f*ck you wild card

[Miko]

i have a PC that cost 6000 bucks and i'm crashing every 5 seconds in this stupid fking game, it's insane that in 2024 to have a game like this, how could they dare make me pay for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game when survival evolved was 100 times better, f*ck you.

[Anndy578]

sounds like a skill issue

[YosemiteBear]

sounds like everything went into your monitor,keyboard,mouse,chair,desk and controller but i agree with the f wildcard

[Darksaint]

First off nobody made you pay for it. You decided to support it in Eartly access. Secondly, if your pc is 6k you made some wrong decisions. Thirdly, sounds like you dont know how to utilize your pc. IE:
skill issue. Look at the error log and go from there. You'll be playing in no time.

[Captain]

Originally posted by Miko:

i have a PC that cost 6000 bucks and i'm crashing every 5 seconds in this stupid ♥♥♥♥♥ game, it's insane that in 2024 to have a game like this, how could they dare make me pay for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game when survival evolved was 100 times better, f*ck you.

I have a $2,500 PC and the game runs fine.

How exactly did they "make" you pay for this. Take some personal responsibility. If you enjoyed evolved why did "you" "choose" to buy this?

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by Miko:

i have a PC that cost 6000 bucks and i'm crashing every 5 seconds in this stupid ♥♥♥♥♥ game, it's insane that in 2024 to have a game like this, how could they dare make me pay for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game when survival evolved was 100 times better, f*ck you.

What does it say when you crash?

Is it a D3D hung issue? I get that all the time from the stupid clouds and fog.

Try turning off volumetric crap with:
"r.volumetricfog 0"
"r.volumetriccloud 0"
"r.vsync 1" (if you want vsync at 60hz to avoid screen tearing)
"r.fog 0" (helps clear up the view also)


Unfortunately and for unfathomably wise reasons these settings don't stick so you'll have to type them in each time you play.

[dac63]

I built my own system for 1/5 of that and it runs Ark Ascended great. It's your system not the game.

[BlueSushi]

My PC is ~$2,000 and runs ASA perfectly fine on the highest settings. Definitely sounds like there's something going on with the system, just because it's expensive doesn't mean it's the best option.

[Scooby Doo]

Originally posted by Miko:

i have a PC that cost 6000 bucks and i'm crashing every 5 seconds in this stupid ♥♥♥♥♥ game, it's insane that in 2024 to have a game like this, how could they dare make me pay for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game when survival evolved was 100 times better, f*ck you.

Oh WOW!!!! You have a computer someone talked you into spending $6,000 on? I paid LESS than half of that and I can run this game with almost no crashes.
Like a car or a house, it is not about how much you pay for it. What the PC is built with is all that matters. Sounds like your PC was not built with the best hardware all that money can buy. That or you spent all that money about 10yrs ago. LMAO.

[tomsummit]

Originally posted by Captain:

Originally posted by Miko:

i have a PC that cost 6000 bucks and i'm crashing every 5 seconds in this stupid ♥♥♥♥♥ game, it's insane that in 2024 to have a game like this, how could they dare make me pay for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game when survival evolved was 100 times better, f*ck you.

I have a $2,500 PC and the game runs fine.

How exactly did they "make" you pay for this. Take some personal responsibility. If you enjoyed evolved why did "you" "choose" to buy this?

I just have to say this type of response serves zero purpose. Captain did you not deal with the same BS that everyone else did? If you don't remember they shut down every Official Evolved surver forcing people to either buy Ascended which they had previously promised to us all for free or just stop playing. Sorry to be a Richard Cranium but comments like this piss me off because they are just condescending nonsense, considering the history of Ark over the past 5+ years and the constinuous broken promises and shortcomings from Wildcard.

This game was rated as the worst optimized game of the year on some sites that test games so this guy does have a reason to be frustrated at the terrible performance and constant crashes. As I write this I could be playing but every time Wildcard pushes out a new patch they are too stupid and lazy to actually test their code before dumping it onto the world. I am a Software Quality Assurance Engineer by trade and if a developer pushes bad code to the repo breaking everything too many times they get fired from almost any dev job. Wildcard pushes broken code to the end user almost every time they make a patch or update. That means the issue is far bigger than just one or 2 devs.

[Yado]

I have a $2,500 PC and the game runs fine.
50-60 FPS with high/epic quality (rtx 4070ti + i9-12900k)
It's your problem, not wild card problem.

[Lich Lord]

Originally posted by tomsummit:

Originally posted by Captain:

I have a $2,500 PC and the game runs fine.

How exactly did they "make" you pay for this. Take some personal responsibility. If you enjoyed evolved why did "you" "choose" to buy this?

I just have to say this type of response serves zero purpose. Captain did you not deal with the same BS that everyone else did? If you don't remember they shut down every Official Evolved surver forcing people to either buy Ascended which they had previously promised to us all for free or just stop playing. Sorry to be a Richard Cranium but comments like this piss me off because they are just condescending nonsense, considering the history of Ark over the past 5+ years and the constinuous broken promises and shortcomings from Wildcard.

This game was rated as the worst optimized game of the year on some sites that test games so this guy does have a reason to be frustrated at the terrible performance and constant crashes. As I write this I could be playing but every time Wildcard pushes out a new patch they are too stupid and lazy to actually test their code before dumping it onto the world. I am a Software Quality Assurance Engineer by trade and if a developer pushes bad code to the repo breaking everything too many times they get fired from almost any dev job. Wildcard pushes broken code to the end user almost every time they make a patch or update. That means the issue is far bigger than just one or 2 devs.

They also originally pitched Atlas as an expansion for Ark then broke it off to a separate game. All they did was shut down official servers on ASE...Who the hell actually plays official servers?

We all agree Wildcard bad, but Ark too good to care Wild Card bad so we buy Ark 1 Ark 1/2 and will buy Ark 2 if ever released.
Either enjoy the game or don't.

But to the OP I had the same issue on my PC, the problem was frame generation and DLSS, just turn those off and it will not crash. My wifes brand new computer can run it on Ultra no issues, she had the same exact issue because DLSS and frame generation were on. Volumetric lighting was not the issue but did make the water look scary as ♥♥♥♥ to swim in compared to mine having it turned off.

[123]

SIMPLE FIX FOR HIGHEND PCs:
clock down your cpu. i have a intel 13900k and make from 6000MHz to 5200MHz in mainboard settings when you start the pc.

[Hocane]

Then something with your pc is wrong.
I only have a 2700$ PC and my game never crashes

[Boomer]

Originally posted by 123:

SIMPLE FIX FOR HIGHEND PCs:
clock down your cpu. i have a intel 13900k and make from 6000MHz to 5200MHz in mainboard settings when you start the pc.

Never even had to bother with that. The only thing that was causing me grief early on was Global Illumation, but that issue has been patched months ago.

[Hocane]

People thinking by just throwing away money everything will be fine.
No. You need components that work well with eachother.
Seen a bunch of people having issues with the 4090 because their choice of cpu and ram is horrible and end up bottlenecking their heavy gpu