advice before purchase

[Bacara 1138]

hello, a lot of comments mention poor optimization and crashes in Ascended when it is today in July 2024. Is the game finally well optimized? and without crash?

[CrazedTrucker]

O , hell no lol BUT , the crashing and lockups are almost random who they hit, 2 people with the exact same machine , 1 will run fine and the other will want to throw their pc out a 2nd story window lol , I say give it a shot , if it acts up you have what 2 hours to refund? so really nuthing lost.

[Bar]

they will never ever optimize ever. they never did for ase and i guarantee you they will never bother with it in asa either. every server save(which is often) on official servers lag and the lag gets worse the longer the server world ages as more things are built and tamed. was like that on ase and i dont see it ever changing on asa. this games pretty much just a copy paste of ase, including all the ase bugs, onto a better engine.

[Bacara 1138]

thank you for your feedback. I'm going to take a step back before purchasing 😂

[Punkface]

Game runs beautifully, Bacara 1138.

The issue is Ark: Survival Ascended requires a quite powerful computer and a decent understanding and comprehension of how your computer's hardware functions and its limitations.

The vast majority of folks experiencing issues are rather limited in their computer's raw power, and despite what they may cry and complain about, they haven't the slightest grasp on how computer gaming works or their hardware limitations.

As long as you know your PC's hardware and how to properly setup a video game that gives the user an immense amount of options to customize your desired visual quality, you'll be all set and the game will run amazingly well. Just go in understanding your limitations and be prepared to disable and turn down quite a few graphical options to better suit your computer's limitations.

Now, if you go in all high and mighty thinkin' your $800 pre-built PC from Best Buy or MicroCenter should be able to handle everything at max settings, you're in for a rude awakening. Ark: Survival Ascended utilizes a great deal of new technology and allows the user an immense amount of freedom to program said settings.

Best of luck to you! I would highly recommend not listening to a substantial amount of reviews. Most players haven't the faintest clue how their PC functions or what limitations they may have. Not understanding that Ark: Survival Ascended doesn't just "work" out of the box, and they allow the user to dictate their gaming experience.

[Ferchi]

Originally posted by Punkface:

Game runs beautifully, Bacara 1138.

The issue is Ark: Survival Ascended requires a quite powerful computer and a decent understanding and comprehension of how your computer's hardware functions and its limitations.

The vast majority of folks experiencing issues are rather limited in their computer's raw power, and despite what they may cry and complain about, they haven't the slightest grasp on how computer gaming works or their hardware limitations.

As long as you know your PC's hardware and how to properly setup a video game that gives the user an immense amount of options to customize your desired visual quality, you'll be all set and the game will run amazingly well. Just go in understanding your limitations and be prepared to disable and turn down quite a few graphical options to better suit your computer's limitations.

Now, if you go in all high and mighty thinkin' your $800 pre-built PC from Best Buy or MicroCenter should be able to handle everything at max settings, you're in for a rude awakening. Ark: Survival Ascended utilizes a great deal of new technology and allows the user an immense amount of freedom to program said settings.

Best of luck to you! I would highly recommend not listening to a substantial amount of reviews. Most players haven't the faintest clue how their PC functions or what limitations they may have. Not understanding that Ark: Survival Ascended doesn't just "work" out of the box, and they allow the user to dictate their gaming experience.

That's not true even the servers go down globally and constantly, and so lagged only with 30 players, even those who were playing in single player had their game broken by the latest updates.
The only good optimization we can have is up to Unreal Engine 5.4
Unfortunately, it's scheduled for some time in "summer" (maybe august)

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

Originally posted by Punkface:

Game runs beautifully, Bacara 1138.

The issue is Ark: Survival Ascended requires a quite powerful computer and a decent understanding and comprehension of how your computer's hardware functions and its limitations.

The vast majority of folks experiencing issues are rather limited in their computer's raw power, and despite what they may cry and complain about, they haven't the slightest grasp on how computer gaming works or their hardware limitations.

As long as you know your PC's hardware and how to properly setup a video game that gives the user an immense amount of options to customize your desired visual quality, you'll be all set and the game will run amazingly well. Just go in understanding your limitations and be prepared to disable and turn down quite a few graphical options to better suit your computer's limitations.

Now, if you go in all high and mighty thinkin' your $800 pre-built PC from Best Buy or MicroCenter should be able to handle everything at max settings, you're in for a rude awakening. Ark: Survival Ascended utilizes a great deal of new technology and allows the user an immense amount of freedom to program said settings.

Best of luck to you! I would highly recommend not listening to a substantial amount of reviews. Most players haven't the faintest clue how their PC functions or what limitations they may have. Not understanding that Ark: Survival Ascended doesn't just "work" out of the box, and they allow the user to dictate their gaming experience.

This reads like AI...

