nVidia has released drivers optimized for No Man's Sky.

GeForce 372.54


This should help with performance.

Now all we need is Hello Games allowing a longer draw distance for the generation of assets. It's a bit of an eye sore seeing stuff materialise in even at a short distance...
edit: lol, all it did was add sli support... there's no optimisation passes whatsoever.

lol
Performance with these new drivers is even worse than before.

Not sure about others, but my performance actually just reduced after installing this driver. I started to get frequent stutters on my 980ti while it was very occasional before updating.

It could also be a coincidence that it was caused by my changing from Kaspersky to Bitdefender at roughly the same time though.

I get higher fps, playing on Laptop

Be sure to delete the content of the SHADERCACHE folder (\No Man's Sky\GAMEDATA\) after you have done an update of the drivers.

Already rolled back to previous one and confirmed it was better. But I will try again later after deleting the folder you mentioned. Thanks

This improved the frame rate with the new driver (for me). Thanks for the suggestion.

no difference. The game is just temperamental.

You can say that again. With a new Nvidia graphics card (1070) and most of the problem settings turned off, I'm still getting the same fucking crashes all the time.

Thanks for sharing the info. I'll try this new driver, but I'm not expecting miracles. NMS turned out way too demanding for 960M. It's playable with 720p + all graphic settings low, as long as you don't go anywhere near planets :(

The biggest part of the job must be done by Hello Games. If SSAA 4x don't work with the new driver, it's certainly HG fault. This game run like a crapy actually, but the second beta drivers seems to help a little.

About the differences between this and the older drivers, framerate was worst in the begining. Thx to turning off Gsync and cleaning shadercache, framerate is good actually. More or less than with the last one? i don't know.

Has anybody tried turning off the shader cache for the game in the nVidia Control panel?

I'm pretty sure that Nvidia is simply subtly implying that to run the game properly you require a brand new 1080 setup. That being a 10-way 1080 SLI setup with 4xi7 4.2ghz and 128GB of RAM. Then it should run @ 45FPS.

Yes, I have and the effect is completely fuck-all, because apparently the game will still cache shaders like nobody's business. We need to have a setting there to turn it off.

The problem is probably not all just in the drivers, because there is some really stupid stuff going on with the game that causes application faults and all kinds of other crap. Every time the game crashes, ntldll.dll faults, the computer also says it cannot access something because it is on a network drive (I have everything on C drive) and my processor cores throw up parity errors to accompany them.

This on a Core i7 3770K processor, GTX 1070 with the latest drivers and a clean operating system install last night I wiped the machine and reinstalled Win10 Pro x64 from scratch due to upgrading my graphics card from Radeon HD 7870.

And the crash reports are still the exact same!