GPU Testing Thread

[Zuexs]

Do you have a GPU? Do you have a weird GPU? Does the game run really well, really poorly, or do strange things on your system? Share it here!

We'll use a similar post format to the One True Linux Thread™ folks:

Note: CPU Vendor and ID are combined to save column space. It's an important consideration for this thread, but not as important as the GPU info (and AMD and Intel tend not to step on each other's name spaces as much).

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
<Include distro/version if applicable>	<Vendor ##-####>	<##> GB	<AMD, Nvidia, Intel>	<####>	<##> GB	<##.##.#>	<####>x<####> Fullscreen /Windowed	ON/OFF	<Performance comments or characteristics>

To view the full list of collected GPU test data, check out the spreadsheet.

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Examples:​

Windows:

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Pro (25H1)	Intel i9-12900K	32 GB	Nvidia	RTX 3090	24 GB	581.80	1920x1080 Fullscreen	OFF	Ran at 90FPS with no stuttering.

Linux:

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Arch Bazzite	AMD R7-7700X	128 GB	AMD	RX 7900XT	20 GB	25.11.1	2560x1440 Windowed	ON	Held at 60. Consistent crashes during vessel switch.

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[Zuexs]

Reserved for updates

 

[Allie_Gat0r :3]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 10 20H2	Ryzen 9800X3D	64	Nvidia	RTX 3080Ti	12	551.86	2560x1440	N/A	Game just doesn't even attempt to launch and instantly crashes without spawning a window. No direct errors from DotNet (9.0.11) either, just the KERNBASE.DLL event log.

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 22H2	Ryzen 7840HS	32	Nvidia	RTX 4060M	8*	552.12	2560x1440	165/83	Game will crash at stock settings due to out of VRAM, but reduced settings down two tiers for each config gets it running at ~5.6GB VRAM reported with the Earth and Moon situation. Performance is Vsync'd to 83 and consistent otherwise, even at 1440P Borderless. Crashes when pressing ] and lags laptop, possibly due to out of VRAM but returns to normal shortly after

I'm not upgrading my OS or drivers either as my system is stable for every other game including newish vulkan ones, and things will only get worse tbh.

I would really prefer if someone could test the game on another system with my OS, but updated driver to make it obvious where the issue is. Or the reverse, something like Windows 22H2 with Driver 551/550 to see what the **minimum** working config is worst case, even with *good* hardware.

It's not Windows defender (No logs, and exception added), it's not DotNet not being installed. Trying DotNet 8.0 via the start config/manifest makes no difference in error, though corrupting the config does bring a DotNot related error when it tries to start.

It's not any known software hijacking the window and crashing it, as there is no window to render, and I tried it with nothing open. There's no Vulkan debug info from the event viewer either saying it can't access the device, and my vulkan info says v1.3 and works for DXVK mods + RTX Remix etc.

I know Windows 11 22H2 on Driver 552.12 works (4060M laptop), so the driver isn't *that* old, neither is the GPU as people with GTX 1050tis or something can boot the game on slightly newer drivers + Windows versions.

I feel like it's something to do with an incompatibility DotNet 9.0 has with some Windows 10 20H2 and 21H2 systems, saw some reports on Github for this. Hopefully a bit of time can be put into making sure compatibility is expanded for more Windows 10 versions, or a workaround, especially as Microsoft is making Windows 11 constantly buggier/worse, and I don't want to introduce another variable that could hurt all my other games (sorry, but yeah) and folks with ~5yr old laptops that could meet min specs (ie, RTX 3060M + 5800H on Win10 20/21H2) with more VRAM optimization

 

[Zuexs]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 10 20H2	Ryzen 9800X3D	64	Nvidia	RTX 3080Ti	12	551.86	2560x1440	N/A	Game just doesn't even attempt to launch and instantly crashes without spawning a window. No direct errors from DotNet (9.0.11) either, just the KERNBASE.DLL event log.

I'm not upgrading my OS or drivers either as my system is stable for every other game including newish vulkan ones, and things will only get worse tbh.

I would really prefer if someone could test the game on another system with my OS, but updated driver to make it obvious where the issue is. Or the reverse, something like Windows 22H2 with Driver 551/550 to see what the **minimum** working config is worst case, even with *good* hardware.

