No Man's Sky

Key points

Active modding community. See Mods.

Despite post-launch patches,^[2]^[3] the game suffers from several port-related issues.

General information

PC Report

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GOG.com
Humble Store
Steam

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Binaries\SETTINGS\^{[Note 1]}
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\HelloGames\NMS\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings.

Template:Video settings

G-Sync is currently disabled by default.^[4]

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions^[5]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML with your text editor of choice.
Find the following lines and replace X with your desired FOV:

<Property name="FoVOnFoot" value="X.000000" />
<Property name="FoVInShip" value="X.000000" />

Notes

It is recommended to leave Ship FOV on default settings.

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Audio (and control) settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play
Online play		16	Co-op

Issues unresolved

Control issues

Many users are reporting the mouse + keyboard controls being unresponsive.^[6]

Pop-in issues

The game has severe pop-in issues, and there are no settings for changing the render distance.^[6]

Screen Tearing

Game suffers from screen tearing in borderless mode regardless of settings. Only enabling V-Sync in fullscreen fixes the issue. Forcing V-Sync through GPU control panel has no effect.^{[citation needed]}

Users of AMD GPUs have reported that enabling V-Sync in their GPU control panel's Global Settings solves the issue across all fullscreen types. The game's own V-Sync setting has no effect one way or the other, nor does the game's specific profile in the GPU control panel.

Issues fixed

Frame Rate Drops, Stuttering, and Hitching

Disable Steam Overlay^[7]
May not fix some drops and stuttering.

Game not starting

Free up at least 10 GB on the system partition^{[citation needed]}

Crash to Desktop

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

Delete corrupted settings^[8]

Go to <path-to-game>\Binaries\SETTINGS\
Open GCUSERSETTINGSDATA.MXML, TTKGAMESETTINGS.MXML and TKGRAPHCISSETTINGS.MXML with a text editor.
If one of the files is missing, empty or contains non-text characters (usually displayed as a "?") back up the other, non-corrupt files and delete the <path-to-game>\Binaries\SETTINGS\ folder.
Start the game. The files will be recreated.
Close the game.
Paste your backed up settings over the newly created files.
Restart the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	4.5

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok	^[9]
Audio	Wwise

Enable terrain tessellation

Edit file^{[citation needed]}

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML with your text editor of choice.
Find the following lines and replace false with true :

<Property name="EnableTessellation" value="false" />

Notes

This feature is expected to be fully integrated in the game soon.

It can result in stutter and slow terrain streaming in low VRAM scenarios.

Mods

Many mods can be found here and here.

System requirements

Windows^[10]
	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

Requires a 64-bit operating system.

Requires a processor supporting SSE 2.^[11]

Notes

↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/275850/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (275850) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

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
↑ Steam Community Discussion - Patch Notes - last accessed on 2016-08-20
"Gsync has been disabled by default, which was causing an issue for some users"
↑ Verified by User:Hawaii Beach on 2016-08-13
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 YouTube - No Mans Sky isn't working well on PC for some people at the moment. - last accessed on 2016-08-16
↑ Steam Community Discussion - Most Common Issues and Workarounds - last accessed on 2016-08-16
"Large Frame Drops, Texture Flickering
We are working on a fix, in the meantime try disabling Steam Overlay. Go into the properties of the game in your steam client. Under the General tab uncheck the Enable Steam Overlay option."
↑ {{Refsnip|url=https://archive.fo/egCOn%7Ctitle=PC Crash Fix - Crashing at Hello Games logo - Check your Settings Files|date=2016-08-16|snippet=My game has been working perfect so far, but today i had a crash. After rebooting my machine, i could not get past the Hello Games logo. It would start, then immediately close. I checked steam cache, deleted my savegames (backed them up first), deleted and reinstalled the game, lowered my cpu and gpu overclock, nothing worked.
I then remembered i had manualy changed the FOV, so i decided to look at the settings files under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS
Well for some reason the "GCUSERSETTINGSDATA.MXML" file was completely empty. It must have somehow got corrupted. I backed up the other 2 settings files (which looked fine when i opened them), deleted all three, and started the game. It now launches fine. I exited and replaced the two other settings i backed up and i am not launched into my save with all my settings the way they were. I hope this helps
↑ 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
↑ No Man's Sky on GOG.com
↑ 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."

[gamedir-4] When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-5] 2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/275850/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (275850) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[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

[6] Steam Community Discussion - Patch Notes - last accessed on 2016-08-20
"Gsync has been disabled by default, which was causing an issue for some users"

[7] Verified by User:Hawaii Beach on 2016-08-13

[TotalBiscuit-8] 6.0 ^6.1 YouTube - No Mans Sky isn't working well on PC for some people at the moment. - last accessed on 2016-08-16

[9] Steam Community Discussion - Most Common Issues and Workarounds - last accessed on 2016-08-16
"Large Frame Drops, Texture Flickering
We are working on a fix, in the meantime try disabling Steam Overlay. Go into the properties of the game in your steam client. Under the General tab uncheck the Enable Steam Overlay option."

[Corrupted_Settings-10] {{Refsnip|url=https://archive.fo/egCOn%7Ctitle=PC Crash Fix - Crashing at Hello Games logo - Check your Settings Files|date=2016-08-16|snippet=My game has been working perfect so far, but today i had a crash. After rebooting my machine, i could not get past the Hello Games logo. It would start, then immediately close. I checked steam cache, deleted my savegames (backed them up first), deleted and reinstalled the game, lowered my cpu and gpu overclock, nothing worked.
I then remembered i had manualy changed the FOV, so i decided to look at the settings files under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS
Well for some reason the "GCUSERSETTINGSDATA.MXML" file was completely empty. It must have somehow got corrupted. I backed up the other 2 settings files (which looked fine when i opened them), deleted all three, and started the game. It now launches fine. I exited and replaced the two other settings i backed up and i am not launched into my save with all my settings the way they were. I hope this helps

[11] 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

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

[13] 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."

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Developers

	Hello Games
Release dates
Windows	August 12, 2016^[1]