No Man's Sky Using Wrong Gpu

How I managed to fix No Human's Sky on my PC

No Man'southward Heaven [NMS] launched on PC… and needless to say, it's been a scrap of a shit show for a lot of people. Crashes, Stuttering, FPS issues, y'all proper noun information technology… there's a problem.

I got the game on launch, and when I first played, I noticed severe stuttering at offset, which was very strange. And so I spent a good corporeality of time configuring different things to try and become the game to run smoother. Although my FPS seemed to be fine, the stuttering was abrasive.

After all of the changes, the game is smooth every bit silk now. ninety–100FPS, with very minor stuttering at the offset of the game for the first 5 minutes or and so.

Now, each machine is different. I'm not going to give imitation hope to people and provide a click bait championship, indicating these fixes are for everyone, because they are not. A lot of settings here are Nvidia related, and then if you're running an Nvidia card, then read on. If y'all're on AMD, and then there are a couple of things you can do that I did… only unfortunately I can't provide the AMD alternative to a few of the changes.

So without further adieu, let's start…

My Specs

The minimum specs for the game are a tad misleading. Yous need a GPU that supports OpenGL 4.5. And a CPU that supports SSE3 ( Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions)

My Specs are the post-obit:

i7 4790k 4GHz
Nvidia GTX 970 Strix
16GB RAM
256GB SSD
2x 1TB HDD

Note that none of my hardware is overclocked. The GPU is OC past default when ownership information technology (Strix versions usually are).

Driver

I'm running the 369.00 beta driver.
https://developer.nvidia.com/opengl-driver

This driver adds support for OpenGL 2016 ARB extensions. Since OpenGL issues seem to be the most common issues with the game, installing this driver (note, it's a "CLEAN INSTALLATION" while installing) helps a lot of people.
Also note that this may not assist everyone. A lot of people reported that it did assist, but some people said it made information technology worse.
Y'all can always roll back drivers if things are worse for you.

Installation of the Game

Since SSD's have little infinite, nearly people tend to install games on their HDD'due south, leaving room for their Bone and files on the SSD.
As the game is relatively small, I tried information technology on both my HDD and SSD.

The difference was astonishing.

If you take an SSD, I highly recommend installing the game on your SSD. The load times are so much quicker, and the stuttering at the commencement of the game goes away a lot quicker too.

Configuring Options

The options card in the game is horrible.
Start of all, what I've noticed…

• Anti Aliasing just doesn't work. SMAA or FXAA, in that location's no departure. If yous have a very large monitor, then it might be worth configuring AA in your Nvidia profile settings
• Mouse sensitivity doesn't work. I've whacked it all the manner to maximum, and nil changed.
• The game looks like it's upscaled from 1600x900. Information technology doesn't seem to run natively on my monitors resolution (fix for this is later).

Now, the options are pretty limited, but if your specs are similar to mine, and then take a expect at my settings:

Ignore the resolution, I'1000 playing on a 1080p monitor, I'll explain why I'grand running in on this resolution afterward on.

I've found the above options nigh optimal for play. Turning down shadows and reflections doesn't affect the overall expect that much, but found that it significantly improved my frame rate.

Also note the "Max FPS"

Setting this to "MAX" puts the FPS limit at 160.
In that location is an issue with the game where the values in the options don't correspond the actual game.
For case, select 60, will drop you to 45, selecting 90, with driblet yous to 65… Information technology's better off simply selecting MAX.

Borderless Windowed Mode also helped wonders. Unfortunately this limits me to 60hz, equally my second monitor is a 60hz monitor, while my principal is a 144hz monitor. But since the frame charge per unit isn't capping at 120/144, then sacrificing the extra 30FPS doesn't make much of a divergence… especially that in fullscreen fashion, it causes some issues with frame drops.

Once they have stock-still information technology, I'll be switching dorsum to fullscreen mode, as playing at 60hz is very noticeable over playing on 144hz for a long time.

Although, if you lot take all monitors at 144hz, or just a unmarried 144hz monitor, then playing in borderless windowed mode volition nevertheless keep yous at 144hz.

