Can someone explain why Ark is running so poorly when i have a decent PC?

[Chris-Chan]

GPU - Radeon RX 6800
CPU - Ryzen 7 5700G
RAM - 32 GBs


Even when i put all settings on low and put all foliage settings on low the game will only run run at max 5 FPS. Ive using the -USEALLAVAILABLECORES launch command. As well as trying to run it off an external hard drive but nothing i do helps the frame rate. I love ark but why cant they just optimize the game right. Would really love some feedback on advanced settings or something that will at least get the game to 30 FPS or something

[Want To Tree]

Unless you're running thunderbolt or something as an external, running the game off of an external drive would decrease your performance big time.

Are you using an SSD, which?

What motherboard and ram do you have?

When you say you put all the settings on low, what resolution are you trying to run at?

If you search FSR3 in the discussions / google FSR3 ark, apparently some people have been able to get it to work and it might give you a bit of a performance boost.

This game is horribly optimised as it stands, even though you're in recommended it just goes to show how bad... Seems people with Nvidia cards on recommended have had better luck but it seems most if not all are using frame generation to achieve that which ultimately means they are living with pretty bad input lag in order to play the game.

[Sarecho]

water/foliage physics engine uses up nearly as much resources as the rest of the game combined. just turn it off and it will run great on anything from the last 5 years.

[Chris-Chan]

Originally posted by Want To Tree:

Unless you're running thunderbolt or something as an external, running the game off of an external drive would decrease your performance big time.

Are you using an SSD, which?

What motherboard and ram do you have?

When you say you put all the settings on low, what resolution are you trying to run at?

If you search FSR3 in the discussions / google FSR3 ark, apparently some people have been able to get it to work and it might give you a bit of a performance boost.

This game is horribly optimised as it stands, even though you're in recommended it just goes to show how bad... Seems people with Nvidia cards on recommended have had better luck but it seems most if not all are using frame generation to achieve that which ultimately means they are living with pretty bad input lag in order to play the game.

im using a a regular sata for an hdd, but its honestly the same fps for etiher on a local or the external. For the motherboard im using a ROG STRIX b450-f gaming ii with 32 gbs of ram. it auto sets on 2560x1440 but ive never tried any other resolution settings.

[ksyslo]

Is your internal drive a hdd or ssd? The game requires a ssd.

[Want To Tree]

Originally posted by Chris-Chan:

im using a a regular sata for an hdd, but its honestly the same fps for etiher on a local or the external. For the motherboard im using a ROG STRIX b450-f gaming ii with 32 gbs of ram. it auto sets on 2560x1440 but ive never tried any other resolution settings.

When you say regular SATA, it's a magnetic spinning disk or an SSD drive? The latter being listed in both minimum and recommended, if you're running off an older disk drive it might be a part of your issues. Anyways, you'll definitely get lower FPS via an external as it simply cannot put through the same type of transfer speeds as a drive connected up to say, SATA would.

EDIT: You likely won't notice the difference of an external if the game is only running at 5fps.

Anyways, look into the console commands a bit too, as the other user pointed out, there are many than can help to get things running alot better.

I don't play it but often see people talking about these two:

r.VolumetricFog 0
r.VolumetricCloud 0

Which seem to improve the FPS quite a bit. I am sure there are many more, try to lookup some performance guides.

Also, you might need to try something lower than 2k to be honest, some other user was saying they could only really get some decent frames by running at 1080p upscaled to 2k via the AMD software. It seems with a Nivida 3080 2k is doable with some sacrifices but apparently not so much with the AMD recommended specs.

Run through the suggestions so far and see how what kinda of improvements can be made from that to start?

Either way this discussion is riddled with people complaining about performance and optimisation issues, that said you should be getting a lot better than 5fps so it definitely seems like something is wrong there.

[Lich Lord]

The AI generated frame rate stuff, make sure thats turned off. It seems to slow it down no matter what and with 32 gigs you dont need the fps "boost" i turned mine off and I went from 20-25fps to over 60 steady with just a GTX 4060

[Chris-Chan]

Originally posted by Want To Tree:

Originally posted by Chris-Chan:

im using a a regular sata for an hdd, but its honestly the same fps for etiher on a local or the external. For the motherboard im using a ROG STRIX b450-f gaming ii with 32 gbs of ram. it auto sets on 2560x1440 but ive never tried any other resolution settings.

When you say regular SATA, it's a magnetic spinning disk or an SSD drive? The latter being listed in both minimum and recommended, if you're running off an older disk drive it might be a part of your issues. Anyways, you'll definitely get lower FPS via an external as it simply cannot put through the same type of transfer speeds as a drive connected up to say, SATA would.

EDIT: You likely won't notice the difference of an external if the game is only running at 5fps.

Anyways, look into the console commands a bit too, as the other user pointed out, there are many than can help to get things running alot better.

I don't play it but often see people talking about these two:

r.VolumetricFog 0
r.VolumetricCloud 0

Which seem to improve the FPS quite a bit. I am sure there are many more, try to lookup some performance guides.

Also, you might need to try something lower than 2k to be honest, some other user was saying they could only really get some decent frames by running at 1080p upscaled to 2k via the AMD software. It seems with a Nivida 3080 2k is doable with some sacrifices but apparently not so much with the AMD recommended specs.

