um requirements?

[General IVAN]

Good day/afternoon/evening people, I just wanted to ask what is a "good" computer (pc) to get if I wish to run No Man's Sky? since it seems I might be able to go PC hunting but I lack knowledge of what in the world makes a "good" PC laptop, thanks in advance

[Zigamus Wizard]

Your after a laptop rather than a desktop? Also roughly what is your budget? Which means how good a gaming computer are you after?

Something else that should be said is that NMS is VERY heavy on the CPU, and a little less on the GPU, but both do need to be shall we say, bigger then a regular run-of-the-mill computer.

[tkwoods]

Get something like the Corsair Pro Kit System.

I7 13700K, 32 GB dr4, b660 mb, rtx4070ti

[General IVAN]

Originally posted by Zigamus Wizard:

Your after a laptop rather than a desktop? Also roughly what is your budget? Which means how good a gaming computer are you after?

Something else that should be said is that NMS is VERY heavy on the CPU, and a little less on the GPU, but both do need to be shall we say, bigger then a regular run-of-the-mill computer.

yeah since I can only get a laptop rather than the desktop, so I just wish the game to run in normal nothing too crazy with max settings, previously I used a core 15 8th gen laptop from Dell, but the game was running on lowest settings with a whole "lag" surprisingly I had lost of fun, I got mah S class ships, my freighter, a nice multitool for max S rack scatterblaster, the sentinel drone and mech, plus AI for the mech, and I was just going to start hunting for a portal so I could build a base and then start grave hunting, but then the laptop died died, so I require a new one, and It has to be a laptop, and I just figured as long as I get the requirements for the game to run in normal I will have fun, since my previous experience for the last 207 hours at the moment, were pure fun, and I even ran into other players and did base building which I gotta say its a chef's kiss, so yeah just a good enough PC to pass, also my budget is not a problem since its gonna be a gift from my dad (the kind that says not to worry since my birthday is coming up) so I don't know per say he just said to tell him what model would I want

[Geldric™]

My old desktop PC (purchased in 2018) ran NMS fine, so finding a laptop shouldn't be that hard...

However for a laptop; you'll need to find a gaming laptop (meaning one that has a discrete GPU, either Nvidia or AMD) and I also recommend 16GB of RAM.

PS You just missed the Amazon Prime / NewEgg sales where I'm sure you could have snagged a new gaming laptop for cheap...

[Lindy Bomber]

Any "gamer" system built in the past few years should do fine. I'm running

I7-9750h
32 gig ram
Rtx 2080

This system is about two years and old bought on clearance. I have everything on ultra and it runs smooth as butter.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

A key to remember is it needs to be 64 bit for everything. I am not sure if the 32 bit systems are cheaper but this game requires 64 bit.

Windows 10 or 11 64bit. While they seem to have cured it, the game did not get along well with AMD in the past. I would recommend Intel and Nvidia if you can get them.

I would guess any gaming laptop built in the last few years is going to be okay subject to the requirements above.

I have a handbuilt system that I got in 2018. It still plays the game respectably but it is showing its age now. Oddly, I have seen users with very farm fresh systems struggle more than me to play the game. I put some of that on user set up. Some people just can't resist playing with all the dodads until they completely destroy the throughput of the system.

[The Knowledge Seeker]

Just to chime in here. as a laptop user for steam games and has had this laptop for at least 5 years.

I picked this Lenovo Legion Y520 bcause I didn't want bloatware... an easy option reset the computer with only windows installed. I also wanted a graphic card that would be able to handle the popular games at the time... like Ark. To this day, I just let Nvdia GeForce Driver Experience take care of any optimizations and I think I only had 1 update when I had a crash, but others had too and they fixed it fast. So here are my old specs and still can go over an hour without any issues.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 TI
i7-7700HQ
CPU @ 2.80
**Since my C drive is only 16 gigs, I use my 1T SSD on my internal D drive for steam.

So yeah... very easy to do better than mine and I don't have any issues...yet

[UncreativelyNamed]

Whatever system you get, it probably won't be worse than mine! I bought it as a refurb from Newegg for cheapy-cheap about....four? five?...years ago and from there my much-techier-than-me partner has upgraded it a bit to better suit the main tasks I use it for, which until very recently (when I retired) was NOT for playing video games but for making art. So:

i5-6500 (HAH! It's supposed to be 3.2GHz, so I guess that's....good?)
NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti (Slightly under stated minimum requirements)
I do have 64GB of good RAM. (Corsair, I think? DDR5, I think? Maybe 4. That all rings a bell.) This is because working on big digital art pieces eats a helluva lot of RAM.
I have a decent 2TB SSD, so that loading/saving the big art pieces is faster.

So, pretty much a potato by "gamer" standards. The game runs acceptably well for me. No major stuttering/lag or anything except sometimes things get a little stuttery on the Anomaly when I have multiplayer turned on to people/ship-watch. I have the graphics settings mostly on Enhanced with a few on High, but I do have my FPS capped at 30 because I don't want the game to stress out my GPU. Your definition of "acceptably well" might be vastly different from mine, but my point is that I'm pretty sure this game will run well on pretty much any modern PC. It's just a question of how fancy and pretty you want it to be.

[General IVAN]

Thanks guys I have ideas

[Smiling Spectre]

I have:
i5-8600K
16GB RAM
GF RTX 3060 (12Gb)
SSD disk

Game is very prone to stutter even on mine 1920x1080/High settings+DLSS. It's fine mostly, but any mountain scenery, and any Sentinel battle immediately call for heavy stuttering here and there. There is also minor stutter every time when I jump from atmosphere to space.

What am I doing wrong?

[UncreativelyNamed]

Originally posted by Smiling Spectre:

What am I doing wrong?

I am far, FAR from a techie, so I could be completely and utterly wrong, but here's my thoughts, just from comparing my setup to yours:

Your CPU is only a little newer than mine, but your GPU is MUCH better than mine. You get stutter, I don't, generally speaking. I do have more RAM than you, but I don't think that matters much with this game. From what I've read, this game demands more from your CPU than your GPU. So, perhaps because your GPU is capable of so much more than mine, it is feeding data to your CPU faster than it can process, so you get stutter while your CPU tries to do its thing. So I might suggest limiting your FPS, if you haven't already, to see if that relieves your CPU bottleneck a little? I have mine at 30FPS, which is low, because my GPU is technically under-spec, but maybe try something that drastic and see if it helps?

[momopovich]

Don't try to find a good pc "for this game", it's a stutter fest on any system, and terrain/planets/bases will still fail to render properly.

[Grimmslayer73]

I'm running a gtx 1050, 2.8 I7 with 8gig ram. Other than the occasional lag spike, it runs fine for me on medium settings.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by momopovich:

Don't try to find a good pc "for this game", it's a stutter fest on any system, and terrain/planets/bases will still fail to render properly.

Sorry but that is completely wrong.

Most of the "stutter" issues I see people complain about are when the game goes to fetch data.

[Grimmslayer73]

Originally posted by tkwoods:

Originally posted by momopovich:

Don't try to find a good pc "for this game", it's a stutter fest on any system, and terrain/planets/bases will still fail to render properly.

Sorry but that is completely wrong.

Most of the "stutter" issues I see people complain about are when the game goes to fetch data.

Do you realize the second part of your reply proves he's right?