Poor performance | No Mans Sky

[TheDarkLoS]

Hello eveyone,

 

I was recently inspired from some videos on youtube to play NMS again but I have noticed that the performance is a lot worse than previously remembered (a lot of stuttering and microfreezes).

Tbh I haven't played the game since ages ago (we are talking about years, since the launch)

 

Of course I made sure I was running the most recent version in Steam and my graphic drivers are up to date and all that shazam.

Here my specs:

 

Win 10 Home 64bit

BIOS Version/Date    American Megatrends Inc. 1803, 06/05/2016 (Apparently isn't the newest version)

CPU                  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
RAM                  2x8 GB DDR4-2132 (1066 MHz)

GPU                   NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

GPU Drivers      GeForce Game Ready driver 512.15 // 03.22.2022

Boot                   Samsung SSD 750 EVO 250GB
SSD                   Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB - Game is loaded here

External HDD    Toshiba Canvio Advance USB 3.0, 3TB

PSU                   Cant check atm but Its the same supply I had forever and I have ever changed any hardware or overclocked anything

Internet              

 

Other apps running:

Opera GX (with Youtube running a VOD at 720p60)

Steam in the background

 

While I understand that the game has gotten a lot updates since it's launch which have made it beefier, my setup "should" still handle it ok

My settings in game were setup to ultra from the GeForce experience app.

 

My estimation is that my GPU is the bottleneck.

Any ideas besides updating my BIOS(which I'm not keen on because I have never done it before and its my only pc, so I don't want to wreck it and I can't imagine how that will help) and lowering my in-game graphic settings(any suggestions what I should turn down)???

 

Keep it clean!

[Jurrunio]

Everything ultra is not a good idea for a 1060 from my experience, it's passed its prime for this

[TheDarkLoS]

29 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Everything ultra is not a good idea for a 1060 from my experience, it's passed its prime for this

Well you are not wrong, I am already planning to get a new setup but I thought I might as well squeeze whatever I can from the 1060 till then.  

[TheDarkLoS]

@JurrunioWould you then say that the stutters stem from the 6GB VRAM? Would I have had a GPU (of the same architecture and technology) but with lets say double the VRAM, is it feasible that I wouldn't have this issue?
Just to better understand the issue and help me decide how to proceed in the future.

  

[Jurrunio]

4 hours ago, TheDarkLoS said:

@JurrunioWould you then say that the stutters stem from the 6GB VRAM? Would I have had a GPU (of the same architecture and technology) but with lets say double the VRAM, is it feasible that I wouldn't have this issue?
Just to better understand the issue and help me decide how to proceed in the future.

  

Not impossible but I dont recommend going for a card just for VRAM, the GPU itself should still take priority.