System Requirements

[Detektor]

In the future, what type of Pc system needed to run this Ark game well?
Because I saw the system requirements of this game on Steam
and it was only the minimum system requirements there,
and I couldn't find the recommended specs.

[g0rml3ss]

Recomended pretty much atm is far from whats on the store page.

Currentyl to play the game at a decent rate with decent visuals you are looking at

any cpu from fx vishera (fx6300 and above) / ivory core i5 and upwards (game really isnt that demanding on the cpu) some of the pentium G series work well as do some of the recent i3's (skylake / kaby lake)

8gb memory altho 16gb is highly recommended

gtx 960 / 970 and above / AMD 290x and above.

[gamertaboo]

I sort of disagree in that I believe the game does benefit from a better CPU, at least a little bit. That's not to say older CPU's can't play the game, you just get better performance with these newer CPUs and their better IPC even if they aren't clocked super high.

The following specs are what I personally would call "recommended."

i5 6500
6GB GTX 1060
8GB DDR4 2133Mhz
SSD
Win 10 x64

They run the game like this on the High preset (@1080p):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CZFU0ohpQA

Which is fairly decent for this game, because it hasn't really been optimized yet.

As for what the recommended will be at the end there's no real way of telling. I don't think even the dev's know what they will be to be honest, which is probably why they haven't even put in a placeholder for them.

[g0rml3ss]

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

I sort of disagree in that I believe the game does benefit from a better CPU, at least a little bit. That's not to say older CPU's can't play the game, you just get better performance with these newer CPUs and their better IPC even if they aren't clocked super high.

The following specs are what I personally would call "recommended."

i5 6500
6GB GTX 1060
8GB DDR4 2133Mhz
SSD
Win 10 x64

They run the game like this on the High preset (@1080p):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CZFU0ohpQA

Which is fairly decent for this game, because it hasn't really been optimized yet.

As for what the recommended will be at the end there's no real way of telling. I don't think even the dev's know what they will be to be honest, which is probably why they haven't even put in a placeholder for them.

Nah run 3 diff cpu's here and all regardless of performance all sit at around 40%, all at stock speeds. The 8320 system starts to see stutter @ 1080p but I'm assuming this is down to the 8gb as when I put my sons card into my machine it runs fine, infact it made me realise just how much money I wasted on the R9 390 lol

i5 4690k, 32gb ram, R9 390, Samsung 850 evo
FX6300, 16gb ram, GTX 960 4gb Kingston SSD
FX8320 8gb ram, RX 480 8gb, No SSD

Granted my 4690k system should be leaps and bounds ahead of the other 2 which in every other game it is but in ark all 3 perform around the same using the same settings with the FX6300 / GTX 960 being slightly behind in fps.

I will add though that I don't find the pre-sets to be that great, you can get much better performance and maintain graphical quality with some tinkering.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by g0rml3ss:

Nah run 3 diff cpu's here and all regardless of performance all sit at around 40%, all at stock speeds. The 8320 system starts to see stutter @ 1080p but I'm assuming this is down to the 8gb as when I put my sons card into my machine it runs fine, infact it made me realise just how much money I wasted on the R9 390 lol

i5 4690k, 32gb ram, R9 390, Samsung 850 evo
FX6300, 16gb ram, GTX 960 4gb Kingston SSD
FX8320 8gb ram, RX 480 8gb, No SSD

Granted my 4690k system should be leaps and bounds ahead of the other 2 which in every other game it is but in ark all 3 perform around the same using the same settings with the FX6300 / GTX 960 being slightly behind in fps.

Same here, I play the game on my 5820k but I've tested the game on an FX-8320, i5 6500, and i7 920 and the older the CPU the worse performance. The i5 6500 and 5820k work about the same though. It doesn't have to be by a ton of FPS, but in this game every frame counts. And there is a ton of stuttering on the i7 920 and a bit on the FX-8320 at 1080p on my end as well that I would attribute to the CPU and not memory. The FX 8320 setup has 8GB of DDR3 and the i5 6500 has 8GB of DDR4 and the AMD CPU stutters while the Intel one has virtually no stuttering at all.

