Experimental Branch 16/08

[Hello Games]

Hello Everyone,

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has already spent time playing No Man's Sky and letting us know about any issues you've experienced.

Steam users are able to opt-in to the Experimental Branch, where we have pushed a patch to address some problems. 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.

The patch notes are as follows:

Experimental Branch 17/08

• Fixed a crash in freighters.

Experimental Branch 16/08

• Fixed a debug crash.
  
• Fixed a multiplayer disconnection issue.

As always, thank you to all players who use Experimental and take the time to report any issues you encounter.

Please note there is the possibility that experimental builds may introduce new issues that haven't been caught in test. We'd like to recommend that all players back up their save files, by making a local copy of the st_[userid] folder found here: %appdata%\HelloGames\NMS\

Note that we don't anticipate any issues here. However, performing your own backups could mean the difference between resuming play immediately, or waiting for the next patch.

If you decide to opt out of experimental and return to the main branch, we strongly recommend resuming from a backed-up save from the main branch, rather than taking an experimental branch save back to main, which may cause unexpected behaviour.

Feedback and reports of new bugs/issues being found on Experimental are welcome, so please reply to this thread or submit a ticket to https://hellogames.zendesk.com/ with the phrase "Steam Experimental" in the ticket title. If you are running any mods for the game, please list them along with your bug report.

[Wile E Coyote, Super Genius]

Thanks! I hope you guys push this out to regular branch soon. I need to make that first billion units from sitting at the Anomaly.

[taniwhat]

Freezing soon after startup since the last update. Game has been essentially flawless until this morning. Linux, Ryzen 5600X, Nvidia 2700+, 64G Ram.

Multiplayer etc OFF.

[JRMWRFR]

Crashes to desktop on loading (any) save.

[Caliburn]

I'm getting constant game crashing as well. I've tried multiple times and I can get about 2 minutes in and then the game crashes. Hopefully, they will send out another Experimental patch tomorrow.

[Not Mr Flıbble]

Seeing some hangs here too. Busy-wait, probably; one logical CPU core is pegged at 100%. (Devuan stable, AMD hw, no proprietary drivers.)

No actual crashes, and at least the lag spikes are gone.

[Deimos]

it crashes all the time with this update, i cant even move.

[AstroBalrog]

Experimental now halts immediately after loading a game.

[xtiamotx]

Game crashes when I warp to my freighter. Tried flying in with my star ship but the game crashed by the time I walked up to the bridge.

[Musashi]

yep .. thats a known bug ... switch back to public

[9th🐤Sage]

ok, glad I'm not the only one who's having this issue

[gNg]

Played for a few minutes after the update, made a save and now the game locks up/crashes almost immediately after loading.
Seems ok so far after switching back to Normal.

[Wouldpkr]

Originally posted by Wile E Coyote, Super Genius:

Thanks! I hope you guys push this out to regular branch soon. I need to make that first billion units from sitting at the Anomaly.

indeed i can play about 3 minuets and it locks up and boots me to desktop.

[SilverKiel]

Crashing right after loading since this last update, I was almost never crashing before this one...

[SilverKiel]

Can you just rollback this update please? This is a miss...

[Eldon O]

Crashing repeatedly, I have tried loading auto-save and manual-save, neither work. I can't move more than 10 feet without locking up.