No Mans Sky - looks interesting

No Mans Sky - looks interesting

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Bullett

10,881 posts

184 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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This game causes my GPU to overheat.

I've only just realised that you can fly around the planet. I was walking everywhere.
It really needs a map, one that gets plotted out by you as you explore, I want to go back to an alien I found with what he was looking for but I now can't find the bugger.

andycambo

1,077 posts

174 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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Bullett said:
I want to go back to an alien I found with what he was looking for but I now can't find the bugger.
You can set a custom waypoint / tag with the Analysis Visor. It shows up as a small white dot on the screen.

Now asking me how to do it is a different story. I did it once by accident and now I can't figure out the combo of keys / buttons to make it happen again. It's probably simple though - maybe it isn't a button but by focusing on the structure, crash site etc. I'll have to give it another go tonight.

8bit

4,860 posts

155 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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Bullett said:
This game causes my GPU to overheat.
What happens then? I wonder if that's why I get the display shutdown after about an hour's play on my system.

GrumpyTwig

3,354 posts

157 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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Arklight said:
One for the bad parking thread?



My worst job so far, makes it interesting getting back in!

Bullett

10,881 posts

184 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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Game just shuts down.
No warning until it's gone then I get the Asus monitor pop up.

Vaud

50,426 posts

155 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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Bullett said:
Game just shuts down.
No warning until it's gone then I get the Asus monitor pop up.
Can you check CPU and card temperatures?

Is you PSU sufficient for the card?

My understanding is NMS is pretty processor and card intense so may push machines that are on the boundaries.

Bullett

10,881 posts

184 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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76c if I recall, which is nowhere near the limit which seems to be 92c. According some sites the gpu starts underclocking itself at 86c.
I'm running a 980ti so it should be man enough. I usually run VR things and other games like Doom, FO4, Rise of the TR etc all run flat out with no issue.
Power is a good brand of PSU 720w, I have headroom in those stakes.
CPU is an older i5 but above min spec and as I said I've no problem running other AAA games at high settings.


Mannginger

9,059 posts

257 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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Bullett said:
76c if I recall, which is nowhere near the limit which seems to be 92c. According some sites the gpu starts underclocking itself at 86c.
I'm running a 980ti so it should be man enough. I usually run VR things and other games like Doom, FO4, Rise of the TR etc all run flat out with no issue.
Power is a good brand of PSU 720w, I have headroom in those stakes.
CPU is an older i5 but above min spec and as I said I've no problem running other AAA games at high settings.
That's a bit odd. My 980ti is running it fine at c70FPS and a max of 62c. I'm also running an i5 (3570) FWIW


judas

5,988 posts

259 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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Found a humoungous gold deposit tonight. Took a good half hour to mine it - got 3500 units of gold, which netted me almost a million credits. Only problem was when I got to the bottom I fell through the world! Turns out the core of the planet is water so I ended up with an inaccessible watery grave, but not before I transferred all my booty to the ship smile

Bullett

10,881 posts

184 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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i5 3570k. What os are you running w10?
How are you checking the fps?

Mannginger

9,059 posts

257 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Bullett said:
i5 3570k. What os are you running w10?
How are you checking the fps?
Yup running W10. I'm using Core Temp http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ to check on going temps and core load, I'm then just using Steam's FPS counter overlay http://www.howtogeek.com/209710/4-quick-ways-to-se...

Lotuslover669

73 posts

92 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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sorry abt that started a thread then noticed this one, what do you guys think of the game so far? i was actually very dissapointed but am hopeful with the future content patches the developers talked about.

Mastodon2

13,825 posts

165 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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It's crap. Rushed to sale and not even vaguely finished. The fact that there is more discussion about how to make the game actually run rather than the gameplay should give you an idea of how poor the product is. Thing is, even when it's running properly (like on PS4 bar the odd crash here and there) it's just a crap game.

Vaud

50,426 posts

155 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Mastodon2 said:
It's crap. Rushed to sale and not even vaguely finished. The fact that there is more discussion about how to make the game actually run rather than the gameplay should give you an idea of how poor the product is. Thing is, even when it's running properly (like on PS4 bar the odd crash here and there) it's just a crap game.
If they had released as early access/beta for £15...

Art0ir

9,401 posts

170 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Vaud said:
Mastodon2 said:
It's crap. Rushed to sale and not even vaguely finished. The fact that there is more discussion about how to make the game actually run rather than the gameplay should give you an idea of how poor the product is. Thing is, even when it's running properly (like on PS4 bar the odd crash here and there) it's just a crap game.
If they had released as early access/beta for £15...
As soon as Sony got involved their hands were pretty tied when it came to release dates. I've had some conversations with the devs of a very popular game on Steam currently that have made deals with Sony and Microsoft regarding console launches.

Very, very lucrative if you can pull it off but they have you by the balls and will ruin you if you don't deliver when you say you will.

Not excusing the launch version of the game, but development of any kind can and will see delays most of the time and in this case they had to sacrifice content to meet the release date.

Hopefully we'll see them patch in more features as I'd like to pick it up in the future.

xjay1337

15,966 posts

118 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Lotuslover669 said:
sorry abt that started a thread then noticed this one, what do you guys think of the game so far? i was actually very dissapointed but am hopeful with the future content patches the developers talked about.
I enjoy it. Currently I'm mining a planet for Emril and also has plenty of Plutonium for take off and landings.
Ive a full inventory (ship and exosuit) and im going to sell it and rinse and repeat until ive got a comfortable amount of money (maybe 1.5m units)

I enjoy the game a lot so far. Ive had a couple of weird things however

One crash when i first warped. Fine since.

On one take off I went flying to atmosphere in space looking at the planet.

Aside from that its been OK!
For such an ambitious game we have to understand an elementy of buggyness and I have played less complex games which are far more buggy from much more well staffed development teams.


Vaud

50,426 posts

155 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Art0ir said:
As soon as Sony got involved their hands were pretty tied when it came to release dates. I've had some conversations with the devs of a very popular game on Steam currently that have made deals with Sony and Microsoft regarding console launches.

Very, very lucrative if you can pull it off but they have you by the balls and will ruin you if you don't deliver when you say you will.

Not excusing the launch version of the game, but development of any kind can and will see delays most of the time and in this case they had to sacrifice content to meet the release date.

Hopefully we'll see them patch in more features as I'd like to pick it up in the future.
It does look like they sacrificed everything for the PS4 version with the PC being a poor mans port.

I don't blame them, it's tough for Indie studios, and we don't know what pressure (or assurances) Sony gave them.

Mastodon2

13,825 posts

165 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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They had their time, they took the money. The sales have been through the roof and I have a distinct feeling that the 12 blokes that made this mess of a game are laughing at us.

xjay1337

15,966 posts

118 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Mastodon2 said:
They had their time, they took the money. The sales have been through the roof and I have a distinct feeling that the 12 blokes that made this mess of a game are laughing at us.
That's very harsh?


The Nur

9,168 posts

185 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Ignore him, it's already been discussed ad infinitum in the rest of the thread.