[DarthaNyan]

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

As for what the recommended will be at the end there's no real way of telling. I don't think even the dev's know what they will be to be honest, which is probably why they haven't even put in a placeholder for them.

Well, one can assume that Dual SLI GTX 1080 Ti, some OC-ed to 4k+ Latest Gen CPU, 16-32 Gb of DDR4 3200+ RAM and two M.2 SSD in Raid-0 would(should) run ARK decently in 1080p resolution.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by DarthaNyan:

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

As for what the recommended will be at the end there's no real way of telling. I don't think even the dev's know what they will be to be honest, which is probably why they haven't even put in a placeholder for them.

Well, one can assume that Dual SLI GTX 1080 Ti, some OC-ed to 4k+ Latest Gen CPU, 16-32 Gb of DDR4 3200+ RAM and two M.2 SSD in Raid-0 would(should) run ARK decently in 1080p resolution.

Lol at right this second I would say that setup might be able to max the game at 1080p....

But in all seriousness I don't think any single GPU setup can max this game even at only 1080p right now. So ya you definitely need two of something to get those Epic settings, at least in singleplayer.

[g0rml3ss]

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

Originally posted by g0rml3ss:

Nah run 3 diff cpu's here and all regardless of performance all sit at around 40%, all at stock speeds. The 8320 system starts to see stutter @ 1080p but I'm assuming this is down to the 8gb as when I put my sons card into my machine it runs fine, infact it made me realise just how much money I wasted on the R9 390 lol

i5 4690k, 32gb ram, R9 390, Samsung 850 evo
FX6300, 16gb ram, GTX 960 4gb Kingston SSD
FX8320 8gb ram, RX 480 8gb, No SSD

Granted my 4690k system should be leaps and bounds ahead of the other 2 which in every other game it is but in ark all 3 perform around the same using the same settings with the FX6300 / GTX 960 being slightly behind in fps.

Same here, I play the game on my 5820k but I've tested the game on an FX-8320, i5 6500, and i7 920 and the older the CPU the worse performance. The i5 6500 and 5820k work about the same though. It doesn't have to be by a ton of FPS, but in this game every frame counts. And there is a ton of stuttering on the i7 920 and a bit on the FX-8320 at 1080p on my end as well that I would attribute to the CPU and not memory. The FX 8320 setup has 8GB of DDR3 and the i5 6500 has 8GB of DDR4 and the AMD CPU stutters while the Intel one has virtually no stuttering at all.

8gb DDR 3 in the 8320 here too so that's interesting as they both stutter could be a bad combination, ill drop half of mine in and see if it still stutters with 16gb to check if it's the cpu. I'm not saying newer doesn't perform better, just saying I don't find it to be needed, while personally I'd recommend an unlocked haswell or above thats a personal preferance, but lesser still works well enough so I wouldn't not recommend it.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by g0rml3ss:

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

Same here, I play the game on my 5820k but I've tested the game on an FX-8320, i5 6500, and i7 920 and the older the CPU the worse performance. The i5 6500 and 5820k work about the same though. It doesn't have to be by a ton of FPS, but in this game every frame counts. And there is a ton of stuttering on the i7 920 and a bit on the FX-8320 at 1080p on my end as well that I would attribute to the CPU and not memory. The FX 8320 setup has 8GB of DDR3 and the i5 6500 has 8GB of DDR4 and the AMD CPU stutters while the Intel one has virtually no stuttering at all.

8gb DDR 3 in the 8320 here too so that's interesting as they both stutter could be a bad combination, ill drop half of mine in and see if it still stutters with 16gb to check if it's the cpu. I'm not saying newer doesn't perform better, just saying I don't find it to be needed, while personally I'd recommend an unlocked haswell or above thats a personal preferance, but lesser still works well enough so I wouldn't not recommend it.

