SLI support for No Man's Sky. Yusss. Downloading now
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SLI support for No Man's Sky. Yusss. Downloading now
nah, 6600k + gtx 1080
Xbudz
Member
My god. I'm getting 60fps everywhere now.
i7 6700, GTX 970, 16gb DDR4, installed on SSD.
Still forcing Shader Cache off, and Vsync On.
Settings = high everything, FXAA On.
Silky smooth now.
I tinkered around a bit more with resolutions figuring out what was wrong with the anti-aliasing, and I finally figured out the problem with the scanlines/shimmering effects.
The problem is that the scanlines themselves don't scale, so any anti-aliasing will still look funky at any resolution other than 1080p (or any other multiple of it, such as 4k).
Using a combination of VSR and turning my game resolution set to 1080p, the game looked much, much cleaner than it did than my monitor's standard or double resolution downsampled. I feel as if the effects themselves have been tailored for the 1080p resolution!
Edit: I guess I was being stupid. The shimmering is still there, but much less noticable with the downsampled resolution.
The problem is that the scanlines themselves don't scale, so any anti-aliasing will still look funky at any resolution other than 1080p (or any other multiple of it, such as 4k).
Using a combination of VSR and turning my game resolution set to 1080p, the game looked much, much cleaner than it did than my monitor's standard or double resolution downsampled. I feel as if the effects themselves have been tailored for the 1080p resolution!
Edit: I guess I was being stupid. The shimmering is still there, but much less noticable with the downsampled resolution.
I went from near perfect performance before updating to those drivers to horrible stuttering and overall unplayable framerates after updating. Whyyy lol.
Texture and geometry pop-in is now dramatically worse too.
I'll definitely be going back to the older drivers if I can.
The driver says it includes SLI support but the game still only uses one of my 680 cards. Do the developers need to code it in or something? Why doesn't it work?
*Edit* Ok SLI is working now. I had to delete my profile for the game out of Nvidia Control Panel. Now the game is silky smooth.
So this is what worked for me:
Install the new Nvidia drivers
Delete the profile I made of the game to tinker with settings in Nvidia Control Panel (game ran like crap on the new drivers with this profile)
Install the Experimental patch for No Man's Sky
Borderless Window, FXAA, 16x filtering and V-sync enabled in game (no longer using the Control Panel to override it).
And now the game runs a very steady 60fps in 1440p (I was running 1080p before) using my two GTX 680s in SLI.
*Edit* Ok SLI is working now. I had to delete my profile for the game out of Nvidia Control Panel. Now the game is silky smooth.
So this is what worked for me:
Install the new Nvidia drivers
Delete the profile I made of the game to tinker with settings in Nvidia Control Panel (game ran like crap on the new drivers with this profile)
Install the Experimental patch for No Man's Sky
Borderless Window, FXAA, 16x filtering and V-sync enabled in game (no longer using the Control Panel to override it).
And now the game runs a very steady 60fps in 1440p (I was running 1080p before) using my two GTX 680s in SLI.
Shit SLI is supported now?
I was getting 60 fps before this. Now I'll try turning off AA and going 4k.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Going to try this when I get home. Don't see it helping m, but we shall see. Don't quite understand what's happening with this game and my setup..
b1tcrusher
Neo Member
Interesting find! I was under the impression that SLI support doesn't work when in borderless windowed mode? Maybe this has changed?
RamaTheVoice
Member
So can people confirm that disabling shader cache and deleting the cache folder improves performance?
Killed all my stuttering outright.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
RamaTheVoice
Member
Awesome. Can I delete just the cache file for NMS or will it affect all my other games too? And, even better, does simply disabling shader cache in NVCP mean you don't need to delete the actual cache files?
No Man's Sky/GAMEDATA/SHADERCACHE
Delete the entire SHADERCACHE folder, not just the contents within.
It's best to delete the folder. Some people mentioned performance increases without doing it, but some had to do both the driver setting and that folder.
Makoto-Yuki
Banned
any patches for this yet?
Sean tweeted yesterday that a patch is being tested
Experimental patch that is being cleaned up for final release which you can download through Steam, with the final version in testing right now. Also an NVidia Game Ready driver seems to be helping some.
Makoto-Yuki
Banned
i have the gog version and the nvidia 391.09 driver made it worse for me.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Nothing aside from the experimental branch. Although there was a tweet yesterday from Sean Murray that PC users would be very happy indicating a patch was on the way.
(Hopefully this is more than the experimental patch being made public)
TheOctagon
Member
Force Alternate Frame Rendering 2, which is what the new SLI profile uses, tanked my FPS so bad I switched instantly back to Single GPU.
https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/765327116317646849Awesome day at Hello Games, we're going to make some people very happy with a PC and PS4 patch that's in test right now
Well there's 2 mods I'm going to install when I get home, thanks guys.
CHROMATIC ABERRATION + VIGNETTING + SCAN LINES REMOVAL
INSTAGRAM FILTER REMOVER
CHROMATIC ABERRATION + VIGNETTING + SCAN LINES REMOVAL
INSTAGRAM FILTER REMOVER
You won't regret it. They should add these as official options. The game looks way better with them in my opinion.
Fujinn
Member
The new driver made it worse for me. With the previous ones worked pretty well, a stutter here and there but very playable. Now not only stutters like crazy but when i open the UI in some planets it tanks my framerate.
