My crafts are ungainly pigs now...

[Ghostshark27]

So I've updated to .24, and I know to expect some craziness for a while wile mods get updated and debugged along with the main game, but I have an issue that's driving me nuts. When taking off, as my craft is just clearing atmosphere, the game stutters for a bit, and the view changes slightly. This happens about once a minute, until eventually I'm zoomed all the way out and angling the camera at a high angle just to keep my craft in view in the corner of my screen. It seems like it's creating an invisible part or series of parts, as the center of mass shifts in the direction of the camera change. If I use mechjeb to manage the ascent, it keeps trying to align the ship around the new CoM, which causes the rocket to start whirling around this invisible axis alongside the ships central axis. The longer it's in flight, the wider the rotation around the axis.

I'm using a bunch of mods, but a list of suspected culprits are mechjeb, kerbal engineer, Hot and Cool Rockets, remotetech, Kethane, and KAS. I've got the most recent updates for each, except Kerbal Engineer because I didn't know until an hour ago that it's got a newer update, and I'm at work right now. I seem to remember having a problem like this back in .22 or .23, but I can't remember how it got fixed.

The one issue I'm aware of is the new problems with Hot Rockets and old craft files. The ship I'm trying to launch was based off of an old save, but I have deleted and replaced all engines from it, and everything seems good in that department. But I'm at a loss for the whole shifting of mass thing.

EDIT Forgot to mention, I'm running x86 version. My computer only has 4GB of RAM, so I couldn't take advantage of the unlimited memory perk even if I wanted to.

Edited July 22, 2014 by Ghostshark27

[Wiseman]

I had this same problem. Oddly enough, RealChutes was the culprit. I believe it's been updated to fix this, so you might want to check that out if you have it installed.

Edited July 23, 2014 by Wiseman

[Ghostshark27]

Hmm, I thought I had the latest version of realchute, I'll have to check when I get home. I did a complete reinstall last night, and got rid of some stuff. When I tried a few craft this morning, it seemed ok. But now that I think about it, my rocket didn't have any chutes, and the SSTO I tried got a little squirrelly on reentry, but I chalked it up to my aspect angle. It did have chutes though, so I'll look into that later this evening.

[frickafrack]

I think Realchute was having problems with chutes symmetry not being set correctly. Could be your problem? Though I think the most recent version is fixed... Not certain