Posted August 14, 2016
We have 5 desktop gaming rigs in the home. I got it running at 75-100FPS average at ultra settings on the 'slowest' rig in the house. No slowdowns, no stutter, smooth as silk, looks amazing.. The slowest rig is;
AMD FX-5320 CPU
MSI GTX 970-OC 4GB GPU
16GB Mushkin Red RAM
130GB 550mb/s SSD (boot/OS)
1TB 7200 RPM HDD
1920x1080 Rez (Dell IPS 24")
Windows 10 (I strongly discourage Win7 but thats my personal experience, but if you insist, then make sure Win7 is fully updated, including service packs)
I consider this is a pretty low end rig personally. It was built a couple-few years ago. If I am getting 75-100FPS on this and some people are having trouble with way better rigs. My personal gaming rig (TitanX) runs it close to double the FPS. So what did I do to accomplish this?
1) Install the game to an SSD! Since it's procedural it seems to access the mapping data from the drive. People with slow mechanical drives may experience hitching and pauses. SSD remedies most issues in procedural generation. I noticed 'stutter' when I had the game installed on the 7200RPM HDD, I assume when the mapping was taking place it was drawing map data from the drive.
2) Install CleanMem from PCWintech. I believe NMS has a memory leak. CleanMem isn't placebo, it simply triggers Windows own 'fragment cleanup' of RAM every 15 minutes vs once a day. This seems to solve issues that come up over time in the game as the memory leaks escalate.
3) Adjust graphic settings to maximum, turn off VSYNC, set FPS to MAX.
4) Exit game, then browse to game directory and load TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML into notepad. Set GSYNC to 'false'. This simple setting has resulted in a remarkable 'doubling' of FPS on some rigs here.
5) Be sure to set the game on BORDERLESS. The game crashes on tabbing out unless it's on borderless.
That's all I did, and the lowest machine in the home gets a magical stutter free 75-100fps at all times on ultra settings. Give it a shot and see if it works for you. I personally think most of the issues are really due to peoples machines having issues, lacking updates (Firmware, Drivers, OS, etc) and other things. But the above seems to help every machine I have tested it on get amazing performance.
AMD FX-5320 CPU
MSI GTX 970-OC 4GB GPU
16GB Mushkin Red RAM
130GB 550mb/s SSD (boot/OS)
1TB 7200 RPM HDD
1920x1080 Rez (Dell IPS 24")
Windows 10 (I strongly discourage Win7 but thats my personal experience, but if you insist, then make sure Win7 is fully updated, including service packs)
I consider this is a pretty low end rig personally. It was built a couple-few years ago. If I am getting 75-100FPS on this and some people are having trouble with way better rigs. My personal gaming rig (TitanX) runs it close to double the FPS. So what did I do to accomplish this?
1) Install the game to an SSD! Since it's procedural it seems to access the mapping data from the drive. People with slow mechanical drives may experience hitching and pauses. SSD remedies most issues in procedural generation. I noticed 'stutter' when I had the game installed on the 7200RPM HDD, I assume when the mapping was taking place it was drawing map data from the drive.
2) Install CleanMem from PCWintech. I believe NMS has a memory leak. CleanMem isn't placebo, it simply triggers Windows own 'fragment cleanup' of RAM every 15 minutes vs once a day. This seems to solve issues that come up over time in the game as the memory leaks escalate.
3) Adjust graphic settings to maximum, turn off VSYNC, set FPS to MAX.
4) Exit game, then browse to game directory and load TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML into notepad. Set GSYNC to 'false'. This simple setting has resulted in a remarkable 'doubling' of FPS on some rigs here.
5) Be sure to set the game on BORDERLESS. The game crashes on tabbing out unless it's on borderless.
That's all I did, and the lowest machine in the home gets a magical stutter free 75-100fps at all times on ultra settings. Give it a shot and see if it works for you. I personally think most of the issues are really due to peoples machines having issues, lacking updates (Firmware, Drivers, OS, etc) and other things. But the above seems to help every machine I have tested it on get amazing performance.
Post edited August 14, 2016 by mayahana