FPS drops, any tips?

[Eichmann]

Like the title says, i'm having issues with FPS drops like a lot of the ppl here....

For a month now, i've been playing with 45-60 fps, and yesterday the game just decided to crash the fps, and drop it to 10-13 fps after about 10-40 minutes off gameplay, and i have no idea what's causing it.

It's been doing this for like... 4-5 months now maybe, i can play 2-4 weeks with decent fps, the game runs smooth, when all of the sudden, it just drops, and stays on 10-13 fps, i reboot my pc, relaunch the game, have 45-60 fps for 10-40 min, and then it just drops again. Do the same process over and over. I've tried launching it with the all cores command, i've tried the low memory launch option, i've tried the no sky effect option, i've tried changing quality of the graphics in game, no matter what i try, whenever the fps drop have hit me once, the game works fine for a while every time i reboot my pc, and then just goes to ♥♥♥♥ again..

And it's only happening with ARK, i dont have this issue with other games i'm playing, and i dont have any idea if it's the game that's messed up, or if it's my PC, but since i'm not having this problem with any other game, and i have no idea what it can be, i figured i type a thread here, and see if anyone has the same issues, or know how to fix it.

I googled it first, but didnt find any good answers, fyi.

I have a gtx 960 2GB GPU
3,4 quad core i5
8 gb DDR4

Help, it's unplayable... :(

[Gareth]

Im running at around 110 FPs but every few seconds i get Frame Drops to 1 Frame. Its not a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ PC Problem, stop saying that. I read that in every Post. You can have the best PC but still get those Frame Drops, the Devs should work on that but they apparently dont care about their game anymore.

[Eichmann]

2,5 year old post. PROBLEM FIXED - I UNINSTALLED THE GAME

[Boomer]

Lol nice. I think ive had enough of it as well.

[Dizz]

Messaggio originale di Gustavus Adolphus:

Messaggio originale di Rader2146:

Watch your memory usage and see if ShooterGame.exe is spiking when the FPS drops.

I had a problem similar to this playing in single player. Memory usage would spike and FPS would drop. Sometimes hitting escape and leaving the menu open for a couple seconds would fix it, other times I'd have to exit the game and relaunch.

Yeah, sorry, i forgot to mention that part, but it's the same usage now, when the frames are at 10-13 fps, and wont go up, as for when the game is running decent with 45-60, 84-85% of the memory usage in total, i only have chrome, TS and overwolf running except the game, and steam of course, so i'm not getting that at all, if it's a memory leak or whatever, how come the memory usage is the same, no matter if i play with good frames, or bad frames? :P It wont help to relaunch the game btw, i have to reboot the pc, and that only helps for up to 40 min, and then the frames drop again, and just locks onto 10-13 fps. It's horrible :P

Chrome is known to be a performance eater, and if you leave the steam overlay open with the friends list open as well this also is known to impact performance.

[Veeshan]

This made me realize I'm getting the same issue. Quite randomly it'll drop to sub-10 fps for as long as 10 seconds sometimes. But it always recovers after that. The server save shouldn't be the issue since im running it on a separate pc.

[Boomer]

Thermal throttling? Ark is the only game i play where i notice the volume increase in my radiator fans. :D Your description sounds exactly like what my old fx-6300 did.

[Thyriel]

The issue with random fps drops (as in most games) is most likely caused by texture memory, especially with older cards that only have like 2-3GB VRAM.
While playing open windows taskmanager and go to "perfomance" tab, click the GPU (make sure you select the correct one in case there's more then one) and look how full the "dedicated GPU memory" is.
If it's almost full, you need to lower the texture quality in the game (the better textures are the more memory is used).
In my experience epic textures need a card with 6GB RAM, high textures 4GB. If you play with higher textures then your graphics card memory can store, you end up with that memory being swapped between graphics card and RAM, leading to framedrops everytime it does that

[Veeshan]

Messaggio originale di Boomer:

Thermal throttling? Ark is the only game i play where i notice the volume increase in my radiator fans. :D Your description sounds exactly like what my old fx-6300 did.

Now that sound very plausible. I certainly dont have any great cooling setup.

I did swap my Ark to windowed mode so my resource monitor can be seen in game, so i can spot a temp fluctuation. But i haven't had the issue again yet.

[Veeshan]

Messaggio originale di Thyriel:

The issue with random fps drops (as in most games) is most likely caused by texture memory, especially with older cards that only have like 2-3GB VRAM.
While playing open windows taskmanager and go to "perfomance" tab, click the GPU (make sure you select the correct one in case there's more then one) and look how full the "dedicated GPU memory" is.
If it's almost full, you need to lower the texture quality in the game (the better textures are the more memory is used).
In my experience epic textures need a card with 6GB RAM, high textures 4GB. If you play with higher textures then your graphics card memory can store, you end up with that memory being swapped between graphics card and RAM, leading to framedrops everytime it does that

Ive reduced my textures on my 6 gb card from high to medium to see if it helps. Will report back if i have any info.

I dont use epic textures because i literally cant spot any difference between epic and high.