No Man's Sky

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Key points

Launched with several gameplay impacting port related issues; patches have been released to address many of these issues.^[2]^[3]

Active modding community, mods can be found here and here.

General information

PC Report

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website		Humble Widget
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam
Official website		Explorer's Edition; GOG.com and Steam code options

Game data

Configuration files location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

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System	Location
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

Input settings

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Audio settings

Audio (and control) settings

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Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
French
Italian
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Issues unresolved

Poor Performance

Instructions

Instructions

Control issues

Many users are reporting the mouse + keyboard controls being unresponsive.^[4]

Pop-in issues

The game has severe pop-in issues, and there are no settings for changing the render distance.^[4]

Crash to Desktop

General

The game will crash to the desktop if your system does not meet the minimum GPU requirement.^[5]

Corrupted Settings File

If the game crashes to the desktop even if you meet the system requirements, your settings file may be corrupted.

Instructions

Screen Tearing

The game has screen tearing while in the borderless mode. The borderless mode does not seem to be real borderless mode which is also proven by the fact that the mouse cursor moves at the fps of the game, and that the screen flickers very shortly on alt tabbing/windows key. Also has screen tearing regardless of settings except if the ingame vsync is turned on, and fullscreen is enabled. Forcing Vsync through GPU control panel has no effect.^{[citation needed]}

Frame Rate Drops, Stuttering, and Hitching

Instructions

Instructions

Game not starting

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	4.5	^[5]

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok	^[6]
Audio	Wwise

Mods

System requirements

Requires a 64-bit operating system.

Requires a processor supporting SSE 2.^[7]

Windows^[5]^[8]
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 AMD Radeon HD 7870 OpenGL 4.5 compatible

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/275850/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (275850) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ Sean Murray on Twitter: "PC NMS release will now be global and will be August 12th worldwide. It's so important we get it right and make the best version we can"
↑ Changelog, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com
↑ Patch Notes - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: No Man's Sky
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 YouTube - No Mans Sky isn't working well on PC for some people at the moment. - last accessed on 2016-08-16
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Sean Murray on Twitter: "Number three please make sure your GFX card is above the min spec. OpenGL 4.5 is required to play No Man's Sky" - last accessed on 2016-08-16
↑ Havok Press Release - HAVOK CONGRATULATES ALL OF THE AWARD-NOMINATED DEVELOPERS AT E3 2015; MANY TOP TITLES UTILIZING HAVOK TECH, CONGRATULATIONS TO FALLOUT 4, UNCHARTED 4: A THIEF’S END, STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT AND MANY OTHERS - last accessed on 2016-07-28
↑ Steam Community Discussion - Patch Notes - last accessed on 2016-08-20
"The game code no longer relies on anything above SSE 2,
Havok Physics has also now created new libs for us to add Phenom support."
↑ No Man's Sky on GOG.com

[Proton_path_note-4] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/275850/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (275850) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/275850/.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (275850) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] Sean Murray on Twitter: "PC NMS release will now be global and will be August 12th worldwide. It's so important we get it right and make the best version we can"

[2] Changelog, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com

[3] Patch Notes - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: No Man's Sky

[TotalBiscuit-5] 4.0 ^4.1 YouTube - No Mans Sky isn't working well on PC for some people at the moment. - last accessed on 2016-08-16

[openGL-6] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 Sean Murray on Twitter: "Number three please make sure your GFX card is above the min spec. OpenGL 4.5 is required to play No Man's Sky" - last accessed on 2016-08-16

[7] Havok Press Release - HAVOK CONGRATULATES ALL OF THE AWARD-NOMINATED DEVELOPERS AT E3 2015; MANY TOP TITLES UTILIZING HAVOK TECH, CONGRATULATIONS TO FALLOUT 4, UNCHARTED 4: A THIEF’S END, STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT AND MANY OTHERS - last accessed on 2016-07-28

[8] Steam Community Discussion - Patch Notes - last accessed on 2016-08-20
"The game code no longer relies on anything above SSE 2,
Havok Physics has also now created new libs for us to add Phenom support."

[9] No Man's Sky on GOG.com

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Developers
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Release dates
Windows	August 12, 2016^[1]