Chris May August 12th, 2016 - 5:45 PM
More like No Man’s Sigh, am I right?
Now we know that the last minute delay the PC version of No Man’s Sky suffered wasn’t for nothing. The game currently has mixed reviews on Steam with players citing a host of different issues. According to Game Informer, players have reported that the game suffers from frame rate drops on high-end GPUs like the Nvidia GT 980, crashes minutes into play and the game flat out not opening. Some players also say No Man’s Sky has audio problems and general optimization issues.
Game Informer was able to confirm the GPU issues with a system running with a i7-6700, GTX 980Ti, and 16GB RAM.
Hello Games is already hard at work fixing the issues with Sean Murray himself taking to twitter to update people and offer some suggestions. Among his suggestions, Murray says that players should install the latest drivers for the GFX card and to make sure it’s above the minimum requirement which is nVidia GTX 480 according to the Steam Page. Murray also commented on the massive number of players that started playing within fifteen minutes of the game’s launch.
Bracing for impact on PC. We’ll do our best to keep servers online. Be aware there is a lot of you
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 12, 2016
99% appear to be up and running on our servers. We’ll begin trying to resolve asap for those who are having issues
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 12, 2016
Number two issue so far is players who have out of date GFX drivers, or none installed. Please install latest drivers from AMD and nVidia.
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 12, 2016
Number three please make sure your GFX card is above the min spec. OpenGL 4.5 is required to play No Man’s Sky
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 12, 2016
On a lighter note, the PC version has a couple of nifty features that are sure to make those that play its PS4 counterpart jealous. Game Informer reports that players have the option to remap the controls which means no more awkwardly running with R3. They also have the option to change their Field-Of-View and remove the HUD completely.
No Man’s Sky is out now for PS4 and PC.
