Massive stutters

[oChalko]

Most games i can run with no issues, even on the lowest settings walking around im dropping below 50 fps but i also get massive stutters around 90 fps

After turning off Multiplayer I still get massive stutters and i never really drop below 50 fps but the stutters are still extremely noticeable above 60 fps.

If i limit my fps to 60 ill start dropping below 50 which doesnt happen when im limited at 144 fps or 100 fps.

Im not sure whats going on but my brother bought me this game so id like to figure out what the problem is since my specs meet the requirements.

My specs are i5-9600k
RTX 4070ti
32 GB DDR4

i know im bottlenecked but the game shouldnt be running this bad, is there anything to minimize the stutters?

[+VLFBERHT+]

I posted this in "Technical Discussions"... hope it helps ?

For NVIDIA/Geforce Users... Driver 551.52 Today _ "micro-stuttering"

NVIDIA doesn't identify any "specific" game that is affected, so it must be a General Bug that effects all platforms... they claim this driver update is a "fix"...

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/551.52/551.52-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

** 3.1.1 Fixed Gaming Bugs

Some users may experience intermittent micro-stuttering in games when vertical sync
is enabled [4445940] **

P.s. There is also a myriad of other possible things that cause "stuttering" a thorough search of General and and Technical threads might offer solutions.

[oChalko]

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

I posted this in "Technical Discussions"... hope it helps ?

For NVIDIA/Geforce Users... Driver 551.52 Today _ "micro-stuttering"

NVIDIA doesn't identify any "specific" game that is affected, so it must be a General Bug that effects all platforms... they claim this driver update is a "fix"...

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/551.52/551.52-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

** 3.1.1 Fixed Gaming Bugs

Some users may experience intermittent micro-stuttering in games when vertical sync
is enabled [4445940] **

P.s. There is also a myriad of other possible things that cause "stuttering" a thorough search of General and and Technical threads might offer solutions.

do you think it could be my system? Im really hoping not but every option ive tried nothing changes and this originally happened to me a year or so ago when i tried the game on xbox game pass

[+VLFBERHT+]

Oh yeah, another thing you could try...

Go click Steam in upper left then Settings, then Downloads ... at the bottom of the page, try turning 'On' Enable Shader Pre-caching and Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders

If they are already on, try turning them off and clear the cache at
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\shadercache\275850 by deleting all the folders within folder 27580 ... try running game without Steam cache on first, if still stutters, turn both cache schemes back on.

[Level12Boss]

NMS gave me a lot of microstutters on very fine hardware until I turned FOV way down. Not a great solution since I can't see as wide a view, but it worked for me.

If you Google it there are about a million different things people have tried and claimed success with. Good luck.

[oChalko]

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

Oh yeah, another thing you could try...

Go click Steam in upper left then Settings, then Downloads ... at the bottom of the page, try turning 'On' Enable Shader Pre-caching and Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders

If they are already on, try turning them off and clear the cache at

After turning on the Vulkan shaders my fps dropped to 26 fps, not sure if thats the cause but it didnt seem to help much. I had also cleared the cache before hand.

Im wondering if the game is trying to load the assets becuase i had this same issue with fortnite, and everytime it updates the game runs badly for a few matches and eventually runs smooth after loading a few times and playing for awhile. Could also be a driver issue but if so F nvidia and their overpriced gpu trash

[+VLFBERHT+]

Originally posted by Level12Boss:

NMS gave me a lot of microstutters on very fine hardware until I turned FOV way down. Not a great solution since I can't see as wide a view, but it worked for me.

If you Google it there are about a million different things people have tried and claimed success with. Good luck.

Yes, the reason why there are "a million different things" that have proved to be solutions, is because there are a so many different things on so many different PC's that can cause this.

That why a "thorough search" of NMS General and Technical message board threads is a good idea.

Solutions have become so numerous, it would take an hour to post them all here... some are simple and some are complex.

[oChalko]

unfortunately the fixes posted here have not helped. Sad to see this game wont run on my pc the way its intended, especially since i think i have a decent enough rig especially at the time the game was released.

Ill look at the technical message board but at this point i feel like im all out of options

[+VLFBERHT+]

And another common thing that happens...

Looks like you added that 4070ti since you CPU is from 2018... so a couple things come to mind.

Power option setting in Geforce nms.exe Profile should be set to "perfer maximum performance"

Your power supply... check the watts required for your previous GPU-card against the 4070ti... if the 4070 is much higher, maybe your power supply was designed to only just meet the watts requirements of your previous GPU-card + PC_system and the system is throttling back to prevent a crash with the new GPU ?

