why is this game always updating?

[Link316]

the game needs to be updated constantly and it pretty much patches over the entire game every single time no matter what they update. this is not normal.

[AntiFan]

Originally posted by Link316:

Originally posted by ghostlyavatar:

Unless W.C. are complete total idiots, this patch will also fix the other half of the population with AMD cards to get on Aberration.

i think it has to do with W.C. being idiots, the original ark always updated like this too, i just dont understand it, no other games in any of my libraries do patches like Ark does.

Yeah, Ark has always been ridiculous - ASE or ASA with updates. That's one of the issues with static maps / assets is that there could be lots of tiny changes that snowball into huge updates since these maps are ginormous in file size.

[Zerynthia]

Mainly because the game is not properly optimized for the best performance....

[Diernayr]

I gave up, un-installed and re-installed to C drive. 150 gb 10 hour download for me :(

[Sutsko]

Stuck on 1% for hours, and now its Trying to download the whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game again. I swear ♥♥♥♥ should be removed from steam.

[Citizen]

Also stuck on 1% here. Must be an update of some significant importance.

They couldn't have seen this coming, because they did a lot of testing obviously. /s

[Swiftstickler]

Every time there is new big content released I turn off automatic updates for this game and just uninstall and reinstall.

[Diernayr]

Turns out my Abberation release day is Sep 7....maybe, ugh.

[Zokey]

I literally have to reinstall the game every time bc it takes the same amount of time to do that as it does to patch... No other game does this. ♥♥♥♥ company

[Raggedy Annie]

I'd rather a game actively being updated then one that just gets abandoned.

[Anndy578]

Originally posted by NoPain:

I can't even download cause it says that i don't have free space (it needs 3.2gb and i have 90gb free space) Do you guys have same issue?

that's because of Steam. you need double the size of the game because Steam basically makes a copy of the game when it applies an update then moves that to overwrite the actual install folder

[Oblivion]

lol i had no problem updating the game, took like 5min and done. no issue.. maybe you guys should stop blaming the devs and maybe look at your pc/connection?

[Parthenaxx]

Originally posted by Diernayr:

Mine is stuck at 1% installing with a year ETA. Wth

XD see you next year!

[Sarecho]

Originally posted by Zerynthia:

Mainly because the game is not properly optimized for the best performance....

you're just saying what you've heard, you don't really know what it means. very few games are optimized worth a damn anymore because they really can't be. you gonna optimize it for PC or console or maybe a high end PC or low end PC? all you really want is for stuff to work, and it does, but they don't set it up properly by default and they don't tell you how to do it.

new games REQUIRE frame gen and upscaling or you'll have a bad time. the tech is GREAT and performance/quality both go up if it's set up properly.

-windowed fullscreen
-cap FPS to half your monitor refresh rate (no less than 30, no more than half your refresh)
-DLSS on quality (balanced is fine but should't be necessary, DLAA turns off frame gen)
-VSYNC ON (can ONLY be on in-game and can ONLY be the ON setting, all others break it)
-i'd turn off water/foliage physics since they eat 30fps by themselves and only let bushes/trees wiggle a little in the "wind" or when you're near them, or the water on the beach will move as you run through. trees falling over, water physics elsewhere are still on)
-it wouldn't hurt a thing to set up a pagefile of 20-60gb either, it's something done in skyrim modding that reduces stutter from RAM/CPU being nailed to 100% at any point and just creates some headroom that will smooth things out, it should be on the drive ASA is on, i have mine set to 40960 (top and bottom box, that's 40gb)
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-pagefile-windows-10,36929.html

2070s 8GB VRAM
ryzen 7 3800x
32gb RAM
NVMe
1080p
constant 60 fps everywhere, only stutters i get are related to -preventhibernation and normally only during the first load of a cell/area with 50 mods (i'm adding like 40 new dino types, it's heavy on SP)

if it's set up perfectly, it DOES work, they just do a horrible job helping anyone out who doesn't know how to mess with FSR3 (i've been messing with it daily for weeks in other games like skyrim (puredark's FSR3 mod) and RDR2 (same)

[Link316]

Originally posted by Raggedy Annie:

I'd rather a game actively being updated then one that just gets abandoned.

Thats not the discussion. Read the post.

[AntiFan]

Originally posted by Zokey:

I literally have to reinstall the game every time bc it takes the same amount of time to do that as it does to patch... No other game does this. ♥♥♥♥ company

Maybe time for a new drive? Are you using a HDD, SSD or NVME SSD? Some of these patches could be one or two gigabytes but patch upwards of 100 GB of data which is drive heavy / time consuming but light on the download requirements. A faster NVME drive will cut down on the time needed by a lot if your system supports it.