The game is apparently not compatible with AMD graphics cards according to similar posts being showcased after I posted mine. I'm not changing my card for this game. I'll try again anyway after a month hoping that NVIDIA doesn't stay favored.
I downloaded the public alpha around a month after release hoping that is enough time for something playable. But the game seems to get stuck loading at the planet renderer stage. Using the default settings the VRAM was approximately 4.5/7.5. Eventually just tried loading the game using only the...