stuttering/lagging every time I ride a dinasour--any fix?

[Starwight/ttv]

Hell oeveryone. First, I am running on a GTX860M. I can run anything from Rainbow Six Siege, to Titanfall 2 with zero problems. I'm using an intel i7 processor as well, with 16gb of ram and I'm using Windows 8.

I have no earthly idea why, MOST of my graphics are set to medium, I turned some things like Ambiet Occlusion and Shadows to low or unchecked, etc. Just trying to run bare bones here without the game looking like total ♥♥♥♥.

And for the MOST part I can run it. HOWEVER, every single time I try to mount and ride a dino, it lags. And I mean hardcore lags. Game freezs for about 5 to 10 seconds, and then periodically AS I AM RIDING IT. I'm sure you can see how that could be exceedingly dangerous to try and deal with.

And the thing about it is, I'm on a private server that just my wife and I play on. There's no other people on the damn server, there's not a whole lot of crap built, AND we are running vanila right now, mod free. So what the hell is causing this? Is there any way to fix this so I can actually ride a dino again without rising dying because I can't get away from something fast enough, or my dino runs out of stamina while flying--because my screen locked up for 10 seconds?

Any fix would be greatly GREATLY appreciated.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Your first mistake is comparing other games performance to ARK.

If your laptop is using a HDD, that could be why

Firstly, its probably a 5500-5900RPM drive, which for large open world games like ARK dont work very well

In addition, ARK would be using a decent amount of Pagefile, which also comes from the HDD which could cause hiccups as well.

The hiccups are from loading data btw
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a Few things you could try are
Limiting running processes/programs

Defragging your HDD so the game files may load more smoothly when they are needed

Try lowering your graphics a little more
to be honest that GTX 860 while decent is kinda ehh due to it being a mobile GPU.

[Starwight/ttv]

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

Your first mistake is comparing other games performance to ARK.

If your laptop is using a HDD, that could be why

Firstly, its probably a 5500-5900RPM drive, which for large open world games like ARK dont work very well

In addition, ARK would be using a decent amount of Pagefile, which also comes from the HDD which could cause hiccups as well.

The hiccups are from loading data btw
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a Few things you could try are
Limiting running processes/programs

Defragging your HDD so the game files may load more smoothly when they are needed

Try lowering your graphics a little more
to be honest that GTX 860 while decent is kinda ehh due to it being a mobile GPU.

I guess I could try that. And yeah it is an HDD unfortunately. But you mentioned large open world games, I played GTAV with no issues, The Forest, 7 days to die, none of them had issues at all. The only things you mentioned I haven't tried is the defrag and the lowering even more. I'm already running fairly low to what I feel my machine should be capable of...but I guess if I really have to I can change all the mediums to lows.

I appreciate the reply though. I will note that my wife, also using mobile, has no problems at all--but she has an Nvidia 1060, so that might be why. I'd really like to be able to play, I love the game, but it's virtually unplayable when I can't even do menial tasks without this lag/stutter problem

[New]

Sounds server based, what is server specs

[Gear Ratio]

I have an 860M as well. The GPU is not the problem, the hard drive probably is. Run a defrag, it will pretty much eliminate the stutters, aside from ones caused by large player bases.
I have stutters all the time, but the problem basically goes away after a defrag and file reverification.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Originally posted by alonesilverwolf:

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

Your first mistake is comparing other games performance to ARK.

If your laptop is using a HDD, that could be why

Firstly, its probably a 5500-5900RPM drive, which for large open world games like ARK dont work very well

In addition, ARK would be using a decent amount of Pagefile, which also comes from the HDD which could cause hiccups as well.

The hiccups are from loading data btw
-

a Few things you could try are
Limiting running processes/programs

Defragging your HDD so the game files may load more smoothly when they are needed

Try lowering your graphics a little more
to be honest that GTX 860 while decent is kinda ehh due to it being a mobile GPU.

I guess I could try that. And yeah it is an HDD unfortunately. But you mentioned large open world games, I played GTAV with no issues, The Forest, 7 days to die, none of them had issues at all. The only things you mentioned I haven't tried is the defrag and the lowering even more. I'm already running fairly low to what I feel my machine should be capable of...but I guess if I really have to I can change all the mediums to lows.

I appreciate the reply though. I will note that my wife, also using mobile, has no problems at all--but she has an Nvidia 1060, so that might be why. I'd really like to be able to play, I love the game, but it's virtually unplayable when I can't even do menial tasks without this lag/stutter problem

Thats exactly why she has no problems

The 10xx series on laptops arent chopped down versions like they are for previous generations, they are just as powerful or nearly as much as their desktop counterparts

Add onto that her entire laptop is 2 generations newer than yours and she'll run into even fewer issues.

All in all,compared to your laptop hers is beasty.

[Starwight/ttv]

Originally posted by New:

Sounds server based, what is server specs

idk. The server ping shows as 30ish though, so I don't THINK that's the issue, but I am unfamiliar with servers and how they work, it's our first one :p

Originally posted by Gear Ratio:

I have an 860M as well. The GPU is not the problem, the hard drive probably is. Run a defrag, it will pretty much eliminate the stutters, aside from ones caused by large player bases.
I have stutters all the time, but the problem basically goes away after a defrag and file reverification.

I'll do this when I go back to work Tuesday, I haven't defragged this thing since I got it 2 years ago. I REALLY hope it works. Thanks for the replies guys, it's nice to run into an actually *helpful* gaming community!

[New]

Originally posted by alonesilverwolf:

Originally posted by New:

Sounds server based, what is server specs

idk. The server ping shows as 30ish though, so I don't THINK that's the issue, but I am unfamiliar with servers and how they work, it's our first one :p
Servers can be hard.

Gotta have enough cpu strength and ram.