Everyone playing ARK: Survival Evolved on Linux can calm down now, as BattlEye now supports Linux and it's already live.
A whole two day delay to get it in the Linux version, I would say that's a pretty good turn-around for this sort of thing.
Mac and Linux clients now have Official Support for @TheBattlEye #playARK pic.twitter.com/pby8MI9fF7
— ARK (@survivetheark) February 11, 2016
I am extremely hopeful that Virtual Programming can work with BattlEye to get it working on the Linux port of Arma 3 now too. This should cross of one of the reasons listed here.
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How is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?
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Quoting: BeamboomHow is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?
Still bad.
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Ok, that was fast :D
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I suppose not only it still has bad performance but also bad visuals. IIRC, the engine supports OGL 4.5 but they for some reason only support 3.x on Mac/Linux. And the "True Sky" plugin isn't supported on those platforms completely.
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So now that was fast - those guys at wildcard never fail to surprise me.
Quoting: BeamboomHow is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?Could still be better but it has improved over time. Especially (OSS-)radeon-performance is much better now... but maybe it's just the drivers that matured.
Quoting: rkfgI suppose not only it still has bad performance but also bad visuals. IIRC, the engine supports OGL 4.5 but they for some reason only support 3.x on Mac/Linux. And the "True Sky" plugin isn't supported on those platforms completely.Comparing to the windows version it really looks awful. I hope the devs will add OGL > 3.x support when the game is finished. And I hope it ever gets finished at all - unlike rust. At least the devs seem to care much more about their product and have some kind of a roadmap and listen to suggestions from the community.
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Quoting: BeamboomHow is the performance of ARK these days? I recall it was pretty bad around launch?
its still not great, but its a lot better, when you live(ingame, not real life :) ) in snowy areas its really good actually, 50-80 fps and thats pretty much everything maxed except shadows, but other areas are around 30-50 fps and super huge bases make fps drop down to 20.
the strange thing is that i dunno what they use for the ingame HUD but when you turn that off with backspace key, you pretty much just gain +10 fps - reminds me a bit of those flash UIs .. what was it called scaleform?
edit: ok seems that battleye have killed the performance even more.. ~-5 fps
Last edited by Xpander on 11 February 2016 at 11:41 am UTC
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legluondunet Feb 11, 2016
On the Steam forum we could read the perf are not optimised on windows too.
Don't forget it's an anticipated game.
Don't forget it's an anticipated game.
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I've seen a SteamOS vs Windows Youtube video where ARK was the only game running better in Linux than Windows.
https://youtu.be/LBIFHo03V-4?t=483
https://youtu.be/LBIFHo03V-4?t=483
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Quoting: dubigrasuI've seen a SteamOS vs Windows Youtube video where ARK was the only game running better in Linux than Windows.
https://youtu.be/LBIFHo03V-4?t=483
ARK has less graphical features on Linux, it's not rocket science ;)
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