KSA Startup Crash -> Solar System -> Spherical Billboarding -> Asteroid1

[Zev_Carlo]

As stated by the title of this thread, when attempting to launch KSA on the "Solar System" (lowest graphics settings), when the loading reaches Asteroid1 under Spherical Billboarding it freezes and proceeds to crash. System details and relevant image below.

GPU: Nvidia RTX A2000
- Driver 32.0.15.7357
- DirectX Version 12 (12.1)
- Dedicated GPU Memory: 4GB
- Shared GPU Memory: 15.8GB

CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12800H

Memory:
- 32GB

 

[MateoElevadoAlCubo]

I have the same problem, I can't load the solar system, but the other two systems are fine.
For me, it stops loading at "Planet Transparencies".

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
Driver version: 572.83
DirectX version: 12.0
Dedicated video memory: 4GB
Shared memory: 7.6GB

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS with Radeon Graphics

RAM: 16GB

 

[XavBell]

Try reducing texture resolution until it fully loads

 

[MateoElevadoAlCubo]

Try reducing texture resolution until it fully loads

Already did

 

[Zev_Carlo]

I did find that removing "D:\Kitten Space Agency\Content\Core\MeshCollections\AsteroidScaleMesh.xml" defers the crash to a different part of the spherical billboarding process

 

[Weather Tracker]

crashes on my RX 6400 4 GB. Looks like we are the 4GB club.

 

[MrAndroPC]

crashes on my RX 6400 4 GB. Looks like we are the 4GB club.

Ga.e requires at least 4 GB, but you must clean everything else to fit the game. I used Process Hacker 2, so I could terminate other processes which were consuming VRAM.
Could only fit 1k shadows and textures (system texture 512) with Earth Only in 4gb.

 

[Weather Tracker]

cant it use my system memory if it runs out of gpu vram. i have 11.7gb of shared memory it can acces.

 

[MrAndroPC]

cant it use my system memory if it runs out of gpu vram. i have 11.7gb of shared memory it can acces.

Nope, at least not yet, since it crashes just as it hits your GPU max VRAM capacity.