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ARK Survivor: Game Opt. & Fixes
Post of helpful Optimizations and Client side bug fixes for our ARK Players:
MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Windows:
Mac OS X:
Linux
GAME OPTIMIZATIONS
Launch Options:
Adjust the following settings (more details here) to your choosing:
[/script/shootergame.shootergameusersettings]
ResolutionSizeX=1920
ResolutionSizeY=1080
bUseDesktopResolutionForFullscreen=False
FullscreenMode=1
bUseVSync=False
NVIDIA SETTINGS:
Adjust image settings with preview: In the window that opens, Change these Settings: Set Use my Preference Emphasizing: PERFORMANCE Click Apply. Click Use the advanced 3D image Settings: Click Apply.
Configure Surround, PhysX:
In the window that opens, Change these Settings:
PhysX settings:
Processor:
Choose your Graphics Card from the drop down list.
Click Apply.
On the Left side of the window that opens find Display.
Change Resolution:
Go to your monitor and select it. (If you are on dual or triple Select the Main screen(s) you game on.
Be sure to duplicate the settings that you can on the other gaming screens.)
Select the highest NATIVE PC Resolution rate for your monitor.
Then select the Highest Refresh rate for that setting.
Click Apply and then YES.
Repeat this for each of your monitors if you are running if more than one.
Adjust desktop size and position:
If you previously setup in the 3D settings:
These settings will be greyed out. Leave these settings Greyed for the best results.
If you want to use one of these options instead, Go back into 3D settings and Turn OFF GPU Scaling to re-enable these settings.
Tips:
BEST FPS(using native resolution): NO Scaling.
BEST FPS and VISUALS: GPU Scaling(IN 3D settings)
Play lower res/pixel games: Set Integer Scaling
Set your Resolution to Native Your Hertz to what your monitor uses
Click apply.
On the Left side of the window that opens find Video:
Adjust video color settings:
Select your monitor.
Under How do you make color adjustments?
Select With the NVIDIA settings.
Click Advanced and set the drop down to: Full (0-255)
Click apply
To ensure all settings are properly applied, Please restart your PC now!
AMD SETTINGS:
Below is the Global profile which will provide the best performance/quality ratio across most titles. Yet, there may be times that you will still be searching for even greater performance (i.e higher frames). When this situation presents itself, there is a primary setting that should always be tested first to see if performance is increased when adjusted via Radeon settings. Everything else would remain the same. Tessellation Mode: Override Application Settings/ None To access these options, open AMD Radeon Settings by right clicking on your desktop, and select AMD Radeon Settings.
ARK SURVIVAL OPTIONS PANEL CONFIGURATIONS:
We’ll walk you through every option as many of them can impact FPS or boost/lower overall game performance: Please note that these options will not be the most optimal setup for all computers, but about 80% of them will see a huge increase in FPS from changing these settings. Open the Options Screen from your ARK Lobby Screen. After altering all of these settings, remember to save them!
Resolution – change this depending on your device and CPU/GPU, desktop computers should not have any problems running 1920×1080 but on a Laptop it’s recommended to use the 1280×768 resolution.
Window Mode – ALWAYS have this in full screen, Windowed or WindowedFullscreen will decrease your FPS and cause lag and/or frame tearing. Note full window is NOT compatible with alt tabbing.
Resolution Scale – lowering it down will decrease resolution but increase FPS, only lower this as a last resort if you have lag even with other settings optimized.
World Tile Buffers, View Distance, Anti-Aliasing and Post Processing – set these to medium or low depending on your computer.
General Shadows, Terrain Shadows, Ambient Lightning – configuring these to the lowest setting will provide you with a nice increase to FPS and overall performance.
Sky Quality, Ground Clutter Density, Ground Clutter Distance and Mesh Level of Detail – set these between lowest-middle, these will most certainly lower your overall FPS if you have them on max.
High-Quality Anisotropic Filtering – ON This feature creates smoother looking objects from various points of view.
Motion Blur – OFF An unimportant aesthetic.
Film Grain – OFF Another unimportant feature.
Distance Field Ambient Occlusion – OFF Triggers soft shadows for distant objects.
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) – OFF Triggers soft shadows for nearby objects.
Dynamic Tessellation – OFF
Distance Field Shadowing – OFF Another shadows-related feature.
High-Quality Materials – OFF This option improves textures of in-game materials.
Sub Surface Scattering – ON It affects light behavior and makes foliage more realistic.
High-Quality VFX – OFF It affects all in-game water effects.
Simple Distance Character Movement – ON It relieves CPU from animations of distant characters.
High-Quality LODs – ON Improves the level of details.
Extra Level Streaming Distance – OFF This will make map loading faster while moving fast.
Color Grading – ON Slightly improves colors. It won’t affect FPS.
Light Bloom – Personal Choice. Won’t affect performance. Can cause blinding bright spots.
Light Shafts – Personal Choice. It doesn’t affect performance. Can cause bright Shafts of light.
Mesh Level of Detail (LOD) – Again. you can choose to disable/enable it by your own preferences. It affects GPU VRAM marginally.