Run through the suggestions so far and see how what kinda of improvements can be made from that to start?

Either way this discussion is riddled with people complaining about performance and optimisation issues, that said you should be getting a lot better than 5fps so it definitely seems like something is wrong there.

Tried putting everything to 0 through commands. Still only runs at like 10 fps. im just gonna refund this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game until wildcard actually optimizes the game. which will probably never happen

[Sarecho]

Originally posted by Chris-Chan:

Originally posted by Want To Tree:

When you say regular SATA, it's a magnetic spinning disk or an SSD drive? The latter being listed in both minimum and recommended, if you're running off an older disk drive it might be a part of your issues. Anyways, you'll definitely get lower FPS via an external as it simply cannot put through the same type of transfer speeds as a drive connected up to say, SATA would.

EDIT: You likely won't notice the difference of an external if the game is only running at 5fps.

Anyways, look into the console commands a bit too, as the other user pointed out, there are many than can help to get things running alot better.

I don't play it but often see people talking about these two:

r.VolumetricFog 0
r.VolumetricCloud 0

Which seem to improve the FPS quite a bit. I am sure there are many more, try to lookup some performance guides.

Also, you might need to try something lower than 2k to be honest, some other user was saying they could only really get some decent frames by running at 1080p upscaled to 2k via the AMD software. It seems with a Nivida 3080 2k is doable with some sacrifices but apparently not so much with the AMD recommended specs.

Run through the suggestions so far and see how what kinda of improvements can be made from that to start?

Either way this discussion is riddled with people complaining about performance and optimisation issues, that said you should be getting a lot better than 5fps so it definitely seems like something is wrong there.

Tried putting everything to 0 through commands. Still only runs at like 10 fps. im just gonna refund this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game until wildcard actually optimizes the game. which will probably never happen

stop being dramatic and turn off the water and foliage physics. i can get 60fps at 1080p, DLSS quality with a 5 year old rig, pretty sure anyone with 6gb of vram and a CPU from the last 8 years can get 30 by doing this

[Dradiin]

OP i was running a top of the line 7900XtX, and i ended up swapping my wifes 4080s mainly so i could play ASA, since she doesn't.

Sadly thats all it took for me to play ASA decently... sad really cause any other Unreal Engine 5 game ran stellar with the AMD card, it has only been ASA.

As i have mentioned in other threads.... AMD GPUs are in the PS5 and Xbox-S/X they had to optimize the consoles.... Where is this optimization for the PC ????

[DarkHalls]

Because your gpu is not powerful enough
Also the game is designed to use dlss and frame gen so it's really an Nvidia game

[JB-emmanuel-Zorg]

Originally posted by Dradiin:

i ended up swapping my wifes 4080s mainly so i could play ASA, since she doesn't.

It's considered like maltreatment... #MeToo ASA

[Want To Tree]

Originally posted by Dradiin:

As i have mentioned in other threads.... AMD GPUs are in the PS5 and Xbox-S/X they had to optimize the consoles.... Where is this optimization for the PC ????

If I recall correctly, I remember people saying that the game when purchased via ms/xbox actually runs way better for them. So is likely down to optimisation for AMD GPUs yeah.

Originally posted by Chris-Chan:

Tried putting everything to 0 through commands. Still only runs at like 10 fps. im just gonna refund this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game until wildcard actually optimizes the game. which will probably never happen

Good call, literally a waste of time anyways. 1mn other things that you could be doing besides being Arked.

[Battlew]

( Why there are so many out of topic comments nowdays? if you are not bringing any usefull info just go spam somewhere else ) .
now to the point: as Drodiin already said, the game just *sucks* on Amd. easy truth. I myself own an amd card.
Wanna know more? 4 months ago the game was running smooth on amd videocard aswell. I had 60fps stable on my rx 6600 with average setting. Then they released a patch that completely messed up the performance. The game never recovered since then. Now i have from 10 to 30fps.
I have stopped to play because of this.
I also have the impression they are trying to hide this simple fact ( game not optimized for amd ), but this is the simple truth.
ps: there was a tread on the official website 4months ago about the cursed patch that ruined the performance

[Steve]

Originally posted by Chris-Chan:

GPU - Radeon RX 6800
CPU - Ryzen 7 5700G
RAM - 32 GBs


Even when i put all settings on low and put all foliage settings on low the game will only run run at max 5 FPS. Ive using the -USEALLAVAILABLECORES launch command. As well as trying to run it off an external hard drive but nothing i do helps the frame rate. I love ark but why cant they just optimize the game right. Would really love some feedback on advanced settings or something that will at least get the game to 30 FPS or something

I can, but you're not going to like the answer.

Game's not optimized yet. That's a step that happens (generally speaking) post-content. You wanna get as much crap shoehorned into a game before you do your optimization pass, esp. if you're developing for multiple platforms and esp. if one of those platforms is PC. Every one of us here is quite likely to have a slightly different configuration.

That's not to say that it won't be optimized at all along the way. We're just not even a year into the development cycle yet and there's so much damned content left to go just to get back to square one -- and that's WITHOUT these stops along the way for things like Bob's Tall Tales and, for whatever reason, the freakin' Power Rangers.

[Sarecho]

just turn off water and foliage physics, if you can't run it at 30FPS at that point, your computer is old enough to be in 3rd grade