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No Man's SkyNew Patch Out on GOG(163 posts)(163 posts)
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Posted August 20, 2016
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Socratatus: All I want is to be able to name my character in the game. I don`t care about all that `authentication crap`. That`s why I get a GOG game. I don`t want some kind of disguised DRM. I don`t go online, I just want to name my character. That`s it.

Why am I even responding to you, it`s not like you even know. I`ve seen people like you try and tell me what you `think` is happening, then a month later it turns out they can do what i`m asking and people like you just slink away. i`ll remember your name for just when they do impement custom naming for people without GOG Galaxy.
I don't really understand the hostility in your post. The 'Explorer' bit is there to allow a DRM free version. Sure, it's possible to put a box in the game asking the player to set a name. That's not what they did though, because the game's designed to take names from player profiles on Steam / Galaxy / PSN.

Sorry that's not the answer you're looking for, but they had to use something for the online account authentication for the multiplayer aspects. They chose to use 3rd party authentication for that.

If it really bothers you that much, the default string "Explorer" is coded somewhere in the game files. Find it and change it.
Posted August 21, 2016
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styggron: Ok tried the new patch. No good. Still the same problem. Crash on launch. Yes I met the requirements i7, nvidia updates, SSE4.1 etc etc been through all that before.

I'll wait 2 more weeks so will d/l whatever patch is current then and give it one last go and hopefully it will start.

Glad to see that for most people, it is now either working, or working better.
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ShamefulManny: Did you try to verify you game (under "more-manage installation-verify / repair" in galaxy) after downloading the patch? When I first tried to play again after downloading the patch it crashed (for the first time for me), but after verifying it started fine again.
I don't use galaxy. I only, and will only ever use direct downloads.
Posted September 04, 2016
Almost 2 weeks now and still can't get the game to start. (Yes I meet the specs, yes I did updates etc etc) just crashes to desktop.,

Not sure if I just want to just put it "on the shelf" and come back to it in 6-8 months or a year or start the refund process. :( I've only got a tiny bit more time to decide on this now.
Posted September 05, 2016
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styggron: Almost 2 weeks now and still can't get the game to start. (Yes I meet the specs, yes I did updates etc etc) just crashes to desktop.,

Not sure if I just want to just put it "on the shelf" and come back to it in 6-8 months or a year or start the refund process. :( I've only got a tiny bit more time to decide on this now.
I know this may be extreme, I often format my hard drive and do fresh install of windows. It does wonders for your performance, and clears up a lot problems like this one. If you haven't done it in a while it's worth a shot.
Posted September 05, 2016
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styggron: Almost 2 weeks now and still can't get the game to start. (Yes I meet the specs, yes I did updates etc etc) just crashes to desktop.,

Not sure if I just want to just put it "on the shelf" and come back to it in 6-8 months or a year or start the refund process. :( I've only got a tiny bit more time to decide on this now.
You might be hurting yourself by not using Galaxy. You could still install the game manually then import it into galaxy and do the repair/check to make sure nothing differs from the download.

You could try to delete the contents of the "No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS" and "No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\SHADERCACHE" if they are even populated yet (backup'em before just to be sure).

They might have gotten rid of the Visual C++ runtimes I can't see a dependency anymore. But the game uses XInput9 so you might download one of the old DirectX client web redistributables and try installing them.

And should you find the dump file (.dmp/.mdmp) via Application Eventlog (Event Viewer) on your disk you could post it so one of us or me could take a look at it (no warranties dumps sometimes have clear info but often they do not except for real experts).

Btw as a paying customer why not try contacting Hello Games support directly? http://www.no-mans-sky.com/support/

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We hope you are enjoying No Man’s Sky, but if you are having issues, we’d love to help! Please find some of the most common workaround below.
If you continue to have problems please make sure to tell us at support@hellogames.co.uk
Post edited September 05, 2016 by DarkLord79
Posted September 05, 2016
Thanks everyone.
No way I'm formatting my hard drive for NMS in the hope it might work. From everything I have seen I am probably highly unlikely to play it for more than an hour due to lack of content and repetitive content.

