Do you run preventhibernation?

[ctmtank420]

If so, what are your specs and do you get alot of stutters?

[Zac's Dad]

- I am copying this text from another post of mine a few days ago.. -

Ok -- I been away for a minute and learned something. I caused this problem. I had slower than normal frame rates / longer than normal load times - sometimes causing ark to go non-responding during the load. And floating jellyfish. I caused all this.

These are symptoms of using -preventhibernation which I had recently added to the launch parameters. But - one does not just remove this parameter and reload the game. Now you face a fatal error which ultimately says you are missing files and crashes dead.

So when you are NOT using -preventhibernation ark will save those dinos that spawned on the other side of map in a 'stasis'. This is good - your computer does not have to think about them until you get near. The fine print will tell you that this 'stasis' is literally files on the hard drive. Works fine.

When you place -preventhibernation in the launch parameters and launch Ark, Ark will load these 'stasis' dinosaurs into memory and from that point on ALL the dinosaurs on the map will be saved in your map save file. Not mention they will all be 'alive' all the time. BUT Ark deletes the 'stasis' files when it does this.

All fine until you decide you want to remove the launch parameter.

What you have to do to overcome the crashes about missing files is to run ark with the launch parameter and use 'destroywilddinos', just as soon as that completes - quit the game.

Now you are free to remove the launch parameter and run Ark. It wont complain of missing files and drop dead. You must do this with each map you ran when you had '-preventhibernation' enabled to 'clear' the map and begin using those stasis files again.

I no longer have slower than normal frame rates / longer than normal load times - nor any floating jellyfish.

This took forever to type and longer to learn. Hope this post helps someone.

I do understand that certain mods work better with the launch parameter enabled. Ones that scan the map for live dinos I would guess.

[Ellisdee]

I used to have it on only for a creature finder mod, So i didn't have to spend hours trying to find a max level dino. but recently i have had a lot of mini stutters. I would be walking around normally 40 to 50fps on the island but then suddenly it would dip to 12 -15fps every half minute or so. This happened a lot if i was looking into an inventory of something. But when I removed the preventhibernation command it ran smooth as silk again.

my potato specs:

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
CPU Family: 0x15
CPU Model: 0x2
CPU Stepping: 0x0
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3991 Mhz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Unsupported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
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 1060 6GB
DirectX Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll
Driver Version: 30.0.14.7141
DirectX Driver Version: 30.0.14.7141
Driver Date: 7 12 2021
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 143 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1c03
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Desktop Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Primary Display Size: 35.55" x 20.00" (40.79" diag)
90.3cm x 50.8cm (103.6cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 4x
Primary VRAM: 6143 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Sound Blaster Z)

Memory:
RAM: 32740 Mb

VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: DVD
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 10516103 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 4145850 Mb
OS Install Date: Jan 01 1970
Game Controller: None detected
MAC Address hash: 04d6c925e608727c26d9a883f4da508b6fac0149

Storage:
Disk serial number hash: c92d72ff
Number of SSDs: 0
SSD sizes: %s1
Number of HDDs: 0
HDD sizes: %s1

[ctmtank420]

CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
RAM: 65456 Mb
Number of SSDs: 3
SSD sizes: 1000G500G1148M
Number of HDDs: 0
HDD sizes: %s1
These are mine, I feel like I should have no problems with it on, but game is stuttering so much

[Zac's Dad]

I have stats similar to Elisdee above -- same processor - 32 gig with SSDs and a lesser graphic card.

By removing this parameter I resolved all the problems I mentioned above. The only way to know is to try it both ways and see what is best for you.

It is best for me to leave it off.

[Ellisdee]

I forgot to mention as well, if you are on the aberration map. It is one of the most fps taxing maps to play on due to it having more light sources to calculate.

[ctmtank420]

On gen 2, my problem is I am play the DOX mod, and it seems to need preventhibernation

[klassakla]

So for people like me who play vanilla singleplayer, there’s no benefit to prevent hibernation?

[ctmtank420]

Not really, only thing would be breeding, as if you go out of render it will babies will not grow

[klassakla]

Originally posted by ctmtank420:

Not really, only thing would be breeding, as if you go out of render it will babies will not grow

Is there anyway to allow the babies to grow if this is turned off besides being within render distance? I would like some extra FPS especially on aberration.