cant even get past making a character

[xbeautiful_disasterx]

anyone else finding the cant even make a character before it stops responding

[Ðëprávèd•Mïšçréånt]

So many of us are having this issue :(

[BudSwift]

wont be no patches for ages.. they have there payday.

[Rockpaw]

I had 2 crashes in character creation but just quickly managed to make a character on the 3rd try. Once I was in game it was fine. I kinda feel bad because I'm not having any other issues

[Landron]

I had this issue as well. I managed to get around it by making my character in a single player mode game, copying the name I wanted to use, and then starting on the server I wanted.

As soon as I started the server and got to the character creation I pasted the name in the box and clicked the spawn button as quickly as possible. It seems to have gotten around it and let me in.

[13thPaladin]

I CONSISTENTLY get not responding when I try to enter a single player game. I select spawn point and BAM not responding

[DevilTwins]

I used to have this exact same issue. The character creation always crashed. So i switched on directx11 instead, which allowed me to get pass character creation but afterwards was hit with massive lag and random crashing while running around. So i switched back to dx12 and haven't had any issues so far.
Try following these steps below and see if you get past character creation too.

Go to your steam library, find ark, right click on it and then click on properties. On the first tab, look to the right side. At the bottom there's an empty bar. Click on it and type in
-dx11

After that's in. Close it down. Boot up the game. Load up your server or any server you were trying to join. Make your character. Load into the map, Don't play the game straight away. Because you'll probably have stuttering like i did. So, Log completely off the game. Go back into properties and remove the -dx11
Close it down and boot up game/server again and try playing.

[xbeautiful_disasterx]

yeah i tried that but changing the game back it just doesn't work at all for me i have to keep it on -dx11 or i cant even play if i can even get in the server but it is lagging and stuttering as well

[DevilTwins]

Originally posted by xbeautiful_disasterx:

yeah i tried that but changing the game back it just doesn't work at all for me i have to keep it on -dx11 or i cant even play if i can even get in the server but it is lagging and stuttering as well

Does your graphics card support dx12? If it doesn't that's probably why it won't run on dx12 version. Dx11 i've found is super laggy.

[Znogris]

Originally posted by BudSwift:

wont be no patches for ages.. they have there payday.

LOL nice try been 3 updates on client and like 5 on dedicated server but hey guess thats long time