Also waaay ahead of you, I always clear the data from the users/appdata directory before installing a new version :)

As for Galaxy sorry. No way.....EVER. It doesn't say anywhere Galaxy is required to run the game if it did I would have have never pre ordered it. For me I want manual direct downloads. I do appreciate your point regarding galaxy but Galaxy is not for me and never will be. Especially just for 1 title. :)

Like I said, I only have 2 options. I have 1 day or two left to put in for refund or I'll just let it sit there and revisit it in maybe 8 months or 12 months when it will probably have more content.

Contacting Hello Games is not an option because soon GoG's guarantee will run out.

I really appreciate people pitching in with options for helping. Thank you all for those suggestions :)
Post edited September 05, 2016 by styggron
Posted September 06, 2016
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styggron: Thanks everyone.
No way I'm formatting my hard drive for NMS in the hope it might work. From everything I have seen I am probably highly unlikely to play it for more than an hour due to lack of content and repetitive content.

Also waaay ahead of you, I always clear the data from the users/appdata directory before installing a new version :)

As for Galaxy sorry. No way.....EVER. It doesn't say anywhere Galaxy is required to run the game if it did I would have have never pre ordered it. For me I want manual direct downloads. I do appreciate your point regarding galaxy but Galaxy is not for me and never will be. Especially just for 1 title. :)

Like I said, I only have 2 options. I have 1 day or two left to put in for refund or I'll just let it sit there and revisit it in maybe 8 months or 12 months when it will probably have more content.

Contacting Hello Games is not an option because soon GoG's guarantee will run out.

I really appreciate people pitching in with options for helping. Thank you all for those suggestions :)
Who told you to format your drive? NEVER format your drive for cases like this. Ignore whoever told you that crap.
Posted September 07, 2016
It's a few posts above, they were only trying to be helpful, I still appreciate the effort they made to render assistance :)
Posted September 07, 2016
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styggron: It's a few posts above, they were only trying to be helpful, I still appreciate the effort they made to render assistance :)
Ah, I see now. I guess he meant well. A friend of mine got into the really bad habit of reformatting his drive for every little thing that went wrong on his pc, including his games. It got to the point that he was causing himself a lot of stress. The only time I would ever advised reformatting is if you got a Trojan Virus that you couldn`t get rid of with normal anti-virus.

Reformatting should only happen every year or so and only if you personally need a fresh pc.

Trying to figure out what`s wrong with your game\pc, but don`t really have enough info to go on.
Post edited September 07, 2016 by Socratatus
Posted September 08, 2016
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styggron: Almost 2 weeks now and still can't get the game to start. (Yes I meet the specs, yes I did updates etc etc) just crashes to desktop.,

Not sure if I just want to just put it "on the shelf" and come back to it in 6-8 months or a year or start the refund process. :( I've only got a tiny bit more time to decide on this now.
I had that problem when I bought the game on steam. Not sure what your specs are, BUT... If you have a program called Raptr running, Kill it, then launch the game. It solved my problem (of course I had already gotten a refund from steam, so I went the GoG route instead... No problems until just now (patch 1.07) I crash about an hour into play, which sucks because I was farming the crap out of a huge Emeril Column.... All lost.....
Posted September 08, 2016
Thank you for the suggestions, no I don't have raptr. I removed a stack of processes just in case to no avail. I saw GoG has a 1.07 patch. I will try that as my last attempt and then I shall just shelve the game for 6-8 months before trying again. As I mentioned there is not enough content to keep me playing from what I see, way too repetitive so I'll just sit tight with this.

