Is anyone having trouble getting this game to work on PC, specifically steam? The game used to work prior NEXT patch, but now it freezes on the loading shaders screen after the No Man's Sky title card and loops background music. Has anyone had something similar happened and found a way to get it to work? I've tried most of recommended fixes I found on steam forums, but nothing has helped so far.

How long did you wait? The initial loading sequence can take up to 10 minutes on a high-end CPU.

@mattchops: Yeah it takes a good while when you first load it, you could try and delete the contents of the "shader cache" folder inside the NMS folder, that will force the game to rebuild them.

Then just start it up and be patient.

@onarum: I did that previously and have let it run for a while. It ends up not showing the passing stars anymore and goes to a black screen with distorted music playing in the background. It kicks out to a no longer responding message, which I then close the program.

@dgtlty: Thanks for sharing. It ends up going to a black screen with distorted music after a while of showing the stars passing by and then gives me a non responsive application message, which I then close the game.

@mattchops: The Games got a Graphics update, so maybe you pc is below system requirements ?

Mine runs better since the update. The initial 'Loading Shaders' screen took around 10 minutes, and 2-3 minutes for every boot after that.

The game itself runs smoother than before, which is still not perfectly. My i5 2500k processor is holding my PC back.

@the_greg: Did it go to a black screen with distorted music during that process or always show passing stars? I don’t remember it doing that prior to the update.

I’m well above the minimum PC specs, too.

I’ll keep messing around with it. Pretty frustrating

@mattchops: No, I never got anything like that. It did crash about 10 minutes into my first NEXT session, which was worrying. I was messing around in the menu with controls and graphics. It hasn't done it again since, though.