{"id":101160,"date":"2016-08-15T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101160"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T09:03:39","slug":"how-to-fix-no-mans-skys-massive-performance-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101160-how-to-fix-no-mans-skys-massive-performance-issues","title":{"rendered":"How to fix No Man’s Sky’s massive performance issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyGaming recently reported<\/a><\/strong> on the somewhat tumultuous launch of No Man’s Sky on PC.<\/p>\n

While opinion is split on the game itself, there can be no denying that technically it is a bit of a mess, with everything from hard crashes to terrible pop-in rendering ruining the game for many.<\/p>\n

That’s why we took a look at some\u00a0fixes to solve these issues and help you enjoy No Man’s Sky:<\/p>\n

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Have you checked your specifications?<\/h3>\n

It seems obvious, but while your “beast” of a PC may have been decimating games in the past, it could\u00a0also be getting a little long in the tooth.<\/p>\n

You may just\u00a0need to bomb in more RAM or finally make the jump from Windows Vista.<\/p>\n

Check out the game’s minimum specifications below:<\/p>\n

OS: <\/strong>Windows 7\/8.1\/10 (64-bit versions)
\n Processor: <\/strong>Intel Core i3
\n Memory:<\/strong> 8 GB RAM
\n Graphics: <\/strong>nVidia GTX 480, AMD Radeon 7870
\n Storage:<\/strong> 10 GB available space
\n *Requires OpenGL 4.5, Intel cards are not supported.<\/strong>
\n *Core 2 CPUs and below are not supported<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Framerate issues<\/h3>\n

While developer Sean Murray has promised that a patch is on the way to fix the game’s framerate issues, there is one strange way to fix these problems – keep playing.<\/p>\n

According to RockPaperShotgun<\/a><\/strong>, playing the game for a longer amount of times seems to reduce some of the hitching and freezing.<\/p>\n

Lowering the game’s generation details also reportedly helps with framerate issues, as does disabling G-Sync.<\/p>\n

Fiddling with other typical video settings (like v-sync and anti-aliasing) should also improve your performance, although your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

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Crackling sound<\/h3>\n

If you are experincing sound issues, including a loud crackling noise, you may need to change your quality settings in your sound panel.<\/p>\n

Navigate to sound in your Control Panel or right-click the speaker in your system tray.<\/p>\n

Right-click your outputting speakers, select properties and then select the “Advanced tab”.<\/p>\n

From the top drop-down list select\u00a0 pick \u201c16 bit, 48000 Hz (DVD Quality)\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Experiment<\/h3>\n

Hello Games is currently rolling out experimental patches that seem to fix the game in some ways, but also break it in others.<\/p>\n

This means trying them out can be awfully risky as they could break saves, create new issues, or revert your progress.<\/p>\n

If you are willing to take the risk you can activate the the Experimental beta testing by right-clicking on No Man’s Sky in Steam, selecting “BETAS” and then selecting “3xperimental”.<\/p>\n

This should begin downloading the new updates automatically.<\/p>\n

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Don’t Alt-Tab<\/h3>\n

No Man’s Sky does not appear to allow for alt-tabbing<\/a><\/strong> out of the game while in full-screen mode at all.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, this doesn’t necessarily mean you have lost all of your progress and provided the game hasn’t exited completely, you should still be able to salvage it through Task Manager.<\/p>\n

First head to Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL), find and then right-click on No Man’s Sky and then select bring to front.<\/p>\n

Head to Steam and re-launch the game or GOG Galaxy and launch from there. The game will appear to launch again but will just bring you back to your old window.<\/p>\n

This issue should be addressed in the upcoming patch.<\/p>\n

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If all else fails<\/h3>\n

You may just need to sit tight, as Hello Games has promised lots of patches and post-game support coming in the near future.<\/p>\n

We also recommend updating to the latest hardware drivers and making sure that your antivirus and\/or firewall are not interfering with the game.<\/p>\n

Alternatively you can contact them directly (although please be nice) at support@hellogames.co.uk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Are you having any technical issues with No Man’s Sky? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Battling with bugs, crashes and glitches in No Man’s Sky? This is how to fix them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":100968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[31,15986,245,741,11828],"class_list":["post-101160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-pc","tag-active","tag-broken","tag-bugs","tag-fix","tag-no-mans-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101164,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101160\/revisions\/101164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}