No Mans Sky

Actually the quality on PC is supposed to be better than on PS4.
Its said that the graphics look much better on the PCs which currently dont experience any of the problems.

Yesterday I found a new ship... 27 slots now.
Too bad that I was on a planet which had no zinc anywhere.... so i spent 2 hours running around on the surface trying to find a trading post where I can buy some resources to repair that ship.

Yes, i was looking for one of these trading machines... but that took 2 hours.
Launching did not work because for some reason you cant launch if your impulse engine is damage (and that requires zinc to get fixed).

there are countless of suggestions of how fix the performance problems.

vsync off
aa off
af off
disable steam overlay
update drivers
disable gsync
use the experimental patch
install the 2010 redist
force tripple buffering
copy a specific opengl dll into the binaries folder
...
etc.

ive tried everything meanwhile

im pretty sure that the performance problems are not just some settings
I have tried all possible combinations for hours and its pretty clear that on the PC version alot is broken atm

the AA does not work correctly no matter which you select.
FXAA, SMAA or no AA ... all look the same
VSync seems to cause widespread problems
the FPS limiter is broken
anisotropic filtering seems to be broken aswell for many players
gsync causes problems
there are the overlay problems with steam which causes the game to flicker if enabled
there is a problem with SSE and the physics engine
there seem to be problems with opengl and nvidia cards
there are crashed on AMD phenom PCs
and alot of other weird stuff.

Im not blaming the devs considering how small their team actually is... but I hope they work on fixes soon.
Overall the game should actually run better on PC than on PS4 since the PCs usually are more powerful.
And the screenshots from the few PCs which are running well atm look really good.

and best... on PC there is modding support.

Ok, today the experimental patch on steam got another update.
Its a big improvement. Now the game runs smooth for me even on highest settings.
FPS still isnt that high... but remains constantly over 35 which is absolutely ok to play the game.

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UPDATE: Experimental Branch
We hope that you are enjoying No Man’s Sky, but if you have mailed support@hellogames.co.uk with an issue, then please know that we are working to respond and make your experience as smooth as possible.

For a list of most common issues and workarounds please go here:
Common Workarounds

Many of the most critical issues now have workarounds. PLEASE try these first.

We have hot fixes for many issues in a build which is currently with our test team. This will exit testing and be made live for all players soon.

If you are having issues and want to check this out immediately, we have made it available in a new Steam branch, called "Experimental".

We are updating this branch regularly.

We've already resolved many issues for people who reported them by moving them over to this branch.

Here’s what’s different

UPDATE: AMD Phenom Support
Thousands of lines of assembly have been rewritten to support AMD CPUs. The game code no longer relies on anything above SSE 2,
Havok Physics has also now created new libs. Game is now confirmed working on Phenom CPUs.

UPDATE: Mouse Smoothing
Smoothing on mouse movement has been improved to prevent hitching or stuttering, and is now adjustable through the Options menu in “Mouse Smoothing”.
It now defaults to off. If you feel the framerate is "slow" or "lumpy", please make sure that this is turned off (it helps players with sub-30 fps)

UPDATE: Improved Performance
On CPUs with 4 threads or fewer, performance has been improved.
On CPUs with 8 threads, performance has also been significantly improved.

UPDATE: Radeon 6xxx
Added support for this GPU, which doesn't support OpenGL 4.5 fully.

UPDATE: Player Saves
Help to recover some player saves which had been lost or corrupt.

Alt-Tab has improved
Some systems/configs were crashing or not pausing correctly on Alt Tab. This should now be resolved.

Shader Caching
Framerate was initially stuttering due to shaders not being correctly cached by the GPU on some systems. We have replaced the GPU caching system. You may notice some stutter during the Galactic Map intro to the game (the very first time you run), but it should be smoother from then on (this will be fixed in future). This is particularly true on ATI cards

Max FPS Cap
On some CPU/GPU configurations, setting Max FPS to 60 or 30 was not giving 60 or 30 FPS (causing stuttering). This has been improved.

Intel GPUs
The game will now let you know if you are trying to run with an unsupported GPU. This will hopefully flag for some users that their high end GPU has not been selected.
UPDATE: We are working on Intel GPU support.

Gsync
Gsync has been disabled by default, which was causing an issue for some users

Here is how you access it
To access the Experimental branch right-click on the game from the library page and select "Properties". Among the available tabs will be the "BETAS" tab.

Your new branch should be listed in the dropdown menu under "Select the beta you would like to opt into:"

Code: 3xperimental
If you encounter issues with this please mail support@hellogames.co.uk and include [EXPERIMENTAL] in the subject.

IF THIS BRANCH FIXES YOUR ISSUE, PLEASE LET US KNOW

Thank you,
Hello Games

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i think the current experimental fix is a major step in the right direction
meanwhile i have found a tropical world full of awesome creatures and despite the screen being completely full of planets and creatures the game runs well.

Other developers havent managed to fix this game in years... *cough* Cryptic STO *cough*

i think i sold my atlas ball
O_o
but there is one at the trader (probably the one that i sold)

you are free to go anywhere if you want... on the galaxy map there you can select the option of free travel

but you also can follow that altas path which guide you to the center of the galaxy (which is the end of the game).
When you start your first game you have by default a fixed path selected. After 3 jumps (4th system) you encounter an anomaly (IF you already have activated a monument on a planet once).

Thart artifact is an atlas space station with two NPCs you can talk to. They will guide you to the next atlas station. The distance to that station seems to depend on your current location. For me it was only 3 jumps but I have read that people had to travel up to 10 systems.
However, on that new station you finally make contact with altas and get told to follow the atlas path. You get fuel for the hyperdrive and eventually an Altas Pass V1 which you can use to open locked doors and containers.

I am still on the system where that 2nd atlas station is... and i think will stay there for a bit exploring everything.