Bad time to crash

[aman608]

So I was just playing my .90 career save file and had just made orbit around the mun and was lowering my periapsis then suddenly i blue screened. Has anyone else had an unfortunate crash like this if so tell us your story.

[Kowgan]

I'm using considerably more mods in this version, but all the extra ones are simple parts or pretty light mods that shouldn't affect much the gameplay, or make it much heavier.

Even though, since 0.90.0 stock, I noticed the game is considerably heavier (I got some noticeable frame drops, game is using 4GB of ram), and unfortunately, I'm having somehow often crashes.

Considering that in .25, I had only one crash, and I've already got two in less than one week playing .90...

My last crash happened today after a long mission, and forgetting to quicksave in a long period. The crash rolled me back to the last auto-save, but for some reason, I held F9 to my last Quicksave, bringing me even more earlier in time. And then, my auto-save (persistent) got replaced with that rollback as well. Sad times.

[Norpo]

Frequently, from CPU overheating. Never at really critical moments though, just annoying. (especially when testing part packs)

[Pecan]

The worst times I find are when I'm landing under parachute - since the reload tends to kill the chutes and you don't have a lot of time to do anything about it before you lithobreak.

[SkyRender]

I've had more spontaneous glitches, bugs, and complete program failures than I can even count from KSP since I started playing it back in 2011. I don't have that much of a problem with it since it is early access, but it does mean that saving regularly is of utmost importance. Indeed, random crashes are why I enable quicksaving for my custom Hard mode (though I basically never quickload unless something does go pear-shaped with the game's code, so it balances out).

[Kowgan]

The worst times I find are when I'm landing under parachute - since the reload tends to kill the chutes and you don't have a lot of time to do anything about it before you lithobreak.

If you play modded, you might want to consider Stock Bug Fix Modules. It fixes a lot of stock bugs, including Parachute cut in Quickloading, and the infamous powerless Radial Decoupling system, leading boosters to collide with your main tank and kill your launch.

Also, I agree with SkyRender. F5 became more than essential now, and Quickloading/Revert should be considered, even on hard, when trying to avoid the Kraken (He seems way less shy in this version)!

Update on my stuff:

I uninstalled KAS (I was using it just for the fuel line and struts). That considerably raised my FPS back to normal, and so far, no crashes happened! I'll look for alternatives regarding in-flight struts.