Vulkan is now required

[Flarebear]

So the Beyond update just made the game unplayable for me, since my card is on the older side and doesn't support Vulkan. The minimum requirements haven't been updated in years, but I'm surprised no one is talking about this.

Instead of Vulkan only being supported, it is now the ONLY option to play the game. No Vulkan, no game.

[MonkeyGamesVR]

It has been said 'technology sometimes fly too fast for normal human beings [....]' this is true, even for me 😁

[Serath]

Technically they added Intergated Intel support, (A.K.A. no dedicated GPU) but that's obviously not ideal. What is your hardware?

There are Vulkan drivers, but I didn't seem to have to download any new drivers to get the game to work; I'm using a GTX 1070. I can't seem to find what the actual requirements for Vulkan are, other than possibly the list of supported cards when you go to the download driver page on Nvidia.

[Divine Aurora]

Send a notice to Zendesk, if enough people do so, Hello Games might notice and add an OpenGL option back to the game, or at least remember to update the requirements page on Steam and make it easy to shift back to an older version for people who bought the game earlier.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Originally posted by F4P Flarebear:

So the Beyond update just made the game unplayable for me, since my card is on the older side and doesn't support Vulkan. The minimum requirements haven't been updated in years, but I'm surprised no one is talking about this.

Instead of Vulkan only being supported, it is now the ONLY option to play the game. No Vulkan, no game.

Just curious, what GPU do you have?

[Siggy]

My graphic card is not supported by vulcan. Was working before. Now good bye no mans sky.

[Mister Treat]

Yeah and I just bought the game. Not working on my system anymore, vulkan error and my card does not support it either. Nice.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Originally posted by Mister Treat:

Yeah and I just bought the game. Not working on my system anymore, vulkan error and my card does not support it either. Nice.

What GPU?

[MonkeyGamesVR]

Originally posted by Serath:

Technically they added Intergated Intel support, (A.K.A. no dedicated GPU) but that's obviously not ideal. What is your hardware?

There are Vulkan drivers, but I didn't seem to have to download any new drivers to get the game to work; I'm using a GTX 1070. I can't seem to find what the actual requirements for Vulkan are, other than possibly the list of supported cards when you go to the download driver page on Nvidia.

I think the gtx1070 is kind of the minimum for nms now, I use it too with 431.60 drivers and works fine for now with oculus cv1. Im happy traveler :)

[Mister Treat]

AMD HD 6000 series. Does not support vulkan.

[Draktok]

damn yall up in this ♥♥♥♥♥ with 10+ year old GPU's

[[☥] - CJ -]

Ok yeah, you're outta luck

AMD Radeon™ R9 Series graphics
AMD Radeon™ R7 Series graphics
AMD Radeon™ R5 240 graphics
AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series graphics for OEM systems (HD 8570 and up)
AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series graphics for notebooks
AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series graphics (HD 7730 and up
AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M Series graphics for notebooks (HD 7730M and up)
AMD A4/A6/A8/A10-7000 Series APUs
AMD A6/A8/A10 PRO-7000 Series APUs
AMD A6/A8/A10/FX™ 8000 Series APUs
AMD E1/A4/A10 Micro-6000 Series APUs
AMD E1/E2/A4/A6/A8-6000 Series APUs
AMD A4-1200, A4-1300 and A6-1400 Series APUs
AMD E1-2000, E2-3000, A4-5000, A6-5000, and A4 Pro-3000 Series APUs

For NVIDIA you need a GTX 600 series or above

Email the Devs or demand a refund if you cant choose which API to run the game with

[Solarstrike]

Vulkan is for AMD processors and cards. You don't need Vulkan for anything if you have non-AMD hardware.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Originally posted by Solarstrike:

Vulkan is for AMD processors and cards. You don't need Vulkan for anything if you have non-AMD hardware.

Wrong
Vulkan works with NVIDIA and AMD GPUs as long as the GPU is within a certain age, which i detailed above.

[Patryk]

They may implement the OpenGL switch in the next patches, who knows. If there is more people like OP, the chances are higher.

[KHAN]

ok so i gues my card dont suport it then, amd radeon r9 380