No Man's Sky - Procedural space game

bigmike20vt · 15 Aug 2019 at 13:13

lokiss said:
Is there any technical basis of any of these statements? The last week or so it seems to have become the narrative. Reading the subs on Reddit last night people were echoing your point, that somehow if NMS would be fine if it were native to oculus and available on the store.

Given the situation of performance all round be it VR or Flat, I find that difficult to believe.

I must admit i dont follow the likes of Redit so didnt know this had become more of a thing of late.... it has been my opinion for some time after doing some side by side tests..... SteamVR works........... but it does not work as well as native support. It is a nice thing to have but i absolutely stand by my view that games on steam desperately need to separate native support from steamVR.

now, NMS specifically... would it be perfect on oculus right now everything else being equal apart from steamVR.... I doubt it, the game needs some patching that is for sure (I am not slating it btw i think it is really good).... but I am convinced it would run better with native rift support.

games i have compared side by side
Elite Dangerous
pinball FX VR
Arizona sunshine
Euro truck simulator 2

games people I trust have compared and concluded native support is better
Dirt Rally
Dirt Rally 2
Assetto Corsa (the 1st one)

I am sure some slipped my mind

TheMightyTen · 15 Aug 2019 at 13:23

Aren't the Oculus Native vs SteamVR disparity due to the two frame interpolation systems bitch-slapping each other. I'm fairly certain that used to be the case and Oculus users running Elite Dangerous under Steam were advised to turn off the Steam version (?Motion Smoothing or what ever was before that) to allow the Oculus to fully hijack the rendering.

Boycey0211 · 15 Aug 2019 at 15:24

I can't complain about any performance issues on steam VR, I usually use it over the oculus store for ease of use and launching games but wouldn't pick one over the other.

Having tried NMS in VR I didn't really enjoy it, tries it for about 15-20 mins and went back to standard mode. I'm not sure if VR is good for huge open world games if that makes sense?

It looked lovely and performance was ok though, I might give it another go when I've got a decent base set up and found a really pretty planet

hyperseven · 15 Aug 2019 at 15:26

Patch out.

Also, you can join the beta branch by entering code '3xperimental' in the games Beta tab code section and choosing experimental in the dropdown.

lokiss · 15 Aug 2019 at 19:15

Perhaps to add some parity to what I said earlier. I see just as many HTC, Index users... whatever complain about decreased performance with re-rive, yet in the 3 years I've been using it, I've never noticed anything like that.

The only direct comparison I could call would be Assetto Corsa, it ran no better or worse for me in Oculus or OpenVR when they introduced it. Ultimately No Mans Sky will see better days though I'm sure, same with DR2.

Paradiso · 15 Aug 2019 at 19:47

I've got past the starfield loading twice, only to be presented with no planet surface and invisible avatar. Now I can't even get past the starfield. Tried reinstalling the game, nvidia drivers, turned off antivirus, even reinstalled the vulkan sdk someone recommended.

stooeh · 15 Aug 2019 at 23:22

just played for about an hour with the index (never played prev) - pretty cool but had to run it on the minimum settings and even then reprojection was on most of the time. Needs some more optimisation i think

mikeym · 15 Aug 2019 at 23:53

stooeh said:
just played for about an hour with the index (never played prev) - pretty cool but had to run it on the minimum settings and even then Reprojection was on most of the time. Needs some more optimisation i think

What setup are you running? Graphics card/cpu.

stooeh · 15 Aug 2019 at 23:58

i7 5820K @ 4.5 - GTX 1080 Ti (in sig)

Mark A · 16 Aug 2019 at 00:01

Currently on offer on GMG for £16 odd if anyone's interested. Is it worth that price now with all the updates?

Bishie · 16 Aug 2019 at 01:29

Running on an i7-4790K, 16GB RAM, GTX 1070 8GB and a Rift S. There's something very jarring about the whole experience, and the performance was frustratingly choppy. I began to feel quite nauseous, which is something of a rarity for me! I can normally play Dirt Rally and Elite Dangerous without any discomfort at all.

GizF1 · 16 Aug 2019 at 07:40

Are you running a new install of the game Bishie and Stooeh?

willhub · 16 Aug 2019 at 08:26

My 1070 laptop ran it at max 4k last time I tried, had to then turn down some settings as was choppy, I thought performance was supposed to increase performance?

GizF1 · 16 Aug 2019 at 08:32

Did you mean Vulkan was supposed to increase performance?
It does but to me it seems they have used some of that performance to add more to the environments.

Also on a fresh install the config settings file doesn't allocate the number of game threads to the number of cores in your CPU correctly and that can be changed for better performance

StrongSad · 16 Aug 2019 at 11:20

Ughhh
had random CTD which is relly annoying when you have a inventory not saved.

Seems there is no Joystick support. So not sure what he was on about in the video.

Can't remap keys either... However that seems to be a running theme with a lot of players.

However Graphics are great on Vulcan, huge improvment...

jasoncb · 16 Aug 2019 at 12:04

Can this be played co-op? Or is the multiplayer borked like i heard.

stooeh · 16 Aug 2019 at 12:31

Strudders said:
Ughhh
Seems there is no Joystick support. So not sure what he was on about in the video.

When playing in VR you grab the throttle and stick using your tracked controllers to fly the ship, maybe that is what the vid was talking about :|

Kyrne · 16 Aug 2019 at 13:19

Any graphics/settings tweaks for this?

Also sadly still not changed the issue of client sided weather/storms. Daft when one of you has a storm and the others are fine lol

Shocky-FM · 16 Aug 2019 at 13:55

Played it briefly yesterday, lots more graphics setting it seems but nothing really new.

The base building has been ruined imo, the whole interface is now difficult to follow and I'm constantly misplacing items, it's frustrating as hell.

Also having to contact power cables to everything is insane, my relatively small base now has cables, batteries and biofuel generators all over the place, it's a mess.

We'll have to make a separate building larger then our base just to house all this crap, that's if you want a clean base.

What were they thinking... :eek:

Bishie said:
Running on an i7-4790K, 16GB RAM, GTX 1070 8GB and a Rift S. There's something very jarring about the whole experience, and the performance was frustratingly choppy. I began to feel quite nauseous, which is something of a rarity for me! I can normally play Dirt Rally and Elite Dangerous without any discomfort at all.

You need a faster graphics card if you want a smooth experience RTX2080/GTX1080 Ti or better imo.

Went from GTX1080 to RTX2080 Ti and game now flys

Paradiso · 16 Aug 2019 at 14:11

mikeym said:
What setup are you running? Graphics card/cpu.

Ryzen 2700x, 1080Ti, 16GB

Currently reinstalling the game after removing every no mans sky/Hello games related file/folder on my systems drives.