Really bad lighting issues, game looks like Minecraft. RTX 4070

[Aushyro]

Hi all,

I have this issue that most of the lighting is at the same level. Wether i'm in a cave, in a base, or just outside. The game looks 'pale'. Also in caves it seems like all repeated textures and everything is at the same lighting level. Also inside my base the light is flickering sometimes, like a disco.

Things I tried to fix the issue:

- Reinstalled NVIDIA driver (including switching from Studio to Game ready drivers and also a clean install)
- Played with all settings possible in the graphic settings in-game;
- low, medium, high, epic.
- Turning frame generation on/of
- Changing anti alias from native to FSR and DLSS
- Use super resolution yes/no
- and so on, and so on
- Verified game files through steam
- Tried to add "-culture=en" parameter (to fix missing RTX option in graphic settings, cause It seems I'm missing that as well).
- Reset game options and/or graphic settings in Settings menu (SOMETIMES, (1 out of 20 tries) after doing this i'm very lucky to have the lighting fixed, but it is only once and after the game restarts or when I play the game the day after, I have the same issue again.
- Renamed "Saved" folder to "Saved_Old" (Inside "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ARK Survival Ascended\ShooterGame") to completely wipe all settings the hard way and restart the game.
- Through NVIDIA GeForce Experience played with the Game settings and set it to "Optimal" or "Epic" settings, but that does only change the in-game settings in ARK and does not fix the issue either.

Please see clip below as an example: (The Center, top of map, inside a cave in lava Island during daylight).

https://youtu.be/sEK-CT5lOQs

[Ferchi]

i think the problem is the center map, the map has square textures, was made by some modder and a bit finished by the Wildcard team

[Aushyro]

Originally posted by 💀:

i think the problem is the center map, the map has square textures, was made by some modder and a bit finished by the Wildcard team

True, but if the lighting is fixed, the repeated textures would not even be noticeable right?