Here is how to prevent crashing

[Dracolisk]

So I thought I would create a thread where we can share how to prevent crashing. I will start with a sure fire way that perhaps not everyone knows that doing this will cause a crash immediately or within a few mins of doing so.

1. Changing graphics settings! Do not do this in game without saving your game first! I have experimented a lot with this, if you change settings then save and continue playing your chance of having a crash withing the next minute is almost assured. If you are going to change graphic settings save before then restart after applying your settings. Do not continue playing!!!

Anyone else have helpful hints to avoid crashing? post here please.

[Cryptix]

FLUID AND FOLIAGE INTERACTION

Lots of people can crash with this setting on. Try it off if you keep crashing. It does create horrid floating stones in places but it's definitely worth it if you can play the game without being booted to desktop.

[Vayunî]

An unusual solution (to the fatal error issue) is to reset the 3D settings in the nvidia control panel. This was the only fix for me, hopefully for someone of you, too. :)

PC specs:
CPU: i9-10900k
GPU: nvidia RTX 2080 super
RAM: 32 GB
OS: windows 10
game installed on SSD (no m.2 ssd)

[Rokalm]

play third person, first person is crashing the game when browsing inventories

[Teckis]

Publicado originalmente por Kiwifruit:

I just refunded and havent got any crashes anymore since then

What comedy club can I find you at?

[Black Raven]

Publicado originalmente por FallenActual:

Tried the following

1. Turning down the graphics
2. Turning off RTX and menu animations
3. Rolling back Nvidia drivers
4. Using the back up save
5. Turning it off and back on again

been going on 18 days still CTD just report the game on steams store page a broken...

Borderless window, becuase in fullscree, any alt -tab, or background app that makes game lose focus, or using a 2nd monitor for brief moment can trigger crash in fullscreen but not in borderless.

Also some mod's i had no crashes for whole week added new mod, crash crash crash, took new mod off no crashes, so test your mods if you was stable once

[Herr Morlock]

This is important and has pretty completely helped me to not have to endure those endless savegame corruption issues, I fought with from on the 100th hour of my singleplayer-savegame, evermore:
Whenever you save, change to 1st person and either look at the ground or walk towards a wall and look at it, before you save. Sounds stupid, but this seems to help preventing those issues.

And since a friend of mine told me, that this already was an issue in the beginning of ASE, the devs clearly should put their heads down in shame...

[Herr Morlock]

Publicado originalmente por Teckis:

Publicado originalmente por Kiwifruit:

I just refunded and havent got any crashes anymore since then

What comedy club can I find you at?

Steam's "developers appreciation" thread...
aka "Fanboy's territory" ;)

[Cryptix]

For people with similar systems to get good FPS out of ASA. I don't crash btw:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3090310044
I mentioned in the guide that fluid and foliage interaction can cause crashes, but I choose to play with it on as I don't tend to crash and it can cause floating pebbles in places.

[Balls]

Publicado originalmente por Teckis:

Publicado originalmente por Kiwifruit:

I just refunded and havent got any crashes anymore since then

What comedy club can I find you at?

Funny thing is they still have the game. Or they bought it again after refunding.

[-_-X-_-]

So far for me running a combo of launch parameters and console commands I found in multiple "fix" guides helps me get 30-60fps on both my desktop (R9 5950x-32GB RAM-RTX 3090) and laptop (R5 5600H-32GB RAM-RTX 3050) although I've come to believe I may need atleast 48gb ram for my desktop to access the 3090's full potential? Not sure if true and not a cheap upgrade to "figure this out" either lol now asking myself why I had to get the fancy ram 😅 regardless if this helps anyone here are the params and commands I mainly used on both rigs (Do not include the comma's in the commands and do the commands one at a time starting with the Vertex Scaling):

Desktop (R9 5950x-32GB RAM-RTX 3090 24GB)
Launch Options in game Properties (right click game in library) > General:
-high -dx12 -cpuCount=16 -exThreads=31 -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -maxMem=32768 -maxVram=24576 -NoBattlEye

