A user in our IRC channel pointed out a very simple fix to help massively boost your FPS in ARK: Survival Evolved. We don't usually point out such tips, but this can't be missed. Mainly due to how insanely popular the game is right now, and we want to help you get the best experience.
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Set your View Distance to Epic, save it, completely restart the game and see the difference. Credit goes to this guy.
I'm not entirely sure how/why it helps, but it sure as hell does. My FPS went from 27FPS to 57FPS in the same scene, and that's with turning up everything else now too.
About ARK
As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements. Use your cunning and resources to kill or tame the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land, and team up with or prey on hundreds of other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
If you haven't already, you can now check out ARK: Survival Evolved on Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ElectricPrism Jul 6, 2015
I noticed the same discontinuity - I think they probably optimize for Epic settings first.
I set all my settings on Epic and it outperforms high greatly.
I set all my settings on Epic and it outperforms high greatly.
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Quoting: ElectricPrismI noticed the same discontinuity - I think they probably optimize for Epic settings first.
I don't think it's that, as it's this one single setting affecting everything. Regardless of everything else.
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Motion blur eats around 30% of my fps. With i have like 25 without i have 40 fps
I allready play with all at Epic
I allready play with all at Epic
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^ Motion blur is the first thing I turn off, in any game. It's annoying as hell.
I had noticed that the initial ARK beta ran better than the patched version the next day, and I tried lowering everything to Low, even. So I'll try the Epic setting and hope it's at least playable some. Still waiting on the advertised Full Gamepad Support before I really dig into it, though.
I had noticed that the initial ARK beta ran better than the patched version the next day, and I tried lowering everything to Low, even. So I'll try the Epic setting and hope it's at least playable some. Still waiting on the advertised Full Gamepad Support before I really dig into it, though.
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this is epic "fix" indeed ... had 15fps in some places before (when looking to the middle of the map or that big ARK building) ..after setting View Distance to Epic its 35Fps ... game now mostly runs between 45-70 fps with everything on Epic, except motion blur disabled and shadows on medium.
Great times :D
edit: just in case, my hardware if anyone interested
AMD FX-8320 @ 4,2ghz, ASUS GTX 970 STRIX, 16GB DDR3 1866mhz, Arch Linux x86_64, MATE Destkop, nvidia drivers 352.21, Game is on SSD (had missing texture issues on HDD because it couldnt keep up and loading times went from 2 min to 20 sec + loading new landscapes takes just small fps drop, it froze for few seconds when ran from HDD)
Last edited by Xpander on 6 July 2015 at 8:52 pm UTC
Great times :D
edit: just in case, my hardware if anyone interested
AMD FX-8320 @ 4,2ghz, ASUS GTX 970 STRIX, 16GB DDR3 1866mhz, Arch Linux x86_64, MATE Destkop, nvidia drivers 352.21, Game is on SSD (had missing texture issues on HDD because it couldnt keep up and loading times went from 2 min to 20 sec + loading new landscapes takes just small fps drop, it froze for few seconds when ran from HDD)
Last edited by Xpander on 6 July 2015 at 8:52 pm UTC
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Terrain and global shadows are really missing, game just look downgraded comparing windows version...
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Playing a bit with friends ^^ having fun! and testing twitch.tv with OBS :D
http://www.twitch.tv/bubexel/b/676084207
(my webcam sux a lot :D)
http://www.twitch.tv/bubexel/b/676084207
(my webcam sux a lot :D)
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This is incredible. I went from a mix of medium and high settings to all epic (minus the motion blur), and the frame rate went up by about 20 fps. It's now running mostly around 60fps and looks a lot better.
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ElectricPrism Jul 7, 2015
Quoting: sigzTerrain and global shadows are really missing, game just look downgraded comparing windows version...
According to beta testers the number of bug fixes that were resolved 48 hours prior to launch was astounding. I assume that the developers likely had to disable problematic code to stop the hemorrhaging error count, I mean they certainly had their pants down with it since launch took 24 hours longer than their estimate ETA.
I hypothesize that those optimizations will creep back in with a couple weeks.
Quoting: adolson^ Motion blur is the first thing I turn off, in any game. It's annoying as hell.
This. Motion blur impacts the gaming experience negatively. This futuristic gaming age isn't my world.
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Motion blur is unrealistic, when i move my head in real life i dont see any kind of motion blur xD btw, if there is some blur when i move the mouse i should see the real blur when something is moving... why to increment with blur? then blur is double than real XD omg.. hard to explain :D
Last edited by bubexel on 7 July 2015 at 1:57 pm UTC
Last edited by bubexel on 7 July 2015 at 1:57 pm UTC
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