Yup, facing the same issue here. No matter what settings I put the loader at, the game just will not get past the "Planet Renderer" stage of the loading screen.
OS: Windows 10
CPU: 5700X3D
RAM: 32GB 3200MHz
Graphics Card: Gigabyte 6750xt
SSD: Western Digital 1TB NVME
I believe that I am on the latest version as of posting this. (v2026.2.38.3713 in the log file)
After some research, it seems like Radeon cards just don't work that well with KSA, and I know that it wasn't much better when I tried it at launch a few months ago. It's unfortunate, but hopefully my provided data can be helpful to the devs, or anyone reading in general, even just a little bit.
I let the game sit for a good 10 minutes (I timed it), and it made absolutely no progress. The whole time, the CPU stood at ~10% usage, while the GPU at 0%, VRAM and RAM usage was pretty high overall, here's a snip that shows some of the story:
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Between all of my log files, they all shared the trait of terminating just after "17:51:57.639 INFO set camera mode to 'Orbit'"
Here is a full past of the most recent log, although I'm not sure it'll help that much. I'll also add my settings.toml as an attachment (in .txt form because I can't upload .toml), because why not.
17:51:29.139 INFO loaded settings from C:\Users\genericusername\Documents\My Games\Kitten Space Agency\settings.toml
17:51:29.626 DEBUG Found dedicated compute queue family at index 1
17:51:29.628 DEBUG Multi view supported: True
17:51:29.629 DEBUG Ray query acceleration structure support:True
17:51:29.802 INFO Swapchain created with 2 images
17:51:29.961 DEBUG Kitten Space Agency (KSA) v2026.2.38.3713 initialized
17:51:30.002 INFO found mod 'Core'
17:51:30.058 DEBUG found system 'Sol'
17:51:30.059 DEBUG found system 'SolLite'
17:51:30.059 DEBUG found system 'Test'
17:51:30.334 INFO loaded Situation Template 'Gemini7StartingSituation'
17:51:30.336 INFO loaded Situation Template 'RocketStartingSituation'
17:51:30.336 INFO loaded Situation Template 'HunterStartingSituation'
17:51:30.336 INFO loaded Situation Template 'BanjoStartingSituation'
17:51:30.336 INFO loaded Situation Template 'PolarisStartingSituation'
17:51:30.484 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'Gemini7StartingSituation'
17:51:30.484 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'RocketStartingSituation'
17:51:30.484 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'HunterStartingSituation'
17:51:30.484 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'BanjoStartingSituation'
17:51:30.484 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'PolarisStartingSituation'
17:51:30.484 DEBUG loaded system 'Sol'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'Gemini7StartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'RocketStartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'HunterStartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'BanjoStartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'PolarisStartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 DEBUG loaded system 'SolLite'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'Gemini7StartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'RocketStartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'HunterStartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'BanjoStartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'PolarisStartingSituation'
17:51:30.485 DEBUG loaded system 'Test'
17:51:53.211 INFO loaded Situation Template 'Gemini7StartingSituation'
17:51:53.211 INFO loaded Situation Template 'RocketStartingSituation'
17:51:53.211 INFO loaded Situation Template 'HunterStartingSituation'
17:51:53.211 INFO loaded Situation Template 'BanjoStartingSituation'
17:51:53.211 INFO loaded Situation Template 'PolarisStartingSituation'
17:51:53.370 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'Gemini7StartingSituation'
17:51:53.371 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'RocketStartingSituation'
17:51:53.371 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'HunterStartingSituation'
17:51:53.371 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'BanjoStartingSituation'
17:51:53.371 INFO loaded Instance of Situation Template 'PolarisStartingSituation'
17:51:53.371 DEBUG loaded system 'Sol'
17:51:53.384 DEBUG loaded planet mesh collection 'Default'
17:51:53.385 DEBUG loaded planet mesh collection 'EarthScale'
17:51:53.385 DEBUG loaded planet mesh collection 'OceanEarth'
17:51:53.386 DEBUG loaded planet mesh collection 'Asteroid'
17:51:53.386 DEBUG loaded planet mesh collection 'MarsScale'
17:51:57.046 INFO loading star binary 'hip_main.bin'
17:51:57.051 INFO loading star binary 'hip_main.bin'
17:51:57.051 DEBUG loading 106424 star binaries from 'Content/Core\hip_main.bin'
17:51:57.100 INFO instantiated 'Sol' system
17:51:57.635 INFO following celestial 'Rocket'
17:51:57.636 INFO Controlling 'Rocket'
17:51:57.637 INFO set simulation speed to x1
17:51:57.637 INFO set map camera to azimuth 2.88, elevation 0.47, distancePower 3635076.00
17:51:57.638 INFO set camera mode to 'Map'
17:51:57.639 INFO set map camera to azimuth 2.88, elevation 0.47, distancePower 3635076.00
17:51:57.639 INFO set camera mode to 'Map'
17:51:57.639 INFO set orbit camera to azimuth -4.83, elevation -0.41, distancePower 2.85
17:51:57.639 INFO set camera mode to 'Orbit'
