Issues with No Man's Sky graphics have been reported.
Issues with No Man's Sky graphics have been reported.
This occurs sporadically during various activities such as orbiting planets, walking or driving on planetary surfaces, and underwater exploration. I've attempted to adjust the textures, but it hasn't made a difference. The system runs Windows 10, with a GTX 980 graphics card and an Xeon Haswell processor (4 cores, 8 threads, not compatible with LGA 2011 CPUs). The game is installed on an SSD. Photos were captured from the same location; I apologize for any screen door effect, but screen captures didn't function as intended.
I'm facing a persistent problem where my PC won't enter sleep or screen saver mode. I tried safe mode, used DDU, rebooted multiple times, updated NVidia drivers, reinstalled drivers, and even ran NMS again. It's working now but I notice big performance jumps, possibly because my GPU's memory clocks dropped. I plan to test it for a few hours to see if the issue persists or if it's just occasional glitches. Edit: I should have addressed this sooner after upgrading from Windows 8.1 to 10. My new PC is coming in with no graphics card yet—either the 3080 will arrive soon or the 6800XT will be available.
I've encountered comparable problems in Gears 5, especially around the snow section. It tends to appear on sections that were once large uniform areas—such as the sky blue or snowy ground. I haven't discovered a solution yet, so I'm curious if anyone else has found a fix. (My drivers and other tools are all current.)
Over the past four years, I’ve tested 8.1 and 10 repeatedly. My experience shows a clear preference for XP, which felt solid. Vista was okay but not ideal. 7 and 8 didn’t perform well, while 10 has been consistently poor. Using 8.1 feels smoother compared to the other versions.
I was planning to check if Gears 5 uses Vulkan, but I remember a problem with NMS when I used Windows 8.1, which doesn’t support Vulkan. It seems the issue might have been linked to texture handling, possibly because I exceeded my graphics card’s RAM limits. I can try resetting the settings and see if it resolves the problem. I still have the exact screen capture location and time, so that should be a good starting point for further testing.
Sadly, things aren’t going well. The artifacting keeps happening even with the stock GPU speeds, and NMS isn’t loading my game save anymore since I last saved on that planet when I stopped playing. I removed NMS until my new PC arrives, then plan to reinstall it.