ARK: Survival Ascended

ARK: Survival Ascended

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Xyres Oct 30, 2023 @ 8:12am
Anyone else with this crash?
Honestly enjoyed it so far, when I can play that Is. But I am just checking to see If others have this same crash and see If anyone have found a way to maybe help It stop happening but after around 20 minutes, my drivers just seem to crash. Everything dies, but I can still hear discord but I black screen and I have to hard restart my PC to get It back up. Usually lose a good bit of progress. Everything is updated and It Is only this game that I have ever had a problem like this on.

Edit - I should update this but It was related to overheating. Monitored a bunch of stuff and after setting a temp limit and having my pc focus on regulating the temperature of my gpu it has worked perfectly fine since.
Last edited by Xyres; Nov 21, 2023 @ 5:10pm
Originally posted by viv:
I had it twice with the black screen, very scary indeed. It seems it was (to greatest parts) an overheating problem for me, too. The temperature of the GPU formerly went objectively out of control. Also, at least for me, I can safely exclude battleeye (for the black screen accidents), I was not using the driver. As for the dump, I got a kernel dump in both cases even while being blind, perhaps just wait long enough "in the darkness" to complete and not panic too early (although it's really scary, and I am not sure if it's sane to really wait it out if there is overheating). Since the video card is gone, no graphics. That doesn't mean the kernel isn't still able to write the dump. For the dump produced during the black screen, It was a video schedular card error in my both cases, indicating that the graphic card was overly stressed out. I guess no other game before stressed my graphic card that much. I took various protective measurements, and eventually got rid of that particular problem (I think?).
That's not the only issue. Graphical memory is heavily stressed out for Ark Asa (this is not a thermal issue), and it gets worse over time. Nothing except taking a regular break from the game will stop this. I guess you could control that, too, just make regular breaks, a sane thing to do anyway. But there are so many normal bugs right now, which just lead to CTD. ( I will just wait a some weeks now.)
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Sarecho Oct 30, 2023 @ 8:15am 
go to your gameusersettings.ini and change autosaveperiodminutes=15 to autosaveperiodminutes=3, just saves more often so you lose less. if you alt-tab after a crash you should be able to hit the x button on the CRASH REPORT window (may have to do this 2 or 3 times, first usually just kicks you back to the game window) to get back to the desktop
Xyres Oct 30, 2023 @ 8:26pm 
Originally posted by Sarecho:
go to your gameusersettings.ini and change autosaveperiodminutes=15 to autosaveperiodminutes=3, just saves more often so you lose less. if you alt-tab after a crash you should be able to hit the x button on the CRASH REPORT window (may have to do this 2 or 3 times, first usually just kicks you back to the game window) to get back to the desktop

But that's just It, the crash blackscreens me and what I assume all my drivers. It doesn't take me to a crash report or anything, I have to power off my PC entirely.
Junior Oct 30, 2023 @ 8:51pm 
Crash every 5 minutes :\
RatherBeDoingThis Oct 30, 2023 @ 9:44pm 
I am having the same issue, it keeps crashing.
I have updated my nVidia drivers to the latest drivers, verified files. Turned down settings.

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 19045) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: B460MDS3HV2
BIOS: F24c (type: UEFI)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz (16 CPUs), ~2.9GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16298MB RAM
Page File: 15103MB used, 23723MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 12

Fatal error!

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000b00000077

CL: 449567
0x00007ff6da7f04ba ArkAscended.exe!FD3D12DescriptorCache::SetRootConstantBuffers() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12DescriptorCache.cpp:598]
0x00007ff6da82cd8f ArkAscended.exe!FD3D12StateCache::ApplyState() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12StateCache.cpp:565]
0x00007ff6da7e9bdd ArkAscended.exe!FD3D12CommandContext::RHIDispatchComputeShader() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12Commands.cpp:152]
0x00007ff6da9a1835 ArkAscended.exe!FRHICommandListBase::Execute() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\RHICommandList.cpp:587]
0x00007ff6da9a2f9f ArkAscended.exe!<lambda_c3c45769530a4e2f62785b74e714d2da>::operator()() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\RHI\Private\RHICommandList.cpp:899]
0x00007ff6d78130fa ArkAscended.exe!TGraphTask<TFunctionGraphTaskImpl<void __cdecl(void),0> >::ExecuteTask() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Public\Async\TaskGraphInterfaces.h:1311]
0x00007ff6da0b1e1e ArkAscended.exe!FNamedTaskThread::ProcessTasksUntilQuit() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Async\TaskGraph.cpp:648]
0x00007ff6daa04f31 ArkAscended.exe!FRHIThread::Run() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\RenderCore\Private\RenderingThread.cpp:334]
0x00007ff6da23e966 ArkAscended.exe!FRunnableThreadWin::Run() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsRunnableThread.cpp:149]
0x00007ff6da23e7bc ArkAscended.exe!FRunnableThreadWin::GuardedRun() [E:\ASAContinuous\Engine\Source\Runtime\Core\Private\Windows\WindowsRunnableThread.cpp:79]
0x00007ff9ecce7344 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
0x00007ff9eea826b1 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
Originally posted by Xyres:
Originally posted by Sarecho:
go to your gameusersettings.ini and change autosaveperiodminutes=15 to autosaveperiodminutes=3, just saves more often so you lose less. if you alt-tab after a crash you should be able to hit the x button on the CRASH REPORT window (may have to do this 2 or 3 times, first usually just kicks you back to the game window) to get back to the desktop

