Video settings for better gameplay (less crashes)

[Bacon Overlord®]

D3Dhung...

Yeah.. This fixed it for me. Unfortunately you have to setup a macro or type it yourself every time you play though.

"r.volumetricfog 0"
"r.volumetriccloud 0"
"r.fog 0"
"r.vsync 1"

The last two just help with less screen tearing (if you have a large monitor and want it at 60hz) and also clears up the fog that creeps in.

[Sahayak]

Turning off the fog makes the game visibly worse looking. A lot of people can just adjust to a more moderate setting (like 200 instead of the default 1000) and get much improved performance without losing all of the beauty.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Looks far better to me without all the fog and clouds.

But, that works since it also crashes far less on my 4090.

[Veeshan]

I'll be leaving the clouds and fog on since that's a huge part of the point of the upgrade, but I'll give that vsync command a try since it doesn't seem to be working forced through my GPU program.

[Ferchi]

Almost everything in the game is ugly: fog, clouds, bloom, watter, lighting, rocks, and shadows still broken, ther are more good comands for FPS and visuals:

r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0
r.BloomQuality 0
r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0

and the best, Command to remove floating rocks:
grass.sizescale 0

if you use the character |
you can just copy and paste the commands more easy

r.volumetricfog 0 | r.volumetriccloud 0 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.BloomQuality 0 | r.fog 0 | r.vsync 1 | r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0 | grass.sizescale 0

[servantOfJESUS]

r.VolumetricCloud 0
r.VolumetricFog 0
r.ShadowQuality 0
r.LightShaftQuality 0
r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0
r.DistanceFieldShadowing 0
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 0
r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0
r.MipMapLODBias 1
r.Streaming.PoolSize 0 (unlocks gpu memory)
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16
r.Fog 0
grass.sizeScale 0
ark.ConvertGroundClutter 0
show GlobalIllumination
show LumenGlobalIllumination
show TemporalAA
show InstancedStaticMeshes
stat fps
gamma 2.2 (in the daytime)
gamma 2.7 (twilight)
gamma 3.1 (night)


you can use an .ini for this or like me i enter it all each time i login, but

just press ~ twice, and then you can just press "up" or "down" to re-enter each of these


edit:
i will test r.BloomQuality 0 and r.vsync and update this post afterwords

after the game updates probably will be tommorow ^^

edit edit:

i think vsync is on 0 already by default
and bloom also disabled in the graphics options

[Veeshan]

Seriously. Just redownload ASE. No need for any commands. /eyeroll

[Stabby]

FYI, if you play on a modded cluster the owner/admin can add this to the R radial menu. We have ours set to the below tilde prompt. No need to copy/paste. Ever. See an example of this in action on the ArkVader cluster. Check the Center Vanilla or Forglar Vanilla maps. Those are the two I play on the cluster and they for sure have this set up. Hold down R once you're in the game.

r.VolumetricFog 0 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2 | r.DistanceFieldShadowing 1 | r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.ContactShadows 0 | r.SkylightIntensityMultiplier 3 | r.VolumetricSky 0 | r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.Grass.SizeScale 0.2

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by Stabby:

FYI, if you play on a modded cluster the owner/admin can add this to the R radial menu. We have ours set to the below tilde prompt. No need to copy/paste. Ever. See an example of this in action on the ArkVader cluster. Check the Center Vanilla or Forglar Vanilla maps. Those are the two I play on the cluster and they for sure have this set up. Hold down R once you're in the game.

r.VolumetricFog 0 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2 | r.DistanceFieldShadowing 1 | r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.ContactShadows 0 | r.SkylightIntensityMultiplier 3 | r.VolumetricSky 0 | r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.Grass.SizeScale 0.2

Which mod is he using?

[Bacon Overlord®]

Originally posted by servantOfJESUS:

r.VolumetricCloud 0
r.VolumetricFog 0
r.ShadowQuality 0
r.LightShaftQuality 0
r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0
r.DistanceFieldShadowing 0
r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.Allow 0
r.Water.SingleLayer.Reflection 0
r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow 0
r.MipMapLODBias 1
r.Streaming.PoolSize 0 (unlocks gpu memory)
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 2
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.RadianceCache.ProbeResolution 16
r.Fog 0
grass.sizeScale 0
ark.ConvertGroundClutter 0
show GlobalIllumination
show LumenGlobalIllumination
show TemporalAA
show InstancedStaticMeshes
stat fps
gamma 2.2 (in the daytime)
gamma 2.7 (twilight)
gamma 3.1 (night)


you can use an .ini for this or like me i enter it all each time i login, but

just press ~ twice, and then you can just press "up" or "down" to re-enter each of these


edit:
i will test r.BloomQuality 0 and r.vsync and update this post afterwords

after the game updates probably will be tommorow ^^

edit edit:

i think vsync is on 0 already by default
and bloom also disabled in the graphics options

I can confirm Vsync is disabled by default since I have a 55" monitor and have to turn it on every single time I play ARK.
And bloom/lightshafts are controlled by the options menu.

[Stabby]

Originally posted by Bacon Overlord®:

Originally posted by Stabby:

FYI, if you play on a modded cluster the owner/admin can add this to the R radial menu. We have ours set to the below tilde prompt. No need to copy/paste. Ever. See an example of this in action on the ArkVader cluster. Check the Center Vanilla or Forglar Vanilla maps. Those are the two I play on the cluster and they for sure have this set up. Hold down R once you're in the game.

r.VolumetricFog 0 | r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 2 | r.DistanceFieldShadowing 1 | r.Shadow.Virtual.Enable 0 | r.Shadow.CSM.MaxCascades 0 | r.ContactShadows 0 | r.SkylightIntensityMultiplier 3 | r.VolumetricSky 0 | r.VolumetricCloud 0 | r.Grass.SizeScale 0.2

Which mod is he using?

I honestly don't know. Sorry. I'm just a dumb artist. You can ask Bman or Slim in this Discord: https://discord.gg/gZ6avsvyuf