cloud shadows render crash

[Finn Doran]

Game Version​

[e.g. 2026.10.25.5707]

Operating System​

Windows 11

Hardware​

- GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Radeon Graphics
- RAM:16.0 GB (15.4 GB usable)

Install Location​

"C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Kitten Space Agency"

What's Happening?​

when the loading gets to where it says "cloud shadows renderer" it freezes and crashes a few seconds later

Reproduction Rate​

Every Launch

Already Tried​

we have tried in rough order, Lowering all settings and and choosing "earth only" world, checked that GPU drivers are updated, checked logs and set custom settings for application to high performance GPU, manually turned off cloud shadows, lowered shadow quality to "Hard"

Logs​

• latest crash log attached below

 

[Kiwi Shark]

Helped work on this in the Discord yesterday.
Main error seems to stay as VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY despite everything attempted, although it doesn't seem to reach the usual higher values and then crash like other VRAM overload crashes.

Min settings, Earth only, disabling extra settings, forcing dedicated GPU to be used, drivers updated, etc.
It's a weird one!