No Man's Sky

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No Man's Sky

Developers
	Hello Games
Release dates
Windows	August 12, 2016
macOS (OS X)	TBA
Reception
Metacritic	61
OpenCritic	70
IGDB	74
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time, Persistent
Perspectives	Third-person, First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Open world, Survival
Vehicles	Off-roading, Space flight
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Sci-fi, Space

Key points

Active modding community. See Mods.

General information

PC Report

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GamersGate
GOG.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Microsoft Store		Xbox Play Anywhere. Xbox Game Pass for PC
Steam

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Binaries\SETTINGS\
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\HelloGames.NoMansSky_bs190hzg1sesy\LocalCache\Local\Microsoft\WritablePackageRoot\Binaries\SETTINGS
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\HelloGames\NMS\
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\HelloGames.NoMansSky_bs190hzg1sesy\SystemAppData\wgs
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/275850/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud		Game saves sync across Xbox and PC if using the same Live account.

Transfer a Gamepass save to Steam

Note this is not yet updated with the latest updates like companions and expeditions. Use NomNom Save Editor to open your Gamepass cloud save and save it as JSON. Create a dummy save in Steam with any simple item built. Use Goatfungus's NMSSE to open the JSON of the dummy save and note your UID and USN. In the NomNom exported JSON file, make the following changes (with your favorite text editor): For "BaseStatId", "CurrentMissionId", "PreviousMissionId", "MissionId", "ObjectId", "TraitIds", and "MultiplayerLobbyId", replace "Id" with "ID" Replace all "XB" with "ST" (Optional) Replace all instances of "0000000000000001" and your old MS UID value with the new UID value from Steam Replace all instances of your old MS USN with the new USN from Steam. Copy all of the edited JSON and overwrite all the text in the NMSSE JSON editor. Save and exit and your Gamepass save should be cloned to Steam.

Video

General settings.

Video settings.

Graphics settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Up to 100 (arbitrary number, not actual FoV in degrees); for higher values see Field of view (FOV) or use this Extended FOV Changer.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Natively displays an option for Borderless Windowed Mode, but the option behaves similarly to Fullscreen. Seems to be setting itself to 'topmost' with a high Z-level, overriding other applications attempting to be topmost. Choosing Bordered and using a de-bordering app results in a more 'standard' Borderless experience.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16 samples. Forcing gives much better quality.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA, TAA, TAA+FXAA, TAA (Low), DLSS or DLAA. TAA option was added with Foundation Update. DLSS option was added with Prisms Update. DLAA option was added with Sentinel Update.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Double buffered (On), triple buffered, or adaptive vsync.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		There is a framerate limit slider that goes up to 240 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		HDR400, HDR600 or HDR1000

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML with your text editor of choice. Find the following lines and replace X with your desired FOV: <Property name="FoVOnFoot" value="X.000000" /> <Property name="FoVInShip" value="X.000000" />

Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		In-game sliders appear to have little or no effect on mouse sensitivity.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Separate inversion options for walking and spaceflight
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Separate inversion options for walking and spaceflight

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

Tracked motion controllers		Oculus Touch, Valve Index, Vive Wand
Button/gesture prompts

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		If the pause menu is opened, only the device used to open it will function until it is closed.

Steam Input
Steam Input API support		Steam controller added in Pathfinder Update.
Official controller preset(s)
Steam Controller button prompts		Prompts switching between XInput and sinput.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, SFX.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Does not mute when in multiplayer
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech				Fan translation.
Dutch
French
Italian
German
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Network settings.

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play		32	Co-op

Issues unresolved

Screen Tearing

Game suffers from screen tearing in borderless mode regardless of settings. Only enabling V-Sync in fullscreen fixes the issue. Forcing V-Sync through GPU control panel has no effect.^{[citation needed]}

Users of AMD GPUs have reported that enabling V-Sync in their GPU control panel's Global Settings solves the issue across all fullscreen types. The game's own V-Sync setting has no effect one way or the other, nor does the game's specific profile in the GPU control panel.

Some resolutions cause game to not render some text

1360 x 768 makes module upgrade stats disappear. Also line overflowing is broken in some inventory views and in Catalogue. Badly overflowing entries are invisible but still accessible and with working tooltips in next column or line, in case of Catalogue under scroll controls.^{[citation needed]}

10 pixel less horizontal custom resolution made by GPU specific controls corrects the problem with little loss of resolution.

Issues fixed

Heavy game stutter/stutter in general

Go to <path-to-game>\Binaries\SETTINGS. Open TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML and change the value of NumHighThreads and NumLowThreads to 0.

Old save from 2016 and 2017 doesn't appear in menus

Rename "mf_storage.hg" and "storage.hg".
Go to your save game data location. (See Save game data location for instructions based on operating systems.) Look for files starting with "mf_storage" and "storage". (Some might be numbered.) If present, rename those files by replacing "storage" with "save".

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Vulkan	1.0	Replaced OpenGL 4.5 as part of the Beyond Update.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	ARM	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	Havok
Audio	Wwise

Mods

Many mods can be found at Video Game Mods and Nexus Mods.

Mods almost always need to be updated by their creator after a major game update (Atlas Rises, NEXT, Beyond, etc.).

• Lens Flare Removal
• 21:9 / Surround / Eyefinity HUD Mod

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3 AMD Phenom X3	Intel Core i5 Quad Core AMD Ryzen 3 1200
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 480 4 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Requires Vulkan 1.0 or higher

Requires a processor supporting SSE2.