Video Top 5 Places to Visit in Kitten Space Agency

[Goddchen]

What are your top places right now?

 

[BraveCaperCat]

Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth and Earth. I can't go anywhere else because the game won't run the Earth and Moon or Solar System maps.

 

[Goddchen]

Earth, Earth, Earth, Earth and Earth. I can't go anywhere else because the game won't run the Earth and Moon or Solar System maps.

Oh, did you try the lower texture settings on startup?

 

[BraveCaperCat]

Oh, did you try the lower texture settings on startup?

I had to, the game only loads on 512 128 vessels and 512 128 terrain. Any higher and the game crashes. Any map other than Earth Only and the game crashes. Any combination of the two and the game crashes.

 

[Nuke]

titan was pretty cool. enter atmosphere, turn off engine and wait.

 

[Goddchen]

titan was pretty cool. enter atmosphere, turn off engine and wait.

Yeah Titan is pretty cool as well. But would be my #6 still...

 

[Terra Incognita]

Hey @Goddchen, could you please throw a Video prefix on threads like these? Thanks!

 

[Goddchen]

I had to, the game only loads on 512 128 vessels and 512 128 terrain. Any higher and the game crashes. Any map other than Earth Only and the game crashes. Any combination of the two and the game crashes.

What GPU do you have? Especially, how much VRAM does it have?

 

[Goddchen]

Hey @Goddchen, could you please throw a Video prefix on threads like these? Thanks!

Ah, absolutely! Just did it (edited the thread)! Glad that there is now an option to indicate it, thanks.

 

[BraveCaperCat]

What GPU do you have? Especially, how much VRAM does it have?

I have an Nvidia RTX 3050 GPU with 4GB of VRAM. In case you're wondering, my VRAM usage has never caused any issues with any game, other than potentially (this early version of) KSA.

 

[Nuke]

I have an Nvidia RTX 3050 GPU with 4GB of VRAM. In case you're wondering, my VRAM usage has never caused any issues with any game,,, other than potentially (this early version of) KSA.

4gb is not good. 8gb has been getting long in the tooth as well. i wouldnt get anything less than 12. even my mom is on a 6 gig card, a 1060, and thats 9-years old at this point. it struggles with google earth. 512^2 textures may be its limit. for every next power of two the memory footprint goes up by a factor of four.

also with nvidia the 50 series is widely considered a scam tier. many are rebranded older chips (rather than down-binned current gen). intel arc would be better as you can get 12 gigs for less than $300. intel is really the only one selling viable low to mid tier cards anymore. i wouldnt touch nvidia until the 70 tier cards these days, amd is a little less performant but makes up for it with lots of vram.

 

[Goddchen]

I have an Nvidia RTX 3050 GPU with 4GB of VRAM. In case you're wondering, my VRAM usage has never caused any issues with any game,,, other than potentially (this early version of) KSA.

yeah, 4GB is quite low for the game in this early stage. The "problem" is that, unlike in other engines, they have not yet implemented a mechanic that will "outsource" currently unused textures to RAM instead of VRAM. Everything is stored in VRAM right now. Until that mechanic is in place, you will unfortunately see issues with your GPU and have to run on low settings.

 

[Goddchen]

4gb is not good. 8gb has been getting long in the tooth as well. i wouldnt get anything less than 12. even my mom is on a 6 gig card, a 1060, and thats 9-years old at this point. it struggles with google earth. 512^2 textures may be its limit. for every next power of two the memory footprint goes up by a factor of four.

also with nvidia the 50 series is widely considered a scam tier. many are rebranded older chips (rather than down-binned current gen). intel arc would be better as you can get 12 gigs for less than $300. intel is really the only one selling viable low to mid tier cards anymore. i wouldnt touch nvidia until the 70 tier cards these days, amd is a little less performant but makes up for it with lots of vram.

Interesting take, why would you skip the 60 tier cards?

