anyone try no mans sky? should i get it for pc

[djreedj]

Should i get this for pc or ps4...i see tons of reviews that FPS is terrible on PC..

 

[Supernova1138]

Lots of people are reporting performance problems on PC even with high end hardware. The mouse and keyboard controls are apparently quite poor too, and there is no joystick support, meaning you pretty much need a gamepad to play the game right now. If you really want to play the game now, PS4 might be the way to go, the PC version is going to need some serious patching done.

 

[Balaam]

Yeah right now PS4 is the way to go with it, it's a very poorly optimized PC port at the moment that still needs some serious work. The minimum specs that they said were required won't even really run the game with any real fps and would be completely unplayable. Even far surpassing the specs... As soon as you lift off in your ship it's going to start chugging pretty badly from what I've seen running two 960s in SLI.

 

[djreedj]

That is such a shame I really wanted to play it on PC and put my specs to the test

 

[James Mason]

your specs can run it fine, i have the exact same and it runs fine for me.

 

[Balaam]

Looking into it a bit more, it looks like if you tweak the settings a bit it should actually fix any fps issues you may have from liftoff. I haven't tested it yet but it sounds promising if you open the graphics settings config file and set vsync to false. Your CPU does support SSE 4.1 as well, so you won't get the immediate crash to desktop issue a lot of people have been having.

To access the config file, go to the folder you've installed the game to, then into binaries, and into setting. Open the file 'TKGRAPHICSETTINGS' with notepad, and find the line <Property name="VSync" value="true" /> and change that to false. Provided you are seeing FPS issues if you do try it out.

 

[king3pj]

Looking into it a bit more, it looks like if you tweak the settings a bit it should actually fix any fps issues you may have from liftoff. I haven't tested it yet but it sounds promising if you open the graphics settings config file and set vsync to false. Your CPU does support SSE 4.1 as well, so you won't get the immediate crash to desktop issue a lot of people have been having.

To access the config file, go to the folder you've installed the game to, then into binaries, and into setting. Open the file 'TKGRAPHICSETTINGS' with notepad, and find the line <Property name="VSync" value="true" /> and change that to false. Provided you are seeing FPS issues if you do try it out.

You don't even have to mess with config files. You can just turn off vsync from the in-game settings menu.

I was having random hitching the first day but the game was running fine 95% of the time. I saw someone suggest turning off vsync and setting the frame cap to max. I did this today and it completely removed all frame drops for me. The only problem is that it introduced some pretty bad screen tearing. To fix this I turned on vsync in the Nvidia Control Panel. Now that I'm forcing vsync from NCP and keeping it set to off in the game's menu I am getting a solid 60 FPS with no drops or tearing.

The only hitching I see now is when I first boot up the game and the main title screen zooms in to my location through the stars. Once the actual game starts it's fine though. I'm running maxed settings at 1440p with a GTX 1070, i5 4690k, and 16GB of RAM.

 

[Balaam]

Oh, I didn't know it was an option in game... My CPU doesn't support SSE4.1 so it just crashed to desktop on boot up. I've just been trying everything and finding whatever I can to try and make it work. Now I'm just waiting for the patch that'll fix the crash so i can attempt to play it on my old rig.

 

[king3pj]

Oh, I didn't know it was an option in game... My CPU doesn't support SSE4.1 so it just crashed to desktop on boot up. I've just been trying everything and finding whatever I can to try and make it work. Now I'm just waiting for the patch that'll fix the crash so i can attempt to play it on my old rig.

This is fixed for people with older AMD CPUs now. You need to switch over to the expiramental beta patch. There are instructions for how to do this in the No Man's Sky Steam forums. They said the beta patch would be coming to everyone early this week as long as it doesn't create new problems.

 

[jaged]

Should i get this for pc or ps4...i see tons of reviews that FPS is terrible on PC..

It really seems like a crap shoot on PC at the moment. There are twitch streamers with top of the line hardware who can't play/stream it and here I am with a 4 year old PC playing it fine.

I have had it crash once during the first hour of play. That's it. I am running the game as installed. I have made no changes in the options etc.

My basic PC specs:
i5 2500k
GTX960
8gb ram
Nothing overclocked etc.

I've had several space dogfights with pirates and have visited 5 or 6 different planets/systems. I have approx 11 or 12 hours of play time on it. So while I have had very few problems with it, there are many reported problems(and workarounds as well). IF you have a PS4 & a PC, it might be wise to go PS4 right now. This coming from a hardcore PC-preferred gamer.