Console Commands: ark.VertexCountScaling 1, r.streaming.poolsize 0 (default is -1 if 0 causes issues), r.ForceAllCoresForShaderCompiling 1

Video Settings (Including RTX): Res-4k (3840x2160), Window Mode-Windowed Fullscreen, Res Scale-70 (my res scale is bugged and reverts to that value no matter what I set it to unless config'd in the GameUserSettings.ini and left alone in-game so just rolled with it lol), All Settings set to Medium, Motion Blur-Light Bloom-Light Shafts all set to Off, Foliage and Fluid Interactions on but set to lowest settings with Menu Transitions On.

Laptop (R5 5600H-32GB RAM-RTX 3050 4GB)
Launch Options: -high -dx12 -cpuCount=6 -exThreads=11 -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -maxMem=32768 -maxVram=4096 -NoBattlEye

Console Commands: ark.VertexCountScaling 1, r.streaming.poolsize 0 (default is -1 if 0 causes issues), r.ForceAllCoresForShaderCompiling 1, r.Fog 0, r.VolumetricFog 0, r.VolumetricCloud 0, r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0

Video Settings (Including RTX): Res-1920x1080p, Window Mode-Windowed Fullscreen, Res Scale-90 (my res scale is also bugged and reverts to that value so again I just rolled with it lol), All Settings set to Medium, Motion Blur-Light Bloom-Light Shafts all set to Off, Foliage and Fluid Interactions on but set to lowest settings with Menu Transitions On.

Most of the crashing on my end is most definitely when GPU usage hits 99% and main cause from my observation is going into inventories and being in the open world looking upwards slightly for the usage spikes, not great I know but hopefully this helps someone like it did me! 😁

EDIT: Forgot to note my FPS is capped at 60 with DLSS and Low-Latency "OFF" on both rigs as well! Also find it best to fully close the game and re-launch when changing any of the video settings!

[-_-X-_-]

Breakdown of some of the launch options for people to better understand and adjust to their own spec:
-cpuCount=# (# = your CPU's core count)
-exThreads=# (# = your CPU's number of threads (Logical Processors) minus 1 thread)
-maxMem=# (# = XXGB of RAM x 1024MB [ex. 8GB x 1024MB = 8192, 16GB x 1024MB = 16,384, ect...])
-maxVram=# (# = XXGB of GPU VRAM x 1024MB [ex. 4GB x 1024MB = 4096, ect...])

[Ank Myrandor]

still no one wants to believe me , but it doesn't matter how many cores you have, I still crash with my 16-core 7950x.

I use a cpu-limiter and limit the game 4% cpu, and that fixes the crashing for me personally until they actually start to write a pc engine.

[ﮱﮔutex]

Similar to the OP, and it does seem to work.

Reset your graphics. save and shut down the game. Use the Geforce experience to set the graphics. Start the game, adjust settings to your liking; most of mine were on high, so I skipped that part and went with what GF suggested: save, shut down the game, and restart.

I had no crashes for at least a week, but I have not played since this patch cycle began, so time will tell.

[daCarter]

u just need to make it look like the old ark and mayby it doesnt crash anymore...

[Forbhidden]

Why is it on the user side to figure out these things? We payed good money for this game and so we should be supported by a dev team who cares about theyr game... oh, it's snail... the dev-house who has a certain reputation on beeing just cash-grabbers.


anyway. it's a shame that this game don't run propperly. i got an i9 3,5, 128gb ram and an 4090 and have lots of crashes on epic and/or medium settings too. tried almost every voodoo posted in uncountable threads about solving crash-probs and nothing really helped.

the tipps you gave here is for all the low-bob engines. i5 cpus, 20xx series graphiccards and similar to run the game with around 60fps but don't help to fix the crashes who are obviously on the dev side to fix.