Fix No Mans Sky Freezing & Hangs

**No Mans Sky** is freezing or becoming unresponsive. This is a *widely reported issue* with likely solutions. Freezes differ from crashes — the game stops responding but doesn't close. This is often caused by GPU driver timeouts (TDR), deadlocked threads, or I/O bottlenecks. These steps should resolve it for most players: 1. Increase the Windows TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) delay via registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers → TdrDelay (DWORD) → set to 10. 2. Disable fullscreen optimisations: right-click the game .exe → Properties → Compatibility → check 'Disable fullscreen optimisations'. 3. If freezes happen at specific game moments, clear the shader cache (AppData → LocalLow → [game] → delete shader/cache folders). 4. Check storage health — failing SSDs/HDDs can cause intermittent freezes. Run CrystalDiskInfo to check SMART status. 5. Monitor RAM usage — if the game + system exceeds physical RAM, disk swapping causes freezes. 💡 *Quick tip:* Try Alt+Tab out and back in — this can break some freeze loops related to fullscreen rendering. 📊 *2 reports* of this issue tracked — trending at 0.1 reports/day.