No Man's Sky graphics issues...

[Sarra]

So, this happens occasionally, while flying around in space, flying over planets, walking or driving on planets, and while under water. I've tried lowering the textures, but it doesn't change anything.

 

Specs are Win 10, GTX 980, Xeon Haswell (4c 8t, not one of the LGA 2011 CPU's), game's on an SSD.

 

Pics were taken in the same place, sorry for screen door, but taking screencaps didn't want to work for some reason.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Thats GPU artifacting!

FUN! /s

Can you please ddu and reinstall drivers, and report back if it fixes it or not.

[Sarra]

1 hour ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Thats GPU artifacting!

FUN! /s

Can you please ddu and reinstall drivers, and report back if it fixes it or not.

Mkay, I was having an ongoing issue with my PC never allowing the screen to go into sleep mode/screen saver mode.

 

So, I went into safe mode, ran DDU, rebooted, downloaded new NVidia drivers, rebooted (since Windows installed a slightly older driver), installed new driver, rebooted, disabled my OC in MSI Afterburner, and gave it a shot running NMS again. It's running okay, but I'm getting huge performance spikes, which might be due to the reduction in my GPU's memory clocks.

 

I'll play for a few hours and see if it is really 'better', or if I'm still getting this rather infrequent artifacting.

 

Edit: I probably should have done this before, since I recently downgraded upgraded from Win 8.1 to 10. I have a brand new PC on it's way, sans Video Card (waiting for either 3080 to get in stock, or the 6800XT to be available)

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

6 hours ago, Sarra said:

So, this happens occasionally, while flying around in space, flying over planets, walking or driving on planets, and while under water. I've tried lowering the textures, but it doesn't change anything.

 

Specs are Win 10, GTX 980, Xeon Haswell (4c 8t, not one of the LGA 2011 CPU's), game's on an SSD.

 

Pics were taken in the same place, sorry for screen door, but taking screencaps didn't want to work for some reason.

I've had similar issues, specifically on the snow section of Gears 5.

 

It is always on a part of the game where it was a large area of a uniform colour, like the blue of the sky, or snow on the ground, sand etc...

 

I've not found a fix, so I'd interested to hear if you find one.

 

(All my drivers etc...are up to date.)

[Helpful Tech Witch]

6 hours ago, Sarra said:

downgraded

any change from 8 is a upgrade, even if its from 8 to 95.

[Sarra]

2 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

any change from 8 is a upgrade, even if its from 8 to 95.

After using both 8.1 and 10 for the last 4 years, I strongly disagree.

 

For one, it takes me 20 minutes to find settings in Windows 10, since the settings are all over the place; I've got constant resource management problems on my low end laptop under 10, but when i tried 8.1 on it, it ran just fine, and this is after trimming Win 10 to the minimum, while leaving 8.1 totally untouched, and 8.1 just... Feels better to use.

 

XP was good. Vista was bad. 7 was good. 8 was bad. 8.1 was good. 10 was, and still is, bad.

[Sarra]

3 hours ago, Maury Sells Wigs said:

I've had similar issues, specifically on the snow section of Gears 5.

 

It is always on a part of the game where it was a large area of a uniform colour, like the blue of the sky, or snow on the ground, sand etc...

 

I've not found a fix, so I'd interested to hear if you find one.

 

(All my drivers etc...are up to date.)

I was going to ask if Gears 5 uses Vulkan, but I can recall this issue in NMS happening when I ran Windows 8.1, which does not support Vulkan.

 

I suspect this actually was caused, for me, by a texture issue, most likely due to me pushing my graphics card's RAM too far. I can redo my OC, and see if it happens again... I still have the location and time where it happened in the screen grab, I think that should be my next test.

[Sarra]

Redid my OC, and still no issues, so it looks like it might have been resolved by reinstalling my drivers.

[Sarra]

Well, no joy. Still getting the artifacting, even at stock GPU clocks, and now NMS won't even load my game save, since I last saved on that planet when I stopped playing.

 

I uninstalled NMS until my new PC gets here, then I'll reinstall, I guess.