Loading stuck at "Loading Asset Bundle Definitions"

[InTheNavy]

It just gets stuck whenever it gets there, I tried reinstalling and verifying.

[MechBFP]

Did you properly reinstall? IE delete the entire Kerbal folder before reinstalling?

[SpiritFire]

make sure you installed the latest video driver as well. sometimes it dont like the old ones.

[InTheNavy]

Originally posted by MechBFP:

Did you properly reinstall? IE delete the entire Kerbal folder before reinstalling?

yes

[NobodyBestFriend]

I've had the same problem. I haven't played in a while, and about a week ago I opened the game. It loaded successfully and I could see the menu screen and stuff. When I loaded a save file, the game crashed, and I've started running into this problem. I've tried both properly and improperly reinstalling, I did the "Verify Integrity of Game Files" thing before and after everything else I've tried. I have a little less than 8 GB of RAM, but it used to run on this same machine just fine. No mods, just pure vanilla. Just waiting for it to load doesn't work; after three hours there was absolutely no progress, and my computer isn't that slow.
I just tried a proper reinstall, and I opened it from launcher.exe instead of through steam. That didn't make a difference.

[NobodyBestFriend]

Update: I don't know what I did, but after waiting a while (but not nearly as long as I have previously waited to no avail), it loaded. It took about 45 minutes of loading asset definitions.

[Victor Bearwolf]

In my case loading of KSPedia modules took more than half an hour, so I just deleted KSPedia folders from "steamapps\common\Kerbal Space Program\GameData\..." as I don't use it anyway.