Is there a way to get Restock Plus without having Restock installed/enabled?

[LittleBitMore]

Hello! I have a very big install, and it's begun running into performance issues. I'm reluctant to reduce the number of mods, because many parts mods have their parts incorporated in various important missions and spacecraft in my saves. I'm trying to find mods to cut down on while still keeping as many of the main parts mods as I can. So far on the chopping block is Parallax 2 scatters, Restock, and Planetside Exploration Technologies (a large parts mod I'm not using many parts from).

Restock is the one I'm least attached to, but unfortunately, it is a dependency of Restock+, and removing it would require removing Restock+, which adds a lot of parts that I use very frequently and it would likely result in bad things for various craft of mine.

Is there any way to uninstall Restock while still maintaining the functionality of Restock+? Relatedly, what happens if I load a craft in-flight that has parts from mods that have been uninstalled?

[HebaruSan]

12 hours ago, LittleBitMore said:

Is there any way to uninstall Restock while still maintaining the functionality of Restock+?

No. Restock Plus uses assets from Restock and will not work if the latter is removed.

[LittleBitMore]

2 hours ago, HebaruSan said:

No. Restock Plus uses assets from Restock and will not work if the latter is removed.

Yeah, that makes sense, thank you for your reply! Do you know of any way to slim down the Restock install size without affecting Restock+ too much, or is this also infeasible?

[Poodmund]

ReStock should not affect your performance to an appreciable extent as it actually stops the vanilla textures and models from loading to save on resource usage (as they are no longer needed). Also, the textures used in ReStock are much more optimised and are, in the vast majority of cases, lower resolution than their comparable vanilla textures (even though they look better  ). 

So, uninstalling ReStock will not gain you any appreciable performance increase.