Set waypoint on map from discoveries list - broken? (SOLVED)

[Benzin]

If i go to the discoveries window, select a system from the first page, and hold my left mouse button to set a waypoint on the galactic map, it works as expected. My map gets a waypoint on the system i selected from the list. Ok.

However, if i select a system from the discoveries list wich is not on the first page (e.g. i have to click the up or down arrows first), and set the waypoint, then there is no waypoint placed on my map. Ibe tried it several times.

Anyones else seeing this behaviour? is it a known bug, or im i doing something wrong?

thanks

[Marzipan]

This is strange behaviour on your side, sorry.
I can select any system on any page of my Normal-game-discoveries and get correct indications for travelling there in my starmap.
Maybe reboot your game/steam will help?

[Benzin]

Its very strange, it works perfectly as long as i select a system from the initial page. If i scroll it using the up down buttons then it doesnt work.

I will try it again on my next session. Thanks!

[Benzin]

I just tried it again, this time the map froze, and the game crashed to desktop :(

Something is definitively wrong here.

[Benzin]

I think i figured it out. Its not related to wich page of the list the system is in.
The problem occurs when i try to set a waypoint to a system that is very far away.
If i select a system say 450 ly away, it wont set the waypoint. If i select one that is only 120ly away then it works fine.
Can anyone confirm they get this on their side as well?

[Marzipan]

I can select my startersystem which is currently 690k ly away and everything is fine in my starmap.

My suggestions:
If you are using mods, try without them.
Delete the content of your SHADERCACHE folder and let the game reload the shaders upon the next gamestart (which might last a bit longer). steam-steamapps-common-NoMansSky-Gamedata-Shadercache
Verify the integrity of your gamefiles by rmb on NMS in your Libary-properties-local files (this might add the disabledmod.txt btw, if you are using mods)

[Asmosis]

i set a waypoint on the outer rim of the current galaxy and it worked fine.

I'm never going to go there mind you, it took 5 minutes to reach on max speed zoom on the galaxy map.

[Benzin]

Originally posted by Marzipan:

I can select my startersystem which is currently 690k ly away and everything is fine in my starmap.

My suggestions:
If you are using mods, try without them.
Delete the content of your SHADERCACHE folder and let the game reload the shaders upon the next gamestart (which might last a bit longer). steam-steamapps-common-NoMansSky-Gamedata-Shadercache
Verify the integrity of your gamefiles by rmb on NMS in your Libary-properties-local files (this might add the disabledmod.txt btw, if you are using mods)

Thanks for your tips. Can you please try it with a system that is over 700ly away, just to verify?

I dont use any mods. I will delete the shader cache as you suggested. Cant verify the files because i dont own the game on steam, i got it on GOG. Will find out if there is a similar feature on GOG galaxy.

thanks!

[Benzin]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

i set a waypoint on the outer rim of the current galaxy and it worked fine.

I'm never going to go there mind you, it took 5 minutes to reach on max speed zoom on the galaxy map.

But you set the waypoint on the map, right?
This works fine. I mean setting the waypoint from the discoveries list.

[Marzipan]

Originally posted by Benzin:

Thanks for your tips. Can you please try it with a system that is over 700ly away, just to verify?
....snip....thanks!

Here is a screenshot from my current system to a waypoint selected from the first page of my discovery list:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1256531866
The indicated path ends around 1k ly, so I would have to go to my selected destination in (a lot of) steps... not really recommended to travel long distances like that, as the game won´t show you the most direct routing based on your hyperdrive capabilities and forces you to make more (shorter) jumps. I think of it more like a "local area" navigation mode because of that.

[Benzin]

Thanks Marzipan. I dont understand whats wrong with my game. I don use mods, and everything else works ok (except the known bugs of course).
Im about to delete the shader cache as you suggested earlier. I hope this works, because im all out of ideas on what to do next if it doesnt :(

[Marzipan]

Just a guess, and I don´t know if it can have anything to do with it, but did you upload all your discovered systems? Sorry, I don´t have any other idea why it is not working for you. :(

[Benzin]

Thanks for your help Marzipan. Deleted the shaders cache, no luck. :(
It seems to be doing something different now. I set the waypoint on the discoveries list, go to the map, and when i select "Custom waypoint" there is a line to some system, but its not the system i selected on the list and the waypoint marker (the diamond shape) is not there.

My main interest in getting this feature to work, is that i somethimes want to go back to a system i previously visited, and finding it by looking at all the stars names on the map is a real PITA. So i figured i would locate it on the discoveries list, set the waypoint and easily find it on the map. But no luck.
I wanted to go back to a particular system that earlier i saw sold the upgraded freighter hyperdrive blueprints, but after several minutes of looking at the map, i just cant find it!

EDIT: forgot to say, i have not uploaded my discovered systems.
To test if its related, I uploaded one, then set the waypoint on the list, went to the map, but got the same result. The line points to another system, and at the end of the line there is no waypoint marker.

[Benzin]

Just discovered GOG galaxy does have a "Repair/Verify" feature, im running it now.

[Benzin]

Just updating, ran the verify feature, no corrupted files were found and it still doesnt work. :(

This is giving me serious problems. I actually took some notes on wich tech was for sale in wich systems as i ran a trade run, now i want to go back to buy some of those techs, and i cant because the stupid set waypoint feature on the discoveries list doesnt work.

Used a portal to travel to a system where i knew a capital freighter was sold, went back with the intention to travel there with my current freighter via a waypoint, again it dint work.

It works about 20% of the time, and there doesnt seem to be a pattern on wich systems it works, and on wich it doesnt.

I just cant figure out. No one here seems to have this problem. Maybe its a bug on the GOG version of the game? Its either that, or im missing something obvious, doing something wrong.

I just dont know what else to do.

[BaneBlackGuard]

maybe running out of memory? how much RAM do you have?