Can confirm: Setting Anisotropic Filtering from Enabled to Disabled in the AMD software fixes it in Steam for me. I had it enabled globally, so it's no clear why it only affected the Steam version.

It's weird that there's no "Use application setting" for that setting, only enable and disable. Also ...

I tried a bunch of versions, and I'm not able to reproduce the issue when using the standalone zip downloaded from the website. But I can reproduce on the steam version at least as far back as 2.0.77:

2.0.7 - working
2.0.55 - working
2.0.77 - working
2.1.7 - working
2.1.14 - working

2.0.77 (steam ...

OP, are you using an AMD gpu? I also have this issue, but only since I switched from Nvidia to AMD (9070 XT).

This is a super minor issue, but if you have no mods enabled (just Base mod) then the game loads quickly enough that the loading music/sound is still playing when the title music starts and they play over top of each other.

Ideally either the title music would interrupt the loading music, or it ...

+1

While intended, it's a really unpleasant sound. Maybe you can filter off some of the high frequencies? I think OP's description of "scratchy" is spot on. Configuring ghosts is one of the most common things you do in the game so it's really important to have a good sound. The regular open/close ...

In the included save file, to the north of the player, on the north side of the belt, where the military and utility science packs are, the science packs are spreading out at a random point on the belt. Unless the belt is fully backed up on that side (which it isn't in this case), I would expect the ...