A history of KSP updates

[nhnifong]

I've been collecting KSP versions since 0.15 ( and I back-filled my collection as well ) and one of the neat things I can do with those files is look at the way that KSP has been growing over time. I got the release dates from the Wiki.

Growth of KSP install file size since 0.7.3

Just to show where this file size data is coming from:

There are some interesting incidents visible in this graph. In 0.14, squad added persistence, legs, and the module loader. There is a huge increase in file size, but I'm not certain whether that is directly related. It could be due to Unity updates for example.

In 0.17.0, all the planets were added and file size increased, and then in 0.17.1 some kind of optimization was made an there was a huge decrease in file size.

But then in 0.18.0, Squad added a sound track and the file size grew quite a bit again.

Edited February 8, 2014 by nhnifong

[SkyHook]

THat's an impressive list you have there I only have versions 18.0 and beyond (darn lack of foresight)!

[KasperVld]

I wonder why version 0.18.3 is missing, because you can still download that today (it's the demo)

[nhnifong]

I wonder why version 0.18.3 is missing, because you can still download that today (it's the demo)

Ahh of course. I've never used any of the demos.

I suppose I'll go download it now!

Edited February 8, 2014 by nhnifong

[r4pt0r]

and yet people complain about .20...

[Dodgey]

People will always find something to complain about

[Blue]

Can you plot the data for how long it takes for each version to load from upon opening the EXE to seeing the Opening Menu?

[nhnifong]

Can you plot the data for how long it takes for each version to load from upon opening the EXE to seeing the Opening Menu?

Maybe if I could programmatically determine it, but otherwise I would have to just use a stopwatch, and I'm not up for it.

[magico13]

Maybe if I could programmatically determine it, but otherwise I would have to just use a stopwatch, and I'm not up for it.

I do believe you could do it by examining the ksp.log file. Everything is timestamped. A script could be written to extract the first and last or something like that.

[nhnifong]

That's an interesting suggestion, I'll give it a try.

[bsalis]

I think it would be more interesting to see the unpacked size. Both with and without Unity 3D files.