why does KSP take so long to load on my 10 year old pc, its only 10 years old

[IAbandonedBobInSpace]

WHY

[Gargamel]

Moved to tech support

 

Old machines can take a while to load KSP.  My old machine would routinely take ~25 minutes to load.  

[Kerbal Productions]

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its only 10 years old

well that might be the issue.

You know my old laptop with a Celeron N4000 and integrated graphics? It takes a solid 10-20 minutes to load on fully stock. Fortunately, I've got better stuff.

We'll also need the specs, but I'm guessing it's not that beefy since it'll be sometime between 2010 and 2013.

 

[Curveball Anders]

Well first, 10 years old is quite old in personal computers, esp if it's not been upgraded over the years.

Secondly, tried installing an SSD?

Edit:
Mine is 8-9 years old, but with new GPU (twice), new RAM and installed an SSD as system (and KSP) disk,
And KSP loads in 1m20s ...

 

Edited January 25, 2022 by Curveball Anders

[AtomicTech]

[jimmymcgoochie]

Ten years is a long time- back in January 2012 we were all worried (or not) that the world would end at the end of the year, the Higgs boson was about to be discovered and the Curiosity rover was hurtling towards Mars. In technology terms it’s even longer, and a combination of greatly improved hardware resulting in ever larger games and older parts slowly wearing out and slowing down will make running new games on an old PC a slow and rather limited experience.

You could try getting an external SSD and storing your copies of KSP on that, which has greatly decreased the loading times I’m seeing for KSP even with heavily modded games. They’re usually not that expensive and should speed things up a bit generally, as well as giving you more storage capacity.
Alternatively, if your PC’s overall performance is starting to suffer it might be time to replace it; it’s not a great time to be looking to buy a new PC due to the global chip shortages and inflated prices as a result, but it’s still possible to get a pretty decent performance PC without spending silly sums of money on it.

[Curveball Anders]

2 hours ago, jimmymcgoochie said:

it’s not a great time to be looking to buy a new PC due to the global chip shortages and inflated prices as a result, but it’s still possible to get a pretty decent performance PC without spending silly sums of money on it.

It's not that bad if you stay away from the latest shiniest stuff, and go for the ones one step down.

They often have a much better price/performance ratio.