatedDecouplers v1.5.0)
B9 Aerospace Parts Pack (B9 1:v6.6.0)
B9 Aerospace Props (B9-props 1:v6.6.0)
B9 Animation Modules (B9AnimationModules v1.7.0)
B9 Part Switch (B9PartSwitch v2.18.0)
BARIS Bridge (BarisBridge v1.10)
Breaking Ground (BreakingGround-DLC 1.7.1)
Buffalo (Buffalo v2.11.0)
Buffalo CRP Play Mode (Buffalo-PlayMode-CRP v2.11.0)
Celestial Body Science Editor (CelestialBodyScienceEditor 12.0)
ClickThrough Blocker (ClickThroughBlocker 1:0.1.10.17)
Community Category Kit (CommunityCategoryKit v5.2.0.0)
Community Resource Pack (CommunityResourcePack 1.4.2)
Community Tech Tree (CommunityTechTree 1:3.4.4)
Contract Configurator (ContractConfigurator 1.30.5)
Contract Pack: Bases and Stations Reborn (ContractConfigurator-KerbinSpaceStation 2:3.7.2.7)
Contract Pack: Exploration Plus (ContractConfigurator-ExplorationPlus 2.0.1)
Contract Pack: Field Research (ContractConfigurator-FieldResearch 1.2.2)
Contract Pack: Kerbal Academy (ContractConfigurator-KerbalAcademy 1.1.10)
Contract Pack: Tourism Plus (ContractConfigurator-Tourism 1.5.2)
Custom Pre Launch Checks (CustomPreLaunchChecks 1.8.1.1)
Deployable Engines Plugin (DeployableEngines 1.3.1)
Dynamic Battery Storage (DynamicBatteryStorage 2:2.2.5.0)
Easy Vessel Switch (EVS) (EasyVesselSwitch 2.3)
Environmental Visual Enhancements Redux (EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements 3:1.11.5.1)
Final Frontier (FinalFrontier 1.10.0-3485)
Firespitter Core (FirespitterCore v7.17)
Galileo's Planet Pack (GPP 1:1.6.7.0)
GPP HighRes clouds (GPPCloudsHighRes 1.6.7.0)
GPP Textures (GPPTextures 4.2.1)
HyperEdit (HyperEdit 1.5.8.0)
Kerbal Actuators (KerbalActuators v1.8.4)
Kerbal Alarm Clock (KerbalAlarmClock v3.13.0.0)
Kerbal Attachment System (KAS 1.10)
Kerbal Engineer Redux (KerbalEngineerRedux 1.1.9.0)
Kerbal Inventory System (KIS 1.28)
Kerbal Joint Reinforcement Continued (KerbalJointReinforcementContinued v3.5.2)
Kerbal Konstructs (KerbalKonstructs v1.8.3.0)
Kerbal Reusability Expansion (SpaceXLegs 2.9.2)
Kopernicus Planetary System Modifier (Kopernicus 2:release-1.12.1-60)
Making History (MakingHistory-DLC 1.12.1)
MechJeb 2 (MechJeb2 2.12.3.0)
Mk 33 (Mk-33 v1.1.1)
ModularFlightIntegrator (ModularFlightIntegrator 1.2.10.0)
Module Manager (ModuleManager 4.2.1)
Near Future Aeronautics (NearFutureAeronautics 2.1.1)
Near Future Electrical (NearFutureElectrical 1.2.3)
Near Future Electrical Core (NearFutureElectrical-Core 1.2.3)
Near Future Exploration (NearFutureExploration 1.1.2)
Near Future IVA Props (NearFutureProps 1:0.7.1)
Near Future Launch Vehicles (NearFutureLaunchVehicles 2.2.0)
Near Future Propulsion (NearFuturePropulsion 1.3.5)
Near Future Solar (NearFutureSolar 1.3.2)
Near Future Solar Core (NearFutureSolar-Core 1.3.2)
Near Future Spacecraft (NearFutureSpacecraft 1.4.3)
Pathfinder (Pathfinder v1.37.1)
Pathfinder CRP Play Mode (Pathfinder-PlayMode-CRP v1.37.1)
Probes Before Crew [PBC] (ProbesBeforeCrew 2.93)
RasterPropMonitor Core (RasterPropMonitor-Core 1:v0.31.5)
RecoveryController (RecoveryController 0.0.4.1)
Reentry Particle Effect Renewed (ReentryParticleEffect 1.9.1.1)
ReStock (ReStock 1.4.2)
ReStock+ (ReStockPlus 1.4.2)
Retractable Lifting Surface Module (RetractableLiftingSurface 0.2.1.2)
SCANsat (SCANsat v20.4)
scatterer (Scatterer 3:v0.0772)
Scatterer Default Config (Scatterer-config 3:v0.0772)
Scatterer Sunflare (Scatterer-sunflare 3:v0.0772)
SmokeScreen - Extended FX Plugin (SmokeScreen 2.8.14.0)
Snacks (Snacks v1.27.3)
SpaceTux Library (SpaceTuxLibrary 0.0.8.2)
Staged Animation (StagedAnimation v2.0)
Starship Launch Expansion Beta v0.3 (StarshipLaunchExpansion Beta_v0.42)
Stockalike Station Parts Expansion Redux (StationPartsExpansionRedux 2.0.5)
Stockalike Station Parts Expansion Redux - Internal Spaces (StationPartsExpansionRedux-IVAs 2.0.5)
Tantares - Soviet Spacecraft (NewTantares v25.0)
Tantares LV - Soviet Rockets (NewTantaresLV v14.1)
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Toolbar (Toolbar 1:1.8.0.7)
Toolbar Controller (ToolbarController 1:0.1.9.6)
Trajectories (Trajectories v2.4.3)
Transfer Window Planner (TransferWindowPlanner v1.7.2.0)
Tundra Exploration - Stockalike Dragon V2 and Falcon 9 (TundraExploration 5.1.0)
Tundra's Space Center (TundraSpaceCenter 2.0.2)
VesselMover Continued (VesselMoverContinued v1.12.0)
Waterfall - Restock (WaterfallRestock 0.2.3)
Waterfall Core (Waterfall 0.6.7)
Waypoint Manager (WaypointManager 2.8.3.3)
Wild Blue Tools (WildBlueTools v1.83.0)
WildBlueIndustries CRP Play Mode (WildBlue-PlayMode-CRP v1.83.0)
Zero MiniAVC (ZeroMiniAVC 1:1.1.2.4)
 

EDIT:  I've seen a couple of threads dotted about of people having rare instances, the odd rock or two, but this is every single one after a certain distance travelled, and happens reliably every single time.

Edited November 22, 2021 by Telvee32

[DeadJohn]

I have the same problem as you. It's not just rocks; the trees on JNSQ's Kerbin (JNSQ planet pack's version of Kerbin) sometimes hover above the ground.

We share a lot of mods in common but different planet packs.

[Sandriell]

Known issue with Kopernicus, and a fix is actively being worked on right now. The latest version, 68, is supposed to fix the issue.