It's not Windows defender (No logs, and exception added), it's not DotNet not being installed. Trying DotNet 8.0 via the start config/manifest makes no difference in error, though corrupting the config does bring a DotNot related error when it tries to start.

It's not any known software hijacking the window and crashing it, as there is no window to render, and I tried it with nothing open. There's no Vulkan debug info from the event viewer either saying it can't access the device, and my vulkan info says v1.3 and works for DXVK mods + RTX Remix etc.

I know Windows 11 22H2 on Driver 552.12 works (4060M laptop), so the driver isn't *that* old, neither is the GPU as people with GTX 1050tis or something can boot the game on slightly newer drivers + Windows versions.

I feel like it's something to do with an incompatibility DotNet 9.0 has with some Windows 10 20H2 and 21H2 systems, saw some reports on Github for this. Hopefully a bit of time can be put into making sure compatibility is expanded for more Windows 10 versions, or a workaround, especially as Microsoft is making Windows 11 constantly buggier/worse, and I don't want to introduce another variable that could hurt all my other games (sorry, but yeah)

I have a test system with a 3080 (non Ti) so I could try installing that driver version and see what happens! It might also be the older windows version as 20H2 is pretty old and was known to have some bugs. I can install a newer version of Windows but test the old driver just to be sure.

Good to know the 4060M works! I'll add that to the "known good" list.

 

[Crex]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11	Ryzen 5800x3D	16	AMD	6750XT	12	25.11.1	2560x1440	N/A	Game Launches but crashes half way into loading just the earth on lowest setting. I think the game isnt using vram enough as that peaks at 4 but normal RAM spikes to 16.

 

[Michael Checksum]

Windows:

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Pro (23H2)	Ryzen 7 5700X	64 GB	Intel	ARC A770 Titan	16 GB	32.0.101.8247	1920x1080 Fullscreen	OFF	Starts, lets me select Solar System and proceeds to "Loading Complete", there it freezes for about 10 seconds and then crashes completely.

 

[DrVenkman]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Home (25H2)	AMD Ryzen 9800X3D	64 GB	Nvidia	RTX 4070 Ti Super	16 GB	581.80	2560x1440 Fullscreen	On	Excellent performance with this combination of hardware, OS and driver. At 1440p, and with textures set to Unlimited and Shows set to 8K, and 8X anti-aliasing, I see between 10.5 - 12GB VRAM usage around the Moon and Earth with stock vessels. I have not yet tested around other planetary bodies.

 

[BraveCaperCat]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	VRAM	Driver	Resolution	VSync	Report
Windows 11 Home (25H2)	Intel i5-11400H	16GB	Nvidia	RTX 3050 Laptop GPU	12GB	Depends	1920x1080 Fullscreen	On	Not terrible performance, but the game only loads at 512K 128K vessels and 512K 128K terrain. Other than the game crashing on any higher settings and on all maps other than Earth Only, it appears to run perfectly fine. VRAM usage never goes above ~4GB.

 

[TWRScout]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Home (24H2)	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics	16 GB	Nvidia	RTX 4060 Laptop GPU	8 GB	581.42	1920x1080 Windowed	ON	The game is basically unplayable because even though the game itself runs extremely smooth, it also causes system wide choppiness and lag spikes that are very frequent, especially when near a celestial body. The game makes my System RAM jump up about 20% and my vRAM usage is always at and never goes above 4 GB (always reads 3.9/8.0 GB in the task manager). There is not a singular graphics setting in the game that affects performance, no matter if the graphics settings are at all max or all at their lowest.

 

[scotty2164]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2	Intel Core i7-9750H CPU	16 GB	Nvidia	GTX 1650	4 GB	Game Ready Driver 581.57	1920x1080 Fullscreen	ON	Max playable on v2025.11.4.2791 Earth and Moon Vessels: 1K shadows 1K textures Terrain: 1K shadows 1K textures

 

[Allie_Gat0r :3]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Home (24H2)	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics	16 GB	Nvidia	RTX 4060 Laptop GPU	8 GB	581.42	1920x1080 Windowed	ON	The game is basically unplayable because even though the game itself runs extremely smooth, it also causes system wide choppiness and lag spikes that are very frequent, especially when near a celestial body. The game makes my System RAM jump up about 20% and my vRAM usage is always at and never goes above 4 GB (always reads 3.9/8.0 GB in the task manager). There is not a singular graphics setting in the game that affects performance, no matter if the graphics settings are at all max or all at their lowest.

