Is there a way to change my name ingame?

[Monke]

I was able to dust off my 3 year old save file but after moving the save over its still using the old name when i hop into my ship and look on the left screen panel bit

[<RED>Pirate King Undead<>]

no,. but with steam all you need to do is edit your profile name, and that will appear as your in-game name.

[Monke]

Originally posted by <RED> JimmehUndead <>:

no,. but with steam all you need to do is edit your profile name, and that will appear as your in-game name.

that works but when i hop into the ship the display hud still says my old name

[taniwhat]

I've done it and it worked. As above edit the steam profile name.
Unsure about the new game thing but I'm on Linux not Windows and don't collect all the bugs.

[Fienyx]

Steam is rather Linux friendly now. Thanks to the deck and free OS rights.

[Zak]

Originally posted by taniwhat:

I've done it and it worked. As above edit the steam profile name.
Unsure about the new game thing but I'm on Linux not Windows and don't collect all the bugs.

Steam Proton runs the Windows NMS.exe executable, so yes, you get all the game bugs just like Windows users, sans the possible driver issues, but you also get a lot less performance compared to Windows and Linux has its own issues too :)

[taniwhat]

That's what I find hilarious. Linux appears to have less bugs than Windows running via an emulator on Linux and I think performance is better as well.

I do dual boot Windows now and then, I've never bothered with running NMS under Windows but some games like Skyrim ran far better under Linux than Windows.

[CursedXistence]

If it's not changing in game when you're changing it in steam then yes there is a way to do it, but it's an overly complex process using a save editor (NomNom) and a file editor like Notepad++.

There's a couple of things you'll need to do first before you can actually fix it.

1) Obviously the first thing to do is make a backup of your saves.

2) Download and install NomNom and Notepad++

3) You'll need to start a new game to get some of the info you'll need later. The easiest way to get the info you need is to just start a creative / custom game so you can put down a base computer the second you load in to the new save. Once you've done that you can save and exit the game.

4) launch NomNom and once it's done loading (take a bit the first time) it'll bring up a dialog box asking you where your saved games are stored. The default location will look something like this:

C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_76561198745891222

5) NomNom will then give you a list of all of the save game file in that location, you'll want to pick the one that you just created aka the least one with the least playtime. Then click edit in the left hand side nav panel. Once you've done that then you need to go to edit in the upper nav bar and export to .json.

6) Use file explorer and go to you're save game folder that'll look something like this: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_76561198745891222

You'll see a file with a name something like: st_76561198745891222.json

You need to edit that with Notepad++

7) There's three bits of information you need from the new save file and it'll look something like this (username and id will be different for you):

"LID": "76561198745891222",
"UID": "76561198745891222",
"USN": "CursedXistence",

8) Now you go back to step 5, except this time you select the save file in NomNom that is the one you want to fix.

9) Once you get this .Json file open, you'll want to press ctrl+f, type in the old username that is incorrectly showing up and then click "show all in current document". Then it's just a matter of replacing all of the old USN, UID, LID with the new info that you originally got from the first .json file.

10) Once you get everything replaced, save the file (not save as as you want to keep it as a .json file)

11) Now go back to NomNom, go to edit in the upper nav bar and this time you want to import the .json file.

12) once that's done, save the changes in NomNom.

13) Then you can load into the game and your save and everything should be properly showing the correct username and giving you proper access to everything.

[Zak]

Originally posted by taniwhat:

That's what I find hilarious. Linux appears to have less bugs than Windows running via an emulator on Linux and I think performance is better as well.

I do dual boot Windows now and then, I've never bothered with running NMS under Windows but some games like Skyrim ran far better under Linux than Windows.

Proton has at least 20% performance penalty, sometimes more, there is no way around it. It's definitely playable, but not for me. I like to squeeze top performance from my hardware. I tried Linux extensively for several weeks and games run noticeably faster under Steam on Windows on the same hardware. If it's a native Linux game, then yes, performance can be better.

I really don't see a reason to run Linux unless maybe if you have older hardware but even then, Linux lacks some common usability features that I'm used to under Windows and macOS. Besides, most issues around these forums can be solved if people knew how to keep their software and drivers updated and how keep proper backups. For these folks, Linux will not solve any problems.

[꧁༺๓คɭ༻꧂]

If they absolutely have to force it like that, it would have been kinda nice if they had actually added different fonts aswell. Atm my name is 3 boxes... effin irritating.