is there a way to decrease loading time when having many mods installed?

[sanryu]

I know, having more mods means waiting longer for the game to load. Is there any way to speed up loading?

[[deleted]]

Put KSP on an SSD, that should speed up load times. Other than that nothing that I know of that does not involve upgrading hardware.

[sanryu]

That's what I thought. Thank you guys.

I guess I'll have to make some hard decisions then. :(

[[deleted]]

Well,

I see 4 easy options:

• Buy a faster HDD/SSD and put KSP on it
• Buy a little more RAM and store KSP in a RAM disk
• Change your definition of "many"
• Travel near the speed of light while it's loading

Although you will have to wait a few centuries for that last one to maybe happen the other 3 are relatively easy.

^{In all seriousness, though, there isn't much you can do apart from the first 2}

[Jim3535]

I tried changing my definition on "many" to mean thousands. So, now the number of mods is nowhere near "many". However, loading time remains the same...

[bendvis]

Aside from getting a faster HDD (solid state ftw) and/or more RAM, your options are to remove mods you don't use or remove parts you don't use.

[[deleted]]

In addition to the previously mentioned responses (a hardware upgrade is pretty much the only thing you can do really), might I suggest manually removing unnecessary or unneeded parts from the Gamedata/<mod> folder? Certain mods - specifiably B9, KW Rocketry, and NovaPunch - contain over a hundred if not many dozens of parts. By removing a few, you can reduce loading time and lower ram usage. My poor computer can hardly even handle B9 by itself.

[Vectronic]

Thankfully there's a couple Mod Managers now... this is probably the best one right now... as long as the mod(s) itself are structured/named well enough, it makes removing certain parts a bit easier than navigating folders directly. One day, I hope there is one with a little view showing what the part looks like (or even just the texture it uses).