ARK: Survival Ascended

ARK: Survival Ascended

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Orsa Torsa Oct 26, 2023 @ 7:46am
RTX 3070 Performance?
I'm on the fence with a purchase and wondering if the RTX 3070 gave decent results at 1440p? With DLSS on.

update: Ok so it runs "fine" on medium preset. Its more then playable. Im sure optimizations will come sometime soon though because you can tell it shouldnt be running this bad. I tried it on epic settings and i was getting like 15 fps, but damn it looked incredible on a side note. I wont refund and think ill see where this goes. Looks really promising.
Last edited by Orsa Torsa; Oct 26, 2023 @ 4:17pm
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MySpecialSauce Oct 26, 2023 @ 7:56am 
I have a 3070. Playing on medium settings, shadow detail on medium, motion blur and bloom off. DLSS on for ultra performance. Inconsistent frame rate, I can get 60 fps if i stare at the ground and don't move. Currently using 99% of my gpu, 3% of cpu...
Orsa Torsa Oct 26, 2023 @ 7:58am 
Originally posted by MySpecialSauce:
I have a 3070. Playing on medium settings, shadow detail on medium, motion blur and bloom off. DLSS on for ultra performance. Inconsistent frame rate, I can get 60 fps if i stare at the ground and don't move. Currently using 99% of my gpu, 3% of cpu...

Holy !@#$ man. That's super bad. Like really bad. Would you say your PC is well optimized and clean? I expected high with around 60 fps and dlss or something.
MySpecialSauce Oct 26, 2023 @ 8:16am 
It is very clean. I have no issues running any other game at Ultra/Epic settings and staying above 80 fps. This game I'm struggling to stay in the 40's, even overclocked. If my character is moving I'm anywhere between 25-35 fps, depending on what's happening in the game.
NamelessKing67 Oct 26, 2023 @ 8:17am 
if u have 32gb ram nothing to wory but u heard if u have 16 u stutter im playing also on 3070 with 32gb on high setting and have no problems
MySpecialSauce Oct 26, 2023 @ 8:21am 
Originally posted by NamelessKing67:
if u have 32gb ram nothing to wory but u heard if u have 16 u stutter im playing also on 3070 with 32gb on high setting and have no problems

Yeah, I currently have 16gb. Ram when game is running is at 75%.
Orsa Torsa Oct 26, 2023 @ 8:22am 
Originally posted by MySpecialSauce:
It is very clean. I have no issues running any other game at Ultra/Epic settings and staying above 80 fps. This game I'm struggling to stay in the 40's, even overclocked. If my character is moving I'm anywhere between 25-35 fps, depending on what's happening in the game.

Alright thanks man for the info. I went ahead and bought it and I'm going to test my luck on it's performance. I know I'll end up buying it later anyways after it's optimized more. I'll edit my post if I don't forget with how it ran.
Orsa Torsa Oct 26, 2023 @ 8:23am 
Originally posted by NamelessKing67:
if u have 32gb ram nothing to wory but u heard if u have 16 u stutter im playing also on 3070 with 32gb on high setting and have no problems

The game recommends 32 but I'm hoping that's just for high load situations. Going in with 16 gb of ram. If I don't forget my post then I'll update with how it ran.
Exion135 Nov 9, 2023 @ 12:12pm 
Originally posted by Orsa Torsa:
I'm on the fence with a purchase and wondering if the RTX 3070 gave decent results at 1440p? With DLSS on.

update: Ok so it runs "fine" on medium preset. Its more then playable. Im sure optimizations will come sometime soon though because you can

Originally posted by Orsa Torsa:
Originally posted by NamelessKing67:
if u have 32gb ram nothing to wory but u heard if u have 16 u stutter im playing also on 3070 with 32gb on high setting and have no problems