GAME ERRORS and FIXES
General Troubleshooting
There are no servers in browser:
Click «Change Filters» and change the Game to «ARK: Survival Evolved» (each tab has its own filter)
Long Load Time / Fatal Errors on load
Restarting Steam
Restarting Steam can often help resolve problems with Internet connectivity when trying to load or play games. You can restart Steam by closing and reopening the client, or refresh your Steam files in the event you feel that Steam’s files may be modified, corrupted, missing, or mis-configured on your operating system. If none of these solutions work, try contacting Steam.
Method 1 Restarting Steam
Method 2 Refreshing Steam Files in Windows
Method 3 Refreshing Steam Files on Mac OS X
Method 4 Refreshing Steam Files in Linux
Verify Your GAME through Steam
How to reduce the size of ARK Survival and save some DISK SPACE.
Method #1 You can compress the installation folder.
Go to the ark directory, find «content» and «seekfreecontent», and enable NTFS file compression from the «properties» menu. It can take an hour or two to complete depending on your CPU speed. Most games come pre-compressed. ARK does not, because the devs are inept.
Method #2 Unsubscribe and clean Mod Files out.
Launch ark reset active total conversion что это
ARK: Survival Evolved
I wonder if its legit,it would help my situation if it really works like that
I think it would work, but:
— Running in directx 10 mode, removes all planting, some effects in the game.
— lowmemory mode, when I tried it before, my view distance was lowered thus I could not see far.
Most interesting is what changes are in those files they say to overwrite, that could be interesting.
Could be optimilisations. Have to look in to that.
You can try running ark in dx10 mode lowmemory, just by selecting that option to launch in steam and see what it already does for you and if you are okay with the graphics.
You will get a better fps just by doing that.
Recommended I think for pc’s with less then 8GB RAM.
I think it would work, but:
— Running in directx 10 mode, removes all planting, some effects in the game.
— lowmemory mode, when I tried it before, my view distance was lowered thus I could not see far.
Most interesting is what changes are in those files they say to overwrite, that could be interesting.
Could be optimilisations. Have to look in to that.
You can try running ark in dx10 mode lowmemory, just by selecting that option to launch in steam and see what it already does for you and if you are okay with the graphics.
You will get a better fps just by doing that.
Recommended I think for pc’s with less then 8GB RAM.
Launch Options
You can launch the game with a few presets which are:
Launch ARK (Low Memory 4GB)
This is recommended if you have less than 8 GB RAM. You will miss the advanced options (those with the checkboxes) but the game runs better. Same result as the command –lowmemory.
Launch ARK (Extremely Low Memory) and Launch ARK (Extremely Low Memory, No Sound)
With only 4GB of RAM this is your way to go. This preset utilize the –sm4 command and forces the use of dx10 shader model 4. Also all advanced options are overruled and disabled.
Launch ARK (Reset Active Total Conversion)
Starts the Game without Total Conversion mods
But what are they doing?
And why scream those people, who are using them, about bad “epic” graphic?
Most people don´t know what those commands do to the game so I will try to explain those commands here.
You can see here a picture without tweaks and a picture with the options as a baseline for comparison with the following tweaks. All pictures below have unchanged options and only the respective tweak was used.
Launch Options
You can launch the game with a few presets which are:
Launch ARK (Low Memory 4GB)
This is recommended if you have less than 8 GB RAM. You will miss the advanced options (those with the checkboxes) but the game runs better. Same result as the command –lowmemory.
Launch ARK (Extremely Low Memory) and Launch ARK (Extremely Low Memory, No Sound)
With only 4GB of RAM this is your way to go. This preset utilize the –sm4 command and forces the use of dx10 shader model 4. Also all advanced options are overruled and disabled.
Launch ARK (Reset Active Total Conversion)
Starts the Game without Total Conversion mods
But what are they doing?
And why scream those people, who are using them, about bad “epic” graphic?
Most people don´t know what those commands do to the game so I will try to explain those commands here.
You can see here a picture without tweaks and a picture with the options as a baseline for comparison with the following tweaks. All pictures below have unchanged options and only the respective tweak was used.
Launch Options
You can launch the game with a few presets which are:
Launch ARK (Low Memory 4GB)
This is recommended if you have less than 8 GB RAM. You will miss the advanced options (those with the checkboxes) but the game runs better. Same result as the command –lowmemory.
Launch ARK (Extremely Low Memory) and Launch ARK (Extremely Low Memory, No Sound)
With only 4GB of RAM this is your way to go. This preset utilize the –sm4 command and forces the use of dx10 shader model 4. Also all advanced options are overruled and disabled.
Launch ARK (Reset Active Total Conversion)
Starts the Game without Total Conversion mods
But what are they doing?
And why scream those people, who are using them, about bad “epic” graphic?
Most people don´t know what those commands do to the game so I will try to explain those commands here.
You can see here a picture without tweaks and a picture with the options as a baseline for comparison with the following tweaks. All pictures below have unchanged options and only the respective tweak was used.
