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Posted August 16, 2016
I find it extremely scary people are reporting a worse experience after updating these drivers. I'm in a situation where I can't run it so waiting patches but nonetheless, this is scary.

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Post edited August 16, 2016 by styggron
Posted August 17, 2016
I wouldn't say worse (for me, at least), but it does nothing except add SLI beta profiles.
Sometimes the game will run with little to no stuttering, even if I'm going from planet to planet and spinning around like a ballerina. However, when I start up the game again sometimes, the stuttering is so so bad no matter how long I've spent playing it.
The frame rate is NOT what I'm complaining about, as my game sits indefinitely at 60fps.
Posted August 17, 2016
Windows 10 Pro
EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 FTW

I had an okay experience with the previous NVidia Drivers, as long as I set the framerate to MAX. There was still the occasional hitch as well as lag every ten minutes or so that lasted 5 seconds. No biggee, I could deal with that until a fix. However...

I saw the updated Nvidia Drivers, did a clean install and cleared the NMS shadercache folder.

I can play, but exiting out of the game leaves me at a black screen and I can neither see the desktop nor can I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL to kill the process. I have to force a shutdown. When it plays it seems as though the framerate is the same: hitchy everyonce in a while.

I'm guessing it is now probably an issue with some kind of overlay. Going to remove the GeForce Experience overlay as well as uninstall EVGA Precision. Will get back to you with my results after doing one thing at a time. If that doesn't work, I guess I'll have to either revert my drivers or not play until there is some kind of real, official update.
Posted August 17, 2016
The new drivers are questionable but I haven't known/tried the shader cache fix so far.

I can only confirm I've been playing flawlessly for about 40 hours till now on maxed out settings 4xSSAA/60fps on an i7-4770, 16 GiB RAM, GTX 1070 from Gigabyte (WindForce 2 GV-N1070WF20C-8GD) plus SSD - using the 368.81 drivers on Win10 x64.

The new drivers caused short stutters in a kind of intervallic nature also in the menu system.

If you haven't already - trying 368.81s might help you.

Just a long shot don't know who or what is at fault on several devices but this, just a theory, could also be "childhood issues" of the reborn voxel technology in a game that is a lot more complex and graphically demanding than Minecraft or Outcast back in the days.

My 2c
Posted August 17, 2016
I don't get it, so many bad experiences with 372.54. It sure as hell gave noticeable FPS boost to me. I still need to play at 720p with medium/low settings, but yeah, it's totally playable now. Slight stuttering here and there but nothing game killing anymore. So, if anyone else is stuck with GTX 960M laptop, give this driver a try.
Posted August 17, 2016
Performance was better with previous driver I was getting constant 60FPS. Now with latest driver I get lots of stuttering and after a couple of hours of play my frame rate drops from 60 down to 9 and I have to restart the game.
Posted August 18, 2016
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Rambo-Mc-Mut-Nutts: Performance was better with previous driver I was getting constant 60FPS. Now with latest driver I get lots of stuttering and after a couple of hours of play my frame rate drops from 60 down to 9 and I have to restart the game.
I could also observe this halt after a certain amount of playtime hours with the (in my case good) previous driver.

But glad the new driver helps some people, I'm better off with the old one.
Posted August 18, 2016
So to continue with my previous post, I still had issues after uninstalling the EVGA Precision program and GeForce Experience (I realized I had the GeForce Experience Beta installed).

Oh well! I decided to uninstall the latest drivers and go back to the previous version, 368.81.

Guess what? To make things even more muddy, I still had issues upon shutting down NMS after the downgrade. What a bummer.

I forgot about it overnight and during the day, and then came back to see if any good news arrived. Nothing it seems. However, I decided to change my screen setup from Fullscreen to Borderless. My reasoning for this was so that I might have a better chance of alt-tabbing out so I could kill the process, saving me from a forced reboot.

I then realized making this settings change meant I would have to exit out of the game to save them, which would probably mean I would end up crashing to a black screen and then have no way to kill the process again. This would have also meant the settings wouldn't get saved.

Good news on that front. On a whim I decided to alt-tab out of the game after I made the change but before I exited out of the game. I knew that doing so would normally crash certain users unless they were already in borderless mode. luckily it didn't crash for me. Hopeful, I then exited out of the game...and the game shut down normally! What the heck? and now I can exit the game without issues.

So in summary, from my first post to now:

1. NMS was working okay at first
2. Saw video driver update, applied it, then game would crash hard on exit.
3. downgraded drivers after some troubleshooting, the downgrade (which should have brought me back to 'normal') did not stop the crashing on exit.
4. Set screen mode in settings to Borderless.
5. alt-tabbed out and back into game without exiting yet.
6. crossed fingers, exited out of the game to save the settings.
7. exited without problems that time and from that point forward I'm back to normal!

Don't know if this will help anyone, it's just my notes on what went down.
Posted August 18, 2016
Agreed that right now it's best to stay on the older driver. I've been running NMS with no problems at highest settings (Intel i7 quad core with 32 GB RAM), and after updating saw stuttering for the first time, not enough to affect gameplay badly but noticeable. After playing for an hour I shut down and then realized my rig was running really hot and running every fan full power, which has never happened before. Rolled back to the previous driver and all is back to normal. So definitely something touchy with the new driver.
Posted August 18, 2016
You can edit your settings with a text editor in TKGRAPHICSSETTINGS.MXML in "No man's sky\binaries\settings"
Posted August 18, 2016
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BurntSoul: So to continue with my previous post, I still had issues after uninstalling the EVGA Precision program and GeForce Experience (I realized I had the GeForce Experience Beta installed).

Oh well! I decided to uninstall the latest drivers and go back to the previous version, 368.81.

Guess what? To make things even more muddy, I still had issues upon shutting down NMS after the downgrade. What a bummer.

I forgot about it overnight and during the day, and then came back to see if any good news arrived. Nothing it seems. However, I decided to change my screen setup from Fullscreen to Borderless. My reasoning for this was so that I might have a better chance of alt-tabbing out so I could kill the process, saving me from a forced reboot.

I then realized making this settings change meant I would have to exit out of the game to save them, which would probably mean I would end up crashing to a black screen and then have no way to kill the process again. This would have also meant the settings wouldn't get saved.

Good news on that front. On a whim I decided to alt-tab out of the game after I made the change but before I exited out of the game. I knew that doing so would normally crash certain users unless they were already in borderless mode. luckily it didn't crash for me. Hopeful, I then exited out of the game...and the game shut down normally! What the heck? and now I can exit the game without issues.

So in summary, from my first post to now:

1. NMS was working okay at first
2. Saw video driver update, applied it, then game would crash hard on exit.
3. downgraded drivers after some troubleshooting, the downgrade (which should have brought me back to 'normal') did not stop the crashing on exit.
4. Set screen mode in settings to Borderless.
5. alt-tabbed out and back into game without exiting yet.
6. crossed fingers, exited out of the game to save the settings.
7. exited without problems that time and from that point forward I'm back to normal!

Don't know if this will help anyone, it's just my notes on what went down.
You could of said all of this in one line...
Posted August 19, 2016
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mayahana: You could of said all of this in one line...
Yup, I could have. Thanks for the heads up.
Posted August 20, 2016
The performance increased for me, especially when loading in to the game for the first few minutes. And traveling around fast.. Much better. But still most of the issues was needed by patch.
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