980Ti 6700k
GeForce Game Ready 372.54 WHQL
980Ti 6700k
GeForce Game Ready 372.54 WHQL
Which new driver? There seems to be one that updates with Windows Update and one through Nvidia themselves.
DeathGlobe
Member
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/internal-resolution-multipliers-pak/
Internal resolution multipler
Damn really need to try this mod now
Internal resolution multipler
Damn really need to try this mod now
Ah bugger, got the same CPU/GPU setup as you and I've got everything working just right, so I may hold off on the driver for now.
Replied for save. Thanks friend.
The game still runs badly for me even with SLI and the new driver. Deleting the shadercache folder and disabling shader caching makes no difference either. The framerate is higher and actually smoother, but when I'm moving around and stuff is being generated is when the stuttering starts. Perhaps the game just doesn't work well with older CPUs (I have an i7 3930K)?
Kenzodielocke
Banned
When I use 0.25, am I at 125 % ?
The comments are pretty funny.
Funny, or awful.
noomi
Member
Tried the new nvidia drivers and performance is definitely better! My FPS went up a nice amount.
Before installing the new drivers, I deleted the custom profile for the game, and set shader cache back to it's default "on", and the stuttering was there again. So for the time being I would recommend leaving shader cache to "off" and waiting for the official game patch that is supposed to address this issue to come out.
I'm thinking the new patch will be out at sometimes today/tomorrow.
I assume it works the same as any DSR method, meaning performance is affected significantly?
Before installing the new drivers, I deleted the custom profile for the game, and set shader cache back to it's default "on", and the stuttering was there again. So for the time being I would recommend leaving shader cache to "off" and waiting for the official game patch that is supposed to address this issue to come out.
I'm thinking the new patch will be out at sometimes today/tomorrow.
I assume it works the same as any DSR method, meaning performance is affected significantly?
Ah good to know. And yeah, this is just a convenient way to do it specifically for NMS. It'll take a hit still depending on how much you go for.
As above from noomi, if you haven't deleted your SHADERCACHE folder and turned off Shader Cacheing in the NVidia control panel, give that a shot.
TheKingOfSheep
Member
Hey Guys,
This is my setup:
Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz
GeForce GTX 960 Galax KFA2 EXOC 2GB Edition
16GB of RAM
I've fully updated Nvidia-drivers. The game usually stutters a bit for like the first five minutes or so, then it runs smooth. But everything looks so jaggy. I've optimized the game through the Nvidia control center: basically just the suggested settings. My frame rate is 30fps. On Game Debate it says my setup can handle a max of 38fps, so I guess 30fps is all can squeeze out of it, right?
Anything I can do to make it look better? Any mods you can recommend? Thanks.
This is my setup:
Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz
GeForce GTX 960 Galax KFA2 EXOC 2GB Edition
16GB of RAM
I've fully updated Nvidia-drivers. The game usually stutters a bit for like the first five minutes or so, then it runs smooth. But everything looks so jaggy. I've optimized the game through the Nvidia control center: basically just the suggested settings. My frame rate is 30fps. On Game Debate it says my setup can handle a max of 38fps, so I guess 30fps is all can squeeze out of it, right?
Anything I can do to make it look better? Any mods you can recommend? Thanks.
LastCupOfSorrow
Banned
People should NOT have to go through all of this just to play a crappy game with a couple of hours of repetitive gameplay...
This is just horrible...
How on earth do you all go through this every time a major title is released?!
This is just horrible...
How on earth do you all go through this every time a major title is released?!
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
We don't go through this with every major release.
This and Batman Arkham Knight are the only two I can think of in recent memory.
(Also, playing on PS4 now and the gameplay is great.)
I pressed a drop down on shader cache that switched it to off, then I clicked apply. This was day 1 and everything was fixed.
Thankfully it's a great game and I've already sunk more than a couple of hours into it. But thanks for your concern.
It doesn't happen like this every time. It's a misconception to think that it does.
So there is quite a bit going on with the CPU in the game, it's doing more than it should so hopefully a future patch addresses that.
As for the mods, this is the main ones to check out to get rid of some of the silly filtering:
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/chromatic-aberration-vignetting-scan-lines-removal/
http://nomansskymods.com/mods/instagram-filter-remover/
The new drivers killed my framerate too until I deleted my No Man's Sky profile in the Nvidia Control Panel. I put it back to default, deleted the profile and used the in-game FXAA, vsync etc using the experimental build. I had great frames after that.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
How does your stuttering work?
My game runs great until I move like 25 feet, the game dips into the teens and even single digits. If I stop in my tracks right when the drop happens the FPS will stabilize back to normal(it will also stabilize if I continue, but I will likely run into another dip pretty quickly)
So odd, maybe it's the CPU but I have a hard time beliving a 3770k matched with 970's in SLI is being bested by a game that runs smooth on a PS4 CPU and GPU...
Hopefully it gets patched soon, because although I'm having a blast on PS4, this game looks so damned good on PC at 4K...
TheOctagon
Member
When you say 'deleted the profile', do you just mean putting it back to default?
Pretty much the same behaviour but I've not seen the framerate drop as severely as that. I have a GTX690 (dual GPU).
Cannon Goose
Member
The new Nvidia drivers gave me a 5-10 fps boost everywhere except for planets with water, those are still sub 30.