Best gaming laptop for ark survival

[Gandhi]

Is there a good gaming laptop that can run ark smoothy on med-high settings? Can that laptop be around 750-900 dollars? I dont want to go over $1000

[Kittysong]

i use to run ark off asus gaming laptop til about a year ago, then it could no longer handle it.
ROG has some pretty intense laptops but they are pricey. I just swithced to a desktop myself. it's far easier maintenance and plus it was alot cheaper.

[A happy cat =)]

Get a ASUS ROG, Lenovo or a MSI with ATLEAST a GTX 1060 6GB. Anything below GTX 1060 won't run ARK. I had a laptop with a GTX 970M 6GB and I was happy if I could run lowest possible settings at 640x480 resolution with 10FPS.

[Spawn of Fenrir]

Originally posted by Kattmat:

Anything below GTX 1060 won't run ARK

Not true at all..... I've in the past ran this game at 1080P on the lowest settings on a GPU as weak as a Radeon HD 7770..... To put that into perspective, A GTX 1060 is literally 3 times as powerful as that old card.... it didn't run amazingly but was definitely playable with a 30+ FPS average. I've also in the past played the game with a GTX 750 TI... which is about half as powerful as a GTX 1060, and was able to maintain 60+ at 1080P on low settings with some sliders tweaked up a bit higher....... others here run the game just fine on GTX 1050s, GTX 960s, RX 460s, GTX 1050 TIs, GTX 660s....... the game will support a pretty wide variety of hardware.... you do however need a beefier card if you want to go much past medium settings.

Originally posted by Kattmat:

I had a laptop with a GTX 970M 6GB and I was happy if I could run lowest possible settings at 640x480 resolution with 10FPS.

The GTX 970M is roughly the equivilant to the desktop GTX 960, with the added benefit of having alot more VRAM, you should have been able to atleast hit med-high settings at 1080P with a pretty decent framerate....... something was wrong with your configuration/ARK installation/Laptop if you were having as much trouble running the game as you claim.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by 123:

Is there a good gaming laptop that can run ark smoothy on med-high settings? Can that laptop be around 750-900 dollars? I dont want to go over $1000

Your wants do not match the reality of your situation, quite frankly.

[Ages]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by 123:

Is there a good gaming laptop that can run ark smoothy on med-high settings? Can that laptop be around 750-900 dollars? I dont want to go over $1000

Your wants do not match the reality of your situation, quite frankly.

Start learning about synthetic benchmarking and learn how to compare CPUs and GPUs
Sure you can't get an exact idea, but if you compare the results between CPU's or GPU's you should get a rough idea of what the thing can do.

The GPUs in those laptops you where asking about where roughly $100 GPU's. In a PC you can buy a cheap but reliable motherboard, case, powersupply (don't go too cheap here, buy a rock solid one), ram with no fancy useless heatsink and then toss the bulk of your money into your CPU and GPU. The CPU+Gpu could be like 50%+ of the cost of your rig if you optimize for raw performance and cut out all the hype.

Here is one site that lists benchmark results for CPUs GPUs, and Memory
Keep in mind that benchmarks are a test of how good the hardware does on the test, not how good the hardware will do on "other tests" like say... running ark. One chip with a lower score may do better then another chip with a higher score, but it will still give you a general idea of which can perform better then the next. I would expect something with twice the score to hands down beat the other when it comes to actually running Ark, or w/e you are comparing the chips for.
GPU + CPU will make the difference for gaming performance, but you will likely want more then 8Gigs of RAM for Ark, and an SSD would load the game faster.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

If you want a laptop, however then get a laptop. Just use the link above and compare the numbers to something you are familiar with that you have seen ark played on, or ask around what kind of performance people are getting (maybe watch some streamers and ask about their hardware and if they will turn on FPS numbers if they don't already show them.)

I don't think anyone is really benchmarking ARK itself, but there are sites that use actual games as the benchmark test. Check them out, its fun to see what the new cards that are just comming out are doing to make the current ones look like crap XD

[Radioaktivist]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by 123:

Is there a good gaming laptop that can run ark smoothy on med-high settings? Can that laptop be around 750-900 dollars? I dont want to go over $1000

Your wants do not match the reality of your situation, quite frankly.

this. you would at least have to double if not triple your budget for a good laptop that runs ark well.

[KANT_Skylin3]

I dont know the Prices where u live, but here in germany the best u can get fro 1k is like a i5(full 3 cores no dualcore model) 8 gb ddr4, a gtx 1050 ti 2 or 4 Gb Vram and 1 tb hdd+120 gb slow ssd. Gtx 1060 Models start at 1,1K or often higher. Also i can tell u to avoid the 960m Laptops that are still going around. They can play ark on Low with 40 Fps. Terrible for Ark because it looks really awful with these Settings. U could also take the Risk and hope that the Developers optimize the Game someday xD.

[KANT_Skylin3]

Originally posted by 123:

Also is there a big difference between i5/i7 and ram 8gb/16gb while playing ark? Im kind of new with computers.

there is a difference in Ark between 8 and 16 gb Ram. With 8 Gb i was often close to maxing it out. But it depends on what Programms u run in the backround. As u may have noticed Ark is mostly strongly Gpu bound, so a full i5 (4 Cores) is enough.

[Splićo]

1000$ is just not enough for playing Ark on laptop...you want at least mobile gtx1060 for Ark
Best i could found for about 1000 is Lenovo Legion;
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Legion-Y520-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B06XWFCKYX

[Lori37]

Laptops aren't meant for gaming....get a decent desktop

[Gandhi]

http://www.microcenter.com/product/475523/fx53ve-ms74_156_laptop_computer_-_black_metal


So u guys are saying there is no way i can run ark on high with this laptop

[Gandhi]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Z39s3F

My friend also made this build for me. Tell me what u guys think. Im trying to stick with a laptop but if it cant run ark on high then i might just go for this build

[g0rml3ss]

Originally posted by 123:

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Z39s3F

My friend also made this build for me. Tell me what u guys think. Im trying to stick with a laptop but if it cant run ark on high then i might just go for this build

Not a bad build but a few tweaks and it can be better for cheaper.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dWL6WX

Pairing a 1050ti with an i7 7700k is pointless and in honesty a waste of money.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dWL6WX

Yes the build is better than the laptop but take a look at the adjustments I made in the above link and saved you a few shillings :)

**just to note I chose the i5 7500 over the 7600k as you mention you are new to computers I don't think you'll be tinkering with overclocking yet, if you decide thats something you'd like to do later than by all means switch the 7500 for the 7600k for a little more cost.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4yrzVY

[Pim]

I got Lenovo legion y720

With GTX 1060 6GB
Intel core i7 7700HQ
8GB ram(can be upgraded to 16-32 GB ram)

This laptop also supports thunderbolt v3 so you can run an external graphic card.

This laptop also has great sound and also supports Dolby atmos.

[Ghost]

I mean a high end dell insperon i7 will play it. But... U r losing crazy amounts of power just because its a laptop.
If u want small and easy to move around. For around the same priceish u can get an alienware alpha. It is a pc built to be a console. Its smaller then the xb1 or ps4 and judging from what ive seen on here it packs a wicked punch.
When everyone else is lagging and glitching i am as stable as can be.
I hinestly dont understand what most of these peolle complain about. I read it and get it sure. But i never see it. Little bit of lag here and there but compaires to what i read on this forum. My alienware is made of gold.