The game recommends 32 but I'm hoping that's just for high load situations. Going in with 16 gb of ram. If I don't forget my post then I'll update with how it ran.
I was about to say the same I'm on medium with a few things on high with max resolution and all shading, flare and bloom on with interaction and I'm hitting 70 on a rtx 2060 with 32gb ram. Prolly going to upgrade before playing as I want better graphics
MadeimSpeck Nov 9, 2023 @ 12:22pm 
Orsa Torsa - 4070 is about 20% faster than a 3070. Without Framegeneration i get about 40-45 Frames on Highpreset DLSS Balanced without any fursther adjustments. So you can expect to get something like 32-38 fps - playable. May be lower the Textures to middle so the 8GB are not limiting.

Putting effects on low can free up to 40% more FPS depending on the scene. It seems to have effect on Clouds and water.

Turning realtime physics down (movement of foliage and water when it colides) can give +10% more.

Turning Global Illumination down can give another 10% (it actually loses a lot of its lightning magic in this case - but looks more crisp at the same time, brighter at night and yet still much better than ASE has ever been)

So there is a bit tuning potential. Except the global illumination, i would say +50% Push can be done so you end up on 1440p with about 45-50 fps without sacrificing too much of the image quality.
Last edited by MadeimSpeck; Nov 9, 2023 @ 12:28pm
Orsa Torsa Nov 9, 2023 @ 4:54pm 
Originally posted by MadeimSpeck:
Orsa Torsa - 4070 is about 20% faster than a 3070. Without Framegeneration i get about 40-45 Frames on Highpreset DLSS Balanced without any fursther adjustments. So you can expect to get something like 32-38 fps - playable. May be lower the Textures to middle so the 8GB are not limiting.

Putting effects on low can free up to 40% more FPS depending on the scene. It seems to have effect on Clouds and water.

Turning realtime physics down (movement of foliage and water when it colides) can give +10% more.

Turning Global Illumination down can give another 10% (it actually loses a lot of its lightning magic in this case - but looks more crisp at the same time, brighter at night and yet still much better than ASE has ever been)

So there is a bit tuning potential. Except the global illumination, i would say +50% Push can be done so you end up on 1440p with about 45-50 fps without sacrificing too much of the image quality.

From what im to understand, the RTX 40 series is the worst the game is currently optimize for. Some users with 2070's are even having playable framerates. The 4070 "should" be running it alot better then a 3070 but I think alot of the performance return falls off greatly with the RTX 40 series and the game. It's on wildcards end.

Edit: Oh sorry forgot to mention I bought it and ive gotten ALOT of hours into it so far. I got it on high preset, global illumination on medium, dlss balanced, and 1440p and it runs great so far. I used to be able to do global illumination high but starting today im getting performance hitching every now and then so is set it back to medium.
Last edited by Orsa Torsa; Nov 9, 2023 @ 4:57pm
Rua Nov 9, 2023 @ 5:37pm 
3060-3070 = +50FPS MID+High settings (with clouds and illumination ON)

ALL MID settings except:
Resolution scale 90
Advance graphics High
Post processing High
Foliage High

(optional)
Light bloom OFF
light Shafts OFF
Low Light OFF

Foliage interaction multiplier 0.4
Foliage interaction distance 1
Foliage interaction quantity 0.75
DLSS Performance ( balance is the worst)

those are the best settings i found for 3060-3070

-I dont see much difference between high and mid, the options that really make the difference in terms of FPS and Quality and i use them on and off are

Global illumination quality +10+20 fps at the cost of the game looking like old ark, you can remove it with these commands
r.VolumetricCloud 0
r.VolumetricFog 0

Disable HLOD (this one is like +5 fps)

To play on better settings you definitely need high end pc, these settings are for the average person that can run Ascended
Skully938 Nov 9, 2023 @ 6:09pm 
3050 here 64 ram i7 processor i get at least 6 to 8 crashes a week choppy on sunsets and clouds choppy at times but run on med also only 1 thing on epic and dont even think i need it on running ddr4
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