Hey nice, same config as me. Yeah, agreed on "system wide choppiness", it's **very** weird. Wonder if it's doing something to shared memory or eating up our CPU's small cache a bunch. Never seen this with other games, even RT demos and stuff.

Do you have a Lenovo LOQ 15 7840HS too? That's what my config is

 

[TWRScout]

Hey nice, same config as me. Yeah, agreed on "system wide choppiness", it's **very** weird. Wonder if it's doing something to shared memory or eating up our CPU's small cache a bunch. Never seen this with other games, even RT demos and stuff.

Do you have a Lenovo LOQ 15 7840HS too? That's what my config is

I actually have a Dell G15 5535 Gaming Laptop. Interesting enough, the shared memory on the graphics card is also capped, staying at 0.2/7.7 GB. The only other game I've seen this happen with is actually Kerbal Space Program with a lot of visual mods, but even then it hasn't been nearly this bad and also I have been able to improve it by adjusting graphics settings unlike how it's been with KSA where adjusting graphics settings doesn't do anything.

 

[Terra Incognita]

I've stickied this thread for increased visibility as it will be a helpful resource for the devs.

 

[Jacob]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Home 25H2	AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics	16 GB	AMD	Radeon RX 7700S	8 GB	32.0.22021.1009	1920x1200 Fullscreen	OFF	Game playable. Generally stays between 80-120fps at graphics settings listed below. Note: I had to manually tell windows to use the dedicated GPU since it was defaulting to iGPU and crashing.

Specific laptop in question: ASUS TUF Gaming A17 fa617nt

I can't wait for feature updates. I love how performant the game seems so far.

 

[Sirus]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Arch Linux Kernel 6.17.7-arch1-2	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X	32 GB	AMD	Radeon RX 5700 XT	8 GB	Mesa 25.2.7-1	2560x1440 Fullscreen	OFF	FPS is steady 40-50, but when I turn the HUD off, I get double to triple to that. Occasional crashes and frequent graphics bugs such as flickering, terrain not rendering at all (including water). The game takes around 4-6 GB of system ram and about the same VRAM. Graphics settings attached + shadows at 1K (couldn't fit to the screenshot)

 

[maew]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Home 25H2	AMD Ryzen 5 5600	32 GB	AMD	RX580	8 GB	25.8.1	1920*1080	N/A	Cannot load

I get past the initial configuration options and loading begins, but it gets as far as 'spherical billboarding' and then either freezes (becomes unresponsive) or crashes to desktop if I have textures set to 'unlimited'. The same thing happens with any of the three systems.

 

[RamsesIV.]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 10 Home 22H2	AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D	32 GB	AMD	RX 7900 XT	20 GB	25.11.1	2560x1440 Fullscreen	N/A	Cannot start the game

The game does not load currently. I get the non response message right away then I can only close it.
More about my problem here.

 

[gutza1]

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11 Pro (25H1)	Intel Ultra 7 155H	32 GB	Intel	Integrated Arc Graphics	18 GB	32.0.101.8247	1920x1080 Fullscreen	OFF	Crashes upon "loading complete"

In theory I should have plenty of vRAM for this game, but it still crashes.

 

[VITAS]

Ive a bunch of amd gpus in proxmox as passtrough if anything needs testing under certain conditions. namely theres also an amd 5950. just ping me here

 

[Crex]

correction of my past report, I reinstalled and got it to start after 5 minutes of loading and prompting it not to close the program, but earth was white.

OS / Distro	CPU Vendor & ID	System RAM	GPU Vendor	GPU ID	vRAM	Driver	Resolution	vSync	Report
Windows 11	AMD 5800X3D	16 GB	AMD	6750XT	12 GB	25.11.1	2560X1440 Fullscreen	OFF	Ran on lowest setting seamed stable but took forever to load, and the earth was white.