Game wont start, issue with AMD?

[RamsesIV.]

I installed the game normaly on C:/Program Files/ with the .NET 9.0.11, but the game wont run at all. I only see white screen and it stops responding right away.
MS Event viewer says this:

Application: KSA.exe
CoreCLR Version: 9.0.1125.51716
.NET Version: 9.0.11
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Stack:
at Brutal.VulkanApi.Instance..ctor(CreateInfo)
at Brutal.VulkanApi.Vulkan.CreateInstance(CreateInfo)
at Core.KSADeviceContextEx..ctor(Api)
at Core.Renderer..ctor(Brutal.GlfwApi.GlfwWindow, Brutal.VulkanApi.VkFormat, Brutal.VulkanApi.VkPresentModeKHR, Api)
at KSA.Program..ctor(System.Collections.Generic.IReadOnlyList`1<System.String>)
at KSA.Program.Main(System.String[])


and then other event
Název chybující aplikace: KSA.exe, verze: 2025.11.4.2791, časové razítko: 0x67200000
Název chybujícího modulu: coreclr.dll, verze: 9.0.1125.51716, časové razítko: 0x68f2d06e
Kód výjimky: 0xc0000005
Posun chyby: 0x00000000002e4f72
ID chybujícího procesu: 0x3830
Čas spuštění chybující aplikace: 0x01dc5607f0456c92
Cesta k chybující aplikaci: C:\Program Files\Kitten Space Agency\KSA.exe
Cesta k chybujícímu modulu: C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App\9.0.11\coreclr.dll
ID zprávy: 338a2f61-7800-4b0b-99eb-0db8f6447947
Úplný název chybujícího balíčku:
ID aplikace související s chybujícím balíčkem:

My specs:

CPU: AMD R7 5700 X3D
GPU: AMD RX 7900 XT (Sapphire Pure)
MB: GB Aorus X470
RAM: 32 GB
Win: 10 Home 22H2

I tried reinstall gpu drivers and the .NET 9, but didnt help.
I looked all over the forum tried couple things that people had problems with but nothing worked.

Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Allie_Gat0r :3]

Hey, could you post your PC info, including AMD driver version to this thread ->

Z

Thread 'GPU Testing Thread'

Saturday at 5:45 AM

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...

• Zuexs
• Replies: 25
• Forum: Technical Support

• 

Seems like a Vulkan related issue maybe. Could you add this info from the vulkaninfo terminal program?
(Open 'Powershell' in your start menu, then type vulkaninfo and press enter, and scroll down to 'Vulkan Device')

example:

Device Properties and Extensions:
=================================
GPU0:
VkPhysicalDeviceProperties:
---------------------------
apiVersion = 1.3.277 (4206869)
driverVersion = 551.86.0.0 (2312470528)
vendorID = 0x10de
deviceID = 0x2208
deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU
deviceName = NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

 

[RamsesIV.]

Ok Ill post that info to the thread.

vulkaninfo gives me this response.

ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : loader_get_json: Failed to open JSON file C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Systems 2019.5.2\Target-Windows\x86_64\VkLayers\VkLayer_nsight-sys_windows.json
WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : Layer VK_LAYER_AGAUEEYE_Overlay uses API version 1.1 which is older than the application specified API version of 1.4. May cause issues.
WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : Layer VK_LAYER_RTSS uses API version 1.3 which is older than the application specified API version of 1.4. May cause issues.

Interesting that it does this because the NVIDIA folder with all those files are still there. I found that json it wanted to fetch. But still its an unused vulkan driver. I think I can safely delete it.

 

[RamsesIV.]

Found this:
{
"file_format_version" : "1.0.0",
"ICD" : {
"library_path" : ".\\amdvlk64.dll",
"api_version" : "1.3.292"
},
"layer": {
"name": "VK_LAYER_AMD_switchable_graphics",
"type": "GLOBAL",
"library_path": ".\\amdvlk64.dll",
"api_version" : "1.3.292",
"implementation_version" : "1",
"description" : "AMD switchable graphics layer",
"functions": {
"vkGetInstanceProcAddr": "vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddrSG",
"vkGetDeviceProcAddr": "vk_icdGetDeviceProcAddrSG"
},
"disable_environment": {
"DISABLE_LAYER_AMD_SWITCHABLE_GRAPHICS_1": "1"
}
}
}

At this path
c:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\u0413716.inf_amd64_05f67121425d2179\B409877\

 

[TemplarZaelot]

Similar issue on my PC, game wont start at all, I dont even see a blank screen.

AMD Ryzen 5600X
Graphics, Radeon RX 7800XT

I will try to get windows event logs.


Vulkaninfo command outputs a ton of stuff, which part would be relevant here?

 

[Jabbawaky]

Not just a problem on AMD, I have a GTX1650 and I'm having the same problem.

Bug report is here:

Thread 'KSA refuses to launch, not even showing up in the task manager'

Friday at 7:13 AM

Whenever I try to launch KSA.exe, the game doesn't even show up in the task manager as a process, it's as if it flat out refuses to launch period.

Spoiler: PC Stats

Game is installed on Drive E:, no special characters or cyrillics anywhere in the paths.

Windows 10 Pro 21H1

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
GIGABYTE X570 GAMING X (Probably unimportant but for completeness)
64 GB of DDR4 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super
NVIDIA Game Ready Drivers version 581.80

Microsoft .NET SDK 9.0.304

• DestinyPlayer
• Replies: 32
• Forum: KSA Bug Reports

• 

 

[RamsesIV.]

Ive spent all morning removing anything v Nvidia name attached to it and DDU unnistalled both AMD and NVidia drivers reinstalled AMD drivers completely, still the same. Vulkaninfo does error caused by Nsight thing I dont know how to uninstall it more then i did. I removed any traces of it even from regedit. the DDU does not really uninstall all the drivers. It leaves all cuda and Nsight and physX intact as well as lot of registers and folder everywhere.

 

[Jabbawaky]

Not just a problem on AMD, I have a GTX1650 and I'm having the same problem.

Bug report is here:

Thread 'KSA refuses to launch, not even showing up in the task manager'

Friday at 7:13 AM

Whenever I try to launch KSA.exe, the game doesn't even show up in the task manager as a process, it's as if it flat out refuses to launch period.

Spoiler: PC Stats

Game is installed on Drive E:, no special characters or cyrillics anywhere in the paths.

Windows 10 Pro 21H1

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
GIGABYTE X570 GAMING X (Probably unimportant but for completeness)
64 GB of DDR4 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super
NVIDIA Game Ready Drivers version 581.80

Microsoft .NET SDK 9.0.304

• DestinyPlayer
• Replies: 32
• Forum: KSA Bug Reports

• 

I eventually fixed the issue. Turns out when I updated my NVIDIA drivers I forgot to update my AMD drivers (integrated AMD dedicated NVIDIA)