How long does it take to load your game?

[SpaceshipFood]

This is a pointless thread. enjoy!

How long does it take to load the game? for me it takes about 3 mins. (I have quite a few mods installed)

[killernerd]

a couple of seconds. No mods but alot of debris and flights going on. (it helps that i have it installed on my ssd ^^ )

[Gniuz]

I have a load of mods installed as I'm on steam and can't be bothered using a workaround to run multiple copies.

Takes about 5min

G.

[UNSA]

uh....about 15 to 20 minutes >_> numerous mods and flights and stuff. Its a mess, but worth every minute

[electronicfox]

I have a good many mods installed, about 5 minutes on the laptop and 2/3 on PC.

[DerekL1963]

This is a pointless thread. enjoy!

How long does it take to load the game? for me it takes about 3 mins. (I have quite a few mods installed)

I dunno. I just start it loading and then head out to the porch for a smoke. It's done by the time I get back.

[Stealth2668]

Its worth buying a new pc and leaving the game running on that one to avoid load times

Edited May 9, 2013 by Stealth2668

[Kerba Fett]

About 5.5 minutes with the current setup. (limited mods installed)

53 seconds with a stock .19.1 install

Back when I used to have the nova punch pack installed in .18.2 with a few other mods it used to be about 23 minutes. A lot of the individual parts in that pack take a long time to load.

Now every time I add a large addon I try it first in my test install and find out exactly how much time it adds to a stock startup.

[Fiddlestyx]

~41 seconds with about ten different mods installed. I wouldn't play this game if it took minutes to load.

[SkyHook]

About 3 minutes on an SSD. I am working on consolidating my mods now, takes too long!

[The Destroyer]

Well,

Main loading to main screen: About 2 minutes, I try to keep mods to minimal.

VAB-Launchpad:

Old PC: 5 min first, 3 min next.

New PC: 5 seconds.

[Karriz]

Over 500 parts, takes about 10 minutes.

I just alt-tab out and do something else while the game is loading. Hopefully 0.20 will optimize the process a bit.

I have too many mods which I never use, though.

[Nexustrimean]

Seems like about a minute. Not too bad. No mods installed.

[NeoMorph]

Lots of mods and it takes 2:30. Used to take over 5 minutes (well over) before I upgraded to 12GB of RAM (from 4GB). Faster loading from VAB to launch pad too.

[SkyRender]

Usually between 2 and 3 minutes. I blame the mods I have installed. Some of them (particularly anything that was not optimized for 0.19 but still technically works with it) take a very long time indeed to load each part.

[leax256]

1 min 37 sec on a 7200 rpm HDD with ~15-20 mods installed.

[Kromey]

About 1-2 minutes under Linux, 3 minutes under Windows (identical hardware -- dual-boot system). Which is really odd when you consider the Windows hard drive has a faster seek time than the Linux one -- literally the one aspect where their hardware differs, and Windows has the upper hand yet comes out on bottom!! (We won't talk about my laptop, where I really can't even fly ships in excess of 4 or 5 parts and yet I try to fly my 400-500-part ships on it anyway!!)

Only mod installed is Subassembly Loader. I do use symlinks and Dropbox to keep everything in sync between my various computers.

[3_bit]

I'm using a relatively new PC (Feb. 2013) and some mods and I get loading times ~2 mins.

[astropapi1]

5~10 minutes on my laptop. I have KW, KSPX, and a lot of plugins.

[georgTF]

3 seconds from a regular HDD. I have an Intel i5 and 8 Gb of RAM, but the only mods i like are Subassembly and Alarm Clock. That is loading a save game, main KSP takes around 10 seconds to load.

However the highest part counts i can lift without serious lag is about 300-400. The highest ever was ~700 and it was hideously slow until i dropped enough stages.

It's pretty meaningless though as the game is in alpha and un-optimised and all that. The main thing is that it's very stable and great fun to play.

[Tw1]

Normally a minute or two.

A little longer right now, as I'm having a quick play while in the middle of an assignment.

[NeoMorph]

3 seconds from a regular HDD. I have an Intel i5 and 8 Gb of RAM, but the only mods i like are Subassembly and Alarm Clock. That is loading a save game, main KSP takes around 10 seconds to load.

However the highest part counts i can lift without serious lag is about 300-400. The highest ever was ~700 and it was hideously slow until i dropped enough stages.

It's pretty meaningless though as the game is in alpha and un-optimised and all that. The main thing is that it's very stable and great fun to play.

It takes 10 seconds to load the full game? I somehow doubt that. The SQUAD splash screen is there for 7 seconds which would mean the rest would only take 3 seconds.

I just tested a vanilla install and it takes me 45 seconds to load on a 2.8GHz i5 with 12GB ram.

[georgTF]

You're right. I timed it and it took 27 seconds. I exaggerated because it really felt like no time at all. Interesting you mention the logo, it was on for only 3s.

I have almost no programs running so i guess the system can devote more to KSP. The only active apps are driver utilities and firewall, nothing else.

[_Aramchek_]

About 20 seconds from the time I click on the shortcut, until I'm completely in game at the vab.

On a 1tb spinny Western Digital Black FAEX drive.

[Darren9]

27 secs for a clean install. 1 min 30 secs with a 2.2GB KSP_win folder full of mods.