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No Man's Sky PC Version doesn't work on older CPUs
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LGA 1366 is everliving.
Nostremitus
Member
Minimum requirements reference performance targets, not instruction sets. But you already know this, right?
It's simply a setting in Visual Studio, unless they actually hand-wrote SSE 4.1 code.
How likely is that?
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
If the game originated on the ps4 - not entirely unlikely.
Very unlikely. If the programmers specifically relied on hand-made SSE 4.1 code, I imagine they would make a bigger deal about it to the point it would be listed on the minimum requirements instead of the generic "Core i3" requirement.
Krappadizzle
Member
You can't be serious? My 8 year old cpu can run this.
This shit ain't common.
A PS3 can't play this game either.
In terms of CPU years this is more like saying a ps1 can't play it.
texhnolyze
Banned
There's a community fix for the same issue on EDF 4.1. It only took them like a couple days or so.
lensoftruth
Member
Ignoring old reduntant shit shocker. New APIs ain't there to support old shit, and none of us devs want to double down on code - this is standard.
It will be in the required specs.
It will be in the required specs.
texhnolyze
Banned
I see. So there's actually 'generations' on PC as well, interesting.
Yes it does. Many "multi-core" applications will still ultimately be bound by the performance of a single core.
Seemed to work out well for MGS V.
According to other people that's not the case nor was it a large fix in two other cases. I think you don't know what you're talking about.
Also it's not standard in every other game on the market...are you even a developer?
My CPU's five years old and runs stuff like this perfectly fine... if MY old-ass hardware can run MGS and NMS, how old do these other CPUs have to be? And how much longer before devs just say "No"? What's going through people's heads that continue to use such old tech and fully expect the latest games to run on it? Upgrade yo shit.
All of these people can play MGS fine as well. This is an artificial barrier which is why it was easily fixed for MGS 5.
We don't know that yet.
texhnolyze
Banned
Read my previous post.
It's fixed within days by modders. An official patch released a week after that, fixing that issue. It's indeed an oversight by NMS devs.
We don't know that yet. The possibility of handwritten sse 4.1 code hasn't been ruled out.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/7/360672137536640057/
Now we do. Looks like fixes are incoming. I'm shocked!
texhnolyze
Banned
Well, there it is.
OP needs another update, it seems.
OP needs another update, it seems.
Yeah I sent him a PM
Amusing.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
You must not be a real dev, man!
don't this game crash every 15 minutes on PS4
At least you can observe the crashes from a comfy couch on your big screen TV instead of trying to squint at the crash log on your tiny computer screen.
Zombie James
Banned
No. Angry Joe's experience is pretty extreme if that's what you're thinking of.
ambar_hitman
Member
Updated the OP. Fix is coming. Thanks Aselith for posting it.,
ambar_hitman
Member
Typical replies when someone is there with a weaker hardware.
martino
Member
i wonder why a game release now must work on hardware not exploiting 10 years old instructions.
it's like saying the game must stay directx9 for gpu....
so much contraction and nonsensence to rant and not take responsability
if your configuration is below minimun spec you're gambling and assuming it can work, don't report your poor assumptions and your lazyness to confirm them on others
it's like saying the game must stay directx9 for gpu....
so much contraction and nonsensence to rant and not take responsability
if your configuration is below minimun spec you're gambling and assuming it can work, don't report your poor assumptions and your lazyness to confirm them on others
Vanishing Avatar
Member
Here's the documentation that talks about that setting:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh872235.aspx
The relevant part:
So Visual Studio shouldn't be generating any code that won't run on something that doesn't support SSE 4.1 (the wording suggests it will run on anything supporting at least SSE2).
It's almost certainly hand coded. SSE 4.1 introduced a dot product operation, which would be used extensively in hand-optimised 3D code.
Do you actually know what SSE even is?
While I don't know this for sure someone here in the thread had this to say:
And keep in mind that when this issue has cropped up the thing was fixed within a day or two at most (usually rolled into other fixes which accounts for it even taking that long) Do you REALLY think this is a huge problem that is holding back your computer games to literally change a setting?
I would love to hear from an expert on this but this seems to be a case of driving away from the house and saying "Fuck I left the light on!"
smashballTaz
Member
Damn, so my Q6600 seems to not support SSE 4.1...
Oh well, I'm meaning to get myself a full pc upgrade by the end of the year anyways, NMS should be a fair bit cheaper by then and less buggy anyways.
(Hopefully.)
Ah, just read that there's a fix incoming! Ace.
Oh well, I'm meaning to get myself a full pc upgrade by the end of the year anyways, NMS should be a fair bit cheaper by then and less buggy anyways.
(Hopefully.)
Ah, just read that there's a fix incoming! Ace.
Dee Dah Dave
Member
Xeon - X58 master race!
Isn't that handled by the HPU though? Why would your game be handling 3D vector transformations on the COU?
Vanishing Avatar
Member
Physics, animation, and many other things are done on the CPU, and all do lots of vector operations.
SCB3
Member
What do people expect with close to 9-10-year-old tech? I think my Fx-6300 is underpowered these days and I run all games at ultra at 1080p just fine and I am still looking to upgrade to something faster.
People really do need to get with the new tech and stop expecting Devs to cater for them at a certain point
People really do need to get with the new tech and stop expecting Devs to cater for them at a certain point
ambar_hitman
Member
This SSE 4.1 isn't some new tech that magically improved performance if used. Since games in past have been patched with no performance penalty, it's almost certain that it was an oversight from the devs.
And ffs this isn't a 9-10 year old tech. Phenom II was released in 2010. It's 6 years.
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