Stuck in 'flying stars' loading screen after todays update

[Jantho]

I was playing the game this morning without problems, made a short brake and noticed that Steam installed a 7.7Gb update.
So I started the game again, select my savegame. And now the game is stuck in the 'flying stars' loading screen.
The game is not crashed, I can use the mouse to look around (didn't know that this was possible in the loading screen...).
I can also close the game with Alt+F4.
I did wait quite some time. Normally the loading screen stutters a lot, but now it runs perfectly smooth.

[Jaggid Edje]

The update included an update to a lot of the games mesh, texture and shader files, so you might just need to give it more time.

For me, the loading screen was longer than normal when I loaded my save. But I didn't hang.

[Jantho]

I was able to load my savegame with the following trick:

I started a new game (without saving), and this worked fine.
Than I went back to the main menu, and after that I was able to load my original savegame.
Than I visited a space station and made a new save.
And now everything works again. I could also save in my base (the position that did not load earlier) and it loads fine now.

UPDATE:
Damned, it happened again. It looks like I only can reliably load my savegame if I start a new game first and exit the new game to the menu. After that the savegame loads within a few seconds.

I turned on an fps/load monitor and noticed the following:
In the beginning the savegame loads normaly with the framerate going up and down a lot. GPU and CPU load is at about 30% (going up and down).
After some seconds the framerate is suddenly stable and the load on the CPU is less than 10% (mostly 5-6%)
So it seems the game is not doing anything anymore. It still reacts on mouse and keyboard input though (Alt+F4).

[Prescient Stones]

Originally posted by Jantho:

I can use the mouse to look around (didn't know that this was possible in the loading screen...)....

Jaggid Edje missed this bold line.. cause he mentioned it too a few month back.

I watched some Youtube, a popular guy had a top 10 or 12 new things he'd discovered..
One was doing a barrel roll while in warp in a fighter. Triple tap the bumpers.
Another was use the melee key while in galactic map, moves you in the direction your pointed super speed.

Chapters - https://youtu.be/sCZ7l9SpnZk
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - 10 DO A BARREL ROLL
0:33 - 9 Turbotasic
0:44 - 8 Get out of caves ASAP
1:20 - 7 Sentinels don't want to hurt your dog
1:43 - 6 Coloring Base Icons
1:58 - 5 Custom Color Fonts/Icons
2:49 - 4 Free Ancient Ruin Scans
3:05 - 3 Combat Frigate to the RESCUE
3:22 - 2 Phantom Star Systems
4:03 - 1 Forbidden Galaxies

Originally posted by Jantho:

..... Normally the loading screen stutters a lot, but now it runs perfectly smooth.

Isn't it awesome to be able to read the systems your zooming by (by read, I don't mean pronounce )

[Prescient Stones]

Originally posted by Jantho:

UPDATE:
Damned, it happened again. It looks like I only can reliably load my savegame if I start a new game first and exit the new game to the menu. After that the savegame loads within a few seconds.

I turned on an fps/load monitor and noticed the following:
In the beginning the savegame loads normaly with the framerate going up and down a lot. GPU and CPU load is at about 30% (going up and down).

Alright, 24 hours ago.. I'm on Experimental which means you guys just got what I had been playing for a couple days. ...
any how. my frame rate was crashing (unlike you I'm in game but),

Driveletter:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\shadercache\275850
has 5 directory that are set there when one has their Steam Client software to use Shader Pre-Caching. I don't have a card that uses Vulkan, but I had both options set.

One directory had 756,687,251 KB of steamapp. toc file or some chit.
I deleted the whole directory, disabled my ethernet card, launched NMS and played the game a few 30 minutes and checked the directory and it had 295,254,854KB of steamapp.toc. Repeated and it made another file about the same size.

I then disabled the Steam Shader Pre-Caching, and launched the game, still without network and enjoyed some game play.
Made some tweaks to the GeForce setting via Windows and enjoyed some better game play.
This is the other thread.. may not apply to you.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/3801650156483763906/#c3801650156483911327

[endoril]

For those who have a long loading star field (but not for those gaming on cloud)

With NMS not running, edit No Man's Sky/Binaries/SETTINGS/TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML (backup it before any modification)
Change tehse two variable to "0"
"NumHighThreads" value="0"
"NumLowThreads" value="0"
Save the file
Check if it is better.

Worked for me as stated here : https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/2/3316358999125225065/

[Sokaku]

I had this happen with the first run after the update. Waited 15 min then Alt-F4'd. Checked the settings and noticed it was borderless window, switched to Full screen and launched again, just letting it load without switching windows etc. and it loaded up in less than a minute. No issues since with loading.

[Tetrasomia]

I've been having these issues for the past week! I finally fixed it after many threads not aiding in resolving my issue. For context:

-On Windows 10 64 bit, PC, using Steam
-3080Ti and 5950X with SSD's so hardware wasn't the problem
-Only saw issues on No Man's Sky, no other games
-Had updated graphics driver, chipset drivers, windows updates, verified game content, tried uninstall/reinstall, tried editing TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML, etc.

Found this thread: https://hellogames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004591645-I-am-experiencing-severe-graphics-or-performance-issues-on-PC

I have Discord and Afterburner installed and both were active. Here's the steps I took to resolve:


-Create a restore point and perform CLEAN install of Nvidia graphics driver (not sure if necessary but I did this first)
-Simply closed out of Discord and Afterburner
-Deleted entire SHADERCACHE folder within "\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA" (this had nothing in it)
-Delete your settings files called "TKGAMESETTINGS" and "TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS" in \Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS"
-Validated Game Files (they were all valid, not sure if necessary but I did this second)
-Shut down computer for 30 seconds and then booted it back up

No Man's Sky loaded in less than 10 seconds, all textures loaded in albeit at 1080P and capped 60 FPS since those are default game settings. Went back in and turned up resolution to 1440P, capped FPS at 144, changed Anisotropic filtering back to 16 and DLSS back on and set to balanced. Once I pressed apply, everything was back to normal. I quit out of No Man's Sky and loaded back in to make sure it was resolved and it was!!! I hope this helps everyone who ended up stuck like me for a while unable to play due to long loading times, extreme lag, low fps, and textures not loading at all or not loading properly.