Ark Freezes At Menu screen on linux mint

[Necro Fried Chicken]

Ark freezes at the menu screen on linux mint 19.
This has been happening for more then a month now.

Any one have any ideas on how to let the game play?I tried all the google stuff. Nothing seems to work.

[SANTIAGO]

Same here on ZorinOS. Why would they pretend it works on Linux while it doesn't. I'm close to ask for a refund.

[=Sarsante=]

Linux are great, for anything besides gaming

[SANTIAGO]

Got a refund.

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

Linux are great, for anything besides gaming

Well, I'd argue it depends on the will of the developers. I'm a LInux gamer and I have no troubles playing every natively supported game for Linux I've tried so far, such as Valve games as well as heavier ones like War Thunder, Dawn of War 2 and many others.

For most of my other windows only game, Lutris & Wine do the trick.

Now, ARK is officially natively supported for Linux, meaning it should run flawlessly and shouldn't require wine, which it doesn't. But if it's only to have an unplayable product, then I just do not see the point to make this a marketing point.

I'm glad to have been refunded.

[Jyandalf]

Originally posted by Socialist Bear★:

Got a refund.

Originally posted by =T$ECore= Sarsante:

Linux are great, for anything besides gaming

Well, I'd argue it depends on the will of the developers. I'm a LInux gamer and I have no troubles playing every natively supported game for Linux I've tried so far, such as Valve games as well as heavier ones like War Thunder, Dawn of War 2 and many others.

For most of my other windows only game, Lutris & Wine do the trick.

Now, ARK is officially natively supported for Linux, meaning it should run flawlessly and shouldn't require wine, which it doesn't. But if it's only to have an unplayable product, then I just do not see the point to make this a marketing point.

I'm glad to have been refunded.

Personally, I have never used a Linux system for anything other than gparted or for Web hosting. I wish I could have helped, but I know practically nothing about how Linux operates, especially when it comes to gaming

[Rhomilo]

Can you or have you tried to open the game with minimal settings first?

[Necro Fried Chicken]

it looks like a memory leak in the game
I let it run for like 5 minutes and my computer froze.

Also, I can't even change the settings unless theres a way to do that before hitting the play button in steam.

[RobbEJay]

Originally posted by Necrotic Chicken:

it looks like a memory leak in the game
I let it run for like 5 minutes and my computer froze.

Also, I can't even change the settings unless theres a way to do that before hitting the play button in steam.

Does it freeze in the main menue itself, or when you try to load a save file? Cause the latter happens to me if the game remains on the menu too long. I have to set the settings then manually exit the game and relaunch it to avoid it. As long as you don't touch start its ok in my experience.

I think you may be right about it being a memory leak. I've noticed that when Ark crashes normally in-game my ram usage is always around 80-90%, so something is causing a spike in memory usage, possibly the way Ark loads manages memory. If so its not an OS issue, albiet perhaps its worse on the Linux version.

[Necro Fried Chicken]

When I press play, the screen with the "join game, options," and so one, the launcher i guess. begens to freez after like 20 seconds.I can very quickly try to click on something before the 20 seconds. But even if I do, like try to get in to a game, it freezes at the list.

At the same time my ram starts to get used like crazy.

If I don't force quit it out, the game will freeze my computer.

[SANTIAGO]

Yep, same thing happened here. Exactly same thing. Memory leak confirmed

[Bromancelot]

So has anyone come up with a fix for this? Would Wine be the best solution, or maybe a driver for something or another?

[123]

Originally posted by Sir McSour Towel:

So has anyone come up with a fix for this? Would Wine be the best solution, or maybe a driver for something or another?

Are you using a SSD ?
Because on Ubuntu ARK starts caching a lot data after like 20 s, seems to freeze,
but becomes responsive once multiple gb are cached in RAM..
.. i m asking about SSD because i m using one and i could imagine it takes much longer without it.

If you monitor your RAM for example with conky,
you can check when data in RAM stops increasing = ARK should become responsive again.

[Necro Fried Chicken]

My computer stops responding. Left it for 10 minutes and still would not do any thing. I am using a HDD with 8GB of ram.

[SANTIAGO]

I wish I could play this game so bad that if anyone finds a way to make it work on Linux then I'll purchase it again. But for now I got a refund.

[Bromancelot]

Originally posted by Socialist Bear★:

I wish I could play this game so bad that if anyone finds a way to make it work on Linux then I'll purchase it again. But for now I got a refund.

Download the windows version of Ark and use Wine. Wine is a program/add-on/whatever that lets you run windows applications. Such as games.
Google "Wine + Linux", read up on it on their Wiki/website, and decide which version you want. Stable or staging.

[Necro Fried Chicken]

It shouldn't require a windows version of ARK if the steam section of supported OS says Linux/Steam OS is supported.

The game worked fine nativly on Linux for a long time. But for some reason this year, it just stopped. Like there was some bug in the code and the devs just don't care, or can't figure out what's wrong and won't say any thing about it.