No mans sky review

[another random person]

Hello again,

 

A while back I preordered No Man's Sky for the PC. As many people are aware today is release day for the PC after many lengthy and annoying delays. AS you do, I joined in the hype train and downloaded the game as soon as it was released only to have it give me horrible graphics and frames, from that point on many people, would assume that it was my PC that was unable to keep up, until I went into the graphics settings and discovered that the frames were capped at 30 FPS so I changed it to 60 and changed the resolution into my native monitor resolution. after applying the changed I was prompted to restart for changes to take effect, which I did so reluctantly. when I restarted the game it seemed all good, SEEMED GOOD. Until the game crashed and took my mouse pointer with it. knowing games I quickly restarted only to have it show the "Unable to initialize OpenGL window" error. now I have no choice but to reinstall the game. Disappointing, yes certainly. I hope that they will fix those issues as time goes on. when the game reinstalls and I get some good gameplay out of it I will keep this thread updated with my personal opinions and impressions on the game, but until then, all I can do is hope that this game works.

[GarnetDevil]

No Man's Sky is one of the reason why I think pre-ordering games on PC should be a crime

 

[Murasaki]

Glad I never got sucked into that hype train. Its badly optimized and overhyped to no-no land for its ridiculous price and repetitive gameplay.

[another random person]

I reinstalled the game and.... nope still the same error. I followed a youtube tutorial, did a restart and still the same damn error. refund time? I'm looking for more tutorials and I'm looking if anyone else has the same issue and whether there is a fix for it. "around 262000 players got onto no man's sky for the biggest ever steam launch" I wouldn't be surprised if 400000 players got stuck on some sort of error trying to launch it. Honestly, as of now NMS should stick to being console reserved as it probably is on the same level as those. (still trying to find a fix for the issues)

[Realist Peter Pan]

It's kind of annoying how everyone has these false expectations of what the game should be, when it is not anything of those things... they weren't claiming stellar mechanics, just the explorers/adventurers experience. I understand the ridiculous day one launch stuff...and preorders, although they are much less of a problem as steam has reliable refunds now. 

[GarnetDevil]

Just now, Realist Peter Pan said:

It's kind of annoying how everyone has these false expectations of what the game should be, when it is not anything of those things... they weren't claiming stellar mechanics, just the explorers/adventurers experience. I understand the ridiculous day one launch stuff...and preorders, although they are much less of a problem as steam has reliable refunds now. 

It's really not about the gameplay people are bitching about

It's about the optimization, honestly it's the shittiest optimized game I've ever seen on PC

[Realist Peter Pan]

3 minutes ago, GarnetDevil said:

It's really not about the gameplay people are bitching about

It's about the optimization, honestly it's the shittiest optimized game I've ever seen on PC

I say again, I understand the ridiculous day one launch stuff . My other rant is a bit unrelated, but I do get the troubles. 

[another random person]

After a bit more research it seems I'm not the only one with the issue as there is a rather big thread on steam forums and on other sites.

Still no solution though. 

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/29/360672137535366218/

A user says "Same here, seems that we've been robbed."

I feel the same way.

[Realist Peter Pan]

10 minutes ago, another random person said:

After a bit more research it seems I'm not the only one with the issue as there is a rather big thread on steam forums and on other sites.

Still no solution though. 

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/29/360672137535366218/

A user says "Same here, seems that we've been robbed."

I feel the same way.

The stability issues are pretty wide spread, and I would look into the no man's sky subreddit to find more fixes. https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/

 

Related threads:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4xene1/pc_crash_thread/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4xeqlf/pc_usersread_this_if_you_want_higher_fps/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4xgw82/pc_users_incredible_fps_fix/

[another random person]

Hoping that my computer doesn't crash and blue screen as it usually does when updating AMD drivers, I'm upgrading to the latest AMD drivers in the pursuit of being able to play NMS.

[Realist Peter Pan]

8 minutes ago, another random person said:

Hoping that my computer doesn't crash and blue screen as it usually does when updating AMD drivers, I'm upgrading to the latest AMD drivers in the pursuit of being able to play NMS.

Let me know how it goes! ;3 

[another random person]

13 minutes ago, Realist Peter Pan said:

Let me know how it goes! ;3 

Well, hello again from windows safe mode. it looks like I might have to reinstall windows or refund both my AMD cards and swap them out for NVidia ones. All for no man's sky damn it. (now I can't even use my PC)

[Realist Peter Pan]

3 hours ago, another random person said:

Well, hello again from windows safe mode. it looks like I might have to reinstall windows or refund both my AMD cards and swap them out for NVidia ones. All for no man's sky damn it. (now I can't even use my PC)

[Teddy07]

I would just do a refund. Game is not worth the trouble

[another random person]

It's fixed now, it just doesn't run as well still. I'm waiting for the optimisation updates and patches.

[Murasaki]

Wonder how many have filed a support ticket for a refund.

 

And by the way I tried it on my GTX650 at 720p - 10fps max load on default gfx settings. Good shit.

[Thanatos246]

It seems like most of these issues are user related.
I myself have preordered NMS, downloaded at launch, and got into it as soon as it was done.
10 hours of gameplay and not a single hiccup. I did however restart my game completely after spending 2 hours learning the mechanics etc just to figure out the preorder ship it absolutely useless as I picked up a 20 slot ship for about 300,000 units on the 2nd playthrough shortly after building my first hyperdrive unit, so now I have a 48 slot ship and a very annoying popup saying that I have unclaimed items that must please be claimed...
I am running at about 85 fps average on 1440p now as I only get about 45 fps on 4k, and 4k hurts my eyes a little bit.

[xboxonthego3]

On ‎8‎/‎15‎/‎2016 at 1:38 AM, another random person said:

It's fixed now, it just doesn't run as well still. I'm waiting for the optimisation updates and patches.

Have you tried adjusting your FPS setting to MAX? I had problems at first even when setting it to 60. But soon as I set it to MAX. I was getting great frames and it runs well.

[VicBar]

They don't say it for no reason.... Did you get a refund?

[another random person]

3 hours ago, VicBar said:

They don't say it for no reason.... Did you get a refund?

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I wish.

[VicBar]

3 minutes ago, another random person said:

I wish.

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P.S.: I see we both rock the i5 6500 thumbs up for you buddy!