Required specs to run ark at max settings?

[JoshieDoge]

So im just curious what are the specs required to run ark at max graphical settings with abt 60 fps. Anyone knows what it is? Also if possible please help to write price next to each component in USD

[Pisaro]

Автор сообщения: Trexdel

I'd like to add to this thread, as my system spec is rather high-end.

I'm running a 9900k @ 5GHz on a Z390 motherboard. RTX 3080. 64GB DDR4 Memory @ 3GHz. OS is installed on an nVME ssd, and ARK has its own dedicated nVME ssd.

At max settings I am CPU limited. When 12th gen drops, I will be upgrading. And when the 40-series drops, I will also probably be upgrading :3

I play in 4k (resolution slider at 70%) with a mix of High & Epic settings, and average 75-110 FPS with VSync disabled. My screen resolution is at 1440p, but by playing in 4K with the slider lowered, I am able to get good frames and the resulting image looks way better than an anti-aliased one. I keep my screen's refresh rate set to 60hz, and my ARK VSync enabled. This allows some GPU overhead that I can use for recording videos / NVENC encoding.

When you are at the highest end of PC hardware, you NEED to make one decision to maintain frames above 60fps - and that is: Do you want Epic View Distance with Medium Shadows? Or Epic Shadows with Medium View Distance?

Having both of these set to EPIC will render my frames down to a bubbling 40 fps, even at 1080p.

At this point, you run into limitations of the game engine itself - these limitations exist regardless of how good or bad your hardware is, and regardless of the graphics settings or resolution you play at. I've got two good examples of the game engine limiting framerates:

1) Massive bases. Your CPU & GPU usage will plummet, and your frames will drop drastically. The game engine cannot handle pumping out tonnes of frames while loading that many structures. Not sure why.

2) Travelling very quickly (on a flyer, usually). These frame issues are especially apparent on the map Aberration - where while gliding fast on a rock drake can bring my frames down into the 30s. This mostly due to world-loading, and the engine struggling to keep up with your travel.

Happy 2017 necro everyone :D

Cant believe that youre in a CPU Limit. I have a R9 5900X with a rtx 3080. On 3440x1440, GPU Usage is 99%. Not a single sign of CPU Limit here.

[Scott J.]

Running on 8K resolution, 240 fps on a CRAY supercomputer.

[Pisaro]

Funny thing: in "my" german ark Forum, one guy was saying: "i have round about 16 FPS and for me its smooth". Lol

[Hades]

Автор сообщения: Scott

Running on 8K resolution, 240 fps on a CRAY supercomputer.

Yeah, I find it inconceivable that he's CPU limited. Maybe he typo'ed because the GPU is what is doing all the heavy lifting for the... wait for it.. graphics.

[Batza]

I have 5600x/6800XT, playing on 3440x1440, I have all settings maxed out, except shadows on medium. I have a big base, and I get down to around 30 fps or less around my base. At other areas I get 60-120 fps. I want to check what settings I can lower to be able to up the quality of the shadows, at medium it looks atrocious, I never saw such bad shadows in any other game even on the lowest settings, this is kinda unacceptable. But I'm not touching view distance/texture quality, no way, maybe lowering anti-aliasing or volumetric clouds settings can help me a bit.

[[BRTD]Luewen]

Please stop necroing old threads, thank you.

[Hades]

Автор сообщения: BRTDLuewen

Please stop necroing old threads, thank you.

Stop reading threads that you aren't interested in.

It's actually very useful to see how the newer GPUs are performing versus the older ones back in 2017.

[Rimax®]

I have an 10700kf rtx 3070 and 32gb ram and 1tb black m.2 name western digital 750 and I get 100+ FPS depending what I’m doing at 1440p with settings at epic and high I take side panel off my pc when I play ark and it keeps gpu around 70c or else it cooks with this game lmao

[sashahellsing]

spend 10k and see what happens ?

[[BRTD]Luewen]

Автор сообщения: Hades

Автор сообщения: BRTDLuewen

Please stop necroing old threads, thank you.

Stop reading threads that you aren't interested in.

It's actually very useful to see how the newer GPUs are performing versus the older ones back in 2017.

Make a new thread in that case then.

[Hades]

Control freak much?

[Venox]

Автор сообщения: Frog Cat

So im just curious what are the specs required to run ark at max graphical settings with abt 60 fps. Anyone knows what it is? Also if possible please help to write price next to each component in USD

I don't think I can give you a clear answer since I was running mid/high/epic settings mix with my i7 6700k + 980 Ti and in some areas (especially my base) were dropping down to the mid 30s. Now I've got a 5900x + 3080 and that didn't really change much. Also had the game running on my nvme drive as well in both scenarios in any case you are wondering. So yeah, performance is messed up for this game.

Edit: I just saw someone nerco'd this thread. Good job for wasting my time.