No Man’s Sky Low FPS & Lag Fix: Here’s What To Do
Unless you have lived under a rock for the last few years, the history of No Man’s Sky shouldn’t be a mystery to you. One of the most highly anticipated games of its time, No Man’s Sky was heavily marketed and extremely hyped.
It’s also notorious for its extremely disappointing launch. However, over the last few years, the developers have not given up. They brought this game from a rough starting point to a place many players and critics feel is finally getting close to what was promised.
We definitely have to commend the devs, but that’s not what we’re here to talk about. Today, we’re writing about how you can fix lag and low FPS issues that can sometimes plague players of No Man’s Sky.
Read on to learn how to identify causes and choose the best solution, from simple knacks to optimize your hardware to the ultimate network solution, our WTFast GPN.
How Does Lag Affect No Man’s Sky?
Now that the game has established a dedicated fanbase and grown in popularity, it’s a ton of fun to play, both solo and socially. Jump in a game to explore, level up, upgrade your ship, and even participate in dogfights.
Unfortunately, all of that fun can be ruined by terrible lag.
While the graphics may not be the most detailed you’ve ever seen, the game puts a lot of emphasis on aesthetic appeal. A large part of the gameplay is exploration, after all. That also leads us to another factor specific to No Man’s Sky: procedural generation.
A lot is going on behind the scenes in this game, which means your system and connection need to be up to spec to keep up. No matter where your No Man’s Sky lag comes from, it’s never fun.
The experience of surveying a beautiful landscape is marred when the rendering is choppy and broken.
Fighting a sentinel or taking down another ship may be impossible with intense stutter or even rubberbanding. Low FPS degrades the gaming experience in every case.
Where Does Lag Originate?
Believe it or not, there are a lot of steps you can take to help reduce your lag. It may feel out of your control and frustrating in the moment, but it’s possible to leave lag behind for good.
The first thing to do is troubleshoot where your lag originated.
Troubleshooting Hardware
Hardware-based lag includes input lag, visual glitches, frequent freezing (especially when a lot is going on in-game), and even crashes.
Assuming your internet connection isn’t down completely, troubleshooting these issues should start with your hardware. These aren’t steps you necessarily need to take every time, but it’s essential to have these boxes checked.
Your hardware needs to meet the minimum requirements for any game you’re running – that goes without saying. To minimize hardware-caused lag, shoot to exceed the minimum and at least hit the recommended requirements.
Double-check your in-game graphics settings as well. Sometimes you may simply need to lower these. Disabling V-Sync and lowering shadow quality are just a few common changes people have used to help the game run smoother. Change your resolution or use a lower graphics preset, too, then test if these new settings eliminate your lag.
Sometimes the problem isn’t the game at all, but the dozen or so other programs open on your device. Be sure to close down anything that’s not necessary, such as streams, downloads, web browsers, even the steam store or office apps for your homework.
If you’re playing with friends, you can still use voice chat apps such as Discord or TeamSpeak. If you really want to go all out to minimize lag, run your voice chat through a mobile device instead.
Give your computer’s RAM as much room to work with as possible, so No Man’s Sky can run smoothly.
Troubleshooting Network
No Man’s Sky, being an online game, will often lag due to internet-related issues. These are often the most frustrating as they can feel hard to understand and out of your control.
If you’re experiencing slow load times, rubberbanding, stutter, packet loss (things don’t render or take way too long), your network is to blame.
It may simply be that your internet is too slow. You can run a ping test to check your internet speed. Ping is the time it takes data to go from your local network to the online server. If your ping is too high, data is taking too long to arrive. Naturally, this can cause all sorts of issues.
Don’t jump to your phone and call your internet provider just yet. There might be things interfering with your internet speed that are in your control.
It’s easy to forget what you’ve got downloading or streaming in the background; make sure to cut things of that nature off while you’re gaming. Your network has limited bandwidth, which means it can only handle so much at once. The more it handles, the more it inevitably slows down.
This network clog can include the activity of other people around you. However, we definitely don’t recommend telling everyone in your home to go off-grid for a few hours while you game. That’s just not cool — and it’s also not necessary.
How Can I Fix Lag?
If you’re trying to beat lag once and for all, a GPN is a powerful network tool that’s built specifically with gaming in mind.
Your first question is probably what GPN even means. You probably recognize the term VPN, so we’ll start there. A Virtual Private Network is a system that simulates a direct connection between a private and public network.
Why Not Use a VPN?
VPNs are popular these days as a means of achieving greater privacy over the internet. Since most VPNs mask your IP address and network settings, you can use them to bypass certain restrictions and access otherwise inaccessible content.
This can be a real problem when it comes to gaming. Often, a VPN is used to enable malicious practices such as botting or hacking. For this reason, several major online games don’t allow VPN connections, flagging and banning users connecting through VPN.
VPNs are also not built for speed. A VPN still uses a public network. As such, you may still experience high ping when lots of other activity is going on during your game.
Additionally, the server you’re connecting to may not be better than the one you have at home. Physical location is very relevant in terms of ping, and being farther from a server means your data takes more time to travel (barring other potential factors).
VPNs might be ideal for certain activities, but not for something as latency-dependent and time-sensitive as online gaming, even for mostly non-competitive games like No Man’s Sky.
How a GPN Is Different
WTFast’s GPN goal is simple: optimize your game’s online connection.
Not only do we ensure a much faster connection, but you can also rest easy with a more stable connection. That means we’re not only reducing overall lag and stabilizing your FPS, we’re also helping eliminate severe lag spikes and other issues like rubberbanding and packet loss.
The GPN only lets your game session data through – nothing else. Reduced traffic makes our server perfect for fast and smooth gaming.
Next, we optimize the route for your data using our innovative technology to find the fastest means between your device and the server. Unlike a VPN, where the location is stagnant and may not benefit you, we’ll always send your data down the fastest path.
Our GPN also does away with the security issues VPNs pose regarding online gaming. We don’t mask your connection, so it’s direct and honest in its relationship to the game server.
We also configure the service for each specific game to ensure you can connect and play without any security issues. We’ll even keep this up to date if and when major games change their policies.
In Conclusion
There are many solutions to fixing lag, but none are as powerful and efficient as our WTFast GPN. Let us serve as your new secret weapon against lag and finally win the fight! We’re a one-stop shop to a better gaming future.
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