Loading KSP 32, Windows 8

[daffy]

Why doesn't KSP load in the background?

I use KSP 32, latest version of course and do have some mods installed. (Not sure that mods have anything to do with it)

It takes a few moments to load the game, and I will open my browser to surf, or read through the forums to see whats new. Start going through a thread or two and after a couple of (15-20) minutes, remember that I had launched KSP and needed to go and build some more big rockets to throw my Kerbals up into space somewhere. Close the browser, pull up KSP again and it's still waiting on the little greenish yellow loading bar where I left off.

Now, I am fully prepared to push my head into a blender and press the puree button.

With questions as technical as this, and the nature of my biggest problem being significantly elevated beyond "Windows 8 Program Launching 101", you can clearly see that my Kerbals could not be more fortunate to have me as their God.

[Richy teh space man]

Are you using alt tab or alt enter? Try using alt enter to minimize it while it's loading as alt tab doesn't always work.

[helaeon]

Put it in windowed mode at your native resolution and in the launch options put "-popupwindow" with no quotes.

Then it will be full screen, but actually in a window so it will run nicely in the background.

[daffy]

Thank you! Those are the answers I needed.

[Overfloater]

I was wondering about that too.

Y'all sure that's the only solution? Because in 0.22/21 i clearly remember alt-tabbing KSP to surf the internet, and when I get back it's already finished loading.

What could have changed? "simulate in background" doesn't seem to make a difference.

:-S

[Red Iron Crown]

I was wondering about that too.

Y'all sure that's the only solution? Because in 0.22/21 i clearly remember alt-tabbing KSP to surf the internet, and when I get back it's already finished loading.

What could have changed? "simulate in background" doesn't seem to make a difference.

:-S

It was a Unity update IIRC. The new behavior is more friendly to mobile devices where battery life is a concern.

[Padishar]

It was definitely mentioned in the release notes for one of the (fairly) recent updates (0.23.5 I think)...

[Athlonic]

Put it in windowed mode at your native resolution and in the launch options put "-popupwindow" with no quotes.

Then it will be full screen, but actually in a window so it will run nicely in the background.

This is by far the best method, if you plan to do other stuff while playing KSP.

In fullscreen mode, I had occasional crashes on loading when ALT-TABing, also KSP will spam "GFx lost focus...." exceptions messages bringing your log file to some MB in size if you keep KSP unfocused for too long.