game doesn't want to start .. please help

[TheMystic6]

ark just started to not launch for some reason, and i didnt even really do anything but remove one mod.. but its weird; the game actually appears to have launched in the Task Manager, and Steam says that the app is running, but i never get the window on the task bar or anything.. BUT, when i launch the game from its directory, it works...????? and on top of that, when i launch from the directory, i get two audio tracks, both playing the same ark title screen song..... please help.

thanks

EDIT: btw, i did try restarting my PC, i am using mods, i am using launch params, but the mods i have shouldn't have affected anything, and the launch params havent been changed since i made them which was faaar before this happened

[Surviva 777]

Here's a comment that I gave 5 other people having the same issue, hope this helps...^^

1. Go to ARK Survival Evolved in your STEAM library, right click on ARK and select "properties". Then Select "set launch options"
Make sure to put this in the launch options, this will highly increase better FPS/framerate/loading speed in ARK.

Put this in set launch options...

-USEALLAVAILABLECORES -sm4 -d3d10 -nomansky -lowmemory -novsync

After that's done, play with ARK's screen resolution and put all other settings on lowest with advanced settings completely off.

You don't have to put everything on lowest and all the advanced settings off which is OPTIONAL, only if you computer is good enough ^^

The launch options does make the game run allot better but it will make ARK in graphics look worse that it is, but it will fix the game and make it run allot better.

The ARK files like Ageagainst mentioned in his comment above, can corrupt the files and here's why...

1. If you have too many ACTIVE mods in play with too much disk space
2. Your computer doesn't qualify to play the game (that's why I mentioned to try what I said above, but I do have other solutions to help you out down below mentioned.)

You can copy the ARK files and delete the old ones and paste them back again, this sometimes fixes it, you won't lose anything, it will be like playing a new game with better boost performance, but you just don't have to start over. This was something that I had to do as well unfortunetely.

You can also get a software to boost performance if you check what graphics card your computer uses. (But once the software is installed, there are advanced settings to boost the performance, make sure on google of the software that you should have those settings on best suitable settings that won't crash your computer when playing games.)

That's the best advice that I can offer, hope it works bud ^^

[TheMystic6]

this is an answer to a question that isnt for this post.... it has nothing to do with graphics .. i think you may have posted on the wrong thread, but thanks for trying to help

[TruthDemon]

restart steam (rebooting PC does NOTHING)

[TheMystic6]

i did.. still nothing.. but im just saying this is very odd because i can launch the game from the directory or through a shortcut of the directory application and it works fine... but i would like to find out the cause of the game not starting through steam.

[Nutcutt3r]

Start it up vanilla and it should run, if not you will have to move the saved files out of your saved directory and see if it will launch from scratch. Then you can add things back to see whats breaking it.

Lastly remove any stupid launch options like posted above. None of them are for any issues you are having.

[Irkalla]

Originally posted by Nightfury:

Here's a comment that I gave 5 other people having the same issue, hope this helps...^^

I've seen only 3 and every one of them were completely different problems.

[TheMystic6]

Originally posted by Nutcutt3r:

Start it up vanilla and it should run, if not you will have to move the saved files out of your saved directory and see if it will launch from scratch. Then you can add things back to see whats breaking it.

Lastly remove any stupid launch options like posted above. None of them are for any issues you are having.

some of those launch options above i've been using forever since they help me reduce lag (no clue why im getting lag with my gtx 1060 6gb) but they wouldnt be causing the problem.. and like i said above, i can launch the game through the game directory, which makes me think that the problem is related to steam, not the actual game... thanks though, I cant do that right now but i will try it tomorrow..