Oil Pumps don't work unless I'm close by

[Scoob]

Hey all,

So, I built an Oil Pump recently along with a little mini-base next to it. While in the area the Oil Pump produced over 80 Oil. I collected this before flying off to visit other bases of mine.

Some game hours later, I finally returned to the Oil Pump, though I'd been in the area for about 30 minutes or so - about 20-30 seconds away on my Argy - yet when I arrived the Oil Pump had produced just five Oil despite operating for many hours since my last visit.

I did a quick Google search and someone asked about this a couple of years ago and were reassured that Oil Pumps *do* continue to work when the player isn't close-by. However, my Oil Pump definitely stopped working when I wasn't around.

To be clear, after placing the Oil Pump, I hung around for an hour or so and gained a little over 80 Oil. I was away from this location for, I'd estimate, at least five hours over a couple of play sessions, yet I return and it's produced just five more Oil.

I'd hoped the thing to have several stacks of Oil by this point, but it's simply not been doing anything while I've been away. Was that earlier poster informed incorrectly, or did something change in an update at some point?

Edit: To be clear, in the five minutes I've been back near the Pump, it's produced more Oil than in the prior five hours or so while I was elsewhere.

For the record, I'm playing Vanilla Ragnarok single player.

Cheers,

Scoob.

[EK]

Singleplayer ?

[Scoob]

Originally posted by KNIKT:

Singleplayer ?

Yes.

This is even more confusing. I've been hanging around the Oil Pump - literally, within five metres of it for the last 30 minutes and it's stopped producing Oil again.

I collected 8 Oil not long after returning to the pump, having seen it started up again when I was nearby. Seeing it was working, I thought I'd hang around the area for a bit - I wanted to expand my base there slightly. After 30 minutes of doing just that, including a couple of raids from Wolves and Carnos being fought off - thanks Spiked Walls - I return to the pump and it's EMPTY. I wait a few seconds and it starts producing again.

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but it appears to produce a load of Oil, then not produce any for a while, even when I'm close by. I need to re-check the Wiki on this...

Scoob.

[Jaggid Edje]

Try turning off hibernation in your game launch options. I know you said you were "near" them, but when I was playing single player I had similiar issues with sap taps until I added the launch command to turn off hibernation.

[Scoob]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Try turning off hibernation in your game launch options. I know you said you were "near" them, but when I was playing single player I had similiar issues with sap taps until I added the launch command to turn off hibernation.

Ah, thank you - it's a launcher command, I just googled it and will add it now.

Are there any consequences of this I should be aware of? I leave Dinos (at other bases) alone for hours at a time, though they have Food in their inventory as well as a feeding trough, available to them.

Scoob.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Scoob:

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Try turning off hibernation in your game launch options. I know you said you were "near" them, but when I was playing single player I had similiar issues with sap taps until I added the launch command to turn off hibernation.

Ah, thank you - it's a launcher command, I just googled it and will add it now.

Are there any consequences of this I should be aware of? I leave Dinos (at other bases) alone for hours at a time, though they have Food in their inventory as well as a feeding trough, available to them.

Scoob.

The only real consequence is that it uses a bit more of your system's horsepower. I didn't notice any performance difference at all, but if your system is closer to the low end for playing Ark, you might.

Stasis still happens when you are out of render range, Stasis happens even on dedicated servers when no players are in render range. Basically means you won't have a alpha t-rex destroy your base while you're away, or anything like that...just make sure you have your dinos protected by walls though, haha.

[Scoob]

Thanks. Luckily my system is fairly good - 3900X - it's just my GPU - 1070 - that's the weak point, but the game runs well with a few things turned down.

The setting is enabled now, and has been for half an hour. I've not noticed any performance issues at all thus far.

Scoob.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Scoob:

Thanks. Luckily my system is fairly good - 3900X - it's just my GPU - 1070 - that's the weak point, but the game runs well with a few things turned down.

The setting is enabled now, and has been for half an hour. I've not noticed any performance issues at all thus far.

Scoob.

You should be golden then, seeing as hibernation (or lack thereof) doesn't impact GPU at all. It conserves memory more than anything, and cpu usage as well, but GPU not at all.

[Scoob]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

You should be golden then, seeing as hibernation (or lack thereof) doesn't impact GPU at all. It conserves memory more than anything, and cpu usage as well, but GPU not at all.

Cool, I imagined it would be a CPU / RAM load rather than GPU, but it's nice to have it confirmed. Currently have 32GB of RAM, so should be good there too.

Scoob.

[Scoob]

Hey again,

Sorry to resurrect this question but despite adding the suggested Launcher command, often when I return to my Oil Pumps they're next to empty. After several hours away from mine (likely 4-5) I return and it has just 16 Oil on it. Other times it might be 60 or 80 but never loads.

Indeed after 5 minutes standing by the Oil Pump it's produced more Oil than the 4 - 5 hrs I was away.

Note: the Oil Pump is in a location distant from my main Base, I don't go even remotely near it unless specifically heading there.

I ensured that I typed -preventhibernation correctly in the Launcher options, so I'm unsure what the issue might be. This does work in Single Player too, right?

Scoob.

[Jaggid Edje]

There's no such thing as hibernation other than singleplayer/non-dedicated server games, so of course it works in SP.

Can't speak to your oil pump issue beyond that though, as I have never used one in a Single Player game.

[Scoob]

Ok cool, that's what I thought. I was worried I might have totally miss-understood, glad that's not the case. A mystery then why my Oil Pumps often shut down when I'm away.

Scoob,

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Scoob:

Ok cool, that's what I thought. I was worried I might have totally miss-understood, glad that's not the case. A mystery then why my Oil Pumps often shut down when I'm away.

Scoob,

There appears to be many single player bugs related to Oil Pumps. I got pages worth of google search results when I googled your issue, and the half dozen I looked at are all people having bugs with them in their single player games.