Overall system health.

Select in game "fullscreen" and "borderless"

You already had Install NMS with your old GPU ... after you install the 4070ti, you did not go and delete TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS file at:
C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS

... after deleting that file, when you start NMS again the game engine will detect your system and "should" properly identify your 4070 as the current master GPU.

The reason i said just ther, that the "game engine should properly identify" is, sometimes for unknown reasons, a gamers system also has another issue. Instead of identifying the main stand alone GPU-card, it instead detects and sets the ONboard CPU-GPU, in this case INtel UHD-graphics contained with your i5-9600k ... and so...

To find that out, after you have deleted the TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS, started and played NMS, exit and go back to read the TKGRAPHICS file again... you should see at about the 8th line down from top and 3rd line from bottom, the name of your GPU-card included there.

Good luck

[+VLFBERHT+]

Originally posted by Willem:

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

Oh yeah, another thing you could try...

Go click Steam in upper left then Settings, then Downloads ... at the bottom of the page, try turning 'On' Enable Shader Pre-caching and Allow background processing of Vulkan shaders

If they are already on, try turning them off and clear the cache at

After turning on the Vulkan shaders my fps dropped to 26 fps, not sure if thats the cause but it didnt seem to help much. I had also cleared the cache before hand.

Im wondering if the game is trying to load the assets becuase i had this same issue with fortnite, and everytime it updates the game runs badly for a few matches and eventually runs smooth after loading a few times and playing for awhile. Could also be a driver issue but if so F nvidia and their overpriced gpu trash

Yes, "eventually runs smoother" as cache re-builds.

Yes. Update drivers software as i suggested (and usually best practices, often)... what i have learned over the years {and this can hold true for many things and not just software} "when you fix one thing [in a complex system] it can cause instability in another thing{s}"

[+VLFBERHT+]

Originally posted by Willem:

unfortunately the fixes posted here have not helped. Sad to see this game wont run on my pc the way its intended, especially since i think i have a decent enough rig especially at the time the game was released.

Ill look at the technical message board but at this point i feel like im all out of options

Again, there can be so many reasons why your PC has issues with running NMS... it comes down to how much time you want to devote in troubleshooting to find solutions.

As stated above there could be a few or "many".

Good luck

[Idaho]

Another important setting for NMS, in the nvidia driver settings: Set Shader Cache size to 10GB.

[AzureLotus95]

just turn off GTAO in the graphic settings. it worked for me. But remember to close out of the game and reenter the game

[oChalko]

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

And another common thing that happens...

Looks like you added that 4070ti since you CPU is from 2018... so a couple things come to mind.

Power option setting in Geforce nms.exe Profile should be set to "perfer maximum performance"

Your power supply... check the watts required for your previous GPU-card against the 4070ti... if the 4070 is much higher, maybe your power supply was designed to only just meet the watts requirements of your previous GPU-card + PC_system and the system is throttling back to prevent a crash with the new GPU ?

Overall system health.

Select in game "fullscreen" and "borderless"

You already had Install NMS with your old GPU ... after you install the 4070ti, you did not go and delete TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS file at:
C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\SETTINGS

... after deleting that file, when you start NMS again the game engine will detect your system and "should" properly identify your 4070 as the current master GPU.

The reason i said just ther, that the "game engine should properly identify" is, sometimes for unknown reasons, a gamers system also has another issue. Instead of identifying the main stand alone GPU-card, it instead detects and sets the ONboard CPU-GPU, in this case INtel UHD-graphics contained with your i5-9600k ... and so...

To find that out, after you have deleted the TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS, started and played NMS, exit and go back to read the TKGRAPHICS file again... you should see at about the 8th line down from top and 3rd line from bottom, the name of your GPU-card included there.

Good luck

If my psu was the problem i would assume playing cyberpunk max settings with RT on would be a major issue...

I know framegen helps a ton in that game but overall im starting to think my pc isnt the issue because its not overheating and i played more than 70 hours of CP2077 with minimal issues

[Chivesturkey]

Not sure if you solved the issue but i was having the same problems only on No Man’s Sky and this fixed it for me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/s/Fz7dmOxEfD

[RasAlGul]

Hi to all who has these problems. Download and use the NMS Decompressinator from Nexus Mods. We are using it since 2 month on both PCs we have. No more stuttering especially when leaving the planet which is the most impressive feature.
Everytime when an update appears run the script again ( takes 3 mins on our Rigs ).
Nothing more to change and this is it. Playing without stutter all the time.