KSP stops responding entirely and crashes as soon as it reaches main menu

[Regor]

So this problem started a few days ago, and I thought with reboots and setting a slightly larger page file (as i thought it was a memory problem), it would be solved. However, this problem persists.

I've done a clean install and it DID actually work then, including being able to open saves - however, when I install my list of mods it all breaks down and it just refuses to go beyond the loading screen. No KSP.log is produced; the Player.log has been provided in the following file: https://www.file.io/RpRW/download/AkI2Uc4LgKiU

I've downloaded all my mods from CKAN and the only problem I can think of that might have compatibility issues is MPE, but even then, it was working perfectly fine in my saves before it started just refusing to load the game.

Thanks in advance.

[Regor]

Fixed the problem! For anyone that stumbles open here, here's what I did:

1. Re-installed all the mods MANUALLY and on versions I knew for sure would work (not using CKAN) as quite a few of the mods were corrupted // relaunched game and still did not work

2. Deleted settings.cfg to reset graphics settings // no luck

At this point I realised that the problem may lie with the shortcut settings that I'm using in steam:

%command% -popuwindow -force-opengl

(The above simply gets rid of the PDLauncher and forces the game to render using OpenGL

3. So I removed all the above shortcut targets // game actually launched, but was incredibly laggy and took extremely long to load due to it being in D3D11 - nevertheless, at this point I set all the graphics settings to how I'd like them to be set as the game had already launched

4. Forced OpenGL rendering // game launched, again, and faster, but still had some lag due to the AWFUL PDLauncher

5. Added the %command% -popupwindow to launch the game without the launcher // game launched, no lag, and quickly, and is now working perfectly fine.

 

I don't know how, or why, this had fixed the problem? I'm sure glad it did though, and I think I won't question it too much.