No Man's Sky - Procedural space game

How do you get Open GL 4.5? I have downloaded OpenGL Extensions Viewer and it says I only have 4.4. See below... what's going on here? I have a 1080 FFS and I know that it supports Open GL 4.5! Plus I have latest drivers. Unless this software is buggy... it only says 4095 RAM for a start (on right hand side)

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I just seen the ending on youtube... lol :mad:

I thought Ghosts and goblins was bad. Pmsl...... :D

Deleting it as I write the game is bad full stop.

Spore on acid is all I can think of. :rolleyes:

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Well this game is now utterly broken for me, won't load and I've tried everything I can think of. Was working fine last night and earlier today. What a load of &%$!! £40, what a joke for this POS broken mess.

EDIT: Finally it decides to load. This is crazy. This game is in desperate need of patching. I love it (when it works), but they released it way too early.
 
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Legend said:
Well this game is now utterly broken for me, won't load and I've tried everything I can think of. Was working fine last night and earlier today. What a load of &%$!! £40, what a joke for this POS broken mess.

EDIT: Finally it decides to load. This is crazy. This game is in desperate need of patching. I love it (when it works), but they released it way too early.
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If you've messed about with the shader caching option try swapping it to the opposite to what you are using and/or temporarily moving everything out of the C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp\NVIDIA Corporation\NV_Cache folder and see if that helps.
 
Rroff said:
lol the centre is such a troll.
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After playing for a few hours on a mate's copy (i7-6700K and a GTX1080) that is nigh on unplayable to to to stuttering and now having seen that, for me it's most definitely a No Man's Buy!

I might pick it up later on down the line when it's on offer at a tenner or something, but no way is this a £40 game.
 
This feels like an Early Access title (not just because of the performance issues), and it probably could have actually benefited from being one too. Reading up about what they're planning to add to the game, e.g. base building, it seems like they've omitted some pretty big ideas from the initial launch, amongst other things. And that's only the first patch, I wonder what else they have planned down the road. Honestly, I'm just gonna wait maybe like a year or so. I'd imagine it'll play like a completely different game by then. Right now, it is stuck in one of those "wide as an ocean deep as a puddle" situations. The foundations and the main "Explore, Fight, Trade, and Survive" pillars are there, but they're far too shallow. It also really doesn't help that all the procedural generated stuff is very surface level; colours, different limbs snapped onto different bodies, flora and fauna types, etc. It becomes really noticeable that all this stuff is just being swapped in and out from a pre-existing limited pool, but the gameplay barely evolves past the "find building, mine, inventory management, sell, and fly away again."
 
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Malevolence said:
After playing for a few hours on a mate's copy (i7-6700K and a GTX1080) that is nigh on unplayable to to to stuttering and now having seen that, for me it's most definitely a No Man's Buy!

I might pick it up later on down the line when it's on offer at a tenner or something, but no way is this a £40 game.
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Yeah even now for a tenner I'd pick it up just to dabble around a bit then most likely kick it to one side - I do kind of have quite a bit of admiration for what they have pulled off as they are punching well above their capabilities in terms of pulling a game like that off but on the other hand I have very low tolerance for games that don't have the controls and basic mechanics very nailed down and streamlined and don't find repetitive tasks in games rewarding - I'm strongly of the opinion that you need a core of well crafted, interesting, curated material even if you use procedural generation to flesh the game out.
 
agnes said:
So what happens in the centre? I'm curious.
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You land on a planet and meet this cat, and he does a dance then explains the meaning of life (I won't spoil what he says, but it will BLOW YOUR MIND). Basically the universe was created by a dancing cat, which totally explains society's fascination with cat videos. Full circle.
 
Legend said:
You land on a planet and meet this cat, and he does a dance then explains the meaning of life (I won't spoil what he says, but it will BLOW YOUR MIND). Basically the universe was created by a dancing cat, which totally explains society's fascination with cat videos. Full circle.
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Also, the cat has mange.
 
agnes said:
So what happens in the centre? I'm curious.
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Assuming you aren't the person playing you get to watch someone bash their brains out on their monitor at the realisation of what everything they've been doing for the last ~90 hours has stood for.
 
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