Ya for sure, you can get by with any decent CPU in this game from the last 5 years or so with not a huge difference. But to get the best possible performance a newer overclocked Intel is probably the way to go.

I can't wait to see some benchmarks for this game using Ryzen CPUs though, I hope they do well.

[g0rml3ss]

Originally posted by gamertaboo:

Originally posted by g0rml3ss:

8gb DDR 3 in the 8320 here too so that's interesting as they both stutter could be a bad combination, ill drop half of mine in and see if it still stutters with 16gb to check if it's the cpu. I'm not saying newer doesn't perform better, just saying I don't find it to be needed, while personally I'd recommend an unlocked haswell or above thats a personal preferance, but lesser still works well enough so I wouldn't not recommend it.

Ya for sure, you can get by with any decent CPU in this game from the last 5 years or so with not a huge difference. But to get the best possible performance a newer overclocked Intel is probably the way to go.

I can't wait to see some benchmarks for this game using Ryzen CPUs though, I hope they do well.

Have to agree, will be good for the market for everyone if they perform well in gaming, I'm more looking forward to the i3 / i5 varients and how they perform what we've seen so far are great enthusiast cpu's but not everyone wants to dump £400 into cpu alone, so I think the next tier down will be important in terms of gaming performance.

[Detektor]

Thanks the infos, and descriptions.
Is i5-4460 (3.2 Ghz) maybe good for this game if I want to play on just medium settings?
I have:
Cpu : i5-4460
Gpu: R9-270X-Oc
Ram:8 GB DDR3

[g0rml3ss]

Originally posted by Detektor:

Thanks the infos, and descriptions.
Is i5-4460 (3.2 Ghz) maybe good for this game if I want to play on just medium settings?
I have:
Cpu : i5-4460
Gpu: R9-270X-Oc
Ram:8 GB DDR3

Cpu is fine, gpu should about manage medium with a few tweaks or a few sacrifices.

[gamertaboo]

Originally posted by Detektor:

Thanks the infos, and descriptions.
Is i5-4460 (3.2 Ghz) maybe good for this game if I want to play on just medium settings?
I have:
Cpu : i5-4460
Gpu: R9-270X-Oc
Ram:8 GB DDR3

Your CPU is great but the 270x will hold you back a bit in the FPS department. It will play somewhat like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZMbeZJ6lEA
(don't ask me why he doesn't gamma up, but it's daytime halfway through)

Somewhere around there. You'll get better performance on a server than singleplayer too, so keep that in mind.

[[OPC] LXR]

I have a brand new build:
CPU: AMD 8350
GPU: EVGA GTX 1050 ti
16GB DDR3 RAM
500GB SSD
With good internet and my gameplay is very jumpy, and get booted out a lot, even on the lowest setttings.

The system requirements are WAY too low...
I'm hoping another 16GB of RAM will do the trick...

[g0rml3ss]

Originally posted by OrthodoxPresby:

I have a brand new build:
CPU: AMD 8350
GPU: EVGA GTX 1050 ti
16GB DDR3 RAM
500GB SSD
With good internet and my gameplay is very jumpy, and get booted out a lot, even on the lowest setttings.

The system requirements are WAY too low...
I'm hoping another 16GB of RAM will do the trick...

More ram won't help youd be better off changing your gpu rx470/480/570/580 or 6gb 1060 (3gb if you really must). The 1050 was never intended to be a good gaming card unless you play alot of mobas.

[Speedbump]

Originally posted by OrthodoxPresby:

I have a brand new build:
CPU: AMD 8350
GPU: EVGA GTX 1050 ti
16GB DDR3 RAM
500GB SSD
With good internet and my gameplay is very jumpy, and get booted out a lot, even on the lowest setttings.

The system requirements are WAY too low...
I'm hoping another 16GB of RAM will do the trick...

That card and ram are fine. It's something else screwing you over.