Does any Launch Options still helps with FPS?

[C1evergirl]

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

Will any of these launch option helps with fps? Or are some outdated and make the fps worst?

[Vesuvius]

very much depends on what hardware you are running

[Wolfie]

nope, not really, i see virtually no difference, with the launch options, game is still laggy buggy POS

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Wolfie:

nope, not really, i see virtually no difference, with the launch options, game is still laggy buggy POS

Wich again, depends what hardware you are running.

[Athraxas]

All of these launch options helped me tremendously. I don't know what the hell happened in these last few months I haven't played ARK, but something must have happened, because the performance is going to ♥♥♥♥ when I don't have ALL of these launch options (except -lowmemory because I have 16gb RAM) enabled. When I stopped playing ARK, because I got bored from the game, I only had -USEALLAVAILABLECORES -nomansky -novsync enabled and it was absolutely fine. Now I need to use -sm4 to be able to play the game in a stable framerate.

Also: I am playing much more graphically advanced games on this PC and don't have any issues. I can play Devil May Cry 5 with solid 60FPS with no issues, ffs...

[C1evergirl]

Thank you for all the replies. This is my computer specs

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
8138MB RAM
Page File: 3463MB used, 12812MB available
DirectX 11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4095 MB

I can run Ark smooth with textures on high and view distance on medium and everything on low. And the game looks great. But when I add mods like eco, my computer lags. So I had launch options before, but I forgot which one worked the best. I will try all the options and see what help. Of course I will not add -lowmemory, the graphics will look horrible.

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by Ryder:

Thank you for all the replies. This is my computer specs

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
8138MB RAM
Page File: 3463MB used, 12812MB available
DirectX 11
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4095 MB

I can run Ark smooth with textures on high and view distance on medium and everything on low. And the game looks great. But when I add mods like eco, my computer lags. So I had launch options before, but I forgot which one worked the best. I will try all the options and see what help. Of course I will not add -lowmemory, the graphics will look horrible.

Post what steam sees

Help/system information ... copy all.

[C1evergirl]

Sorry for long text that follows. My steam computer specs.

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: MSI
Model: MS-7751
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x3a
CPU Stepping: 0x9
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3417 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 7 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
DirectX Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll
Driver Version: 24.21.13.9731
DirectX Driver Version: 24.21.13.9731
Driver Date: 4 22 2018
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1187
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 26.65" x 15.00" (30.55" diag)
67.7cm x 38.1cm (77.6cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 2047 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek High Definiti

Memory:
RAM: 8138 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 476837 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 117000 Mb
OS Install Date: Aug 06 2013
Game Controller: None detected
VR Headset: None detected

[Vesuvius]

Ok so... 1st... your gpu driver is way out of date.... upgrade it to at least 399.24 or later (some gtx cards have issues with 4xx series drivers)

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Ryder:

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

Will any of these launch option helps with fps? Or are some outdated and make the fps worst?

All software sends a task to a single core, a multicore processor can run multiple tasks at the same time (obviously).
However, if a single core lags on a single task, the rest of the tasks have to wait for it to be completed before they can continue.

tldr; having 200 slow cores isn't going to improve performance over 8 fast ones. That setting won't help much if your CPU is slow.