The Config File

Like most games, this game besides has config files.

The files are located at

<Steam Location>\Steamapps\Mutual\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS

At that place are 3 files here, you need to focus on just one file:

TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML

Open this file with Notepad++ (if you don't have this, I highly suggest downloading it here)

There is i setting hither y'all should alter which you lot can't in game:

Disable GSync

Modify "GSync" from "True" to "Simulated"

Changing this pick alone has improved frame rates significantly.

You can also change some other values at that place, like your maxFPS, your FOV and others.
Note that, by increasing your FOV also high, at that place will exist clipping, and potential FPS drops. Wider FOV = more detail to render, go along that in mind.

Making the game look ameliorate (and play amend)

Now, this i sounds weird… but I shit you not, this worked for me.

DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution) is an Nvidia property available on some college cease cards (Supported Cards Here)

It allows yous to return a game at a college resolution, and and so scale downwardly to your standard resolution.
Then if I wanted, I can make a game return in 4k, calibration it down to 1080p, and the details in the game would expect much clearer, at the cost of increased usage of my GPU.

Since my GPU is a 970, I don't want to return in 4k. Simply considering information technology's non a 4K card. If you have a 980ti or higher up, so you lot can… but continue in mind that rendering at 4k is extremely intensive.

Ok, and so how does this employ to the game?

Well, before the game was released, Nvidia showed off some 4K screenshots. It looked great… until I launched the game in 1080p, and it looked scaled up… no where well-nigh the particular I was expecting.

This leads me to believe that the resolution values are also wrong (like FPS). Where it thinks yous're on a lower resolution than you actually are.

Now I can't prove this, simply from what I've noticed, information technology's the case.

I enabled DSR to double my resolution settings. Rendering at this resolution has dramatically increased the detail in the game, and made information technology look so much better.

Surprisingly, against everything that scientific discipline tells me… information technology has really improved my frame rate too. How? I accept absolutely no idea… information technology should be the opposite. But it'due south not.

Anyhow, if you have a capable card, and then here's how to enable DSR:

• Right click on your desktop and open Nvidia Control Panel… and then go to Manage 3d Settings

• Under Global Settings, detect the DSR choice, and select 2x. (Or higher if you have a better GPU than I do)

Click OK and salvage. This will make your monitor flicker off and back on. As it only introduced a new resolution option for your monitor.

At present we need to apply this in the game

Go dorsum to the config file above, and type in the new resolution manually:

Depending on your resolution, these numbers tin can be unlike. If you are running 1080p, and did 2.00x in DSR, then this is the resolution. If you are running a different resolution, or enabled higher DSR, so yous need to calculate the resolution.

Finally, confirm that the changes have taken identify, and DSR is active.

• Open GeForce Experience (I'1000 running the beta version)

• Hover over No Man's Heaven and click on "Details"

• Confirm that DSR is active by checking "Current Configuration"

And that's it!

DSR is agile, and y'all can also check the options in game to see the resolution beingness active.

Non only did this change significantly make the game look better, but it did improve my frame rate. Equally I said, I don't know how, but looking online, it seems that others also experienced the same thing.

Conclusion

This won't aid everyone. I know that… only I as well know that I'm playing the game without whatever issues. Whether or not this is down to my settings, or I'k just lucky, I don't know. But these are the changes I made to amend the game.

I'grand not forgiving How-do-you-do Games for their botched PC port until they fix it. I know I'1000 not afflicted by the bug, but ignoring them just supports the idea that bad PC ports is adequate — which information technology isn't.

After playing for a few hours at the first, I checked online, and saw so many people having issues. If I had read that earlier playing the game, I would have refunded information technology and bought it again once they stock-still the bug. But the timer already ticked over.

So I would advise — for those people who have got problems and take played less than ii hours… refund the game and wait for information technology to be fixed.

For others like myself, who have over 2 hours of gameplay, then I hope these changes help you out.

Source: https://medium.com/@retardedpenguin3/how-i-managed-to-fix-no-mans-sky-on-my-pc-a1b33d0c914

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