scrubjay09: Installed No Man’s Sky successfully with file verification. I launched it from the GOG installer and went through the visual of flying through the stars. Some of the planets have names. Screen went white with the words “Initialize...” and the letter E with a circle around it blinking at me. It has been here for 15 minutes. CPU usage shows NMS.EXE at a constant 13%.

I alt-tabbed out to check the process CPU usage and I can not get the image back on the screen. When I click on the icon on the task bar another game launches, so now I have two NMS.EXE processes.

When I close both of those and try to run the game I get a game crash with the following:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: NMS.exe
Application Version: 0.1.0.0
Application Timestamp: 57addef3
Fault Module Name: Galaxy64.dll
Fault Module Version: 1.87.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 578e190b
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000023b47b
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e281
Additional Information 2: e28155749913135b7c6c5be011c7e74f
Additional Information 3: 36e1
Additional Information 4: 36e18a12998118814c9b363214e455fd

I uninstalled the program and re-installed it, exact same thing happened.

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.
Intel i7-3770k
24 Gbyte Ram
Nvidia 970 video card with current drivers.
Over 1 TByte free disk space.

Has anyone gotten this game to work?

Also Alt-Tab does not seem to work, and the game version is listed as 1.0.0.0, so does this have the patch or not?

notepad: Yeah the 'initialising" thing is bad UI. You have to press and hold E until a two-toned white circle spins around completely. If you've remapped your 'interact' key to something other than E, be advised it will still show E but you have to press the letter that you have 'interact' set to.

Also, you might change the game from Fullscreen to Windowed, as otherwise you cannot alt-tab out of the game without it crashing or hanging.

E: that was in reference to the original post, not your black loading screen. I just replied to the wrong post. :/