Game won't start

[Hypo]

It used to work. Now when "Play" is pressed a black screen flashes and then it returns to the Steam Library page. Nvidia drivers, Steam client, Windows all up to date. Steam and Nvidia In-game overlays turned off. Can't access in-game settings to change. There is no \Nividia\NGS folder to delete old models. Any suggestions?

[Musashi]

You may try this
1) verify game install files and launch game,
2) delete or rename tkgraphicsettings.mxml in \binaries\settings launch game,
3) delete sl.pcl.dll in \Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries and launch game,
4.Disable FrameGen if GPU is 40x or higher

one of this steps may solve it

[Heathy]

That fixed it for me, I did both deleting the sl.pcl.dll & the config file, one of them fixed the issue. I was using deckyframe gen, the deck shows up as a 4090 ti in the settings, but it seems to work again.

[Hypo]

How do I verify game install files?

[Musashi]

Originally posted by Hypo:

How do I verify game install files?

Properties of NMS

Originally posted by Hypo:

How do I verify game install files?

https://prnt.sc/ZlZcdauQG7ds

[Hypo]

Originally posted by Musashi:

You may try this
1) verify game install files and launch game,
2) delete or rename tkgraphicsettings.mxml in \binaries\settings launch game,
3) delete sl.pcl.dll in \Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries and launch game,
4.Disable FrameGen if GPU is 40x or higher

one of this steps may solve it

It still does not work

game files verified
deleted tkgraphicsettings.mxml - no change
sl.pcl.dll does not exist in NMS\Binaries
GPU is 30x

[AndersonFLN]

Originally posted by Musashi:

You may try this
1) verify game install files and launch game,
2) delete or rename tkgraphicsettings.mxml in \binaries\settings launch game,
3) delete sl.pcl.dll in \Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries and launch game,
4.Disable FrameGen if GPU is 40x or higher

one of this steps may solve it

Thank you, I had the same problem and it was resolved by deleting the file.

[Musashi]

Originally posted by Hypo:

Originally posted by Musashi:

You may try this
1) verify game install files and launch game,
2) delete or rename tkgraphicsettings.mxml in \binaries\settings launch game,
3) delete sl.pcl.dll in \Steam\steamapps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries and launch game,
4.Disable FrameGen if GPU is 40x or higher

one of this steps may solve it

It still does not work

game files verified
deleted tkgraphicsettings.mxml - no change
sl.pcl.dll does not exist in NMS\Binaries
GPU is 30x

That file always does exist ... If you did not delete in sometimes earlier ..

https://prnt.sc/M-o-NnPWeOoG

[Hypo]

Thanks all, it is working now.

-reinstalled game
-deleted sl.pcl.dll (it was hidden from view but a search of the drive in file explorer revealed it
-deleted the contents of the settings folder
-launched game