FAQ and Troubleshooting

Q: KSC spawns underground.

A: 1. Make sure your terrain detail setting in KSP's Settings menu (Graphics Settings) is set to Medium/Default or higher. - If you use the 8192 textures, set it to maximum. 2. Make sure you are running Active Texture Management and you are not running over the RAM limit. 3. Make sure you have installed RSS exactly as specified in the readme; you haven't renamed folders, or placed the RealSolarSystem folder in another folder, or anything like that.

Q: KSP hangs on the "Loading" screen

A: This is normal the first time you launch KSP. Just wait it out, it may take 15-20 minutes. After that, it will be fast to load.

Q: the orbits of the moon and all planets are tilted.

A: This is the only way the 23.44 degree deviation of the Earth's axis can be implemented. It's not a bug.

Q: How do I find out the time of a particular real-life date, e.g. Oct 15, 1997?

A: Day 1 Year 1 is Jan 1 1951 at midnight GMT. Since KSP thinks every year is 365 days (oh, and make sure your settings are on "Earth time" not "Kerbin time" in KSP's settings menu), you will have to figure out what day of the year Oct 15 is, then offset by the number of leap years since 1951.