 

[Nuke]

Interesting take, why would you skip the 60 tier cards?

i just dont think thats a market segment nvidia does well, or even acknowledges. they have made statements that gaming is not their focus right now. and that they dont want to do low end cards. i think amd is better in the mid to upper mid segment. of course this could all be different in a few years. ive been building computers since the voodoo cards were all the rage, ive seen every possible permutation of the battle for tech dominance. ive seen giants crumble and underdogs rise to glory. im not tied to any particular vendor, i kind of want to give intel a shot if they are still in the game when i need to upgrade my 7900xt. that could be some time. my previous card was a 2070 super. i usually go with whoever is best targeting upper-mid tier hardware.

 

[Goddchen]

i just dont think thats a market segment nvidia does well, or even acknowledges. they have made statements that gaming is not their focus right now. and that they dont want to do low end cards. i think amd is better in the mid to upper mid segment. of course this could all be different in a few years. ive been building computers since the voodoo cards were all the rage, ive seen every possible permutation of the battle for tech dominance. ive seen giants crumble and underdogs rise to glory. im not tied to any particular vendor, i kind of want to give intel a shot if they are still in the game when i need to upgrade my 7900xt. that could be some time. my previous card was a 2070 super. i usually go with whoever is best targeting upper-mid tier hardware.

Ah, 3DFX Voodoo, my first GPU (accelerator) - good old times
Yeah I agree with most of that. Either way, I'm planing on upgrading my current RTX3070 because of the 8GB VRAM. I just want more... Not sure what it's going to be. But I'll definitely wait what the 60 series has to offer.

 

[BraveCaperCat]

4gb is not good. 8gb has been getting long in the tooth as well. i wouldnt get anything less than 12. even my mom is on a 6 gig card, a 1060, and thats 9-years old at this point. it struggles with google earth. 512^2 textures may be its limit. for every next power of two the memory footprint goes up by a factor of four.

also with nvidia the 50 series is widely considered a scam tier. many are rebranded older chips (rather than down-binned current gen). intel arc would be better as you can get 12 gigs for less than $300. intel is really the only one selling viable low to mid tier cards anymore. i wouldnt touch nvidia until the 70 tier cards these days, amd is a little less performant but makes up for it with lots of vram.

Can't switch out my graphics card, I'm using a laptop. The 3050 came with the laptop and has been like "old reliable" since I bought it, until now, though I hope the issue is entirely with KSA so it can be fixed. (unlike the model of graphics card I'm using)

Nvidea cards are categorised by the first 2 digits, not the last 2. It's a 30 series card, not a 50 series card.
I do actually have an intel iGPU as well, (came with the laptop's CPU) but it runs almost all games absolutely horribly, if at all. And it doesn't have any VRAM at all, being an iGPU.

 

[Nuke]

Can't switch out my graphics card, I'm using a laptop. The 3050 came with the laptop and has been like "old reliable" since I bought it, until now, though I hope the issue is entirely with KSA so it can be fixed. (unlike the model of graphics card I'm using)

Nvidea cards are categorised by the first 2 digits, not the last 2. It's a 30 series card, not a 50 series card.
I do actually have an intel iGPU as well, (came with the laptop's CPU) but it runs almost all games absolutely horribly, if at all. And it doesn't have any VRAM at all, being an iGPU.

first two are the generation, second two are the tier. i like to upgrade to new generations with the same tier, perhaps skipping one or two generations. however nvidia, and pretty much everyone now, plays fast and loose with their naming conventions. so not all 30xxs use the same silicon. and the tiers have been also increasing their price point so a xx70 now costs as much as a xx60 used to and an xx50 may be an entirely different architecture and/or process node than a higher tier of the same generation. its a bloody mess. i dont really understand amd's naming conventions at all even though im on an all amd rig right now.

only thing laptops can do is get an egpu. maybe you can set your textures as low as they will go. otherwise you may have to wait for those texture streaming features. it is an alpha after all. no reason they cant make it work on a 4gb card at some point.