:)
Posted September 22, 2016
From the source:
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Patch 1.09

The game is now much more robust at recovering corrupted save files.
It was possible for players to circumnavigate obtaining the Antimatter blueprint using very specific steps, leaving some players stranded in their second system. This is no longer possible.
PC and PS4 galaxy generation more robust during compiling.
Exosuit messaging system no longer confuses “on planet” and “docked in station” visor notifications, removing all doubt as to the location of the player’s Starship.
Improved framerate when scanning colossal structures such as Space Stations or Outposts.
Fix for some terrain resources being indestructible and therefore unmineable.
Exosuit messaging system now able to correctly differentiate between resource types. Deposits discovered by scans will now display as the correct element.
Gek Factory door manufacturing standards have been improved; they no longer take critical hits from Grenades.
Drone vandalism detection improved. Wanted level now increases when destroying Factory doors however powerful the players Multitool may be.
Pulsedrive systems now fully offline during warping.
Players are no longer able to open crates of any type if their inventory is full, no matter the contents, preventing loss of resources.
When interacting with a Terminal, it will print out the players Journey progression. Some strings in this print out where cut-off in Asian languages, these now display correctly in all supported languages.
Fixed an occasional bug within the Exosuit system that caused controller prompts to display the wrong button.
Changes to player Standing with the Gek, Vy’keen and Korvax now display correctly within the stats menu.
Fix for loss of resources when transferring fully stacked items between the player’s Starship and Exosuit in a specific order.
Fix for stacking products exploit. Resources salvaged from dismantled technologies now fill inventory slots as expected.
Exosuit and Starship messaging system now always displays the correct number of collected resources.
Discovery menu improvements, including fixes for incorrectly displayed planet names and creatures displaying as their molecular structure.
Discovery menu now supports planets with an abundance of life. Specifically, planets featuring 15 creature types can now reach 100% completion.
Multitool Beam Coolant and Exosuit Aeration Membrane upgrades now increase their respective stat wheels as expected.
The player can no longer buy multiple products when they do not have enough slots to do so, preventing loss of both the unit cost and the extra products.
Japanese localization fixes. Including: scrolling text issues, overlapping prompts in the ship messaging system and Multitool names displaying incorrectly.
Fixed clipped text on save game restore buttons in all supported languages.
Fixed errant title bar on the menu screen.
Player Standing now updates in real time when interacting with members of the Gek, Vy’keen and Korvax races.
Minor fix for saves of a duration less than 2 minutes displaying as “1 minutes”.
Improvements to various settings within the options menu, including advancements in mouse smoothing and refined gamma settings allowing for increased tenebrosity.
Fix for creature generation crash.
Fixes to prevent FPS spikes when encountering momentary performance bumps on PS4.
Fixed a rare issue where pressing and holding a button would cause the game to crash under specific circumstances.
Creature footfall now audibly echos within caves.
Fix for perpetual day time if the player updated in a specific order.
Bump shader version numbers for patch 1.09
Fix for a rare situation where a player’s save could get stuck in a crash loop due to saving at very specific point in planet generation.
Improved detection of available PC CPU cores and optimised settings for low-end CPUs with few CPU cores.



Patch 1.08

Fixes for loading save files that have become corrupted.
Fixes for several rare memory corruption bugs.
Fixes for several small memory leaks when warping.
Fix for loading from saves sometimes spawning you inside a building.
Fix for anisotropic filtering settings not working on some PCs (improved on all).
Fix for rare crash when warping many times on PS4.
Fix for a potential rare random GPU crash on PS4.

Posted September 22, 2016
I might try this patch. Perhaps with this, the game will start.
Posted September 23, 2016
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styggron: I might try this patch. Perhaps with this, the game will start.
I've kept these reddit links bookmarked just in case i run into problems when i run the game, they might have something to help?

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4xkj1w/pc_version_list_of_common_fixes_and_suggestions/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/540gib/having_performance_issues_after_109_heres_a/

That second link was specific to getting less pop-in and better performance after the latest patch (1.09).
Posted September 24, 2016
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styggron: I might try this patch. Perhaps with this, the game will start.
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ThorChild: I've kept these reddit links bookmarked just in case i run into problems when i run the game, they might have something to help?

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4xkj1w/pc_version_list_of_common_fixes_and_suggestions/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/540gib/having_performance_issues_after_109_heres_a/

That second link was specific to getting less pop-in and better performance after the latest patch (1.09).
Thank you for those I shall look. For me the game does not even start. Just crashes (yes I meet the spec and have open GL update etc) :)
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