Game Won't Start - Vulkan Driver Requires Update?

[kuchipatchi]

I just tried to run the game, but it throws up a popup saying "The Vulkan driver is 1.5 which is an old driver, you may have problems running the game" etc.
Except it worked fine when I tried to run it previously, and it's only with this update that it's stopped working.
I'm running a Radeon R9 290X, which I admit is pretty old tech, but newer games than NMS haven't given me any problems. The Radeon control panel says all drivers are up to date. The latest Vulkan API only came out a few days ago and there's no option to download it anywhere. I've scoured the internet looking for fixes but this seems to be a rare occurrence. I'm hoping it's just a bug or I'm missing something.

[Waenchile]

Bump, im having exactly the same issue

[TheN8IV]

You guys need to update your drivers, I did that and it fixed the issue... Problem is now I crash every 5 seconds into a save file... But I guess that's Normal?

[shazbat]

If its an old save, yes.
A lot of crashes have been old saves. Also there is a problem with some anti-virus programs reading the NMS.exe as a false positive and shutting it down. It seems to be the multiplayer part that triggers it the most. Try playing offline on a new save and see if that helps.

[BurningTofu]

R9 290X was my favorite Graphics Card. I have it as decoration piece in my shelf. Can't convince myself to sell it.

[Waenchile]

i have updated all my drivers multiple times, still get exactly the same error message when i try to run game.

[kuchipatchi]

Originally posted by N8IV:

You guys need to update your drivers, I did that and it fixed the issue... Problem is now I crash every 5 seconds into a save file... But I guess that's Normal?

In the post I said I've updated my drivers to the most recent version. It won't even give me the option to do it anymore. I even went and installed both the Radeon driver and the Khronos API manually, but still no dice.

[Tsvetomir]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/1643171537291464493/
Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a rapid patch to fix a number of crashes and other problems seen in the first hours since release. We’ll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.

To play in Experimental, right-click on No Man’s Sky from the Steam library page and select “Properties”. Among the available tabs will be the “BETAS” tab. Enter “3xperimental” in the textbox and press “CHECK CODE”, then select it from the dropdown menu.

[kiloNova]

Originally posted by Tsilliev:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/1643171537291464493/
Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a rapid patch to fix a number of crashes and other problems seen in the first hours since release. We’ll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.

To play in Experimental, right-click on No Man’s Sky from the Steam library page and select “Properties”. Among the available tabs will be the “BETAS” tab. Enter “3xperimental” in the textbox and press “CHECK CODE”, then select it from the dropdown menu.

Fellow AMD users, have you discovered a working fix? I've clean installed the current 19.8.1 drivers. I deleted the Vulkan registry entries and installed the current VulkanRT and VulkanSDK. The current “3xperimental” update has not improved upon my inability to boot the game. The last idea I have is to manually replace the Vulkan 1.1.113 driver with the 1.1.114 driver, but I'm not sure if it's even possible. Ideas, anyone?

[kuchipatchi]

Originally posted by kayinart:

Originally posted by Tsilliev:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/1643171537291464493/
Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a rapid patch to fix a number of crashes and other problems seen in the first hours since release. We’ll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.

To play in Experimental, right-click on No Man’s Sky from the Steam library page and select “Properties”. Among the available tabs will be the “BETAS” tab. Enter “3xperimental” in the textbox and press “CHECK CODE”, then select it from the dropdown menu.

Fellow AMD users, have you discovered a working fix? I've clean installed the current 19.8.1 drivers. I deleted the Vulkan registry entries and installed the current VulkanRT and VulkanSDK. The current “3xperimental” update has not improved upon my inability to boot the game. The last idea I have is to manually replace the Vulkan 1.1.113 driver with the 1.1.114 driver, but I'm not sure if it's even possible. Ideas, anyone?

It's not possible, at least not on Windows 8.1. What I'm about to do is install Windows 10 and see if that works. For some reason the AMD drivers for Windows 8.1 haven't been updated since 2017, while the drivers for Windows 10 (and also Windows 7 for some reason) were updated just 3 days ago.
Still though, it's weird that the game worked fine for me after the Vulkan update and it's only just now causing problems.

[Max]

So I found this solution on Reddit, and it worked for me... i have windows 8.1 (64 bit) w/ an R9 290. Uninstall your current drivers and install the one for windows 7 (64 bit). Make sure it's the 19.5.2 drivers. Load it up like you would any other driver and you should be good to go!

[kuchipatchi]

UPDATE 8/18/2019
Well lads, after purchasing an entirely new GPU (RX 580) and doing a full clean install of Windows 10, I'm finally able to actually launch the game. Can't believe how much bending over backwards I had to do, but a new graphics card /was/ a long time coming anyway. Everything is crisp and spicy and no more screen tearing.
The main issue was there wasn't a driver update for Windows 8.1 because it was last updated 2 years ago, hence Windows 10.

[Sequitur Meatball]

Originally posted by NorthKoreaIsBestKorea:

So I found this solution on Reddit, and it worked for me... i have windows 8.1 (64 bit) w/ an R9 290. Uninstall your current drivers and install the one for windows 7 (64 bit). Make sure it's the 19.5.2 drivers. Load it up like you would any other driver and you should be good to go!

You're a lifesaver! Using the Win 7 driver in Win 8.1 got NMS working flawlessly on my R9 290X. I used the 19.8.1 version.

[Rexxer]

Crashing was less common with NEXT, but it did happen. And when it did happen, it was a peaceful and rapid crash to desktop. Now when Beyond crashes, it hangs forever and you have to dialogue box your way out of it ...a very ungraceful crash now.

[Max]

Glad I could help! I was wondering for quite some time as to why the newest drivers for Windows 8.1 were from 2017 lol. I guess they just stopped updating them or posting them there ha

[Fat_Thumbs]

I had this issue and i swear i was going mad as i only just built my pc. crossfire rx 580's.... anyway i couldn't figure out why the amd graphics driver was screwing my pc up even more when i could easily run gta 5 on ultra.

so heres what i did....

Windows update check
Update my bios on my mother board (in my case gigabyte (tutorials on youtube))
Update my Chipset
Install Most up to date graphics driver
Windows update again.
Restart.

Anyone who has more issues like i did with screen tearing open radeon settings click gaming > global settings > click pull down menu on "wait for vertical refresh" then select "always on"

Click display then turn on gpu scaling.

i was done at this point. hope this helped someone at least as i searched and couldn't find anything on it. Peace GL