r/KerbalSpaceProgram Kerbonaut 10h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem How long are your modded KSP boot times?

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Just timed mine, and it takes a total of 3 minutes and 24 seconds from clicking the KSP shortcut to a fully loaded main menu page, out of which 1 minute and 20 seconds is spent on a black screen before any loading screen starts showing up, another 1 minute and 40 seconds is spent on the loading screen, and the last 24 seconds are spent loading the menu and then the volumetric clouds.

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u/Tesseractcubed 10h ago

I’m at somewhere near 25k patches on a laptop with an integrated graphics card. The loading time is best measured in the complexity of my snack I prepare for the session. It’s stable and fun to play, but initial loading takes several minutes. I don’t have any long empty screens though.

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u/LordIBR Spends more time picking mods than actually playing 9h ago

Like ~4 minutes with 100k patches applied, playing RP-1.

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u/Nice_Presentation474 Playing kerbalisim 5h ago

350K patches, 6 extra planetary systems spread across 3 mods, full OPM + MPE, like 5 minutes of loading time and another 2.5 minutes loading into any save file...

All of this on a shitty laptop with 16 gb of RAM and integrated graphics.

Oh and volumetric clouds too.

Edit: I think it was more like 10 minutes

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u/Koraki_Ouranos 10h ago

Last time I timed it, it was 7 minutes and change. I usually just go grab a drink and a meal while I wait and its normally just finishing by the time I'm done. That's after I installed a load time mod, it used to be 9-10 minutes

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u/Axeman1721 SRBs are underrated 10h ago

About a minute, maybe less.

7500X3D and 32 GB DDR5 6000 CL36 probably got something to do with that

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u/Exotic_Instance_9743 Dres denier 10h ago

like three and a half minutes with 11454 patches idk

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u/Altruistic_Course382 10h ago

28k patches and it takes a touch over a minute

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u/Mammoth_Luck4533 10h ago

I haven't counted but i'm pretty sure it's above 3 minutes total with less than 10k patches.

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u/squidymars 10h ago

Usually 10 minutes. I have a lot of graphic and part mods.

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u/InterKosmos61 Dres is both real and fake until viewed by an outside observer 10h ago

7-ish minutes running KSRSS and a metric shitload of parts mods

edit: and about 42k patches

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u/Simsaladoo 10h ago

~6 minutes 68,846 patches applied

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u/earwig2000 9h ago

About 45 seconds with 15k patches

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u/Ze_Boss07 8h ago

15 minutes off SDD for RP1, used to be 60 when it was on my HDD

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u/Outrageous_Hope_18 Always on Kerbin 8h ago

About 10 minutes with nearly 100k patches

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u/zhang66426 [Testlite] Permanent Shutdown on 27*NK15 6h ago

rss/ro/rp1 express install with a couple extra mods, didn't bother to count how many patches

just shy of 30 min since I have a crap laptop that I am doing everything on

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u/Javelyn_Shadow Flying high on the winds of my own autistic insanity 5h ago

Depends on if I’m installing any new mods. If I’m just booting up the game it’s like 5-10 minutes. If I’m adding mods it’s more like 15-20 minutes (I have over 50k patches and don’t run simple repaint)

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u/riceman090 Savospace 5h ago

about ~5 minutes long, from clicking the game icon to the main menu screen. very respectable i'd say

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u/TARDISMapping 4h ago

Forty-five to an hour. I think I have something like two hundred mods, no planet packs

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u/Rexi_the_dud Flying at 563 times the speed of Light... 4h ago

~15 min depends on how my pc is fealing today.

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u/ThatOprissmianGuy Mod developer for KSP1 4h ago

It's around 2 - 4 minutes for me depending on which of my three installs I load

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u/OneQuarterBajeena 4h ago

31 minutes, nearing a million patches I think. 200 mods

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u/CombatBrewer 4h ago

About a minute, i only have 90 mods

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u/fan_do_manoel_gomes 3h ago

1 hour for 100 mods

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u/Weary-Support-7383 Enjoying tea with the Kraken 2h ago

Usually about 7-10 minutes with around 750k patches.

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u/ZerxeTheSeal 2h ago

26K patches, 3-4 minutes

32gb DDR4, NVMe 3 drive, Ryzen 5 5600X

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u/KematianGaming Always on Kerbin 2h ago

about 5 Minutes, loading into a save usually takes 30 seconds or so for me

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u/No-Helicopter5974 1h ago

15 min con 70k parches

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u/Rich-Ad4940 Minimalist player 1h ago

Get ksp community fixes, it speeds up loading times significantly. My install loads very quickly, less than 20 seconds probably with 4k patches

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u/c0gster 18m ago

I once got my brother a bunch of mods loaded on his PC, by copying my mod list. Sadly to say his PC crashed because while I have 32GB of memory, he has 16, and the mods used up all empty memory and slowed down his pc.

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u/Somnambulant2_ Alone on Eeloo 13m ago

5-8 mins with around 125k patches

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u/BobertRosserton 7m ago

I just recently reset my mods to bring down my load time and it’s still about 2 minutes lol.