No Man's Sky

[Art Blade]

crikey! That is ridiculous, fragger, I can virtually feel your pain. I didn't have any update today so probably I got it some time before you, already. However, I haven't yet checked on the game because I kind of expected something like you just experienced and didn't quite feel like it.

Blimey, they really should have tested the game and found a constellation such as yours and avoided it!

Going to test it myself now. I have decided to acquire the courage to actually give it a try. 

[Art Blade]

alright, back from a brief test. D_B is testing as we speak, so to speak 

It started with a very long loading screen (star field) but indeed, as D_B pointed out to me, after an update, it usually does take longer than normal because they rebuild the shaders and stuff.

During the loading screen, the music was broken. It was squealing and snarling and chopped.. like a weird C64 sound. The broken music might have been due to me having had VLC player open in the background, yet it was paused. I know that most games don't like VLC running in the background but pausing it, usually doesn't cause troubles. However, my first impression just now, when I fired up the game after a long hiatus, was that the game was SO colourful it might cause eye cancer

But I could walk and interact just fine. That was enough for me, I had to quit right away, four minutes of gameplay already did my head in

[Dweller_Benthos]

Art, it's not that bad! Did you try the screen effect menu? Now there's some eye-cancer!

Anyway, it loaded fine for me, music was fine, movement was fine, but Fragger, I think you have the same key bound to two different things, the walk forward and the quick menu (or the build menu). If you haven't started the game since before the Pathfinder update, then those menus have been added, and the default keys for them might be the same as the keys you have bound to movement. Check the controls menu and see what might be causing it. Problem is, not all the keys are available in the controls menu, so for instance, while in build mode, I can't walk left, as the Q button is used in the menu to scroll build items and I use the Q button to walk left.

[Art Blade]

I haven't, I am too afraid of going back in!

[LowPolyOWG]

I'm too afraid to buy this

[Art Blade]

you should be! 

Seriously, wait until those of us who got it say otherwise. IF EVER 

by the way, my last savegame was from November 2016, that's why my game had to do the shader update and all that. I did have the updates but apparently never played the game since.

[fragger]

D_B, you're probably right and I suspect that is indeed the case, but the game is just so choppy on my machine that I couldn't be bothered investigating. The slowness can't be solely attributable to my hardware as I can run games like the Far Cries and GTA V just fine. I have to turn some of the graphic options down on those, but not dramatically and I can run them either on native res or a step lower respectively, and they go smooth as silk and still look a million bucks. With NMS I have to turn everything to low or off and drop the res down to the lowest it will go while still maintaining a proper widescreen aspect, and it still runs terribly. Maybe it just doesn't like my graphics card, but that's its problem

Considering the immense level of detail, the huge draw distance and the constant animation in GTA V (people, traffic, aircraft, wave action, atmospherics, etc), NMS really has no excuse for dropping to a snail's pace whenever there are just a relatively few plants and animals around. And the plants aren't even animated, i.e not moving in the wind or anything. FC4 has whole great forests of trees and plants with animals in them and my rig doesn't seem to mind.

GKID, like Art said, don't bother. Save your dough for games you know, or at least are pretty sure, you will like Maybe if NMS ever drops into the bargain bin for a few bucks or something it might be worth it. Despite the bashing that people like me have given it, it's not actually a terrible game - in fact it totally absorbed me for the first couple of weeks. It's just that it gets old quickly and once you've done all the fun things like upgraded your gear and purchased or salvaged a few new ships, there's not much left to do. Maybe there is now with the new stuff that's been released, but until they address the terrible frame rate (and I know from reading others' experiences online that it's not just my machine) I don't want anything more to do with it.

[LowPolyOWG]

I'm looking forward to Destiny 2. The PC version is delayed for 1.5 month (24th October release) while the consoles gets the game on the 6th September. We'll be able to play the demo (beta) of that in August.

I am also a Far Cry fan, so I might buy FC5. Will wait for reviews on both of those games/beta performance on D2. If the beta/demo runs well and there are no major issues, it's a day 1 purchase. If not, I'll wait. Destiny 2 runs quite well on an i7-7700K/GTX 1080Ti, 4K ultra/60 fps according to E3 live play demos.

NMS is indeed an interesting concept, but poorly executed.

[fragger]

NMS is indeed an interesting concept, but poorly executed.

That sums it up pretty well. There's fun to be had in it, but it doesn't go very far. Ironic, considering the immense scale of the thing.

[Art Blade]

looks like a big LEGO game minus the LEGO

[Dweller_Benthos]

NMS was pushed out at least a year too early, maybe two. That's the issue, I still like the concept and the design and overall feel of the game, but as mentioned, there's nothing much to do. There's a bit more now that you can build a base and buy a huge freighter, but still, it needs more w0#k.

I see OWGKID mentioned Destiny 2 - what is that? I'm pretty sure I got a free copy with my new 1080 Titan video card. Yep, upgraded the video card yesterday, and it runs pretty smooth. Ran the special Fallout 4 mod that Nvidia made to showcase the 10XX series of cards, and with everything cranked to ultra (at 1920x1080, since I don't have a 4K monitor) it ran a near constant 60FPS, except a couple times when it dropped to 59.

[LowPolyOWG]

The sequel to this. It's a looter shooter, similar to Ubisoft's The Divison, but a console exclusive (Bungie was constricted by the X360/PS3 for this game, so no PC version )

Destiny 2 on Wikipedia. I hope they have the game optimized for AMD Ryzen and a low-level API (Vulkan or DX12) rather than the sluggish DX11

[Art Blade]

a 1080 titan? GEEZUS, D_B,  that's some NICE piece of hardware you got there, man -- congrats and enjoy

[LowPolyOWG]

Congrats

[Dweller_Benthos]

Yeah, I figured might as well get a titan for once, and really, it cost less than the 980 card I bought a year ago or so. Runs quieter, too. Has two fans on it and when I booted it up, I thought it wasn't working as neither fan came on. Windows booted and once the desktop showed, one of the fans started lazily turning, like it was saying "Yeah, OK, give me something hard to do, why don't you?" I figured at that point it was working OK and put the case panels back on. Never looked to see if that other fan ever started spinning.

I did get a Destiny 2 code with it that I'll probably never use, that doesn't look like my kind of game, even if I did have the internet connection to handle the online play.