But that's just It, the crash blackscreens me and what I assume all my drivers. It doesn't take me to a crash report or anything, I have to power off my PC entirely.
I'm having this exact issue,
I have checked all my hardware, temperature settings, everything.
There is no issues and everything is well under 70 degrees Celsius.

My PC hard locks and I have to power cycle it.
Windows cannot even write a mini dump file.
Something in this game, be it the game or battle eye is hard locking the windows kernell and the system takes a dive.

I have started running other games that are either Unreal Engine 5 or using Battle eye,
I have a whole range of other games installed.
Nothing else is having these symptoms except this game.

I have a thread with my exhaustive troubleshooting,
Reinstalling the game,
Reinstalling battle eye
using the windows SFC /scannow command
Changed the windows page file destination and size [in accordance with Microsoft best practice in the MCSE exam courseware]
Driver updates, driver roll backs,
Temperature monitoring
Changed which SSD it is installed on.

Again, this is the ONLY game having this issue on my PC.
Stestorm [SCO] Oct 30, 2023 @ 10:10pm 
This is mentioned in a lot of posts and someone else commented that its on there discord that its game related and that they know about it and are hoping for fix in one of the upcoming patches
Fragger Oct 31, 2023 @ 3:02pm 
have the same problem. sometimes after 5 minutes, sometimes after 2 hours. Black screen, but sound from other sources can still be heard.
GridLost Oct 31, 2023 @ 3:07pm 
We must keep posting this Issue. it's the only way to get attention paid to it. I have not been to the DIscord about this yet, But I have a feeling that it will be ignored there.... Discord is usually crap for help in most games.
normative Oct 31, 2023 @ 3:27pm 
Originally posted by Ðëprávèd•Mïšçréånt:
My PC hard locks and I have to power cycle it.
Windows cannot even write a mini dump file.
Something in this game, be it the game or battle eye is hard locking the windows kernell and the system takes a dive.

This is, interestingly, also happening on Linux even though it's running inside a Proton container inside a Steam container.
Originally posted by normative:
Originally posted by Ðëprávèd•Mïšçréånt:
My PC hard locks and I have to power cycle it.
Windows cannot even write a mini dump file.
Something in this game, be it the game or battle eye is hard locking the windows kernell and the system takes a dive.

This is, interestingly, also happening on Linux even though it's running inside a Proton container inside a Steam container.

So far it looks like this has been the fix for me
[In the thread below]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2399830/discussions/0/3881599865339770064/?ctp=2
normative Oct 31, 2023 @ 5:01pm 
Originally posted by Ðëprávèd•Mïšçréånt:
So far it looks like this has been the fix for me
[In the thread below]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2399830/discussions/0/3881599865339770064/?ctp=2

I'm on an AMD 7800XT, but trying this anyway. If it works I'll let you know.
normative Oct 31, 2023 @ 5:23pm 
Originally posted by Ðëprávèd•Mïšçréånt:
So far it looks like this has been the fix for me
[In the thread below]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2399830/discussions/0/3881599865339770064/?ctp=2

Crashed again almost immediately :).
margalus Oct 31, 2023 @ 5:24pm 
Everybody is crashing. We have to wait for the dev's to fix it.
Yeah, even after applying the DLL fix I crashed just now with a hard lock.
So when the servers are not full in the early hours of the morning, I do not have an issue at all.
When there is a lot of people on, that is when I crash. I could theorise why, but I have no evidence to support anything I come up with, so I won't mention what I am thinking.
Xyres Nov 3, 2023 @ 7:44pm 
Bumping this to see If the recent update did anything for this one.
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