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NMS requires a “new SSE”. Their listed “i3” requirement doesn’t make any sense for non-intel users and the concept of older CPUs being not just slow but entirely unsupported is new to almost everyone.

CPU-Z does mention instruction sets, and does mention SSE, but it might not be specific enough.

These instructions are basically “just for fun” and are not actually needed. As of 2016-08-14, Hello Games are working on this issue and Steam users are testing alphas.

I didn’t get very far, and I hear that this doesn’t work on Windows 10.

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4xene1/pc_crash_thread/d6eyr23/

The basic idea for this is not to make the game really run, but to prove that one can get past the logo splash screen. If this “fixes” that problem and shows more than the white screen and its crash, that you will know 100% it is because your CPU is not (currently) supported by No Man’s Sky!

Instructions accurate for GOG.com / gog galaxy

I recommend you close all other software before following these instructions. You may even want to copy/paste these into notepad or something, just to close your web browser too. I followed these instructions without doing so, but because my computer was very very very slow, your will probably also be slow.. so slow you may want to just log out to stop No Man’s Sky!

1. Visit was https://software.intel.com/protected-download/267266/144917
2. Accept the terms, and click [Continue]

3. Click the Download Now button next to the most recent -win.tar.bz2 entry at the top.

   • For me, it was sde-external-7.49.0-2016-07-07-win.tar.bz2
4. Open GOG Galaxy

5. Right-click your No Man’s Sky entry. Select Manage Installation then Show Folder. Then, go into the Binaries directory.

   • This is where your main NMS.exe file is.

6. Extract the sse files you downloaded from intel.com. I use 7zip to do this.

   • Place the files in your No Man’s Sky “Binaries” folder.
7. Go to your Man’s Sky “Binaries” folder.

8. Left-click on sde.exe, hold your left mouse button down, drag it out where it isn’t on a file any more, hold alt, let go of your mouse button, let go of your alt key. This will create a shortcut.

   • If you do not have file extensions set, you may just see sde with a good-looking icon. That’s the one you want.
9. Right-click on your new shortcut. Go to Properties

10. Next, you want to change the line that says “Target” field. Go to the end, and you will see the very end of it is sde.exe" .. change it to sde.exe" -- NMS.exe and click OK

11. Run your sse shortcut.

    • I recommend that before you do this final step, you press control-shift-escape and get the task manager running. This way you can select No Man’s Sky and end the task if it runs way too slow.
    • A DOS window will appear, and then NMS will run.

You will see a DOS box appear while sse is working on running No Man’s Sky. You must be very patient. You may get the No Man’s Sky white window and it is “Not responding”. Just wait.

Your computer will run very slow. You may have to wait minutes for this to begin working. Even when it does begin working, your computer will run extraordinarily slow.

You may also have to end the NMS.exe task, or go to its window and press alt-f4 to exit.