[silentark]

Originally posted by Bacara 1138:

hello, a lot of comments mention poor optimization and crashes in Ascended when it is today in July 2024. Is the game finally well optimized? and without crash?

Compared with the crashes at the very beginning it is much better now (talking for myself only). I have rare crashes. I don't play on ultra or high settings, medium to low is sufficient for me. Even if some players might call me a fool, for me the graphic details are less worth than the content to have fun. It is not only in ASA, I reduce settings in all games.

I agree to others that it is very much depending on the hardware if the system crashes or not. I definitely recommend playing on an SSD with at least 2 terabyte. However, please keep in mind that the SSD alone is not a guarantee for non-crashing.

Regarding the optimization ... I think that optimization will never be finished. ASA has so much content that there will always be hickups. Read the patchnotes to get an impression of what the devs do in that direction. You are the only one who can decide if it is "well optimized" enough for you.

[GobboKirk]

Originally posted by Bar:

they will never ever optimize ever. they never did for ase and i guarantee you they will never bother with it in asa either. every server save(which is often) on official servers lag and the lag gets worse the longer the server world ages as more things are built and tamed. was like that on ase and i dont see it ever changing on asa. this games pretty much just a copy paste of ase, including all the ase bugs, onto a better engine.

Someone didn't play ASE at launch that's for sure....

[CrazedTrucker]

Originally posted by Punkface:

Game runs beautifully, Bacara 1138.

The issue is Ark: Survival Ascended requires a quite powerful computer and a decent understanding and comprehension of how your computer's hardware functions and its limitations.

The vast majority of folks experiencing issues are rather limited in their computer's raw power, and despite what they may cry and complain about, they haven't the slightest grasp on how computer gaming works or their hardware limitations.

As long as you know your PC's hardware and how to properly setup a video game that gives the user an immense amount of options to customize your desired visual quality, you'll be all set and the game will run amazingly well. Just go in understanding your limitations and be prepared to disable and turn down quite a few graphical options to better suit your computer's limitations.

Now, if you go in all high and mighty thinkin' your $800 pre-built PC from Best Buy or MicroCenter should be able to handle everything at max settings, you're in for a rude awakening. Ark: Survival Ascended utilizes a great deal of new technology and allows the user an immense amount of freedom to program said settings.

Best of luck to you! I would highly recommend not listening to a substantial amount of reviews. Most players haven't the faintest clue how their PC functions or what limitations they may have. Not understanding that Ark: Survival Ascended doesn't just "work" out of the box, and they allow the user to dictate their gaming experience.

Sorry but most of this is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ , NO OTHER GAME I OWN requires me to go in and undervoltage my cpu , or gpu , or disable gpu settings or add lines of code to it's ini file or tweak nvidia settings or setting in my display settings for it to be reuired to make the game work properly.
I literally haven't had to do any of this since the days of KALI.net when we had to tweak dhcp /tcp settings to play diablo1 or warcraft2 lol. Yes I've been gaming that long..

This game out of the box has been the absolute biggest headache since New World was bricking video cards a couple of yrs ago.
Yes it does require a somewhat beefy rig to play , and that is understandable since games have come a long way in the last 2-3 yrs and video cards have made huge strides to make that possible BUT to say people need a deep understanding is a far stretch, NO ONE should have to do the things we do just to play the dam game.

argue all you want , but this game should not require a 2 yr degree in hardware engineering to make it work.

[CrazedTrucker]

Originally posted by Bacara 1138:

thank you for your feedback. I'm going to take a step back before purchasing 😂

I don't know you're rig's spec's BUT if you're over the min requirements and you loved ase , you're gonna love this one, if you're one of the lucky ones like me who it runs for fine and looks great on mid settings with 60 fps , you'll be fine.

you get a 2 hour window to refund , I say grab it , try it and if it doesn't grab you or it starts crashing and you don't feel good making some settings adjustments then refund it , no harm , no foul.

[Bacara 1138]

Thank you all for your opinions and feedback. I bought the game, unfortunately and despite having a rather solid configuration. The game crashed 5 times in 45 minutes.

[GobboKirk]

Originally posted by Bacara 1138:

Thank you all for your opinions and feedback. I bought the game, unfortunately and despite having a rather solid configuration. The game crashed 5 times in 45 minutes.

Not the best first impression for sure hehe.
YMMW there but at least you gave it a shot.

[Bacara 1138]

fortunately steam refund 😂

[CrazedTrucker]

Originally posted by Bacara 1138:

fortunately steam refund 😂

That sucks , sorry to hear that. The new baby imprint system is what pushed it over the top for me lol , baby brontos are so friggin cute lol

[GobboKirk]

Originally posted by Bacara 1138:

fortunately steam refund 😂

That's working as intended in this case for sure :)