No Man’s Sky players on PC had to wait a few extra days before the could get their hands on with No Man’s Sky and it seems that experience isn’t going well for many PC gamers with multiple reports of issues coming out immediately after the game went live on PC.
NMS on PC appears to run like absolute crap at the moment. Massive hitching and fps drops. #stoppreorderingvideogames
— TotalBiscuit (@Totalbiscuit) August 12, 2016
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Verified the cache. Made sure drivers are updated. Rebooted.
More like No Launch Sky.
— Dan Stapleton (@DanStapleton) August 12, 2016
Does No Man's Sky just have literally no options anywhere? This is completely unplayable on PC.
— Xenoveritas (@xenoveritas) August 12, 2016
lot of people on my steam friends list launching no man's sky. and then launching no man's sky. and then launching no man's sky. and then la
— Arthur Gies (@aegies) August 12, 2016
Seems like the extra few days No Man's Sky got on PC didn't help at all. I'm getting bad microstutters and even started with 20 fps.
— HippeusOmega (@HippeusOmega) August 12, 2016
Some comments from the NeoGaf PC performance thread:
Crashed 1 min in, renaming my home planet. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come. GTX980/i7
I already refunded…I am not dealing with this shit.
oof, the pop in is still pretty bad. the shimmering effect still very noticeable. stuttered pretty bad flying around as well.
This might be the worst launch of a game I’ve ever witnessed.
“I strongly suggest you do not buy this game right now because it’s broke as fuck.”
“The framerate is all over the place, and the pop-in is pretty bad.”